Hi
everyone -
Here are the notes from last week's call.
Regards,
Susan
European
Marketing Working Group
Minutes, May 26th 16:00 CET
1
- News and Updates
DemoCamps
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_Galileo_2009
Walldorf, May
19th - good feedback, good turnout
Training
series - Lynn
April 6
- May 29th - Lynn
will be gathering feedback via poll and email
Upcoming
Eclipse Stammtisch
Stuttgart - WeigleWilczek and Instinctools, June 4th
-
Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart, Friedrichstr. 10 (starts
19:00: talks)
- restaurant Joe Penas, Kriegsbergstr. 15 for
the fun (starts around 20:15)
- http://www.weiglewilczek.com/blog/?p=661
Updates
Eclipse Application developer Day, Karlsruhe July 7th -
Susan
Eclipse Summit Europe, Ludwigsburg,
Oct 27-29
- invite Ralph Mueller and Hendrik Hoefer (Program Chair) to next call
(June 9th)
http://www.eclipsecon.org/summiteurope2009/home
2
- Eclipse contact data project - Katharina
-
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
- Kingpin presented their proposal on May 6th and the slides were
distributed to the group
Next
steps
- interested companies get together offline to pursue pilot
- find alternative research companies - Joern and Katharina will look
for alternatives
3
- Galileo Activities - Lynn / Ian
http://www.eclipse.org/galileo/
- press announcement is
planned, blogging contest announced, twitter
nest is active
-
webinars - virtual conference
June 26th - will be announced in the next week or so
4
- Joint Conferences
JavaOne,
June 1-5
- Foundation has a booth, handouts on eclipse sessions
-
co-marketing initiatives deferred for this year
2009
Devoxx
2009 takes place during
the week of November 16th
in Antwerp (Belgium) MetroPolis.
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?TheJavacommunity/5ad21e03ae/68000dbc4d/cb64763230
-
seems worthwhile for lead generation and meeting students
2010
Linux
Tage, Berlin 24-27 June, IDG conference, 12,000 attendees
-
focus on European conferences - need to try to find conferences that
are relevant for central Europe (all members)
5
- Summer schedule
We'll go to 'summer schedule - once per month meetings until
August. Next calls will be:
Tuesday, June 9th
Tuesday, July 14th
Tuesday, August 11th, we'll return to the bi-weekly schedule.
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6 - Reminders
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
Embedded Day
- June 25th, Stuttgart
- focusing on embedded, telematics -
- contact Christine Mitterbauer, MicroDoc
-
http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseEmbeddedDayStgt
Eclipse
Day Karlsruhe - July 7th
-
Keynotes and initial list of presenters
announced
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
Eclipse
Italy, Sept 22-23rd, Bari
Eclipse
Now You Can, Paris - in planning for Oct 20th
Eclipse
Insurance Day
- September 30, 2009
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
