The WordPress Community Summit only works because of the participation of our amazing community members. This year we are expecting contributors coming from Zimbabwe, Indonesia, North America, Japan and all over the world.
WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe covered mosts of the costs for the 2017 WordPress Community Summit (Thanks so much!), however 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 living in Europe.
The following people sponsored this Summit and helped to build the future of WordPress Open SourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. Project.
Sponsorship Levels
Gold
Bluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005 and powers over 1 million WordPress sites worldwide. Their objective is to help customers, whether novice or pro, create a thriving online presence at an affordable price. With a team of in-house tech experts available 24/7, Bluehost dedicates time and resources to providing the best support and services in the industry. Join millions of other site owners and see what Bluehost can do for you and your online presence.
Bronze
Human Made is a globally distributed WordPress development agency specialises in high-end WordPress development and consultancy for enterprise & big media.
Our knowledge of WordPress is extensive: many humans have been involved with the WordPress open source project for years, some since its very inception. Individually, we are skilled developers, driven project managers, dedicated account managers, organised event planners, and insightful product makers. Together, we are a friendly, enthusiastic, and approachable team, dedicated to finding problems, big or small, and doing what we can to fix them.
Since 1997 DreamHost has helped individuals, small businesses, entrepreneurs and developers the world over bring their dreams to life on the Internet. From domain registrations to traditional web hosting and highly-optimized managed WordPress hosting, more than 400,000 customers trust DreamHost to be their online home. DreamHost supports the WordPress project and community with dedicated resources and a passionate team. Packed with excellent value, DreamHost is a great place to launch a blog, website, or online application into the stratosphere!
At YITH we develop innovative WordPress themes and plugins for WooCommerce based sites. For years our philosophy has been based on simplicity and effectiveness as basic concepts required in any professional online business.
Our crown jewel, that makes us proud, is our high-quality support service, through which we take care of our customers day-by-day, never as a number, but as people with faces, names and a personal history that we deeply care for.
Individual
Ahoy! We are the pirates from ThemeIsle who believe that WordPress themes don’t need to be boring. That’s our primary motto and we’re doing everything we can to prove it—starting from our involvement in the community to developing Zerif Lite, one of the most popular themes out there.
SiteGround is a leading hosting provider internationally recognized for their unique approach to hosting. With a focus on performance, security and unmatched customer service, they provide solutions to protect your website from hacks and invented new technologies that can make your website run over one hundred times faster.
WP Site Care was founded in 2012 and was started with the focus of helping high profile bloggers and small business succeed online. We offer support and maintenance services for WordPress, along with a lot of other odds and ends. Our goal is to make sure you’re working on the business that you love, while we lift the technical burden behind the scenes. For less money than one part-time employee, you can have the technical expertise of our entire team, whenever you need help most. We’d love to talk more if you need a technical team that truly cares about the success of your business!
Thanks again to all these amazing companies who are contributing to the future of WordPress and its Open Source community!
We still haven’t covered the whole Travel Assistance Program, so if you’d like to sponsor the 2017 WordPress Community Summit, check out the Call for Sponsors and sign up. We will be more than happy to get back to you with all details.