Sponsors

Several sponsorship levels are available. If you’re interested in sponsoring the Strange Loop Conference, please contact strange.loop.stl@gmail.com.

Sponsor level: Partner

DZone delivers “fresh links for developers.” According to PC Magazine, “DZone is a developer’s dream-a vast network of user-submitted links to message boards, news, coding tricks, and more” Launched in June, 2006, DZone is closing in on a spot in Alexa’s top 5000 sites, surpassing established leaders like DevX, Sys-con, FTP Online and TheServerSide.com. DZone is the only vertically focused site regularly listed among the web’s largest social bookmarking sites. In its first year of operation DZone sent over 5 million visitors to other developer websites.

Sponsor level: Strange Quark ($2500)

Woot.com is an online store and community that focuses on...Oh, the hell with it, just go visit the Wikipedia page on us. (And if you really need to know more, check out "What is Woot?" on our site.)

Red Hat is more than a software company. Red Hat is the bridge between the communities that create open source software and the enterprise customers who use it. Red Hat makes the rapid innovation of open source technology consumable in mission-critical, enterprise environments.

Sponsor level: Top Quark ($1000)

Microsoft Corporation develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a range of software products for computing devices. The Company's software products include operating systems for servers, personal computers and intelligent devices, server applications for distributed computing environments, information worker productivity applications, business solution applications, high-performance computing applications and software development tools and video games.

Terracotta is a software company and eponymous open source development project that delivers enterprise Java application scalability and availability. Terracotta also provides database scalability with Hibernate and high-performance distributed caching. This enables our customers to reduce their development efforts and ongoing operating costs.

The Corporate Electric is a group of designers and developers who think branding and marketing can be on paper, be on screen, or be a warm fuzzy feeling.

Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) is the leading software engineering firm specializing in vendor-neutral solutions to enterprise-wide integration for mission critical applications. By leveraging our extensive real-life experiences in software and systems engineering we provide clients with more pragmatic choices and greater control. OCI promotes non-proprietary, standards-based solutions. Knowledge transfer is a fundamental aspect of our services and we tailor engagements to meet customer needs. To address additional IT staffing needs, OCI partners with Advantage Consulting to deliver temporary staffing, contract-to-permanent hiring, and permanent hiring solutions.

AgentHR - Lisa Rokusek is an agile, results-oriented model for staffing and recruiting that enables successful recruiters to do what they do best: find and deliver essential talent to their client companies. This model creates inherent flexibility and market awareness. Recruiters are responsive to the needs of both candidates and companies. Clients get talent, candidates get respect, everybody wins.

Lisa Rokusek works with companies who recognize the importance of hiring the right person. She focuses on companies engaged in technology-related product development - often companies where hardware and software play together in exciting new ways. She specializes in high-impact individual producers and exceptional managers/executives, in areas as varied as software and hardware development, human resources, or sales and marketing. Lisa provides direct-hire employees, project-based consultants, or whatever blend her clients require (see agile and responsive above).

Though Lisa works nationally she is passionate about the St. Louis area, and about helping to foster a thriving technology/business community. She is committed to local technology and entrepreneurial efforts, and sees conferences like Strange Loop as essential to creating and attracting new businesses and the people that will help them thrive.

Our proven reputation attracts some of the best and brightest talent. Coupled with our unique business model and our ground-breaking staffing technology, we are able to provide our clients with top candidates at competitive salaries.

Contegix is an award-winning managed hosting provider based in St. Louis, Missouri. Contegix offers fully managed servers, colocation hosting, and cloud hosting. As the 2009 Linux Journal Reader's Choice winner for best Linux-friendly hosting company, Contegix passionately delivers industry leading support for Linux servers and applications

Announce Media powers a collection of online communities and information resources that engage audiences and transform them into educated consumers. With our proprietary tools and dynamic knowledge-sharing platforms, we drive our communities through successive phases of awareness, discovery, comparison, and selection of products and services across 30+ verticals. The outcome is a highly developed and refined purchasing decision, which is the foundation of informed commerce.