[eclipse.org-membership-at-large] Action Required: Setup your new Eclips

["Donald Smith" <donald.smith@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This email is not your usual information push, action is required from all members by Friday, June 15^th, 2007.

 

Summary:

-        Eclipse.org membership pages now offer a much richer experience for members and the hundred-thousand-plus unique visitors per day.

-        You need to setup a logo and company description to take advantage of this new format.

-        You, or anyone in your organization you designate, can edit these pages for your company.  Please forward this email to the right person in your organization.

 

Details:

As you may recall from the Members meeting at EclipseCon, the foundation will be unveiling new Membership pages by the end of this month.  These new membership pages offer a much richer way to interact with the hundred-thousand-plus unique visitors that come to Eclipse.org every day, and the data-driven format will give us lots of flexibility on how and where your organization information can be presented.

 

Please do not make any of these URL’s public yet, but it is OK (and expected) for you to share this email internally as part the testing our process.  In other words, please feel free to punt to your colleagues!  There are three things we need you to do, #1 and #2 require looking around, #3 requires action:

 

#1 “Eclipse Membership Landing Page”

Here is the main “Explore the membership” page:

http://www.eclipse.org/membership/indexBETA.php

 

Take a look around and let us know if you have any suggestions.

 

#2 “Explore the Membership”

From the main landing page link above, look around the “Explore the Membership” pages.  The data is not at all complete.  Some of your organizations are listed with sample data, some are not.  But browse around and see if you are comfortable with the layout, lists and general feel of the new “Explore the Membership” pages.

 

#3 “Add or Modify Your Organization information on the ‘Explore the membership’ Pages”

To modify the Membership Page for your organization, you need to have an account for the Eclipse Portal.  If you are a committer, you can simply login with your committer user name and password.  Otherwise, you need to request an account, or ask someone on your staff to request an account (or you can do both):

http://portal.eclipse.org/myfoundation/portal/password-request.php

 

To Login to the portal once you have your account, click here:

http://portal.eclipse.org

 

Once you login to the portal, scroll down to the “Membership Page” area and edit your short description, long description, URL and LOGO’s (or keep them as they are if we have seeded one for you).  You can use HTML in both short/long descriptions. 

 

Changes take place instantly, you can click the “see your page” link on the portal, or you can browse to it through the “Explore the membership” link.  There is also an FAQ page on the new membership pages that may be helpful:

http://www.eclipse.org/membership/faq/editMembershipPage.php

 

Suggest Tags for your Organization

While exploring the membership, you will notice there are tags related to organizations.  You will notice that you cannot modify the tags for your organization in the portal – this is by design because all tags need to be reviewed by the foundation for consistency and accuracy.  Take a look at your tags on your membership page, and please try out the “Suggest More Tags” feature.

 

Your attention to experimenting setting up your information this week will be greatly appreciated.

 

Cheers,

 

  - Don

 

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Donald Smith  donald.smith@xxxxxxxxxxx Director of Ecosystem Development Office: (613) 224-9461   x231 Cell: (613) 292-5160 Fax: (212) 918-1619 Blog: http://eclipse-ecosystem.blogspot.com