Eclipse Marketing Call Minutes
August 11, 2009 at 12:00 pm EST
Next Call: September 8, 2009 at 12:00 pm EST
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Attended: Lynn
Gayowski (Eclipse), Tina Kvavle (Instantiations), Mike Perrow (IBM)
FOUNDATION UPDATES (see below
for information that was given on each event):
1. Eclipse Summit Europe
2. Training series
3. e4 –
webinars & feedback contest
1. Eclipse Summit
Europe
http://www.eclipsesummit.org
October 27-29. 2009
Ludwigsburg, Germany
-The call for papers closes this next Tuesday, August 18,
2009 http://www.eclipsecon.org/summiteurope2009/submissions
-59 submissions received so far, so slots are still
available
-Available formats are long talks, short talks, symposia and
tutorials, and track topics are embedded, IDEs, modeling, runtime and other new
& noteworthy
-In particular, the program committee is still looking for
more consumer stories and submissions about embedded
-Registration is open already http://www.eclipsecon.org/summiteurope2009/registration/
-Only 1 sponsor spot on the exhibit hall’s upper level
is open, plus spots are available on the lower level http://www.eclipsecon.org/summiteurope2009/sponsorship/
-The deadline to sign up and get in the printed program is
September 15
-Tina suggested reminding sponsors of the program ad cost –
the cost is less than what was originally emailed out for colour ads
3. Training series
-A new training series is being planned for October
19-December 4
-The courses we will offer are Developing with RCP, Advanced
RCP, Equinox and Modeling
-The Foundation will provide a centralized registration
system and help promote
-Members that participate use common course outlines which are
currently being drafter
-Members can choose their locations and which courses they
want to offer, to a maximum of 6 classes per member
-Join the mailing list to participate https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/trainers
or email Lynn
at eclipse dot org for any questions
3. e4 – webinars & feedback
contest
http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20090806_e4cb.php
-The e4 project team had their early alpha release at the
end of June
-We’re promoting e4 as they would like feedback on the
release and are hoping to attract more contributors
-There will be 2 webinars on August 18 and August 26 http://www.eclipse.org/community/e4webinar/abstracts.php
-There is also a feedback contest where people can blog a
review of the release and be entered in a draw for an Eclipse shirt http://www.eclipse.org/community/e4contest/guidelines.php
Regards,
Lynn Gayowski
Marketing Events Manager
Eclipse Foundation, Inc.