Sponsors

Austin WordCamps are not possible without generous sponsorships by companies & individuals who support the Austin WordPress Community. Sponsoring WordCamp Austin is a choice for building trust with local and internationally recognized WordPress enthusiasts and professionals. In addition to this wonderful branding opportunity, you will also be invited to attend our speaker / sponsor social  the night before WordCamp, Friday evening, May 17, 2013. This is a unique time to spend time with the speakers, presenters, other sponsors, and the WordCamp Austin 2013 Organizing Team.

For more information about becoming a Sponsor of the WordCamp Austin 2013  use the reply form at the bottom of this page.

Click here to view Sponsor Support Levels ,pdf

Current WordCamp Austin 2013 Sponsors

Pillar Sponsor

Bluehost

Bluehost

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. To achieve these goals they’re constantly innovating and upgrading their services at no additional cost to their customers. Join the millions of other website owners that have already chosen Bluehost and see how they can help you with your site.

Diamond

WP Engine

WP Engine

Howdy Austin (And everybody who is gonna come hang with us!)

WordCamp Austin is right around the corner, and WP Engine is super pumped to be the Diamond Sponsor of the event. Austin is our home event, and we’re even going to make sure that our San Francisco folks fly into town to attend the event and hang out to talk all things WordPress with you all.

We hope to submit a few talks about WordPress version control, and perhaps about the ins-and-outs of building a WordPress-based business that can grow and be successful. We hope that you all are getting your talks together and are ready to send in your proposals. We also hope you’re ready to help out the organizers and be a volunteer.

Now, a bit about WP Engine.

WP Engine was founded more than 3 years ago in Austin, Texas to provide premium WordPress hosting that would take all the hassle out of managing scalable, secure hosting. Now, WP Engine has a full platform for anybody, regardless of technical ability to stage and deploy WordPress sites for themselves and their customers. Our developer tools include version control using Git Push, a one-click staging area that you can push directly to production. We also take daily site backups, and automagically update WordPress every time a new version is released!

Best of all is our amazing Support Team, many of whom will attend WordCamp Austin. If you have WordPress questions, grab one of the WP Engineers and see just how much you can get done on your site.

We can’t wait to see you guys!

Rackspace

Rackspace

WordCamp Austin!

Rackspace is excited about being a Diamond Sponsor. A large percentage of our customers are WordPress devotees or WordPress NERDS as one of our favorites describes himself. Our Rackers attending WordCamp Austin are looking forward to sitting down, listening, and engaging with you to learn what’s important to the WordPress Community and ensuring we take this learning back to our greater Rackspace team and continue to build these features into our products.

If you’ve never heard of Rackspace then we’re happy to meet you. Rackspace is the service leader in cloud computing. We are the home of Fanatical Support® which truly means that were fanatically driven to serve our customers and believe this service is what distinguishes us in the marketplace.

Like many of our customers we started off as a startup and grew to be the leader in the open cloud and dedicated hosting. The more we worked in dedicated we began to see the rise of the cloud and the potential for vendor lock-in. For this reason we worked with NASA to build OpenStack, an open and scalable system for building public and private cloud. OpenStack provides both large and small organizations an alternative to closed cloud environments and has a highly engaged community of over 6000 individuals and over 190 companies.

If you believe in open technology, Fanatical Support, and in a company that is about its employees and community check us out at www.rackspace.com.

Also, for our WordPress devotees check out this build for you: http://launch.rackspace.com

PS: Rackspace Cool Fact -> Our headquarters is in a refurbished mall we call The Castle! Talk about Fanatical Renovation. See the story here.

Champion

Dreamhost

Dreamhost

DreamHost is a global Web hosting and cloud services provider with over 350,000 customers and 1.2 million blogs, websites and apps hosted. The company offers a wide spectrum of Web hosting and cloud services including Shared Hosting, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Dedicated Server Hosting, Domain Name Registration, the cloud storage service, DreamObjects, and the cloud computing service DreamCompute. Please visit http://DreamHost.com for more information.

Business Track Sponsored By

Fat Media

Fat Media

FAT Media is a WordPress Internet Marketing Agency based out of Tampa, Florida. We specialize in WordPress SEO Audits. We understand that if you’re doing business online you need to do things big. We make sure you get noticed, no matter what. Our company is deeply connected to the web and how it functions at a cellular level. We know how to position your brand online and leverage the web to increase your bottom line. Our primary web designer, Ozzy Rodriguez specializes in WordPress web design for businesses in San Jose, California.

Need a user-friendly website? We’ve got you.

Need more qualified leads and a higher click through rate? No problem.

Looking for the best WordPress Hosting? We can help with that too.

Silver

Code Poet

Code Poet

Because you make things with WordPress.

If you use WordPress to build things for other people, we want 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.

Automattic is the parent company of Code Poet, WordPress.com, Polldaddy, Akismet, VaultPress, Gravatar, and more.

Bronze

A Small Orange

A Small Orange

A Small Orange is changing the world of web hosting

A Small Orange was founded with a simple philosophy in mind: provide the best quality service and support to customers at a low price. Since then, we have refined our mission to provide exceptional service, not just servers. We realize that our customers have many choices when it comes to web hosting and we want our service to set us apart from the competition.

