Hi everyone -
Here are the minutes
from our call in August. And, just a reminder to mark the date for
the next call on Tuesday, September 8th.
Regards,
Susan
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European Marketing
Working
Group
Minutes, August 11th 16:00 CET
1 -
News and Updates
Updates:
Eclipse Insurance Day,
Cologne, September 30th
- announcement PR complete, website live
http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseInsuranceDayCologne
- 23
registrations so far, target is 60 for Sept 30th
- sponsors will
have space for a rollup stand and brochures
For next call:
-ideas
for promoting ESE at EID
Braunschweiger
Eclipse-Stammtisch, 22. September 2009, 19:00
Bredex GmbH,
Mauernstr. 33
- The Braunschweig Stammtisch is an opportunity to
share what you're building with Eclipse, what problems you might have
encountered and solutions you've discovered. A new format includes a
30 min. talk that will give speakers and participants
an opportunity to get deeper into the topic. If you would
like to present, please send a short overview to
eclipsestammtisch@xxxxxxxxx
and your talk will be scheduled for the
next available time. For more information, email
eclipsestammtisch@xxxxxxxxx
- and feel free to invite your friends!
Eclipse Training Series
-
Lynn
- Eclipse training series
- Oct 19-Dec 4, 2009
- Foundation provides central registration
and promotion, members provide training - up to 6 events per training
provider
- Developing with RCP, Advanced RCP, Equinox and
Modelling
-To join the mailing list or view the archives:
https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/trainers
Promotion
- no later
than Sept 14th for start of promotion
- there will be a mini
banner for the series on download, plugin central, eclipse live and
main page
Webinar
-If anyone or
a group wants to record a 5-10 minute training demo to promote the
series, Lynn can coordinate to set this up any time
-If anyone
records their own demo or video, Lynn can help promote it
-For a full
1-hour webinar (would be technical content on RCP, Equinox or
Modeling rather than just a promo), we could do September or November
– dates are very flexible
-Email lynn@xxxxxxxxxxx
if
you’d like to volunteer for any of these options
2 - Eclipse Summit
Europe, Ludwigsburg, Oct 27-29 -
Lynn
http://www.eclipsecon.org/summiteurope2009/home
Hendrik Hoefer - program
chair
Ralph Mueller - for information on sponsorships
Program
Format - submissions closed August 18th
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
Demos
- will be intermixed with sponsored talks on
Wed/Thurs - technical and not just product presentation
Themes
- IDE, Embedded,
Modeling, Misc (N&N, etc)
Registration is open
Sponsorship
- exhibit
area outside the presentation rooms is full
- new sponsors can
still sign up - important dates available on the website
Executive Day - defer to
next call
3 - Joint
Conferences - Devoxx - Lynn
http://www.devoxx.com
-November 16-20 in
Antwerp, Belgium
-Exhibition runs November 17-19 only
-Conference
gets 3,200 attendees from 35+ countries and sold out in 2007 and
2008
-In past years, the Eclipse Foundation has purchased a
Plug-in sponsorship and then member companies took turns staffing the
booth
-Plug-in sponsorship (the lowest level) is 3,000 eur and
gives a pedestal in the exhibition hall, logo in the printed program
and logo on the website
-Bumping up a level to
Base sponsorship is 7,800 eur and adds booth space of 6 sqm, a list
of conference participants (name, company, country only – no
emails), 4 conference passes and an insert in the newsletter
-Eclipse budgeted for
Plug-in sponsorship but would need volunteers to staff 17 two-hour
slots at the booth
-Extra funds to move up
to
Base sponsorship would have to come from members sharing the cost
-Last year we had 5
people
from 5 member companies volunteer, but they each had to take 3-4
shifts
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)
4
- Marketing Working Group
- how can we improve what
we're doing - what can we focus on in the future?
- BoF or
un-conference at ESE
- more info follows
5 - Reminders
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.
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 Italy,
Sept 22-23rd, Bari
Eclipse Now You Can,
Paris
- in planning for Oct 20th
Eclipse Banking Day -
France
- Actuate, Obeo,
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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
