Hi everyone -
Here are the minutes from Tuesday's call -
Regards,
Susan
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European Marketing
Working
Group
Minutes, October 6, 16:00 CET
Next meeting: live at
ESE 2009
1 -
News and Updates
Eclipse Insurance Day,
Cologne, September 30th
-
http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseInsuranceDayCologne
- 100 people, successful event, good leads, good mix of levels
Defer for Joern
- feedback on the event - what made it successful
- are sponsors allowed to contact the attendees after the event
Eclipse Training Series
-
Lynn
- Eclipse training series
- Oct 19-Dec 4, 2009
- registrations are ok - too early to tell how many courses will go
ahead
November DemoCamps
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_November_2009
- initial set is scheduled, 25 over a variety of countries - US and
Germany are full (6 per country)
- promotion - Lynn will do general call once more details are published
including community bulletin on main page, newsgroup, forums
- individual demoCamps are free to promote as they want
- Susan will check with Ralph about posting to the Xing list
on behalf of all the European Camps
2 - Eclipse Summit
Europe, Ludwigsburg, Oct 27-29 -
Lynn
http://www.eclipsecon.org/summiteurope2009/home
Promotional flyers
- Lynn
- updated flyer available with sponsor logos - sent to the list
- call for posters is open - link on website - 8/12 spaces taken
- attendee promotion - have
implemented discounts for 10+ registrations - email
summit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- registration is just under 200
3 - Marketing
Knowledge Cafe at ESE, Tuesday, October 27th
- Sign up for the Knowledge Cafe!
- Tuesday 15:30 -17:30
- a draft program has been created based on feedback in the survey
- published on - http://wiki.eclipse.org/ESE_KnowledgeCafe
- sign up for the symposia is on the webpage
- program suggestions are still welcome too!
4 - Open Source Expo, 15-16 Nov., Karlsruhe - Thomas,
S&S Verlag
- call for projects - presentation, exhibit
- exhibits are free - the Foundation and the projects should be the
focus, rather than the companies - eg. Open Suse is exhibiting, not
Novell
- Itemis, EMF, Sopera, SOA, etc.
- other projects in include Drupal, Apache
- Thomas would like to talk with folks from the eclipse community who
would like to present
- Lynn has offered to coordinate with Ralph and will be in touch with
Thomas and Sebastian
www.openexpo.de
5 - New items
IT Stammtisch with topic Eclipse - Stuttgart,1 Dec. 2009
- catering sponsored by Wirtschaftsfoerderung
Region Stuttgart GmbH (Stuttgart Region
Economic Development Corporation)
- Ralph will introduce the Foundation and Eclipse
- Instinctools will present experience report on developing with
eclipse from management perspective
- WW is also presenter
English JAX Portal - from
Nadja - official launch is November 2009
http://jaxenter.com/
This is a
preview of the site - but its open for contributions. Please
contact H(artmut)Schlosser at
jax.de.
- makes it possible to publish articles in German and English
JAX London - Feb 22-24, 2010
- first EN conference
- Contact Sebastian/Maike re: adding announcement to the list next week
- Susan
EFE / JAX - week of May 3rd, 2010
- feedback, ideas about what the community needs welcome
- email Sebastian Meyen
6 - Reminders
Alternatives to GoToMeetings for the call
IT Fair, 7th October -
Gunthilde
Wirtschaftsfoerderung is presenting their open source participants
-InstinctTools will talk briefly about the Stammtisch initiative
- http://www.messe-stuttgart.de/it-business
Open Source
Conference, Nov 17th, Amsterdam - Yuri
Industrial TSI and SOPERA
are participating
http://www.opensourceconference.nl/
DemoCamp - Stuttgart - 26 November
- organized by Instinctools and WW
DemoCamp - Frankfurt - date TBC
S&S Verlag and Itemis
DemoCamp - Karlsruhe - 3 December, at FZI
- organized by andrena, EclipseSource and FZI
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
