WordCamp Vancouver would not be possible if not for the generous help of all our sponsors. Be sure to say thank you to them if you see them on the day of the event.
WordCamp Pillar
Bluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005 and powers over one million WordPress sites. Their goal is to provide outstanding hosting services and customer support for the best possible price. Bluehost is also constantly innovating and upgrading their services and infrastructure 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.
WiredTree provides Managed VPS and Managed Dedicated Servers to WordPress users worldwide from our Chicago-based data center and offices. Every WT server is backed by 24×7 telephone support, ticket support with 15 minute average response times, and is fully managed and monitored by WiredTree to maximize uptime and minimize frustration. All servers come ready-to-run with cPanel/WHM and are optimized and security hardened with firewall and anti-spam out of the box. With experience in SSD technology, MariaDB, Memcached, WordPress plugins, server optimization, and LiteSpeed Web server, WiredTree can take your site’s performance to the next level.
WordCamp Champion
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, Code Poet’s 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.
You’re part of a tribe of WordPress designers and developers over 10,000 strong, spanning the entire globe. codepoet.com aims to bring the working knowledge and real world strategies of those people into one place, for you to tap into.
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. More information can be found at http://dreamhost.com.
PlanetHoster offers premium hosting solutions to WordPress users worldwide. Whether it’s shared hosting, managed VPS, dedicated servers and much more, PlanetHoster’s customers report that these affordable, feature-packed hosting solutions exceed their expectations. Their certified engineers are very experienced with WordPress. They work hard to assure that your WordPress site will run very fast and will be hosted in a secure, 24/7 monitored environment. If you want to offer the best latency to your visitors by being hosted whether in Europe or in North America, PlanetHoster might be right for you.
WordCamp Accomplice
WPML turns WordPress websites multilingual. It works with caching, SEO and E-Commerce plugins, and allows the building of complete multilingual sites. WPML powers simple blogs as well as corporate and enterprise sites.
WPML allows users to translate everything in the site, including content, menus, widgets and even theme and plugin texts. WPML powers over 400,000 commercial websites from all over the world.
More information about going multilingual can be found at WPML.org
Venue Sponsor
British Columbia Institute of technology is BC’s largest post-secondary institution. BCIT offers part-time and full-time courses and programs in technology, trades, engineering, business, and health.
Big thank you to High-Tech Professional programs at BCIT for sponsoring the venue for WordCamp Vancouver 2013. For more information about BCIT’s computing programs, visit:bcit.ca/computing
English Bay
Forge and Smith is a boutique web agency comprised of web craftsmen who instil every project with attention to detail, deep experience and focused passion. A job worth doing is worth doing right is their motto and they tackle it with fierce determination and uncompromising commitment to quality. Visit forgeandsmith.com for more details.
Jukeboxprint.com is committed to excellent customer service, leading edge products and great quality.
We are known worldwide for our business cards and the latest and most innovative print products – check them out on our website http://www.jukeboxprint.com or our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Jukeboxprint. We believe high quality printing should not mean high prices.
We’d like to thank JukeBox Print Shop for helping us cut the costs down for all printed materials at WordCamp Vancouver!
KIMBO Design Inc. is a digital agency that has been in business for more than 12 years. We specialize in graphic design, integrated communications and marketing for web and print. As an award winning creative agency, KIMBO Design is dedicated to encouraging engagement and enhancing comprehension through visual storytelling. With our clean, modern and minimalist signature style, we produce innovative, effective and sustainable creative.
Founded as the people’s university in 1890 in Pullman, Washington State University seeks to fulfill its mission by transforming lives globally through world-class education, research, and community outreach. More than 26,000 students attend WSU at campuses in Pullman, Spokane, the Tri-Cities, and Vancouver, as well as through the Global Campus, a nationally recognized online learning environment serving people worldwide.
Because of a shared philosophy about serving the public good, the University is committed to being a leader in the WordPress community and in improving the web.
Creative Mornings (Vancouver) is a breakfast lecture series for the creative community. The concept was simple: breakfast and a short talk one Friday morning a month. Every event would be free of charge and open to anyone. Today, attendees gather in cities around the world to enjoy fresh coffee, friendly people, and an international array of breakfast foods. Volunteer hosts and their team members organize local chapters that not only celebrate a city’s creative talent, but also promote an open space to connect with like-minded individuals. With 87 chapters around the world and more to come chances are wherever you go there will be a Creative Mornings event!
Sparkjoy Studios is a Vancouver web agency focused on client relationships that function like partnerships. We create web assets and craft people and search-friendly content for our clients. Sparkjoy specializes in using WordPress for blogs, event ticketing, content management, and as a framework for custom plugins and web applications.
False Creek
Swanton Design
iWitness Design
A hard working web development agency passionate about pushing the limits of WordPress. WordPress is more than a blogging platform and I love to prove that over and over again.
IvyCat
Checkfront
Checkfront is a new way to manage your business that takes the hassle out of reservations & online payments.
Interested in sponsoring WordCamp this year?
Check out our Call for Sponsors post for details on how you can help make this year’s WordCamp the best it can be!