| Eclipse Marketing Call Minutes from Jan. 15 |
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Eclipse Marketing Call Minutes January 15, 2008 at 12:00 pm EST Next Call: January 29, 2008 at 12:00 pm EST Dial 1-866-362-7064 or +1 613-287-8000 Pass code 880932 Attended: Donna
Esposito (EclipseWorld), Lynn Gayowski (Eclipse), Marko Kok (Remain), Howard
Lewis (Discovery Machine), Adam Lieber (Webtide), Brian MacDonald
(Instantiations), Richard Mayer (Protecode), Kent Mitchell (Zend), Shubhra
Sinha (Replay Solutions), Ian Skerrett (Eclipse), Shawn Wallace (RIM), Brian
(Inetsoft), FOUNDATION UPDATES (see below
for information that was given on each event): 1. DemoCamps
Review 3. EclipseCon 4. BZ Media Eclipse Survey 5. RCP Training 6. PluginFest 1. DemoCamps Review http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamp The DemoCamp program in November and December was very
successful and feedback was very positive. There were democamps in 30
cities with 750 attendees. Eclipse plans to continue the momentum by
running 2 democamp programs in 2008 – one in May/June around the Ganymede
release, and in November/December again. 2. Eclipse Community Awards http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/eclipseawards/index.php The Eclipse Community Awards are open for nominations in 2
categories – individual awards and technology awards, until Friday,
January 25, 2008. You’re welcome to nominate your own product.
The 6 technology awards are: 1) Best Commercial Eclipse-Based Developer Tool 2) Best Open Source Eclipse-Based Developer Tool 3) Best Commercial Equinox Application 4) Best Open Source Equinox Application 5) Best Commercial RCP Application 6) Best Open Source RCP Application The technology award winners are decided by a judging panel
and announced at March 17, 2008 at EclipseCon, and in a press release.
1) Nominate a product for an Eclipse Award. See http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/eclipseawards/awards_nominations.php
for details. 3. EclipseCon Mar. 17-20, 2008 Sponsor support for EclipseCon is going well and a press
release is going out January 22 announcing the gold sponsors. If anyone from your company is planning to attend remember
that there is an early discount of $700 if you register by February 14, 2008,
and members get an additional 15% discount. We will be organizing an
in-person marketing meeting at the conference. Eclipse is actively recruiting press to attend EclipseCon and
is anticipating about 30 press/analysts. A press interview room will be
available at the conference and a press list will be provided about a month
ahead. Opportunities 1) Register for EclipseCon by February 14, 2008 for an early
discount at http://www.eclipsecon.org/2008/?page=registration/. 2) Gold, silver and bronze sponsor packages are available
for EclipseCon. Sign up by January 22, 2008 to be included in the press
release. For any questions contact Donald Smith at donald dot smith at
eclipse dot org. Details on sponsorship opportunities are at http://www.eclipsecon.org/2008/index.php?page=sponsorship/. 4. BZ Media Eclipse Survey BZ Media completed its 4th survey of the SD Times
readership. Alan Zeichick of SD Times will present the survey results: Thursday, January 24, 2008 8:30pm PST / 11:30 am EST / 4:30 pm GMT Call 1-866-362-7064 ( Call pass code: 880932 The survey results are available to Eclipse member
companies, so email Ian Skerrett at ian dot skerret at eclipse dot org if you
need a copy. 5. RCP Training Eclipse ran an RCP training series with member companies last
September-October. Another series is being planned for May-June
2008. The first planning call is taking place January 17, 2008 so more info
is still to come. If you’re interested in participating in the
planning call, email Ian Skerrett at ian dot skerret at eclipse dot org and he
will send you the details. 6. PluginFest http://wiki.eclipse.org/PluginFest_2008 April 16-17, 2008 Eclipse is planning a PluginFest similar to the one that
took place January 2007 in A PluginFest for enterprise & Java was suggested in the
fall, but there didn’t seem to be enough interest so it didn’t go
forward. If this would be of interest to you, please email Ian Skerrett
at ian dot skerrett at eclipse dot org. Another suggestion is to see if
we can provide some type of certification for participating as this would help
reassure customers about inter-operability. Regards, Lynn Gayowski Marketing Events Manager Eclipse Foundation, Inc. |