Sponsor RubyNation!
We appreciate our sponsors, and are committed to providing solid value in exchange for sponsorship. Would you like information on how to sponsor us? Our Sponsorship Prospectus provides the details. Please email us regarding sponsorship at sponsorship@rubynation.org.
Diamond Sponsor
LivingSocial adds surprise to every calendar with handpicked daily deals you can share with friends. Members enjoy at least 50% off on the coolest, local experiences. Local business owners get an easy and cost effective marketing tool to attract new, loyal customers. In 2010, one of the fastest growing companies in the space expanded with LivingSocial Escapes offering a "vacation in a box" for easy weekend trips at great value. Based in Washington, DC, the international brand has saved its nearly 20 million subscribers more than $230 million in more than 205 markets worldwide.
Platinum Sponsors
IZEA is a world leader in social media sponsorships. Founded in 2006, we pioneered the cash sponsorship space and continue to deliver innovative platforms and campaigns for our clients. IZEA is a venture-backed company that has raised over $14 million from leading investors. We are headquartered in beautiful downtown Orlando, Florida and serve a diverse base of publishers and advertisers around the globe with our three core platforms.
Near Infinity is not your average software development company. By focusing on a few simple principles-hiring only the most qualified and passionate technologists, using customer-centric Agile development practices, and persistently exploring and defining the most effective ways to apply new technologies-Near Infinity has developed a reputation for delivering great software, fast.
Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Northern Virginia, the company has grown into a multi-million dollar software development firm. Our customers range from Fortune 500 companies to major federal customers in the U.S. Intelligence Community. Whether we're building traditional applications using our proven software best practices or delivering a creative solution to a cutting-edge problem, Near Infinity engineers consistently help our customers use technology to achieve their most critical business goals.
OMGPOP is the leading developer of social games in NYC. We build high quality social games used by millions of users across multiple platforms including Facebook, iPhone, and the web. With both synchronous real-time and asynchronous games, the performance and scale of our Ruby backend is a top priority. Our team of world class engineers use both cutting edge and proven technologies to deliver the best gaming experiences in the world, tackle massive scale and solve hard problems. We're growing, and we're looking for the best - omgpop.com/jobs - check us out.
Engine Yard cloud technology and expertise helps developers get more done faster because they don’t have to own and manage complex application infrastructure. By eliminating the drag of platform and infrastructure management, development teams can focus on building great applications. We support the open source community and use optimized open source components in our Platform-as-a-Service to help customers save money and avoid restrictive infrastructure contracts. Because of our comprehensive investment in engineering and support, the Engine Yard stack is the fastest, most scalable platform for Ruby applications of all kinds. Visit Engine Yard at www.engineyard.com, and @engineyard on twitter.
Gold Sponsors
ooShirts is a custom t-shirt company, dedicated to creating a fun and easy custom apparel experience. Started in 2007, ooShirts has grown exponentially from its humble roots and has since provided quality shirts, sweaters, and pants for thousands of customers of all different backgrounds and organizations. The company relies on friendly and attentive customer service as well as an intuitive, streamlined design lab to make the ordering experience simple and straightforward. Their lightweight business model has caught the attention of several publications and their down-to-earth approach to handling their business has made them a reliable resource to a diverse group of customers.
Solution Street, based in Northern Virginia's high-tech corridor, is an information technology consultancy that helps public, private, government, and non-profit organizations achieve their business goals through the design and rapid deployment of web applications. Solution Street employees are experts in building large, highly scalable and well performing web applications using J2EE, .NET, PHP and Ruby on Rails technologies.
Rails Dog is a technology consulting firm specializing in web applications and e-commerce development. We are the creators of the Spree e-commerce platform and have contributed to dozens of other open source projects. We are always looking for talented Rails developers as well as new customers who want to hire a development shop with deep Rails experience.
Blue Box Group works with the most talented Ruby on Rails developers in the world by building and maintaining powerful, efficient, application-specific infrastructure.
Unique among hosting providers, our experts provide top-tier operations expertise and configuration support during deploys, migrations, and maintenance. This seamless integration allows your development team to focus on writing great code.
