Hi everyone -
Here are the minutes
from last week's call.
Regards,
Susan
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European Marketing
Working Group
Minutes, July 14th 16:00 CET
1
- News and Updates
Feedback
on Eclipse Days
EclipseTime 2009,
23-24 June, Toulouse
Eclipse Embedded Day -
June 25th, Stuttgart
Eclipse Application
Developer Day - July 7th, Karlsruhe
- all events had good turnouts, opportunities for leads and high
quality program
Updates:
Eclipse
Insurance Day, Cologne, September 30th
- announcement PR
complete, website live
http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseInsuranceDayCologne
2 - Eclipse
Summit Europe, Ludwigsburg, Oct 27-29
- Hendrik Hoefer
http://www.eclipsecon.org/summiteurope2009/home
Hendrik Hoefer -
program chair
Ralph Mueller - for information on
sponsorships
Program Format - submissions due 18 August
Tutorials
and Symposia - day 1
- roughly 50/50, depending on submissions -
symposia lend themselves to projects that want to reach out to their
community
Talks -
- customer presentations are especially
interesting
Sponsored talks
- extra track for sponsored
talks - talks will be vetted by the PC
- product talk - an
in-depth technical presentation on the product, examples of software
in large IT companies
Themes
- IDE,
Embedded, Modeling, Misc (N&N, etc)
Promoting ESE
-
website banners are available
- start serious promotion in
September
- can start blogging now on submissions
More updates follow
3 - Galileo
Feedback - Lynn / Ian
- downloads are
healthy - not a million yet
- webinar series - 2 days after
release - 1000 registrations over 5 hours, 500-600 attended
- demo
camps - gathering feedback now, more attendees over all cities
-
blogathon - continues - highest number of entries ever - can still
enter
- comment from the group is that Galileo had the bst
organization and coverage ever by the Foundation
4 - English JAX Portal
- from Nadja
http://jaxenter.com/
This is a preview of the site - but its open for contributions.
Please contact N(adja)Outmani, H(artmut)Schlosser or C(laudia)Froehling
at jax.de.
5
- Joint Conferences
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
- Lynn
will look into it - for next call - add to agenda
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)
6 - Reminders
Summer
schedule
We'll go to 'summer schedule - once per month
meetings until August. Next call will be:
Tuesday, August
11th, we'll return to the bi-weekly schedule.
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Eclipse
contact data project -
Next steps
-
interested companies get together offline to pursue pilot
- find
alternative research companies - Joern and Katharina will look for
alternatives
Events:
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
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- Eclipse members training
calendar - on the wiki for all member training courses
- 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
