WordCamp San Francisco 2010 » Sponsors

Are You Ready to Party?

wordcamp — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:43:39 +0000

(mt) Media Temple was an early adopter in supporting WordPress as the world’s best blogging platform, and is proud to be a returning sponsor at the 2010 WordCamp in San Francisco!

We’re returning this year in a more suitable role for the (mt) brand as the Closing Party Sponsor… and we love to party. In the spirit of the community, we’ll giving out some extra special treats at the party!! This is not your usual shwag; we’re talking an iPad or two and several lifetime hosting packages so come early and stay late!

We’re looking forward to seeing you at WordCamp!

Party Down with Media Temple!

Jane Wells — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:05:42 +0000

Media Temple has been a sponsor of WordCamp San Francisco before, but this year they chose to focus their sponsorship on the afterparty. Their generous platinum sponsorship will provide for the open bar and a dancetastic DJ, and I fully expect it to live up the parties they’ve sponsored at other industry events. Frankly, the afterparty alone is probably worth the cost of a WordCamp ticket (seriously, with drink prices in this town?). And it does look like there might be a couple of iPads getting raffled off, so keep your eyes and ears open for more information about that.

Media Temple is a solid hosting company that offers a one-click install for WordPress sites, as well as more advanced WordPress hosting options. They sponsored the newbie track at WordCamp NYC last year, and I’ve used them for hosting myself. I hear they’re branching out into the cloud hosting space, so check out their site for their range of WordPress hosting products. A handful of Media Temple folks will be attending WordCamp SF, so if you see one them, say hello, and be sure to thank them in advance for the party. Because let’s face it, after taking advantage of the open bar and riding the high of the social wave that will be in effect, you might forget later on in the night. :)

Note: the afterparty will require a name badge for entry.

Microsoft at a WordPress Conference, Huh?

wordcamp — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:23:32 +0000

Yes, you saw that correctly, Microsoft. You are probably asking yourself right now why Microsoft would be interested in sponsoring a WordCamp. The answer is simple: we <3 WordPress. We talk about it at our events, our blogging tool lets you easily create posts, we make it easy to install, build websites on it, and have built a few plug-ins.

So as you can imagine, we are excited about being a Bling Bling sponsor for WordCamp San Francisco. We look forward as you do to hearing the latest news regarding WordPress, listening to how folks are using WordPress, and most importantly listening to you to see what we can do to make your lives easier when you use WordPress & Microsoft software.

If you see us at the event sitting next to you or hanging out at the attendee party, please talk to us. We are fans of WordPress like you. Also, we would love to hear from you as to what we can do to make your life easier when working with WordPress & Microsoft and the cool stuff you are doing. We will even buy you a drink if a bar is around for your troubles.

In fact, Friday night we will be having some drinks at the bar at Rickhouse at 7:30pm and will open a tab for WordCamp attendees. Why don’t you come out and hang out with us? It will be totally casual; we ain’t fancy. We’ll also make sure to get you on your way at a decent time so you can enjoy the big line-up on Saturday (and a clear head!).

See you in San Francisco!

Thank You, Layered Tech!

Jane Wells — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:51:11 +0000

Layered Tech, one of the companies that provides hosting for WordPress.com, signed on as a platinum sponsor to show their support for WordPress and the WordPress community. Located in Texas, the same state in which WordPress was born, Layered Tech helps thousands of businesses with hosted infrastructure in secure, top-tier data centers. The official spiel, since I’m not all that technical: “By providing high-quality technology, infrastructure and relentless support, Layered Tech enables its customers to reduce capital expenses, save on operating costs and focus on their core business issues. From advanced virtualization and cloud computing to managed dedicated servers, Layered Tech delivers superior hosting value so you can manage your success.”

Also? I think they’re going to raffle off an iPad at the afterparty. :)

Thanks, Adobe!

Jane Wells — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:09:57 +0000

We love free/open source software, but let’s face it, almost all of use some proprietary software. The designers behind WordPress, like many designers, frequently use Photoshop and Illustrator, so when Adobe stepped up to become a silver sponsor, we were pretty excited. Add to that the fact that the new Dreamweaver CS5 has WordPress support, and it’s a natural alliance. What do we mean by WordPress support in CS5? There’s a new code hinting feature that will suggest WordPress code/tags/hooks to save you the trouble of looking them up in the Codex, and it also uses proper syntax for custom PHP5 functions (especially handy for those plugin developers who are pushing the envelope and writing PHP5-only plugins). Granted, we’re not using Dreamweaver to write WordPress core code, but for new theme and plugin developers, it will provide a great tool to get started with WordPress development. So thanks, Adobe, for sponsoring WordCamp SF, and for supporting WordPress in CS5!

