Being involved with GUADEC gives you a number of benefits. Do you use technologies like GStreamer or GTK? This is a great place to get involved in their development. Are you looking to hire? Showing commitment to open source helps you attract talented developers. If you want to promote your company, this is a way to have your logo seen across the world.
For more information, please see the GUADEC 2023 sponsorship brochure. For any questions regarding sponsorship, please contact us at sponsors@guadec.org
 Meet key contributorsGUADEC is a great opportunity to meet contributors and users of one of the leading free and open-source technology platforms. |  Influence product directionSponsoring and attending GUADEC not only gives you advanced information on GNOME’s plans for the coming year but provides you with a voice in shaping them. |  Access technical talentExperienced developers from around the globe attend GUADEC. Meet business partners who can help you achieve your technical goals. |
 Encourage technology adoptionGUADEC has been a site for product launches and a great place to encourage developers to use new technologies. |  Contribute to the development of GNOME technologiesHelp the development of new features and components. GUADEC hosts planning and coding sessions, as well as technology and interoperability meetings. |  Give back to free and open source softwareYou’ll be recognized not only as a sponsor of GUADEC, but also as a supporter of free software, the GNOME project, and the ideals on which these are founded. |
2023 Sponsors
GUADEC could not happen without the support of sponsors. We are immensely grateful to the following organizations for their support.
Platinum
Endless believes that youth should be able to shape their technology rather than be shaped by it. We harness the power of games to engage youth in learning 21st-century skills to build economic mobility and partner with nonprofits to solve the barriers of device and internet access. We imagine a world in which every child is a creator, empowered with the tools for endless opportunity.
Gold
Established in 2004, Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, a platform that spans from the PC and IoT devices to the server and the cloud. It includes a comprehensive suite of enterprise-grade tools for development, configuration, management and service orchestration. Ubuntu comes with everything you need to run your organization, school, home or enterprise. Canonical provides enterprise products, support and services for Ubuntu. Canonical is a privately held company. Check out Ubuntu.
Bronze
Arm defines the pervasive computing that's shaping today’s connected world. Realized in 180 billion silicon chips, our device architectures orchestrate the performance of the technology that's transforming our lives — from smartphones to supercomputers, from medical instruments to agricultural sensors, and from base stations to servers.
Igalia is a dynamic and highly specialised open source consultancy. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technologies from every layer of the software stack and years of experience contributing to open source projects and communities.
The openSUSE project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. openSUSE creates one of the world’s best Linux distributions, working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community.The project is controlled by its community and relies on the contributions of individuals, working as testers, writers, translators, usability experts, artists and ambassadors or developers. The project embraces a wide variety of technology, people with different levels of expertise, speaking different languages and having different cultural backgrounds.
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate existing and new IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted advisor to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.
Supporter
Centricular is an open source software consultancy with a focus on GStreamer, multimedia, streaming and graphics. We love Rust and believe it's the future of systems programming.
Codethink specializes in system-level software engineering to enable advanced technical applications, working across a range of industries including automotive, medical, telecoms and finance. Our customers are international-scale organizations who seek a competitive edge through the design of enterprise appliances and embedded systems that are faster, smaller, more secure, more up-to-date, or more advanced than their competitors. As experts in Free and Open Source Software, we help customers take maximum advantage of the knowledge and technologies developed in upstream communities including GNOME. Vala, GLib, GTK+, Glade, Flatpak, Tracker, and Gstreamer are just a few of the GNOME technologies that Codethink developers have hacked on in recent years.
Social Event Sponsor
Woodlyn Travel is an international full-service, upscale travel consulting company that specializes in family travel, romantic getaways, events, corporate retreat, business travel and destination experiences. We support the GNOME community’s travel needs by coordinating flights, hotel blocks, and meeting spaces.
Media Partners
FOSSlife is dedicated to the world of free and open source software, focusing on careers, skills, and resources to help you build your future with FOSS. We provide timely information, useful insight, and practical resources for those who want to build or advance their career with open source.
Linux Magazine keeps the emphasis on real-life, practical techniques, which has helped make it one of the fastest growing Linux magazines worldwide. They deliver insightful technical articles on a range of topics related to IT technology.
Open Source JobHub aims to help everyone find a place in the open source ecosystem by connecting job seekers with employers looking for top talent. Let us help you turn down the noise and find the perfect job fit.
9to5Linux.com is dedicated to providing breaking news, opinions, tutorials, and reviews about Linux and Open Source products. The main goal is to offer the GNU/Linux community a trustworthy place where they can find all the freshest information about updates and new releases of their favorite distributions and software, upcoming events, hardware releases, and more.
