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[eclipse.org-european-marketing-wg] Minutes European Marketing WG Tues Feb 10th

Hi everyone - here are the minutes from last week's call. 
Regards,
Susan

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European Marketing Working Group
Minutes,
Tuesday Feb 10th


Next call:  Tuesday, February 24th, 16:00 CET

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1 - News and Updates

Eclipse Community Awards
 
- voting is open

Training series
8 weeks April 6 - May 29th

Eclipse members training calendar
- will be introduced on the wiki for all member training courses

Insurance days
Munich May 5th
 - agenda is being roughed in -  one additional customer slot available for morning
-  technical and business track slots open in afternoon
-  3 locations are shortlisted
Amsterdam May 6th
- still doing background research for success stories and sponsors

Finances
 - banking day organizers simply shared expenses, capped at EUR 3000
- Embedded day is EUR 1000 sponsorship towards marketing and catering

Eclipse Embedded Day - June 25th, Stuttgart
- focusing on embedded, telematics - call for papers closes April 10th
- contact Christine Mitterbauer, MicroDoc
- http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseEmbeddedDayStgt

EclipseStammtisch
Munich - 4 March - Christine will send info
Braunschweig - 26 February

Eclipse Day Karlsruhe
-  July or Sept

Eclipse magazine - English
- will not be launched at eclipseCon - stay tuned for info from Nadja

EclipseTime 2009, 23-24 June, Toulouse
- sponsors will have booth, 40 min talk and on website and materials, EUR 1500
- 150 people - managers, technical ; downtown Toulouse venue
- first day will be talks, 2nd day workshops, possibly evening demoCamp
- Jocya will send info


EclipsIST 2009,  April 28-29, Istanbul - Karen Dai
http://www.eclipsist.org/
See posting to this list from Karen.
Registration opened yesterday - 50 registrations so far
Eventbrite registration system - free for free conferences

2- Test conferences jointly
Plan is to have a joint exhibit as we did at JavaPolis at 3 conferences for 2009
- focus on European conferences
- look at Linus Tage, bring forward suggestions as we receive the notifications

2009
- Linux Tage, Berlin 24-27 June, IDG conference, 12,000 attendees - Yuri will forward offer
- JavOXX, December - a lot of students ...

2010
- Solution Linux, Paris, end of March - large event, but so far little eclipse content there, SOPERA
- Cebit - Linux New Media exhibit - not a walkin conference - a meeting conference
- Java Forum Stuttgart, July 2010 - EUR 3000 for med. sponsorship

3. Webinars - Stephanie Pietzker - defer for future call.
- co-marketing webinars for Europe or US market
- using media company such as BZ media to facilitate

4- Developing content to market eclipse to executives

Create a 'slide library' - propose content - Andrea Mörike, Helge Brzoska, Joern Weigle
- http://wiki.eclipse.org/Marketing_Resources


- do any members in this group have generic marketing materials for decision makers they could donate?
- what do we have, what is missing, can we produce what is needed?

Marketing plan for 2009 - Ian - defer to Feb 24th
Brainstorming:
- key messages, key influencers/events/analysts/press
- implementation plan

5  - Reminders

Banking Day London, Feb 10th or 12th  
- http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseBankingDayLondon
- registrations excellent - 80/80 slots registered - 35 on waiting list

 JAX / Eclipse Forum Europe, 20-24 April, Mainz - Nadja
-  overview of the marketing for EFE
- Nadja has sent information on member-to-member benefits



- Banking day in Paris -  late 2009?

- Eclipse Banner is now available for shared use by European members.

- Eclipse Brochures are available on http://wiki.eclipse.org/Marketing_Resources#Brochures




  Appendix I- Ideas for future initiatives

- Theme days - eg. Banking Day, future Insurance Day is being planned
- Stammtisch - organizing and promoting
    - Software and Support Verlag has announced the last ones in Bonn and Frankfurt on their web properties
- Image Advertising - deferred to the group to bring this forward it if seems feasible as an initiative for the WG
- Country-specific programs
    - Information about Eclipse outreach in various European regions and countries

Marketing Symposium, ESE 2008

1 - Business 'portal'

2 - Create a 'slide library' - propose content - Andrea Mörike, Helge Brzoska, Joern Weigle

3 - Eclipse Day for business people - getting started with Eclipse

4 - Communications initiatives

  • Changing the sell to be suitable for runtimes - Eclipse communications has been geared towards selling tools

  • New customers need to be educated in the eclipse approach to issues such as liability, IP protection

  • Overall: A business communications strategy should complement the technical communications strategy and activities

  • generate common press releases, mentioning several companies that offer Open Source products & services targeted at one sector such as the banking industry or insurance companies

  • identify and use a news wire for the distribution of common press releases in Europe or in selected European countries

  • adapt key data & information about Open Source for the European Market: - Sort out and communicate the results of surveys regarding the Open Source market with regard to their relevance for Europe and/or selected European countries

  • communicate the importance of key events like the annual release train of the Eclipse Foundation to the press in Europe, pointing out why this is relevant for the European market

  5- Other initiatives
  • Creating bundles for verticals might ease the adoption - the banking stack

  • (Member) Success stories

    • Background information on vertical industries – e.g. RCP use cases

    • Mission critical eclipse based projects

    • success statistics – e.g. eclipse is used in 90% of banks in xx

  • eclipse.org/sales package: provide more information which supports sales





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Susan Iwai
Communications Project Manager
EclipseSource 
www.eclipsesource.com
Innoopract 
www.innoopract.com





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--
Susan Iwai
Communications Project Manager
EclipseSource
www.eclipsesource.com

Tel:  +49 721 664 7330
Fax: +49 721 664 73329
Mobile: +49 170 811 3791

Innoopract Informationssysteme GmbH
Stephanienstrasse 20, 76133 Karlsruhe Germany
General Manager: Jochen Krause 
Registered Office: Karlsruhe, Commercial Register Mannheim HRB 107883
www.innoopract.com



--
Susan Iwai
Communications Project Manager
EclipseSource
www.eclipsesource.com

Tel:  +49 721 664 7330
Fax: +49 721 664 73329
Mobile: +49 170 811 3791

Innoopract Informationssysteme GmbH
Stephanienstrasse 20, 76133 Karlsruhe Germany
General Manager: Jochen Krause 
Registered Office: Karlsruhe, Commercial Register Mannheim HRB 107883
www.innoopract.com



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