DrupalCon Chicago Announces Industry-Leading Sponsors for March Event

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DrupalCon Chicago, an international event that brings together the community that utilizes, develops, designs and supports the Drupal platform, proudly announced today the 57 industry-leading companies and organizations who will be featured as sponsors and key participants in the event, to be held March 7-10, 2011 at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers. Diamond Sponsors include Acquia, Palantir.net and VPS.net; Platinum Sponsors are Pantheon, Phase2 Technology, Trellon and WorkHabit.
  
Sponsors will lead and participate in the dozens of sessions and panels slated to have an emphasis on Drupal 7 design and user experience, coding and development, implementation and configuration, business and strategy. Additionally, themes will focus on other Drupal topics relevant to the open source community. In addition, DrupalCon Chicago will feature a full schedule of content targeted at Web designers, developers, evaluators, site administrators, and those looking for employment within the burgeoning Drupal community.

“We are excited and thankful to have such a strong roster of companies and organizations showing support for one of the fastest-growing open source software communities in the world,” said Megan Sanicki, Sponsor Wrangler, The Drupal Association. “These sponsorships provided by stellar members of the business and tech community at large help to infuse the funds and support into DrupalCon that enable ticket costs to remain affordable for attendees. Moreover, in the true spirit of the Drupal community, any remaining funds by our coveted sponsors are then re-invested in the Drupal community to help it grow. This enables us to keep the Drupal community buzzing and continuing to expand dramatically.”

Gold Sponsors include BlackMesh, Chapter Three, Drupal Connect, Four Kitchens, Hot Drupal, Lullabot, Microsoft, NorthPoint, Promet Source and Treehouse Agency.

Silver Sponsors are Achieve: Enterprise Drupal, Blink Reaction, Breakthrough Technologies, CivicActions, Commerce Guys, Digital Rhino, DrupalConstruction, Evolving Web, Forum One, Gorton Studios, Gravitek Labs, ImageX Media, InfoBeans, LevelTen Interactive, Mediacurrent, New York Stock Exchange, Propeople, VML, Volacci and ZivTech.

Bronze Sponsors, of which only a couple openings remain, include DPCI, EchoDitto, GitHub, GreenGreeks, Growing Venture Solutions, HS2 Solutions, ISL Consulting, Linnovate, Myplanet, NeoSpire and Varnish Software.

Other sponsors of DrupalCon Chicago are A Small Orange, Duo Consulting, Google, New Relic, New Signature, Rackspace® Hosting, Voxel and Voxeo. The media sponsor is Linux Journal.

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