Our vision is simple: Perfecting hosting while maintaining a homegrown feel with a focus on people – our customers, our employees, and our community.

Since A Small Orange was founded in Atlanta in 2003, we have grown to a point where we now have over 30 employees and serve tens of thousands of customers around the world. Our team provides award winning customer service and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week over email.

We feel that the best customer experience is offered by focusing on the customer’s perspective. We design all our products and services with customer satisfaction in mind. Ease of use and clarity in presentation are some of the key factors to our success, and we enjoy providing our customers with this rewarding experience every day.

Our headquarters are located in beautiful downtown Durham, NC.

If you’re interested in joining our always-growing team, check out our jobs section.

CyberChimps

CyberChimps

CyberChimps Inc is a Responsive WordPress Theme company based out of San Francisco, California, that develops Responsive WordPress Themes you can trust including iFeature Pro,Responsive, Business Pro, and Eclipse Pro.

CyberChimps is comprised of a team of WordPress professionals that have over 7 years of WordPress experience. We founded CyberChimps Professional WordPress Themes on the same open principles as WordPress itself. CyberChimps believes in supporting customers, designing premium products that just work, and giving back to the WordPress community.

Springbox

Springbox

Springbox is a digital services agency that partners with brands to build interactive experiences that captivate customers and reach business goals. Combining strategic insights with big ideas, Springbox utilizes hard data to inspire creative works that put the user first and make a true human connection. A unique emphasis on responsible design, effective collaboration and exceptional results sets Springbox apart as a leader in the industry. Proudly representing high-caliber brands such as Dell, Disney, Nestle Waters, Nokia and PayPal, Springbox is a privately-owned company, with offices in Austin and Los Angeles.

Maintainn

Maintainn

Maintainn is a Managed WordPress Support & Maintenance service. Maintainn keeps your WordPress site running smoothly by providing nightly automatic off-site backups of your WordPress file system and database as well as weekly plugin, theme and WordPress core updates. Security monitoring (and cleanup) are provided via Sucuri at no additional cost to you.

All customers have access to a dedicated support system for questions, advise and fixes for issues on their WordPress site. Custom development is also available from a network of trusted WordPress developers on select plans as well as phone/chat access to developers!

You focus on your business and leave the rest to Maintainn!

Foo Plugins

Foo Plugins

FooPlugins was created by the same team behind the popular FooBox plugin and officially launched during WordCamp Miami last April.

FooPlugins provides WordPress and jQuery plugins that are delivered and supported by WordPress users; for WordPress users. Our goal is to provide high quality features, functionality and support to assist you in meeting your (or your clients) website goals.

All FooPlugins are licensed under the GPL and we strictly adhere to WordPress coding standards.
Visit FooPlugins.com or follow us on Twitter: @FooPlugins

BackupBuddy

BackupBuddy

Capital Factory

Capital Factory

WP Summit

WP Summit

Small Business

CloudioWeb

CloudioWeb

CloudioWeb is a small web agency passionate about maximizing online potential with beautiful design, innovative code, and profitable strategies. From startups to agencies, small businesses to the State of Texas, we’ve worked on some amazing projects using WordPress over the last 4 years.

Based here in Austin, we understand the value of community and giving back, which is why we’re thrilled to sponsor the upcoming WordCamp!

If you’re interested in our services or would like to join our team, head on over to our site and say hey!

ooshirts

ooshirts

ooShirts is dedicated to providing first rate customer service and high quality shirts at affordable rates. Since our founding in 2006, we’ve grown organically and exponentially and have printed over a million t-shirts to groups across the country. For a comprehensive overview of our history and principles, please visit our website at http://www.ooshirts.com.

DealTaker

Individual

Jared Atchison

Jared is a WordPress consultant and developer, Texas A&M graduate, and proud Texan. Jared has been using WordPress for over 6 years and specializes in the Genesis Framework and bbPress.

Connect With Jared here:

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LinkedIn

Stephanie Leary

Stephanie is a WordPress theme/plugin developer and consultant. She specializes in content strategy and site reorganizations, mostly for universities and non-profits.

Website
Twitter
LinkedIn
G+

Mark Coppock

Mark is a WordPress developer and manager. Mark is continually amazed by, and increasingly dependent on, the prolific and generous WordPress community. He is sincerely grateful to all who are involved in putting on WordCamp Austin 2013, and to everyone contributing to WordPress in all the many ways this community does.

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Twitter

Chris Wiegman

Chris is a developer specializing in WordPress plugins. His current projects in Better WP Security, Share Center Pro, and a few others

Bit51
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LinkedIn

Daniel Espinoza

Daniel is a web developer who specializes in ecommerce and enjoys building plugins. He builds products at Grow Development (http://www.growdevelopment.com), blogs on his site (http://www.danielespinoza.me) and is a WooNinja at WooThemes.

Connect with Daniel here:
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In Kind Sponsors

Sticker Giant

Sticker Giant

Sticker Giant hooked us up with some sweet WordCamp Austin stickers, everybody say THANK YOU!!!!