Our Sponsors
Any event wouldn’t happen without sponsors and WordCamp Calgary 2014 is the same. We are incredibly thankful for of all of our great sponsors for making WordCamp Calgary happen.
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.
Website: www.bluehost.com
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.
WebSite: www.wiredtree.com
WordCamp Champion
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.
Website: www.dreamhost.com
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.
Website: www.codepoet.com
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
Website: www.WPML.org
WordCamp Calgary Champion
At Build Studio we help businesses thrive through better design. We’re a Calgary based design and development firm, working with business owners to create digital and print experiences for their customers.
As a small but smart team of designers, developers, writers, and marketers, we believe all communication should be purposeful. We help our clients reach their customers in focused and thoughtful ways. Use the right tool and you’ll benefit from greater engagement with your customers.
Let us help build your Brand. Website. Mobile. Print.
Website: www.buildstudio.ca
As a graphic design studio aiming to do business with companies that share their philosophy of sustainability, positive social impact and innovation in business, GOOD Company designs for people who do good things. Through print, branding and WordPress website development, they help their clients voice their messages, promote new ideas and encourage engagement.
Engaging the public is one of their passions. In the fall of 2012, they created every aspect of the visuals for Chris Turner’s Federal by-election campaign. GOOD then worked with community builders to form Vote Kit (a voter engagement project) and have since created engagement graphics for Village Brewery, Evidence for Democracy, Cycle Track Network’s campaign and TEDxYYC.
Whether working with grassroots initiatives and community associations or established academic institutions and technology corporations, GOOD Company has created more than 20 WordPress websites in the last year and a half.
Website: www.good-company.ca
Platform is a branding, illustration and design studio. We build brands and design communications for the culinary industry, for retail, and for cultural clients. In short, we work with people who make the world better, more flavourful, and more diverse in its ideas.
Typography is our obsession and we will always champion the reader’s experience of the text — in print, on the web, on distant billboards, and on mobile devices.
Website: www.platformdesign.ca
Armadillo Studios is a Calgary-based web design/development outfit that has been kicking around since 2007. Since then we have helped numerous businesses, political campaigns, non-profits, and start-ups vastly improve their online presence. We are passionate about working with clients to build powerful WordPress powered web sites, effective social media campaigns and results orientated e-mail marketing solutions.
Armadillo Studios has worked with a variety of clients covering small and large businesses, marketing agencies, start-ups, not-for profit organizations and political campaigns in Calgary, Vancouver, Ottawa, Toronto, Chicago, Washington D.C. and Austin, TX.
Website: www.armadillostudios.ca
ZEDS Comic Communication offers content writing services and communication training punctuated with a bit of wit. We want you to own the joke that is your life!
At ZEDS, we help you to harness the power of humour as a personal and professional communication tool. ZEDS offers content creation and editing, speech writing, humour editing, comedy training for non-comics, workshops and comedy gala fundraising events. Experience shows humour brings out the human in you, and believe us when we say your friends, family and client will appreciate the laugh!
Website: ZEDScc.com
Solid crafts websites & digital strategies that help clients succeed online.
We are a small team of experts, focused on great design and the development skills to match.
From local clients like Soffritto, JayWest Homes, Cibo, Posto, Willow Park Wines & Spirits (and more).
To international clients like Lyve & Departing.com
Solid focuses on building fantastic relationships & rapport with our clients. The trust created from this allows us to create creative and successful experiences – and forge successful long term relationships.
Website: asolidsite.com/
Coming Soon
Website: sitesol.ca/
WordCamp In-Kind Sposnor
StickerGiant Custom Stickers prints quality stickers and labels quickly. They have sponsored over 100 WordCamps all over the world. Get the best customer service, 24 hour turnaround, and free die-cutting using StickerGiant–The Sticker company for WordPress users.
Email our StickerFairy Hailey and use the code Wordcamp2014 and receive a free sticker pack at: hailey@stickergiant.com
WebSite: www.stickergiant.com
Are you a local sponsor, interested in sponsoring WordCamp this year?
We have set-up a great package for local businesses, organizations and even freelancers that will let you get your company information in front of the Calgary WordPress community.
Send us an email at calgary@wordcamp.org with the Subject line of I Want To Be A Local Sponsor!.