Eclipse Marketing Call Minutes
April 22, 2008 at 12:00 pm EST
NOTE THAT THE MARKETING
CALL IN 2 WEEKS IS CANCELLED DUE TO A CONFLICT WITH THE JAVAONE CONFERENCE
Next Call: May 20, 2008 at 12:00 pm EST
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Attended: Donna
Esposito (EclipseWorld), Lynn Gayowski (Eclipse), Marta George
(Instantiations), Tina Kvavle (Instantiations), Chris Nguyen (BEA), Vijay
Ramakrishnan (Actuate), Ian Skerrett (Eclipse), Kimber Spradlin (Embarcadero)
FOUNDATION UPDATES (see below
for information that was given on each event):
1. JavaOne
2. Ganymede Release Activities
1. JavaOne
http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/
May 6-9, 2008
San Francisco, CA
-Eclipse is hosting a JavaOne party at the ThirstyBear in San Francisco, on Wednesday,
May 7, at 7:00 pm – please feel free to invite your customers, users and
colleagues
-Please RSVP for the party to JavaOneParty at eclipse dot
org
-Eclipse will have a booth at JavaOne and is running a
passport game in the exhibit hall
-Attendees will collect stamps at member company booths in a
booklet in order to receive a giveaway from Eclipse
-We have increased the giveaways this year from 600 to 750
t-shirts
-All Eclipse members will receive an “Eclipse
Foundation Member” tabletop sign the Monday of set-up for the conference
-No press is planned for JavaOne
Opportunities: Come to the Eclipse Party on May 7 by RSVP’ing
to JavaOneParty at eclipse dot org - details at http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20080415_JavaOneParty.php)
2. Ganymede Release Activities
-There will be a blogging contest for reviews of Ganymede
announced in June
-DemoCamps around the world are being organized during the
month of June to show off what people are doing with Eclipse, get feedback and
to network
-The theme of the DemoCamps is Ganymede
-Member companies are welcome to organize a DemoCamp in
their city – just pick a location (such as an office or pub) and a date
in June
-Eclipse will sponsor each DemoCamp for up to $250 USD
-Members can get recognition on the event wiki by sponsoring
a DemoCamp in their local area
Opportunities: Organize, sponsor or attend an Eclipse
DemoCamp in your area - details at http://www.eclipse.org/community/democamp/organizedemocamp.php
Regards,
Lynn Gayowski
Marketing Events Manager
Eclipse Foundation, Inc.