EMIWG/Face2Face-EclipseCon2009

Proposed Face 2 Face Meeting

Location: Wo-located with EclipseCon Conference 2009, Santa Clara Convention Center

Date/Time: Monday, 9:30 - 11:30

Please Note, Monday is also the day of the Eclipse Members Meeting.

The Mobile Industry Working Group meeting is parallel to the "New Member Jumpstart" meeting, assuming most members of the EMIWG have been longer time members in Eclipse.

Meeting Agenda (Draft v2.0)

9:30 - 9:45 Dino: Welcome and Round Table introductions

Strategy Workshop - The Four Pillars of Focus (09:45-10:30)

Roadmap, Pulsar Platform

       - Strawman of Roadmap
       - Survey – Priorities, JavaME, Web, Native, Other
       - what is our strategy to combine Java/Native/Web development focus
         * Parallel workstreams? how to maximize synergy
         * Goal:  (1) download covering all 3 areas, or separate downloads?

Product, Pulsar Platform Implementation

       - The Eclipse project for the Pulsar Platform
          * How to structure
          * who will participate. 

Best Practices (relevant to Application developer) - Brainstorm

       - Documentation/Training
       - Test Suites (might include references to Java Verified, etc)
       - Sample code
       - Technical Support forums

Promotion – Brainstorm

       - Alignment of Goals - Driving Awareness & Adoption of Pulsar
       - First step – Pulsar microsite?
       - Pulsar platform – Branding (eg OEM SDKs)
       - Reaching mobile and new non-Mobile developers
       - Consumer and Enterprise developers
       - Regional developers
       - Carriers
       - Pulsar online strategy (& social media)

Technical Workshop (10:30-11:20)

10:30 - 10:45 Pulsar Platform Brand-Ability

• What are our needs
• How do we address them (Extension point API review, is it sufficient??)

10:45 - 11:00 Craig, Gorkam: Device properties Database

11:00 - 11:20 Gustavo, Craig: API discussion for Pulsar Platform

• Extension points
• Packaging
• What the SDK providers need to watch out for