Thank You, Voce

Paul — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:24:06 +0000

The team at Voce builds industrial strength WordPress sites. They’ve pushed the state of the art in custom WordPress development and we’re happy to welcome them as a Silver sponsor for this year’s WordCamp SF. The folks at Voce helped organize WordCamp Orlando in December 2009, and they’ve also contributed several WordPress plugins, including CMS Press, Image Rotator, and Author Comment Replies. Voce is one of the top web development teams for people who need WordPress expertise across content management, user interface design and information architecture, the whole nine yards for building a professional WordPress site. Thanks Voce for your sponsorship of WordCamp SF!

Thank You, Microsoft

Paul — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:08:26 +0000

I first met some of the folks behind Microsoft’s participation at WordCamp last October in New York City for WordCamp NYC. Microsoft has been super supportive of WordPress in general and WordCamps in particular, and we’re happy they’ve chosen to sponsor WordCamp SF at our top tier, the “Bling Bling” level. Between things like the WordPress accelerator for IE8, built-in support for publishing to WordPress in Windows Live Writer, backing PHP on Windows and sponsoring numerous WordCamps, Microsoft has been a good friend to the WordPress community. Thanks, Microsoft!

Thanks, Page.ly!

Jane Wells — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:20:19 +0000

The very first person who said he wanted to sponsor WordCamp SF this year was Josh Strebel of Page.ly. I met him at WordCamp Boston when we were on a panel together, and then met his wife and business partner Sally Strebel at South by Southwest, where she helped out at the WordPress BBQ event. Unlike our other hosting sponsors, Page.ly only hosts WordPress sites, and they have partnerships with a number of commercially supported themes and plugins to make it easy to have a fully customized site. Coming in as a silver sponsor, Page.ly has some groovy stickers that you’ll find in your shwag bag, and I would not be surprised if they wind up surreptitiously handing out some t-shirts to enthusiastic attendees. They even bought a couple of extra tickets to give away to their customers. That’s loyalty. Thanks, Page.ly!

Thanks, Mojofiti!

Jane Wells — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:08:12 +0000

I first heard about Mojofiti when they decided to sponsor WordCamp NYC in 2009. I hadn’t heard of their platform before (still beta at that point, I think?), focused on translation and running on BuddyPress, but I was definitely intrigued. In the 6 months since then, Mojofiti has grown and we’re very pleased they decided shortly after we announced the event to come on as a gold sponsor for WordCamp SF this year. We have attendees flying in from all over the world, and internationalization is a topic on many people’s minds in the WordPress community. From the description we posted on the Sponsors page:

Mojofiti is currently collaborating with open source developers, users, companies and hundreds of translators to develop real-time language-enabled solutions that can be used across multiple communication mediums. Mojofiti.com is an open source-based publishing and networking platform where people publish, share and interact with each other in their native local languages while reaching out to the world in 27 other languages through Google’s machine dictionaries. Mojofiti.com uses a combination of WordPress, BuddyPress and proprietary technologies augmented by Google machine translations to allow users to translate content from their WordPress blogs instantly for viewing in their visitors’ native languages.

Thank you, Mojofiti, for your generous sponsorship of WordCamp San Francisco 2010. We hope you have a great time on Saturday!

Thank You: InMotion Hosting

Jane Wells — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:53:50 +0000

When we first put out the call for WordCamp San Francisco sponsorship earlier this year, a lot of companies were interested, but the first one to show us the money was InMotion Hosting. InMotion sponsored WordCamps in Los Angeles and Huntsville (AL) in 2009, so they are no stranger to the WordPress community. As a Silver sponsor, InMotion Hosting is helping to cover the expenses of what promises to be the best WordCamp of the year. They’ll be sending representatives to the event, so if you see anyone from InMotion (you’ll see it on their name badge), be sure to say hello and thanks for their support. Without the support of companies like InMotion, your ticket prices would have been much higher. So why are they sponsoring us? Because they host WordPress sites, and want you to know how awesome they are, of course.

The official stuff:
InMotion Hosting has been offering business class web hosting services since 2001. From its inception, InMotion Hosting has focused on providing industry-leading technical support and quality of service. InMotion Hosting offers 24×7 U.S. based technical support, automated WordPress installation through Fantastico, a choice of datacenter locations and a 90-day money back guarantee. InMotion Hosting operates two office locations; Los Angeles, CA and Virginia Beach, VA.

So, thank you, InMotion Hosting, for stepping up early to sponsor WordCamp SF and be part of our community’s flagship WordCamp this May!

Are you interested in sponsoring WordCamp SF? It’s not too late; check out the details.