Hi everyone -
Here are the minutes from
last week's call -
Regards,
Susan
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European Marketing
Working
Group
Minutes, September 22nd, 16:00 CET
Next call in two weeks -
Oct. 6th
1 -
News and Updates
Eclipse Insurance Day,
Cologne, September 30th
-
http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseInsuranceDayCologne
- invitation to evening event sent out
- over 70 registrations, 90 participants
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
- announced on eclipse.org landing page, EPIC, Member Newsletter,
mailing lists, dzone
- this week project newsgroups
November DemoCamps
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_November_2009
- initial set is scheduled, Germany is full (6 per country)
- room for 10 or more - more info to follow to full membership
2 - Eclipse Summit
Europe, Ludwigsburg, Oct 27-29 -
Lynn
http://www.eclipsecon.org/summiteurope2009/home
Promotional flyers
- Lynn
- copy will follow to this mailing list
- registration is
tracking similar to previous years - 100 so far
- call for posters is open now - link on website
Hendrik Hoefer - program
chair
Ralph Mueller - for information on sponsorships
Program is live
Sponsorship - new sponsors can
still sign up - important dates available on the website
Attendee promotion - have
implemented discounts for 10+ registrations - email
summit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
3 - Marketing
Knowledge Cafe at ESE, Tuesday, October 27th
- based on survey results, Tuesday 15:30 -17:30 is the time
- location information follows
- ideas, topics welcome - contact Susan or Lynn
4 - Joint
Conferences - Devoxx - Lynn
-
Decided not to go ahead with DevOxx this year - contact Lynn with
questions / info
http://www.devoxx.com
5 - Other items
Alternatives to GoToMeetings for the call
- DimDim - not recommended, webex was a better alternative
- Lynn will try to narrow the alternatives, target to try a new service
for a call in the next month
DemoCamp - Stuttgart
- Instinctools and WW are hosting a DemoCamp in Stuttgart - new date 26
November is confirmed
DemoCamp - Karlsruhe
- date is confirmed for 3 December FZI
6 - Reminders
Open Source
Conference, Nov 17th, Amsterdam - Yuri
Industrial TSI and SOPERA are participating
http://www.opensourceconference.nl/
IT Fair, 7th October -
Gunthilde
Wirtschaftsfoerderung is presenting their open source participants
-InstinctTools will talk briefly about the Stammtisch initiative
-Joern will check with Markus Voelter -
-Susan will check with Ralph to see if there are other companies in
Stuttgart that should be mentioned - re-ping Ralph
- http://www.messe-stuttgart.de/it-business
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-IT, September 28-29, 2009
University of Bergamo, Piazzale Sant'Agostino, 2
http://eit09.unibg.it/
Joint Conferences:
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)
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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
