Want to help Arkansas’s first WordCamp get up and off the ground?

Interested in showing your support for the fast-growing open source software known as WordPress?

Become a WordCamp Fayetteville sponsor. At a minimum, you will be listed here on the web site and be listed in our schwag (“goodie”) materials that all attendees receive.

Monetary donations are great, but we also accept donations of goods or services. We will weigh your contribution against the following sponsorship levels and list you accordingly:

We couldn’t do it without these folks:

Platinum (more than $1,000)

Paze Interactive of Fayetteville, Arkansas graciously donated the money to fly in and feed two out-of-town presenters for WordCamp Fayetteville. We couldn’t do this without their help. Thanks, Paze.

Automattic gave a fantastic horde of excellent schwag to WordCamp Fayetteville. The company also gave us Brian Colinger who customized this web site and is teaching one of the advanced seminars. Thanks Automattic!

Ozarks Unbound put forth the founding money to get WordCamp Fayetteville up and off the ground. Publisher Christopher Spencer and an army of volunteers planned the event.

Gold ($500 – $1,000)

Eric Huber of BlueZoo Websites designed WordCamp Fayetteville’s supercool logo.

Beaver Water District graciously donated canvas bags and reusable water bottles to WordCamp Fayetteville. Beaver Lake is the source of water for all of Northwest Arkansas.

Cox Communications is donating the time, service and equipment to provide top-notch wireless access at WordCamp Fayetteville.

Silver ($250 – $500)

New Design School contributed space Saturday for the after party and Sunday’s space for WordCamp. The school’s founder Sonia Davis Gutierrez is teaching an excellent seminar on design principles.

Bronze ($100 to $250)

Peachpit Press gave us several raffle copies of Scott McNulty’s book, Building A WordPress Blog People Want To Read.

Going2Media is helping to pay for lunch Saturday.

Wiley Publishing donated several WordPress books to us to raffle Saturday night.

Pleth, LLC is an award-winning, Arkansas based, technology firm with offices in Batesville, Jonesboro, and Conway. Pleth specializes in Managed, Dedicated, and Virtual Private Hosting solutions for WordPress.  Pleth also provides high-end theme and plugin customization and plugin integration. Pleth partner and co-founder, Cotton Rohrscheib, t: @cottonr, is also very active in the WordPress development and support community.

Open Source Training is helping to provide snacks Sunday during the “Guru Gallery” event.

Aluminum ($25 – $100)

Dgold from Honest Tunes Radio is providing audio and video coverage of the event to be freely available to all.

Jammin’ Java provided WordCamp Fayetteville with much needed discounts on coffee and breakfast foods.

Katrina Gowen of Smashing Pennies made us several giveaway pennies with the WordPress logo. Attendees can receive a 10 percent off on their orders by using the discount code “wcfay”

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Founding Members

These folks bought the first 10 tickets to WordCamp Fayetteville and we deeply appreciate their support.

1. Katherine Shurlds (University of Arkansas journalism professor, WordPress advocate)

2. and 3. Kyle Judkins +1 (of Lost in Technology)

4. and 5. Rebecca Haden and Josepha Haden Chomphosy (of Rebecca Haden Quality Copywriting and SEO)

6. Joe McCoy (of Marketing for Manufacturing)

7. Jason Parks (of Parks Wholesale Plants)

8. Shane Richey (of ShaneRichey.com)

9. Janet Alexander (of eChi: Social Media Marketing Solutions)

10. Todd Gill (of the Fayetteville Flyer)