Membership Benefits
Do you work for an organization that is a member of the Eclipse Foundation? If so, click here to activate links for how to use the benefits listed below.
Membership in the Eclipse Foundation allows organizations to leverage the resources of the community and achieve a higher return on their investment in Eclipse products and services. Eclipse members are offered a unique opportunity to understand the trends and directions of the Eclipse technology and participate in marketing programs that drive potential users to your offerings.
Each organization has their own unique reasons for joining the Eclipse Foundation. Some see it as an opportunity to network, learn and work with other organizations who are making strategic use of Open Source. Others join because of the many marketing benefits available. We invite you to explore the benefits of membership on this page to learn how your organization might benefit. If you have questions about any of these benefits, or would like to suggest some that may be missing -- please email us.
As a member, you have a number of rights as defined in the Eclipse Foundation Bylaws and your membership agreement. A summary of those rights can be found here. The Eclipse Foundation is frequently running new programs and initiatives for the benefit of our members. A high level overview of what kinds of benefits are made available to the various membership classes can be found here. Here are are some examples of the benefits members can receive:
Benefits
- Strategic Members receive promotional space on various eclipse.org web pages.
- Members can participate in the members distros program.
- Have a special offer you want to offer other members? Place a short ad in the Foundation Newsletters!
- Links posted on Eclipse.org are heavily trafficed and well indexed. Each member is provided the opportunity to post their company information, product information and logo on their own membership page.
- News links posted on Eclipse.org are heavily trafficed and read tens of thousands of times each. The Eclipse.org web site highlights members’ news related stories in the Community section.
- Members are able to post success stories of how their customers are using Eclipse based products.
- Members will be granted the right to use the official Eclipse Foundation Member logo and related artwork. The exclusive members only logo and supporting artwork can be used on marketing material such as your web site, signs at trade shows, product collateral, etc.
- Eclipse Foundation will provide press assistance and quotes for new member’s press releases and ongoing member product announcements.
- Member companies are encouraged to actively participate in the Eclipse Marketing Committee and Public Relations Committee. These committees are engaged developing marketing strategy and implementing programs that promote Eclipse and the member companies.
- Mailing lists are a key method that the foundation uses to communicate with the membership. Please note some of the mailing lists that are available. As members, you will certainly want to sign up for the eclipse.org-member-marketing mailing list. This list will be useful not only to people marketing Eclipse based products and services, but also Engineering managers, directors and executives interested in keeping abreast of activities in the Eclipse ecosystem.
- The size and popularity of Eclipse community presents members unique promotional opportunities, ex. advertising supplements, newsletter sponsorships, etc. Some promotional activities will be limited to Strategic, Solutions and Enterprise Members depending on the context.
- Eclipse Plugin Central (EPIC) ofers the Eclipse community a convenient, information-rich portal that helps software developers find open source and commercial Eclipse plug-ins, tools and products that enhance the entire Java software development life-cycle. Members are clearly identified on EPIC with special banner treatments and logos.
- The Eclipse community meets for the annual EclipseCon user conference in March and for Eclipse Summit Europe in October. This is a perfect opportunity to meet potential partners and customers. Eclipse members receive preferential exhibit space and sponsorship opportunities, show discounts and other members only opportunities.
- Eclipse member meetings and committee discussions create many opportunities to network with other technical, marketing and business development professionals. Members discuss and leverage shared resources to solve Member problems and grow the Eclipse community. There are two face-to-face members meets and two teleconference meetings each year, plus many other opportunities and events.
- The Eclipse Foundation routinely organizes Symposiums and other events based on the needs of the ecosystem and requests from our membership. For example, for the past two years we have organized a half day Marketing Symposium with a great line-up of speakers and presentations. These symposiums have become an important resource for many of our members who are marketing software products and services. Another example is the Provisioning Workshop that was held in April 2007. It pulled together a number of experts in the field of application provisioning to discuss and plan new directions and features for Eclipse.
- Members will automatically be subscribed to the Eclipse membership-at-large mailing list which contains consolidated information regarding the Eclipse ecosystem including notice of upcoming members meetings, project reviews, events and other important information. It represents a single feed of information to keep up with the activities of the Eclipse Foundation.
- Each quarter our members will receive access to important statistics and information about the Eclipse Ecosystem. The Executive Directors Report contains a summary of new members, foundation activities and plans, market research and other relevant stats, and a general update of the Ecosystem. (See example 2006Q3 ED Update). The project update represents a summary of Eclipse project activities including new proposals, release plans and other important project information. (See example 2005 Project Update).