Eclipse Marketing Call Minutes
September 9, 2008 at 12:00 pm EST
Next Call: September 23, 2008 at 12:00 pm EST
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Attended: Jeff Anders
(CodeGear), (Eric Cloninger (Motorola), Lynn Gayowski (Eclipse), Marta George
(Instantiations), Tina Kvavle (Instantiations), Richard Mayer (Protecode), Ian
Skerrett (Eclipse)
FOUNDATION UPDATES (see below
for information that was given on each event):
1. Eclipse Training
Series
2. Market Research Project
3. DemoCamps
4. Marketing Symposium at EclipseWorld
5. Eclipse Summit
Europe
1. Eclipse Training Series
http://www.eclipse.org/community/training/2008fall.php
November 3-December 12, 2008
Worldwide
-Eclipse member companies are offering 50+ training classes
in 32 cities on RCP, Equinox and Modeling
-Members run the training and the Foundation provides
marketing and a centralized registration system
-Press release went out Sep. 9
-Early bird discount is being offered until Oct. 3
2. Market Research
-The Foundation was planning a market research study on the
user community, however it was cancelled due to lack of interest
3. DemoCamps
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_November_2008
November 1-30, 2008
Worldwide
-Eclipse is organizing its 3rd DemoCamp series
-DemoCamps are informal events organized around the world to
show off what people are doing with Eclipse
-The Foundation provides support by funding food and
beverages for the camps
Opportunities: Organize a DemoCamp - details at http://www.eclipse.org/community/democamp/organizedemocamp.php
4. Marketing Symposium at EclipseWorld
http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/membersminutes/20081028MarketingSymposium/MeetingMinutesSep21.php
October 28, 2008
Reston, VA, USA
-The Foundation will hold an Eclipse Marketing Symposium
October 28
-The symposium is at the same venue as EclipseWorld, which
takes place Oct. 28-30
-Symposium topics include Getting
Developers to Listen by Matthew Schmidt of Dzone/JavaLobby, Actuate Case Study on developer marketing
by Rich Guth of Actuate, How to Get Good
Press by Alan Zeichick of SD Times and BZ Media, Leveraging the eclipse.org Web Site by
Donald Smith of the Eclipse Foundation and What
are Developers Using in Eclipse by Ian Skerrett of the Eclipse
Foundation
-There is no cost to attend the symposium
-Also, there will be an Eclipse Members’ Meeting on
October 27
5. Eclipse Summit
Europe
http://www.eclipsesummit.org
November 19-20, 2008
Ludwigsburg, Germany
-Call for papers closed Sep. 1
-Response was excellent
-Expected attendance at the conference is 400-450
-There are still sponsorship opportunities
Opportunities: Sponsor ESE - details at http://www.eclipsecon.org/summiteurope2008/sponsorship
Regards,
Lynn Gayowski
Marketing Events Manager
Eclipse Foundation, Inc.