We can’t be more pleased to announce these amazing sponsors of WordCamp San Francisco, 2012. Put your hands together for them!

Van Ness Street

If you use WordPress to build things for other people, Code Poet wants to make your life easier. No matter whether you freelance on a solo basis, lead a small web shop, make plugins in a dark closet, or crack the whip at a large design firm, our aim is to become your go-to source of information and resources to help you expand your WordPress skills and know-how. To make you better at what you do. To make it easier to make your living and look great doing it.

Powell Street

SiteGround, with over eight years in the business, offers shared, reseller, virtual private server, semi-dedicated, and dedicated hosting plans to suit every need and budget. And, SiteGround knows WordPress inside-out. Of over 250,000 domains hosted, 60,000 of them run on WordPress. What’s more, SiteGround provides much more than hosting, they also offer customers WordPress resources and know-how including a free WordPress theme gallery, an extensive, free WordPress tutorial, WordPress-related knowledge base articles, and 24/7 expert WordPress hosting support. Learn more about how SiteGround can meet your WordPress hosting needs.

Coit Tower

If you work on the web, then Microsoft needs no introduction. Founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975, Microsoft created the Windows operating system, currently at Windows 7. 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.

Of over 50 million sites around the world running WordPress, WP Engine hosts .06% of them and that figure grows every day. WP Engine eats, sleeps, and dreams WordPress—so much so, that it’s part of their DNA. WP Engine offers fast, managed WordPress hosting. They provide much more than speedy, personal service. They’ve got WordPress wonks on staff that can help you solve hosting problems, they offer a list of curated plugins and run a prolific WP Support Garage stuffed with FAQs and articles to help you keep your site up and running on WordPress at peak performance. Visit WP Engine to learn more about how they can serve you.

Founded in 1999, Voce Communications is much more than just a PR company: they’re communication architects. Like any good architect, their process starts behind the scenes with a solid foundation and expands skyward into something that transforms the landscape. Using a combination of skill sets, from public relations to social media marketing to web development, Voce works with companies to create content, distribute it in a world-class manner, engage in the conversation, and drive brand awareness.

Hyde Street

The MIT Sloan Management Review is a journal that makes the best new management research and ideas accessible to business executives. MIT SMR captures for thoughtful managers the creativity, excitement, and opportunity generated by rapid organizational, technological, and societal change. Visit MIT Sloan Management Review to read the guest edition or take a site tour.

In-kind

StickerGiant is two businesses in one. StickerGiant prints stickers and labels for thousands of customers all over the United States and Canada. They also feature a fun online sticker store that has over 26,000 designs from bands to sports and everything in between. Check out StickerGiant and be amazed.

We are delighted to announce that Bluehost is a “California Street” level sponsor of WordCamp San Francisco, 2012.

Did you know that venerable host extraordinaire Bluehost has been a recommended hosting provider on WordPress.org since 2005? Holy cats! Millions of users trust Bluehost to host their websites. Bluehost offers individual hosting and programs for resellers and affiliates. They offer friendly, efficient 24/7, US-based support with an on-hold time average of less than 30 seconds. Can you say prompt?

Check out Bluehost to learn more about how they can meet your web hosting needs.

We can’t be more pleased to announce that Wordnik is a “Powell Street” level sponsor of WordCamp San Francisco, 2012.

Wordnik.com is an incredible online language resource that aims to transform the way people relate to meaning, by giving visitors a 360-degree view of what a word does. Search a word in Wordnik and you’ll get much more than a dictionary definition and a thesaurus entry. Wordnik places the word in context for you, with sample uses found in texts, images that help define the word, related words, pronunciations, and more. For example, did you know that noodling is the practice or sport of fishing for catfish with your bare hands? Wow! Wordnik.com is a word-lover’s dream!

What’s more, the Related Content plugin by Wordnik constantly scans your blog, learns what it’s about, and dynamically displays the best related posts to your site visitors. Nifty!

To learn more or sign up, visit Wordnik.com.

We’re delighted to announce that DreamHost is a “California Street” level sponsor for WordCamp San Francisco 2012.

DreamHost knows WordPress hosting: they host over half a million sites that run WordPress, both on shared hosting, virtual private server, and dedicated accounts. DreamHost not only hosts WordPress, they offer full services, too. They can install WordPress for you, and keep your installation up to date to make sure that you can take full advantage of all the features WordPress offers. DreamHost offers 24/7 live chat technical support for virtual private server and dedicated accounts and 24/7 email support for all customers. Learn more about what DreamHost has to offer.

