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[hyades-dev] TPTP Marketing Group Meeting minutes, 16th September 2004

1. Attendees
Marie Godfrey, Computer Associates
Jim Saliba, Computer Associates
Diane Weir, IBM
Ian Skerrett, Eclipse
Ling Yao, Intel
Melanie Woods, Scapa Technologies

2. Eclipse Marketing & PR meeting update
Events, article opportunities etc. discussed in detail below.

3. Contact Reports / Call for Papers
No additional contact reports received.

4. Events
An events calendar has been circulated to the marketing group. Diane has 
indicated another event to consider, ISCE in Missouri, May 2005. Details 
of this event will be added to the calendar and topics for the call for 
papers will be distributed to the group.
ObjectWeb has indicated that there are sponsorship and exhibition 
opportunities available for their conference in Lyon, next January. 
Details will be sent to marketing group.
ACTION: Melanie to update events calendar
ACTION: Melanie to send details of ICSE call for papers to group
ACTION: Melanie to send sponsorship/exhibition information from 
ObjectWeb to group

Specific events discussed (in date order):
- OOPSLA, Vancouver, October 24-28, 2004
http://www.oopsla.org/2004/ShowPage.do?id=Home
No emails received with regard to the OOPSLA event. It seems unlikely 
that we will have any poster sessions there at this point.

- STARWEST, Anaheim, 15-19 November 2004
http://www.sqe.com/starwest/
Another event to consider, noted on the events calendar. This event has 
sessions on best practices and methodologies, and may be worthwhile 
targeting with news releases etc. The event is long-established and 
attracts a range of testing professionals and experts.

- Software Test & Performance Conference, December 7-9, 2004 
http://www.bzmedia.com/stpcon/
Jim has proposed to write an abstract for an article along the lines of 
"Open Source Testing comes of age with Eclipse" for the December edition 
of Software Test & Performance Magazine, which will be distributed at 
the conference. It was agreed that Patterson & Associates would try to 
submit this to the magazine's editor.
ACTION: Jim to send abstract to Ian, Melanie and Mike Norman

- ObjectWeb Conference in Lyon, France, 17-19 January 2005
http://wiki.objectweb.org/ObjectWebCon05/Wiki.jsp?page=CallForProposals
JOnAS monitoring presentation abstract has been submitted to ObjectWeb 
by IBM. 
Information regarding sponsorship and exhibition opportunities at this 
conference has been received. The pdf brochure is available online at 
http://wiki.objectweb.org/ObjectWebCon05/attach?page=SponsorshipOpportunities%2FSponsorship_opportunities_OWCon05.pdf
Note from Francois: there's a typo p. 4 : the legend of the breakout 
says "OWCon05 counts >1000 members" . Actually, it's the CONSORTIUM that 
counts 1000+ individual members. We'll fix that ASAP.
ACTION: Melanie to circulate information on sponsorship and exhibition 
opportunities (DONE)

- LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, Boston, 14-17 February 2005
http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS05A/
An abstract has been submitted to this conference regarding the 
datacollection agents, although it was slightly late. The organisers 
have expressed their policy not to show favouritism over their sponsors 
by granting permission for late submissions, so it is unlikely that the 
abstract will be accepted.

- EclipseCon, Burlingame, February 23–March 3, 2005
http://www.eclipse.org
Ling described her ideas for suggestions for presentations, covering the 
top-level project overall and also each of the project (Hyades Platform; 
Hyades Testing; Hyades Monitoring; Hyades Tracing and Profiling).
ACTION: Ling to circulate ideas to hyades-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
ACTION: All to work with their teams to come up with areas of the TPTP 
project that we could promote at EclipseCon

5. PR
Discussed the possibility of engaging with an analyst group to create a 
research paper on the TPTP project within the larger automated software 
quality market. Need to decide which analyst groups (and analysts within 
these groups) are most interesting to the project and then work out how 
to engage with them, either through Eclipse or individual member 
companies.
ACTION: ALL to decide top 3-5 analyst groups for the project 
ACTION: All to think about of interesting ways to target specific test & 
performance audience groups, e.g. open source project initiatives etc.
ACTION: All to help the Eclipse and PR agency to target relevant 
editors/journalists and analysts

6. Website
Some progress being made on the immediately-required website updates.
ACTION: ALL to bring ideas to the group for future website improvements

7. AOB
No progress as yet on creating a CVS library for presentation slides, 
posters and other marketing materials to facilitate quick action on call 
for papers etc.
As a general point which will help feed into discussions about events, 
PR, website updates etc., we agreed to collaborate on pulling together a 
list of target audiences and the messages with which we can target them. 
Some targets suggested: business decision makers, software 
developers/engineers; software companies (including automated software 
quality companies to join the project and extend its scope and 
framework).
ACTION: Melanie to update group on progress of immediate website updates
ACTION: ALL to start building target lists for projects and messages

N.B. The group is constituted in the same way as other TPTP development 
groups, and is respectful of Eclipse rules and regulations for meetings 
between Eclipse members. Also, with regard to operational activities 
covered by IP policy and anti-trust regulations, it is the duty of the 
lead committer to make group participants aware of these regulations. 
The group does not have a lead committer at this stage, however, 
participants can find details on these regulations at: 
http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/main.html


Next meeting: Thursday, September 23rd, 2004
Time: 5pm BST / 6pm CET / 12pm EDT / 9am PDT

Call-in details:
Tel: 8-356-2663, +1 916-356-2663
Bridge: 3
Passcode: 8413915 



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