Eclipse Marketing Meeting Minutes

[Karen.Frederiksen@xxxxxxxxxx]

Eclipse Marketing Team      
         
Teleconference        
        
March 14, 2006

Time:        
12:00-1:00pm EST / 9:00-10:00am PST


Agenda:
EclipseCon 
Marketing meeting @ EclipseCon
Eclipse Research
Foundation updates


EclipseCon
EclipseCon will be held March 20-23rd in
Santa Clara, CA.

·        There
are 46 exhibiting companies lined and the Expo Hall is sold out
·        1274
people have registered as of Monday; there are also many people taking
advantage of the free expo hall passes
·        Eclipse
Foundation Press Briefings at EclipseCon 
1.        Release
highlighting the different projects built on the Rich Client Platform,
including the Data Tools Project, Communication Framework (ECF) Project,
as well as new project proposals:         Enterprise
Content Management Project (Apogée)  and Enterprise Component Platform
2.        There
will be a release about the Corona and Application Lifecycle Framework
projects
3.        There
will also be a release highlighting the PHP IDE project, which has been
officially created and will have the first code drop at EclipseCon
4.        There
will be a release announcing the Eclipse Awards Finalists
5.        There
will be a Community Press Release, highlighting the commercial product
announcements at EclipseCon

Some Pertinent Eclipse Foundation Member’s
Calendar Items for EclipseCon
·        Eclipse
Member’s Meeting 
·        Monday:
1:00 PM -5:00 PM 
·        Great
American Ballroom J&K

·        Eclipse
Awards Ceremony
·        Monday:
5:00 PM -6:00 PM 
·        Magnolia
Room

·        Private
Member’s Reception: Send Donald an email to get on the guest list
·        Monday:
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
·        Great
American Ballroom J&K


Marketing Meeting at EclipseCon
·        Marketing
team meeting at EclipseCon: Wednesday 22nd from 1:00 – 2:00 PM in Room
211 at the Santa Clara Convention Center
·        Premise
to get together informally.


Eclipse Research
·        Mike
Taylor has started a working group around Eclipse market research. 
·        The
first Eclipse Research Conference Call was held on Friday, March 10 to
talk about the 2006 Eclipse Market Research Project with Evans Data. 
·        The
goal is to survey the Eclipse user community and get questions answered
as to how commercial vendors can gain better access and understanding the
Eclipse community.
·        If
interested mike_taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
·        The
project and the committee are still at the formation stage 

Eclipse Foundation Updates
The Eclipse Foundation will participate in
the Embedded Systems Conference
·        The
Foundation will have a Booth and a do press work
·        If
other companies are participating or possibly interested in joint marketing,
then please contact Ian.


Next Teleconference Meeting:
Tuesday March 28, 2005 




Karen Frederiksen | Director, Application
Development Technologies | Sybase, Inc. | One Sybase Drive | Dublin, CA
94568 | Direct 925.236.8480 | karen.frederiksen@xxxxxxxxxx |