Minutes of conference call - Tuesday 3rd October

[Simon Nicholson <simonn@eng.sun.com>]

Present:
Alex Piner, Carol Guyer, Len Calloway, Simon Nicholson, Murray Maloney
Apologies:
Michael Weiner, Ed Julson, Alan Kotok

Media Tour
Carol provided an overview of current planning for the forthcoming Media Tour.
We are not able to provide 2 members of the Exec for the meetings in Boston 
and New York, due to other commitments, and these meetings have been postponed.
ACTION - Simon to see if Klaus will sign off Press Backgrounder

ACTION - Ed to update group on progress on White Paper at next meeting.
ACTION - Ed to advise QR team on timings for review - they have requested 
one week's notice

Quality Review
Murray gave the group an overview of the interface between the Quality and 
the Marketing group.
ACTION - Murray to assist in identifying liaisons from each Project Team 
into the Marketing group.

Multi-media presentations
ACTION - Alex for forward the presentation to Len for review by the TRP team.

Web Site Management
Murray reported that the QR team have observed that there are currently no 
policies in place with respect to the Web Site, and they believe it to be 
the responsibility of the Marketing team to generate such policies.
ACTION - Michael Weiner to report, at next meeting, whether he followed up 
with James Carroll.
ACTION - Simon to raise the issue at the next Steering Committee meeting.

PR
ACTION - Len to discuss potential Press Release partners with Rik Drummond
It was decided to defer discussions on the PR activity for Tokyo until the 
next call, in one week.

Face to Face Meeting
It was decided by all present to postpone the next face to face meeting.

QTO (Quarterly Technical Orientation or "Bootcamp")
ACTION - Simon to raise the issue of the next QTO (in Tokyo) with the 
Steering Committee

Meeting Adjourned

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Simon Nicholson
Snr. Market Strategist
XML Technology Centre
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Tel:    +1 (650) 786 4238
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