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 2021 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 advance 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. |
2021 Sponsors
GUADEC could not happen without the support of sponsors. We are immensely grateful to the following organizations for their support.
Gold
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to provide reliable and high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and virtualization technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and consulting services. As a connective hub in a global network of enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and prepare customers for the future of IT.
Silver
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 organisation, 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.
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.
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.
Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) helps organizations and individuals build their digital future and transform how they work, live and play. The company provides customers with the industry’s broadest and most innovative technology and services portfolio for the data era.
The Fedora Project The Fedora Project is a community of people who create an innovative, free, and open source platform for hardware, clouds, and containers that enables software developers and community members to build tailored solutions for their users. getfedora.org
The Fedora Join Special Interest Group aims to set up and maintain channels that let prospective contributors engage with the community. If you are interested in being a part of the Fedora community, learn more here.
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.
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.
GitLab is a complete DevOps platform, delivered as a single application, fundamentally changing the way Development, Security, and Ops teams collaborate. GitLab helps teams accelerate software delivery from weeks to minutes, reduce development costs, and reduce the risk of application vulnerabilities while increasing developer productivity. Built on Open Source, GitLab works alongside its community of thousands of contributors and millions of users to continuously deliver new DevOps innovations. More than 100,000 organizations from startups to global enterprise organizations to leading open source projects trust GitLab to deliver great software at new speeds.
Media Partners
Linux Pro 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.
