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
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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
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New customers need to be
educated in the eclipse approach to issues such as liability, IP
protection
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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
--
Susan Iwai
Communications Project Manager
EclipseSource
www.eclipsesource.com
Innoopract
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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
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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
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