| Eclipse Marketing Call Minutes from Apr. 8 |
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Eclipse Marketing Call Minutes April 8, 2008 at 12:00 pm EST Next Call: April 22, 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), Tina Kvavle (Instantiations),
Richard Mayer (Protecode), Ian Skerrett (Eclipse) FOUNDATION UPDATES (see below
for information that was given on each event): 1. JavaOne 2. Market Research 3. Ganymede DemoCamps 1. JavaOne http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/ May 6-9, 2008 -Eclipse will run a passport game again, where attendees
collect stamps at member company booths in a booklet, in order to receive a
giveaway from Eclipse -The deadline for agreements is this coming Monday, April 14 - email -Eclipse will post a party at the ThirstyBear in -No press is planned for JavaOne Extra note: a press release is scheduled to go out next week
as the Embedded Systems Conference in 2. Market Research -The Foundation is organizing a survey of the Eclipse
community to find out the wants and needs of developers -Previously, Evans Data has run this survey for us -Participating member companies share the costs of the
survey and have access to the results -Email ian dot skerrett at eclipse dot org if you’re
interested in participating 3. Ganymede DemoCamps -Eclipse’s major release at the end of June involved
24 projects and is named Ganymede -Eclipse is organizing informal democamps around the world
during the month of June to show off what people are doing with Eclipse -Democamps will be announced in the next week and we’ll
be looking for organizers -New this time, organizers are encouraged to look for other
sponsorship for their democamps -Members can get recognition by sponsoring a democamp in
their local area -Eclipse will be funding up to 20 democamps to a maximum of
$250 USD each Regards, Lynn Gayowski Marketing Events Manager Eclipse Foundation, Inc. |