The continued development of GNOME and GNOME technologies relies on volunteer time and sponsorships. Our conferences are essential for the current innovation and speed that is associated with GNOME and free software. Conference sponsorship and your financial contributions are key ways to ensure that the GNOME project and associated software stacks continue to evolve.
Sponsorship of our events brings your brand to our attendees, many of whom play significant roles in open source and tech fields. It also serves as an excellent platform for recruitment as GNOME conferences are a gathering of highly skilled contributors who have demonstrable skills in core technology
For more information, please see the GUADEC 2026 sponsorship brochure. For any questions regarding sponsorship, please contact us at guadec@gnome.org
2026 Sponsors
GUADEC could not happen without the support of sponsors. We are immensely grateful to the following organizations for their support.
Gold
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.
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.
Silver
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.
Bronze
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.
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.
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.