Dallas GiveCamp Sponsors

Dallas GiveCamp could not happen without our sponsors. If you would like to become a sponsor, please review our sponsorship opportunity page and e-mail us shawn@dallasgivecamp.org if you have any questions.

Platinum Sponsor

Paladin
Since 1983, Paladin Consulting has focused on the Human Capital industry. The company matches high-quality technology, engineering & accounting professionals with companies across the nation, providing: staff support, from temporary assignments to contract-to-hire and permanent employees and targeted project services, where individuals or teams complete strategic projects to move your business forward Headquartered in Dallas, Paladin gets results for companies of all sizes, ranging from small businesses to the Fortune 100. What's more, Paladin treats each staff members as an employee, providing excellent benefits that create stability and high performance for clients. Check out our open positions at http://paladin-inc.com/success-for-you.php

Gold Sponsor

Slalom Consulting
Slalom Consulting brings together business and technology expertise to help companies drive enterprise performance, accelerate innovation, enhance the customer experience, and increase employee productivity. Strong foundation. Rapid growth.Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Slalom Consulting has rapidly grown to more than 1,800 consultants and helps companies from the Fortune 500 to emerging businesses. We deliver award-win­ning solutions and innovation through a national network of local offices across 11 North American cities. A nimble, flexible model Slalom can take on a full end-to-end project or only the key portion where we will add the most value. We can bring our own proven methods, work within a client's framework, or work with a client to create a new delivery method. We want results for our clients, and we typically structure projects with smaller teams that deliver those results faster. Widely recognized Slalom has earned numerous national, regional, and local awards from our clients, partners, the media, and community organizations. Our executives are also frequently recognized on an individual basis for their leadership and business acumen. Get more information at http://www.slalom.com

Silver Sponsor

Venue Sponsor

CTREC Hilton
CTREC Hilton IT Academy is a premier training provider strategically positioned to facilitate and educate professionals in the Information Technology field and beyond. Our mission is to offer an esteemed level of quality IT training by using real world solutions, supported by a dynamic, energized team focused on providing excellence in and outside the classroom. Our breadth of content in Microsoft Office and Microsoft Technical Training and flexibility of schedule is unmatched to meet your objectives no matter what level of training you need for your organization. Check out our course schedule on our website at http://www.ctrechilton.com/

Meal Sponsors

Caffeine Sponsor

Pariveda Solutions
Pariveda Solutions is an IT consulting company that grows and deploys talented people to solve the technical and strategic challenges of our clients. We deliver both strategic consulting services and technical solutions, especially those “at the edge,” where systems interface with people and with other systems. We call this "Delivering at the EdgeSM", delivering business value through creative solutions at the edge of innovative technology. We work with our clients to select the right approach - developing a custom application, creating a business systems plan, leveraging a platform like SharePoint, or whatever the situation calls for – and to implement it quickly and effectively. Our focus is simple. Start with the right people, deliver consistent value and partner with our customers. Get more info or contact us via our website at http://parivedasolutions.com

Break Sponsors

Matrix
Matrix was founded in 1983 and in Dallas since 1987—Nearly Three Decades of IT Solutions Experience. Privately-held $200MM & Top 35 in the U.S. Matrix is a national firm with IT as Primary Focus with more than 250 Internal MATRIX Employees & 1,400+ Consultants offering Professional Services such as Application & Web Development, Agile Consulting, Business Intelligence & Performance Management. Currently over 55 .NET consultants are working for Matrix in DFW with Industry leading benefits and training for our consultants. Get more information on our website at http://www.matrixres.com
Telerik
Telerik’s mission is to make software development easier and more enjoyable. Our tools for agile project management, collaboration, development and testing allow companies of all sizes to create richer, more stable and aesthetic software faster than ever before. Trusted by over 100,000 customers worldwide for our devotion to quality and customer care, Telerik helps technical and business professionals maximize their productivity and "deliver more than expected” every day. Download your free trial today at http://www.telerik.com/download.aspx

