Eclipse Marketing Call Minutes
April 8, 2008 at 12:00 pm EST
Next Call: April 22, 2008 at 12:00 pm EST
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Attended: Donna
Esposito (EclipseWorld), Lynn Gayowski (Eclipse), Tina Kvavle (Instantiations),
Richard Mayer (Protecode), Ian Skerrett (Eclipse)
FOUNDATION UPDATES (see below
for information that was given on each event):
1. JavaOne
2. Market Research
3. Ganymede DemoCamps
1. JavaOne
http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/
May 6-9, 2008
San Francisco, CA
-Eclipse will run a passport game again, where attendees
collect stamps at member company booths in a booklet, in order to receive a
giveaway from Eclipse
-The deadline for agreements is this coming Monday, April 14 - email lynn at eclipse dot org if you’re
interested in participating
-Eclipse will post a party at the ThirstyBear in San Francisco on May 7 at
7:00 pm
-No press is planned for JavaOne
Extra note: a press release is scheduled to go out next week
as the Embedded Systems Conference in Silicon Valley
on a new Eclipse project led by Texas Instruments
2. Market Research
-The Foundation is organizing a survey of the Eclipse
community to find out the wants and needs of developers
-Previously, Evans Data has run this survey for us
-Participating member companies share the costs of the
survey and have access to the results
-Email ian dot skerrett at eclipse dot org if you’re
interested in participating
3. Ganymede DemoCamps
-Eclipse’s major release at the end of June involved
24 projects and is named Ganymede
-Eclipse is organizing informal democamps around the world
during the month of June to show off what people are doing with Eclipse
-Democamps will be announced in the next week and we’ll
be looking for organizers
-New this time, organizers are encouraged to look for other
sponsorship for their democamps
-Members can get recognition by sponsoring a democamp in
their local area
-Eclipse will be funding up to 20 democamps to a maximum of
$250 USD each
Regards,
Lynn Gayowski
Marketing Events Manager
Eclipse Foundation, Inc.