Do you want to work with smart developers to build spectacular applications? LMN Solutions values design, innovation, and bringing a pragmatic agile approach to mission challenges. We've been delivering results to customers with Ruby and Rails since 2005, and are ready to help you fully realize your ability and drive to achieve maximum productivity.
Members of the LMN team get to work on client and R&D projects, take top notch training, and serve as mentors to others as we strive for excellence and growth. We'll get you ready to take on new challenges in cybersecurity, geospatial, and scalable processing of large data sets. Check us out at LMNsolutions.com or follow us on Twitter @lmnsolutions.
CodeSherpas can develop the software you need for your business. They provide complete application lifecycle development from requirements through development, deployment, and maintenance. Already have a development team? Just need to get more work done? CodeSherpas can join your existing team and help them pull more weight. CodeSherpas also provides training in Java, Ruby/Rails, and agile project management.
Since early 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has provided companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. With AWS you can requisition compute power, storage, and other services - gaining access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services as your business demands them. You have the flexibility to choose whichever development platform or programming model makes the most sense for the problems you're trying to solve. You pay only for what you use, with no up-front expenses or long-term commitments, making AWS the most cost-effective way to deliver your application to your customers and clients. And, with AWS, you can take advantage of Amazon.com's global computing infrastructure, that is the backbone of Amazon.com's retail business and transactional enterprise whose scalable, reliable, and secure distributed computing infrastructure has been honed for over 13 years.
Intridea designs and develops better applications for mobile devices and the web. For clients ranging from startups with just an idea to firmly established Fortune 500 companies, we build high quality software that looks as great as it performs. We know what it takes to make client projects successful in the longer term. We also have our own suite of products developed in-house, including the Present.ly microblogging platform and Scalr, our cloud computing soloution. We specialize in Ruby on Rails, iPhone, and Android development, but we are a firm proponent of choosing the right tool for the job. Interested in learning more? Check out our web site.
FGM, Inc., is an information technology company delivering sophisticated, customized solutions that improve business efficiency across the enterprise. As a trusted partner of the Department of Defense, U.S. Government civilian and international agencies, and businesses throughout the world, FGM is an agile provider of technical solutions that enable mission-critical operations and decision-making. FGM's solutions help customers improve their business performance through information technology transformation services focusing on architecture, information management, systems integration, and integrated solutions.
CustomInk.com operates an innovative website that enables people to design and order custom decorated products such as printed t-shirts and embroidered caps for their groups and events including student groups, bands, small businesses, corporations, family reunions, and more. Their t-shirt printing operations accommodate orders of all sizes, ranging from a single t-shirt to quantities in the thousands. In 2005 and 2006, CustomInk was named to Inc. Magazine's "Inc500" list of America's fastest-growing private companies. They were also included in Washingtonian Magazine's last list of "Great Places to Work" in the DC area.
Silver Sponsors
Percona makes MySQL more valuable to customers and users by advancing the performance of the database, and by teaching clients how to achieve high performance and scalability with MySQL. Our flagship product is Percona Server with XtraDB, an enhanced, open-source variant of the MySQL database with an improved version of the InnoDB storage engine. Our founders wrote the book High Performance MySQL and are world-famous MySQL experts. We provide consulting, support, training, and development services for MySQL.
staffmagnet, LLC is the leading East Coast recruitment solutions provider. The staffmagnet organization provides Ruby on Rails based do it yourself recruitment and talent scouting software, exclusive web based people databases full of college and professional level computer scientists and developers, recruiting services, management consulting services for companies looking to attract top talent, and SocialMatchbox.com which is the Washington area’s leading job listings site for software company career opportunities.
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Our Web Site and Subversion Hosting Partner
The RubyNation website as well as the subversion repository is being hosted by CodeSherpas, an excellent boutique software engineering firm in the Northern Virginia area specializing in Java/J2EE/Lightweight and Ruby/Rails software development.
Any questions about the hosting? Email Dave Bock at CodeSherpas Inc.
