Like any event, the summit will cost money to produce. In addition to expenses like venue, wifi, and food, we also needed to raise money to subsidize travel expenses for some of our community volunteers who don’t get paid for their work on WordPress and/or whose travel expenses are significantly higher than those of US travelers. The following people sponsored this event — the first of its kind, and unique in intent, format, and attendee influence — and helped a piece of WordPress history.
Sponsorship Levels
OMGBBQ Awesome
Founded in April 1997, DreamHost happily hosts dreams and websites worldwide with a goal of fantastic support and services at an affordable price. Shared hosting, VPS, and now Cloud Services are all available at a price that won’t break the bank. Support is available online, 24/7, with experts in WordPress ready to help. Start with a two week free trial, and your first domain name is free.
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Core Committer
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.
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Bug Gardener
WP Engine is the premier managed WordPress hosting company. We offer fast WordPress hosting that is beloved by hundreds of bloggers and website owners. We work with huge, popular sites as well as small business owners who care about their customers’ experience. Perhaps best of all is our tech support, where only WordPress experts answer questions. As Mikhail Baryshnikov says, “Try it. You’ll like it.”
Core Contributor
One of only 2 agencies in Europe to have been accepted into the WordPress.com VIP Featured Partner Program, Human Made Limited is run by real people, with a strong company culture. Active members of the WordPress community, and the community summit, they excel at creating plugins, developer tools as well as sponsoring and speaking at WordCamps & Meetups.
iThemes loves creating tools that help you make awesome websites. One of our most well known plugins is Backup Buddy, which can backup, restore, and move your WordPress site. Most of us live and work in Oklahoma City and want to be your one-stop-shop for WordPress themes, plugins, and training.
Jitterbug Bakery is Tybee Island’s wifi coffeeshop. With fantastic baked goods, coffee, healthier choices without compromising on taste, Jitterbug uses local products, organic ingredients, and can accommodate vegans and gluten free. On top of fantastic food, Jitterbug will help you get your WordPress site up and running.
Managing multiple WordPress sites can be frustrating. It’s time consuming, and most hosting companies don’t care to help. One missed WordPress update is all it takes for hackers to potentially ruin all of our hard work. ManageWP dreamed of creating a complete and easy-to-use WordPress management platform, and made ManageWP beautifully designed, simple to use and user friendly and they believe you will also like it.
All about high quality work and solving complex problems, Sara Cannon, Pete Mall, and Aaron Campbell have joined forces to bring you Range – A design and development shop specializing in high quality design and WordPress development.
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First Patch
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CyberChimps Inc develops Responsive Premium WordPress Themes you can trust including iFeature Pro, Business Pro, Eclipse Pro, and Response Pro. CyberChimps believes in supporting customers, designing premium products that just work, and giving back to the WordPress community.
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