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Eclipse Marketing Call Minutes December 4, 2007 at 12:00 pm EST Next Call: January 15, 2007 at 12:00 pm EST (note the delay due to the Members Call
Dec. 18 and the holiday break) Dial 1-866-362-7064 or +1 613-287-8000 Pass code 880932 FOUNDATION UPDATES (see below
for information that was given on each event): 1. Members Meeting Call 2. EclipseCon 4. Eclipse Awards 5. JavaOne 1. Members Meeting Call The next marketing call will not take place as the Eclipse
Members Meeting call is scheduled during our usual call time. Dec. 18, 2007 8:30am PST / 11:30am EST / 4:30pm GMT Call will be a maximum of 1.5 hours To join the next members meeting teleconference, call: 1-866-362-7054 ( Participant pass code 187860# The agenda will include: Executive Director Report Membership Report Ganymede Update New Member Introduction(s) Marketing Update 2. EclipseCon 2008 http://www.eclipsecon.org/2008/ Mar. 17-20, 2008 The program for EclipseCon will be announced Monday,
December 10 and will be posted to the conference site. 470 submissions were
received with many strong proposals, so the program is looking very exciting. Opportunities 1) Very early bird pricing for registration, which is less
than half of the on-site registration price, lasts until Dec. 31. 2) Gold, silver and bronze sponsor packages are available
for EclipseCon. For any questions contact Donald Smith at donald dot
smith at eclipse dot org. Details on sponsorship opportunities are at http://www.eclipsecon.org/2008/index.php?page=sponsorship/. 3. Eclipse DemoCamps http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamp 29 cities around the world Nov. 13-Dec. 19, 2007 13 of the 29 DemoCamps have taken place and the reviews
coming back have been very positive. Average attendance is 24 people per DemoCamp,
but the range has been from 8 people to 61. We are looking for feedback on
whether we should run the program again or how we should do it differently. Note from Opportunities 1) If you attended or organized a DemoCamp, send us your
feedback! Should we run the program again? When? What did you think of the
DemoCamp format? Should the DemoCamps be a regular event? Email your thoughts
to Ian at ian at eclipse dot org and 2) Attend an upcoming DemoCamp in December – sign up
to attend at http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamp 4. Eclipse Awards The Eclipse Awards are an annual event to honour individuals
and technologies from the Eclipse community. The call for nominations will be
announced on the Eclipse website around Dec. 14 so watch www.eclipse.org for more info. Individual
Awards are voted on by the community and the Technology Awards are decided by a
panel of judges. The awards will be given out to the winners at EclipseCon on
March 17. 5. JavaOne http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/ May 6-8, 2008 After receiving feedback from members, Eclipse is going to
pursue the idea of having an Eclipse Pavilion area at JavaOne, where members
could purchase a company pedestal within an Eclipse area in the exhibition
hall. Details should be available in early January, but we are hoping to keep
the cost of a pedestal in the range of $6,000. We will also run a passport
game, similar to previous years, where conference attendees have to gather
stamps from Eclipse member company booths in order to get an Eclipse t-shirt or
other giveaway. We also discussed having an Eclipse Day of technical
presentations on the Monday (May 5) before JavaOne, but the general feeling
from members seems to be that they will be very busy with other activities and
there may be too much competition to try and hold an event on this day. We
decided not to go forward with an Eclipse Day this year. Opportunities 1) If you may be interested in participating with Eclipse at
JavaOne as a sponsor of the pavilion or passport program email Lynn Gayowski at
Regards, Lynn Gayowski Marketing Events Manager Eclipse Foundation, Inc. |