Marketing Meeting Minutes - August 1, 2006

[Karen.Frederiksen@xxxxxxxxxx]

Eclipse Marketing Team      
         
Teleconference        
        
August 1st, 2006

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


Marketing Updates


Marketing Symposium
During the September 20-21, 2006 Member’s
Meeting in Dallas, there will be a marketing symposium designed to address
the needs of the Eclipse Foundation members.

The Symposium will be a half day format to
enable people to fly in/fly out on the same day.
The meeting will start at 12:00PM.  

Updates on Content:

        ·  
     Forrester
has agreed to talk about the research they’re doing around open source
and Eclipse.

        ·  
     Ian has yet
to hear from Rick Ross about giving a presentation about marketing to developers.

        ·  
     Executing
a Successful Google AdWord Campaigns; Ian is looking for someone to give
a presentation, therefore if you have any ideas as to who may speak, please
email Ian.

        ·  
     Alan Zeichick
is amenable to giving presentation on how to get media coverage

        ·  
     Potential
panel discussion topics include:
         
      o        Viral
Marketing and how to increase your blog presence
         
      o        The
differentiation between open source and commercial product marketing
         
      o        Updates
with trending information from Genuitec
         
      o        Discussion
of Evans Data Project


Eclipse Foundation Updates
        §
       The
Eclipse Foundation will sponsor a reception/BoF Tailgate party at EclipseWorld,
which will be held in Cambridge on Sept 6-8th. For more information, visit:
http://www.eclipseworld.net/
        §
       The
Annual Member’s Meeting Registration email has been sent out. For more
information, visit: http://www.eclipse.org/community/events/
        §
       The
Foundation is holding an Eclipse Summit Europe from October 11-13th - outside
of Stuttgart. The Foundation is looking for Sponsors and expects around
200-300 attendees. The summit will comprise Technical Sessions and Modified
Member’s meeting geared towards the European market. For more information,
visit: http://www.eclipse.org/community/events/



Next Meeting:
Tuesday August 8th, 2006 

eclipse.org-member-marketing@xxxxxxxxxxx

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