Thinking about sponsoring WordCamp San Francisco, 2012? Here’s everything you need to know about supporting the event. To sign up or to get more information, contact Evan Solomon at evan@automattic.com. He’s standing by.

California Street Sponsors $30,000

California Street sponsors are the main supporters of WordCamp San Francisco. You’ll get recognition in both of our tracks and the State Of The Word, have the largest presence in the conference hall, and get the biggest thanks on the WordCamp San Francisco site. Here’s what California Street sponsors receive:

• Acknowledgment and thanks in opening and closing remarks, and in Matt’s annual keynote, the State of the Word address.
• Large table in the conference hall to do demos, answer questions, and meet customers.
• Guest post and tweet from the WordCamp San Francisco blog.
• Name and logo on the WordCamp San Francisco site.
• Want to do something special for WordCamp attendees? Let’s talk!

Van Ness Street Sponsors $10,000

Van Ness Street sponsors will have visibility in one of our two tracks and will get a sign with their name and logo in the track room throughout the day. Here’s what’s included in the Van Ness Street sponsorship package:

• Acknowledgment and thanks at the beginning of the morning and afternoon sessions from your track’s moderator.
• Easel with your name and logo in your track’s room.
• Guest post and tweet from the WordCamp San Francisco blog.
• Name and logo on the WordCamp San Francisco site.

North Beach Sponsor: $10,000

Want to co-host a great after party for WordCamp attendees with food and drinks? Here’s what the North Beach sponsor receives:

• Branding at the after party on Saturday, August 4th, 2012, including a sign with your name and logo.
• Announcement in the closing remarks at WordCamp.
• Acknowledgement and thanks at the party from the organizing team.
• Guest post and tweet from the WordCamp San Francisco blog.
• Name and logo on the WordCamp San Francisco site.

Powell Street Sponsors: $7,500

Powell Street sponsors will have space in the conference hall and on the WordCamp San Francisco site, in addition to the following:

• Medium table in the conference hall.
• Guest post and tweet from the WordCamp San Francisco blog.
• Name and logo on the WordCamp San Francisco site.

Coit Tower Sponsors: $5,000

Coit Tower sponsors get a small table in the conference hall to meet customers, give away trials of your service, or do something special for WordCamp attendees. You can buy a Coit Tower sponsorship on its own, or add it to any of our other packages.

Hyde Street Sponsors: $2,000

Hyde Street sponsors can give back to the WordPress community at a lower cost than the other sponsorships. If you have a business or product built on WordPress, or you just want to say thanks and support the community, this is a perfect way to do it. You’ll get your name and logo on the WordCamp San Francisco site and the heartfelt thanks of all the attendees.

Need more information? Have any questions? Evan Solomon’s your man: evan@automattic.com.

As we mentioned last week, WordCamps are no-cost or low-cost events where WordPress enthusiasts get together to learn more about WordPress and spend time with one another. No WordCamp could offer a low-cost or no-cost event without the support of their sponsors. Last year, WordCamp San Francisco was amazing, and we’d like to recognize our sponsors’ generosity one more time.

Currently the WCSF team is busy finalizing sponsorship packages for our 2012 event, which takes place on August 4th, 2012 at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, California. If you want to get out in front and become a sponsor for 2012, please contact Evan Solomon at evan@automattic.com. He’ll be delighted to hear from you.

In the meantime, give it up for the amazing sponsors of WordCamp San Francisco, 2011:

Dreamhost is focused squarely on providing quality customer service and the absolute best web hosting packages in the industry.

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. Their goal is to provide outstanding services for the best possible price.

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.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services, and internet technologies for personal and business computing.

Silver Supporters

A Small Orange provides internet solutions and services specializing in web hosting and site management. They have the web hosting solution for you.

Event Espresso is a top-of-the-line event registration and management plugin for WordPress.Their mission is to empower business and organization leaders with the event registration, ticketing, and management tools that maximize the success of events.

Laughing Squid is an online resource for interesting art, culture & technology. It is also an independently owned and operated cloud-based web hosting company.

Layered Tech helps thousands of businesses—including WordPress.com—move forward quickly with hosted infrastructure in secure, top-tier data centers.

As a leading dedicated hosting provider, ServerBeach delivers powerful dedicated servers, convenient server management tools, and 24x7x365 LifeGuard Support™ all on their rock-solid IT infrastructure and FastFiber Network™ backbone.

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.

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.

WP e-Commerce is a free WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin that lets customers buy your products, services and digital downloads online.

In-kind Supporters

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.