Eclipse Marketing Call Minutes
December 2, 2008 at 12:00 pm EST
Next Call: December 16, 2008 at 12:00 pm EST
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Attended: Jeff Anders
(Embarcadero), Chris Forti (Actuate), Lynn Gayowski (Eclipse), Tina Kvavle
(Instantiations), Ian Skerrett (Eclipse)
FOUNDATION UPDATES (see below
for information that was given on each event):
1. Eclipse
Summit Europe Wrap-up
2. EclipseCon
3. Eclipse Community Awards
4. Eclipse Banking Day in NYC
1. Eclipse Summit
Europe Wrap-up
-Eclipse Summit Europe was Nov. 19-20 in Ludwigsburg, Germany
with a symposia day preceding it as well as a Members Meeting
-Attendance at the conference was just over 400, the same as
last year
-Sponsors seemed to be happy and there was good buzz &
networking at the conference
-Presentations from the Members Meeting and Marketing
Symposium are at http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/membersminutes/20081117EuropeanMembersMeeting/MeetingAgendaNov17.php
-Many speakers posted their slides to their abstracts on the
conference website http://www.eclipse.org
2. EclipseCon 2009
http://www.eclipsecon.org
March 23-26, 2009
Santa Clara, CA
-Call for presentations is now closed with 470+ submissions
-The very early registrations deadline (40% off the onsite
price) is December 31, plus members get an additional 15% discount
-Sponsorship opportunities are still available
-Ian will be starting press outreach soon
Opportunities: Sponsor EclipseCon at http://www.eclipsecon.org/2009/sponsorship
3. Eclipse Community Awards
-Awards are held annually to recognize top Eclipse products
and individuals
-Awards are announced and handed out at EclipseCon
-Individual awards are nominated by the community and
selected in a vote by the community
-Commercial awards are nominated by vendors and a panel of
judges selects the winners
-Nominations will open December 8 and the deadline is January
30
4. Eclipse Banking Day
http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseBankingDayNYC
December 9, 2008
New York, NY
-Attendance is now closed at 100 participants
-We reached the target market – a lot of VPs of
investment banks are attending
-There is also a good variety of banks represented
-Another Banking Day will be planned for London in February
-Eclipse Foundation is open to putting on more days related
to industry verticals, especially for automotive and banking
Opportunities: Participate in the London Banking Day
– email Ian Skerrett at ian at eclipse dot org
Regards,
Lynn Gayowski
Marketing Events Manager
Eclipse Foundation, Inc.