Putting on a 3-day conference for close to a thousand people is expensive. We do it out of love, but the financial support from these generous sponsors makes it possible. They’ll all have representatives at WordCamp SF — if you see them, be sure to say hello!
Bling Bling! Supporters
Dreamhost is focused squarely on providing quality customer service and the absolute best web hosting packages in the industry. It’s a never-ending quest, but it’s one we’re happy to take on.
Automattic Inc. is a startup from a handful of people passionate about making the web a better place. So far we’re best known for our work on WordPress and other projects but we have a lot of other interesting things in the pipeline as well. We are strong believers in Open Source and the vast majority of our work is available under licenses like the GPL.
Bluehost has been providing quality web hosting solutions to businesses and individuals since 1996. Our goal is to provide outstanding services for the best possible price. To achieve these goals we are constantly innovating and upgrading our services at no additional cost to our customers. Come and join the millions of other website owners that have already chosen Bluehost and see how we can help you with your site.
Gold Supporters
A .tv domain name is much more than a web extension. Hands down, it’s the best way to announce that your site has video or other rich media, like animation, audio or streaming content. From your web address alone, users know what to expect: playable content and an engaging online experience.
Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software — any time, any place and on any device. Learn more about Microsoft at http://www.microsoft.com.
Silver Supporters
A Small Orange is a provider of Internet solutions and services specializing in web hosting and site management. We have the web hosting solution for you.
Event Espresso is a top-of-the-line event registration and management plugin for WordPress.
Our mission is to empower business and organization leaders with the event registration, ticketing and management tools that maximize the success of events. Our vision is to become the world’s leading event registration and ticketing provider, and model of profitability by offering autonomy and value. We take pride in our products, including the support we offer to our customers.
Laughing Squid is an online resource for interesting art, culture & technology. It is also an independently owned and operated cloud-based web hosting company.
Laughing Squid was founded in 1995 by primary tentacle Scott Beale, who is the editor and head curator, along with several awesome guest bloggers.
Layered Tech helps thousands of businesses — including WordPress.com — move forward quickly with hosted infrastructure in secure, top-tier data centers. 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.
As a leading Dedicated Hosting provider, ServerBeach delivers powerful dedicated servers, convenient server management tools, and 24x7x365 LifeGuard Support™ all on our rock-solid IT infrastructure and FastFiber Network™ backbone. And while providing that sort of service, support and IT is a lot of responsibility, we make sure we never lose sight of that ‘beach’ mentality: We paddle out every day onto the big ocean of technology backed with years of experience, respect for its power, and always remembering to have fun. Nowhere else but at ServerBeach will you find this kind of serious brain (and technology) power with such a stress-free attitude.
Voce Communications is an award-winning marketing and communications consultancy. Founded in 1999 with the mindset that telling each company’s story requires an agency partner that shares a high level of enthusiasm and passion, Voce has always sought to be different from other agencies. From the personal approach that’s applied to every project to hiring bright people who are always thinking of new and better ways to do things, Voce lives up every day to its mission to be “communication architects.”
Zemanta is a tool that looks over your shoulder while you blog and gives you tips and advice, suggests related content and pictures and makes sure your posts get promoted as they deserve to be. We at Zemanta are thinking hard to help make blogging easier for you. We’re engineering better creative tools to help you get the most out of your blogging time.
WP e-Commerce is a free WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin that lets customers buy your products, services and digital downloads online. We make setting up a shop easy, and with over 1.3 Million downloads, we have unparalleled experience.
In-kind
StickerGiant has been providing high quality sticker printing services to companies for over a decade. StickerGiant is a values driven company focused on delighting customers and serving the communities their customers come from.
The WordPress Swag Store is the official source for WordPress-branded gear including t-shirts, hoodies, mugs, notebooks, and other items. Proceeds help supply free swag to WordCamps around the world. The SwagStore will have a sale table at WCSF, so leave room in your suitcase to
stock up!