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Eclipse Day
The Eclipse Foundation strongly believes that facilitating networking and face-to-face interactions is key to fostering the Eclipse community. One way the Foundation supports this initiative is through regional Eclipse Days. An Eclipse Day is an event that may be focused on a particular geographic region or a particular industry. It is an event that has a set, published agenda and lasts a full day. Note that Eclipse Days are different from the DemoCamp program the Eclipse Foundation runs periodically. DemoCamps are considerably more informal with flexible agendas, and typically last 2 or 3 hours.
Here are some guidelines and tips to help you plan an Eclipse Day for your local community or industry.
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Eclipse Funding
The Foundation offers sponsorship money to approved events, however please note that there is a limited budget so funds will be awarded on a "first come, first served" basis.
The criteria for Foundation sponsorship of an Eclipse Day are:
- The event must be organized by an Eclipse member company.
- The Eclipse Day must be a community event open to the public, with preference given to events that have presenters and sponsors from multiple organizations.
- The event must be at least 1 full day.
- The event program must demonstrate significant Eclipse content.
- There must be a public web site for the event that lists the program and registration information.
- Final attendance of the Eclipse Day must be 50 people or more.
The Eclipse Foundation will offer approved events:
- $2,000 USD
- A community bulletin on the eclipse.org homepage
- A listing in the monthly Eclipse Member Newsletter email
- A listing in the online Community Events calendar
- Wiki space, if needed, for the event's homepage
Promotional Opportunities Checklist
- Submit a press release or news announcement on your Eclipse Day to news@eclipse.org for the http://www.eclipse.org homepage and RSS feeds
- Submit a press release or news announcement on your Eclipset Day to http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/Submit_News+index.html for the http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com (EPIC) homepage
- Email details of your event to events@eclipse.org to be posted on the Community Events calendar at http://www.eclipse.org/community/events/ and the monthly Eclipse Member Newsletter
- Post details of your event to an Eclipse newsgroup at http://www.eclipse.org/newsgroups/ - eclipse.foundation is probably best
- Post details of your event to Eclipsepedia at http://wiki.eclipse.org/Conferences
- Blog about your event - it's especially helpful if the writer's blog is aggregated on http://www.planeteclipse.org
- Record a podcast or video interview on your event and submit it to http://live.eclipse.org
Text Samples
- Sample text for Call for Talks
- Sample text for Call for Posters
Examples of Eclipse Days
EclipsIST - Istanbul, Turkey
Eclipse Banking Day in London - London, United Kingdom
Eclipse Banking Day in NYC - New York, NY, USA
Eclipse Now You Can - Paris, France
Eclipse IT - Bari, Italy
eclipseDay - Valencia, Spain