Hi
everyone -
Here is the agenda for today's call -
Regards,
Susan
European
Marketing Working Group
Agenda, Tuesday,
April 28th, 16:00 CET
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1 - News and
Updates
Training series - Lynn
/ Ian
8
weeks April 6 - May 29th - announced, in newsletter from Industrial
TSI
65 classes, 30 cities, flyers, posters at EclipseCon
DemoCamps -
Lynn/ Ian
Eclipse
is organizing a new series of DemoCamps
from May 18 to June 26 to celebrate the Galileo release. If you are
interested in organizing, please see
http://www.eclipse.org/community/democamp/organizedemocamp.php
for more details.
2
- Market Research on Eclipse users - Katharina
-
creating a list of companies that are using eclipse
- Katharina
will schedule a presentation by a potential provider for the
28th April as part of the marketing meeting
- add to agenda for
live meeting at JAX
Market Research on Eclipse Users
-
creating a list of companies that are using Eclipse in central
Europe
- consider insurance companies as a first project
Need
to find other agencies that might want to participate
- OSBF has a
list of companies by industry - Susan
- Yuri may
have suggestions for a company in the Netherlands
- Kingpin -
they work from the UK in German, French, English, and possibly
Dutch
- Katharina will send a list of insurance companies
in Germany for a price check
- SOPERA will also send their
list
Potential funding for the project
- look into
eclipse.de, OSBF and S&S verlag as partners
Next steps:
-
Katharina will set up a meeting for 6 May, 13:00 for Kingpin
to present
- from this we can formulate our proposal and approach
other agencies and partners
3
- Runtime Initiative - Ian
- raise awareness of eclipse as a
provider of RT technology
- meeting held with RT project PMC at
eclipseCon on promotional activities for 2009
- will be managed
through the RT PMC - minutes / info will be available on the wiki -
Ian will send link
- Minutes from the meeting at
EclipseCon
http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/rt-pmc/msg00598.html
4
-Test conferences jointly
Joint
exhibits as we did at JavaPolis 2008
- focus on European
conferences - need to try to find conferences that are relevant for
central Europe (all members)
2009
- JavOXX,
December - seems worthwhile for lead generation and meeting students
2010
Linux
Tage, Berlin 24-27 June, IDG conference, 12,000 attendees
5
- Reminders
Eclipse
Embedded Day -
June 25th, Stuttgart
- focusing on embedded, telematics - call for
papers closed April 10th
- contact Christine Mitterbauer, MicroDoc
- http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseEmbeddedDayStgt
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
- see info on this list
Eclipse
Day Karlsruhe -
July 7th
- Call for presentations is now open until May
21st
http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseApplicationDeveloperDayKarlsruhe
Eclipse
members training calendar
-
on the wiki for all member training courses
Eclipse
Banking Day
- France
- Actuate, Obeo,
- targetting September 2009 - in
progress
EclipseStammtisch
Stuttgart
- WeigleWilczek and Instinctools
- date TBA
Eclipse
Insurance Day
-
postponed due to conflict with another Insurance related
event
International Java/Eclipse portal in planning from
S&S verlag - check with Hartmut/Nadja after
JAX
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-
Eclipse Banner is now available for shared use by European members.
-
Eclipse Brochures are available
on http://wiki.eclipse.org/Marketing_Resources#Brochures
--
Susan Iwai
Communications Project
Manager
EclipseSource
www.eclipsesource.com
