We are GRATEFUL to the following sponsors for their support of BarCamp Philly 2008:
Location
Giant - $500 Level
Umlatte
Microsoft
Mother’s Work
Comcast Interactive Media
Canary Promotion + Design
ChoiceShirts
30Points Design & Consulting
Huge - $250 Level
P’unk Ave
AlertBot
Rock River Star
Wharton Learning Lab
Empressr
BadCat Design
Independents Hall
Big - $100 Level
Reed Gustow
John Romanski
Boalt
DemocracyInAction
KimmieCorp
Red Stapler Consulting
Friends of BarCamp
Matthew Knell - $50
Brian Donahue - $50
Dave Konopka - $25
Kara La Fleur - $50
Jonathan Finnegan - $30
Media Components - $25
Mike Ferry - $20
Mark Hunt - $20
Marisa McClellan - $25
Grainstar Brewery
MORE ABOUT OUR SPONSORS
Canary Promotion + Design
Canary Promotion + Design is an arts-focused business founded and run by people who are truly invested in the cultural and creative communities. We bring to each project over 12 years of experience and a passion for our work and for yours. Our personalized publicity and marketing services specialize in integrating new media strategies with traditional techniques to create wide-reaching media campaigns. Our custom websites feature beautiful, functional and friendly design using the Drupal content management system and framework, and we’re equally at home designing and writing code. We love Open Source. Drupal, PHP, MYSQL, and JQuery are all tops with us. Every pixel has a purpose. Every client has a unique story. And we see to it that they all make an impact.
Empressr
Empressr is the first of its kind rich Internet application that provides users with the tools to create and share Multi-media visual stories online. Armed with only a Web browser, users can combine photographs, artwork, text, music, videos, audio recordings and charts to produce anything from a simple slide show to a state-of-the-art business presentation. Empressr embraces the best of what the Internet has to offer with features such as asset tagging, Web mashups, embedded data and a comprehensive selection of rich media features. Once created, an empressr can be distributed in many ways. It can be published to the community site or your social networking page, sent in an email and even embedded in a blog or wiki.
Mother’s Work
Mothers Work makes its money selling maternity clothes (Motherhood Maternity, A Pea in the Pod), but there is also a sizeable group in the back that designs custom supply chain, merchandise analysis, and POS solutions. Some of the questions programmers write code to help solve include : ‘What is the optimal way to stock each of our styles?’, ‘When is the right time to start marking down merchandise?’, and ‘What is the optimal way to staff each of our stores?’. The Mothers Work philosophy is to never buy an off-the-shelf business management solution when you can develop a custom app in-house for a fraction of the cost.
Wharton Learning Lab
Wharton’s Learning Lab, a team at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, collaborates with faculty to design, build, and discover new learning technology in the classroom and beyond. By partnering with faculty authors, the Learning Lab fosters experimentation and delivers innovative applications, simulations, and games that have reached over 38,000 students. When technology enables students to turn a computer lab into a trading floor, fix the price of oil with fellow cartel members, and over-fish the world’s tuna supply, business education comes to life. Founded in 2001 through a generous donation from Wharton alum Alfred P. West, Jr., this division of Wharton Computing is excited to be a part of BarCamp and would like to thank the organizers for bringing this event to Philly.
