Registration

Welcome to EclipseCon 2009!     Start your registration by reading these instructions and then clicking on any of the purple "register" buttons.

Discounts

What's Included

• All Access Pass registration provides access to all presentations (including all tutorials!) as well as all public receptions, lunches, and the exhibit hall. It's an All Access Pass so it provides access to everything without any additional registration.
• Exhibits Only registration provides access to the exhibit hall only - no receptions, no keynotes, no presentations.
• Press & Analyst registration is an all access pass for pre-qualified press and analysts. Interested parties should contact Ian Skerrett for information and pre-qualification.
• A limited number of student registrations are available for full-time college and university students. Contact the EclipseCon office for details.
• Presenters and Speakers Tutorials are given two non-transferable complimentary presenter registrations. Long talks are given one non-transferable complimentary presenter registration. Short talk are given a non-transferable 20% discount per 10 minute talk (thus a 20 minute talk gets a 40% discount, etc). All presenters must register for the conference. EclipseCon does not reimburse travel or housing.

Payment Policies

EclipseCon 2009 accepts Visa, MasterCard, American Express, checks, wire transfers, and purchase orders. If you wish to pay by wire transfer, we will send you detailed instructions via email; click here to initiate that process.

Payments Received

Registrations are not active and your attendance guaranteed until the funds are received by the Eclipse Foundation.

With credit card registrations, we receive the funds immediately so your registration becomes active immediately. With wire transfer registrations, some banks are quicker than others, although in general wire transfers are a prompt way for us to receive the funds. With purchase orders, please make sure that your company pays the purchase order promptly because we cannot activate your registration until we have received the funds (the check). Note that the extra paperwork involved with purchase orders (on your company's side) may cause significant delay in activating your registration.

Price Increases

The goal of early registration prices is to provide advance cash flow for deposits on the conference center, food & beverages, audio-visual, and so on. Thus we have a policy of not allowing pending registrations to span registration price increases. In other words, if you use the online registration system to register during the early registration period, but choose a "pay later" option (e.g., wire transfer, check, or P.O.), we must receive those funds to complete your registration before the end of early registration. If we do not receive your funds before the prices increase, your registration will automatically be upgraded to the new (higher) prices. In other words, the early registration prices apply to the date we receive the funds, not the date you fill out the online registration form. (Obviously, if you pay by credit card, we receive the funds immediately and all is well; we encourage you to pay by credit card.)

Invoice / Receipt

You will automatically be sent a receipt when you submit payment. If you do not submit payment, you will be sent an invoice indicating your current total and pending status.

If you need an invoice or receipt after you have registered, please login through the "Already registered? Click here" link and follow the instructions. If you have not paid, you will have the opportunity to submit payment or produce an invoice. Your total is not final until payment has been received (see Price Increases above). Rates will continue to increase if your registration is still in the pending status during the fee increase dates.

Cancellations

Because the Eclipse Foundation incurs certain expenses prior to the conference, it is necessary to impose the following cancellation policy:

All cancellations must be received in writing or by email. If received before February 1, 2009, a $50 processing fee will be incurred. No refund of any kind, for any reason (including medical emergencies) will be given for cancellation requests received after February 1, 2009. Substitutions from the same organization are welcome at no additional fee. No-shows are liable for the entire conference fee.

Eclipse Foundation reserves the right to cancel the event or substitute speakers. In the unlikely event that the Eclipse Foundation should have to cancel EclipseCon 2009, conference attendees will be refunded for the amount paid for the conference, but is not responsible for any attendees' other related expenses, including hotel and travel. Refunds will be issued within 15 business days after the scheduled conclusion of the conference.

Mail written cancellations to:
EclipseCon 2009 c/o Meeting Strategies Worldwide, Inc.
6220 NE Glisan
Portland, OR 97213

Or fax to: 503.261.0964
Or email to: EclipseCon 2009

Sorry, but the Eclipse Foundation cannot, and does not, make exceptions to these policies.

Eclipse Member

A member is an Eclipse member as per the Eclipse Bylaws. The short version is that a member is employee of an Eclipse member company. A mostly up-to-date list of the member companies is available on the Eclipse website. If you are not sure if your employer is an Eclipse member, please feel free to ask us. If you would like your company to become a member, please have the appropriate DMP (decision making person) contact the Eclipse Foundation. There are many benefits of membership including discounted registration to EclipseCon and the Eclipse Summit Europe.

Eclipse Committer

A committer is developer on an Eclipse project who has commit rights to the corresponding eclipse.org CVS repository. If you don't know if you are a committer, then you are not a committer. All committers have unix accounts on dev.eclipse.org, so if you don't have an account there, then you are not a committer. If you would like to become a committer, the best way to start is to contact the project lead of an interesting project - committers are elected by their peers based on the quantity and quality of their contributions to an Eclipse project. It's a role to be proud of, and it's a honor not given lightly.

Group Discounts

For cash flow reasons (i.e., we have to pay the convention center), group discounts are only available pre-paid - purchase orders must be paid before registration codes for the discounts will be provided. Group discounts only apply to paid registrations - presenters who get free registrations do not count towards the group count total.

B.Y.O.B.

We are offering a Bring Your Own (Conference) Bag option this year. To save resources and have some fun, please bring a bag from your collection. There will be prizes for unique bags (oldest, from furthest away, etc.), and everyone who brings a bag will receive two extra drink tickets!

If you still have registration questions after reading this page, please email us.

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