Charity Sponsors

balsamiq
Balsamiq Mockups is a rapid wireframing tool that reproduces the experience of sketching interfaces on a whiteboard, but using your computer, so they’re easier to share, modify, and get honest feedback on. Mockups look like sketches, so stakeholders won’t get distracted by little details, and can focus on what’s important instead. Mockups is available for the Desktop (Windows, Mac, Linux), as a hosted web service, or as a plugin for Confluence, JIRA, FogBugz & XWiki. Here's our low-budget 3-minute demo video on YouTube.
AgileZen
AgileZen is Project Management Software that helps you organize your work and get things done. Take the video tour of AgileZen to see how our project management software can help you: Visualize your work - AgileZen organizes your project visually, letting you see the big picture, while the project management tool keeps you focused on the tasks at hand. Get organized - Whether you're on a team or flying solo, the AgileZen project management software helps you stay organized and efficient by employing strategies from lean, agile, and kanban. Communicate with your team - AgileZen keeps everyone in your team lean, agile, and on the same page. The project management tool provides visual indicators and a powerful messaging system. Find ways to improve - AgileZen helps you understand how well you're doing with agile project management, and can be customized as you find better ways to work.
/n software
During the past 20 years /n software inc. has established itself as a leading provider of cross-platform software components for communication, security, and e-business development. /n software is committed to providing enterprise-class tools and components enabling developers to rapidly build robust Internet enabled web and desktop applications.
RSSBus
RSSBus provides high-performance, reliable, and fully-extensible products that simplify the process of producing, consuming, and integrating data. The RSSBus products enable a simple yet effective layer of middleware that helps users drive information flow without the added complexity that is common across other integration solutions.
DiscountAsp.NET
DiscountASP.NET is an innovative leader in hosting solutions for Microsoft developers, focused on providing the best value in ASP.NET web hosting and Team Foundation Server (TFS) hosting. A Microsoft Partner with the Gold Hosting Competency and a Visual Studio Industry Partner member, DiscountASP.NET recently launched free TFS proxy server hosting and managed TFS hosting solutions. As a leader in cutting-edge ASP.NET web hosting, DiscountASP.NET supports the latest Microsoft web stack including support for SQL Server 2012. Through strong word-of-mouth and their commitment to ASP.NET developers, DiscountASP.NET has become the choice for affordable enterprise-class ASP.NET web hosting and hosted TFS. For more information, visit http://www.DiscountASP.NET
Applied Innovations
Applied Innovations is a Boca Raton, FL based web presence provider (web host) that specializes in hosting on the Windows Server platform. Founded in February of 1999 with the goal of providing the technology and resources that small and medium sized businesses require to make them competitive and successful in the online marketplace at a cost effective price.
OReilly Media
O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly Media has been a chronicler and catalyst of cutting-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.
Event Espresso
Event Espresso is a top-of-the-line event registration and management plugin for WordPress. Our mission is to empower business and organization leaders with the event registration, ticketing and management tools that maximize the success of events. Our vision is to become the world’s leading event registration and ticketing provider, and model of profitability by offering our customers autonomy and value. We take pride in our products, including the personal support we offer to our customers.
Git Hub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over two million people use GitHub to build amazing things together. With the collaborative features of GitHub.com, our desktop and mobile apps, and GitHub:Enterprise, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write better code, faster. GitHub loves helping non-profits! We will provide a lifetime Bronze organization plan, free of charge, to any non-profit organization involved in GiveCamps.

Door Prize Sponsors

LogicNP
LogicNP Software specializes in the development of developer-centric software products such as reusable controls, components and libraries for .Net, WPF, ActiveX and MFC/ATL developers. Our mission is to provide innovative, developer-friendly, robust and easy-to-use software that helps developers build the best applications that today's competitive marketplace demands. Our products are used by thousands of large corporations, multi-national companies, consultants, ISVs and professionals from all over the world working in finance, government, military, education, technology, health, insurance, consulting and more.
Infragistics
Infragistics, the world leader in user interface development tools, empowers developers to build and style immersive user experiences and rich data visualization in line of business applications across all .NET platforms—Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), ASP.NET and Silverlight; even innovative components for jQuery, Reporting and Mobile for Windows Phone 7/iPhone/Android.
Pluralsight
Pluralsight is the global leader in high-quality online training for hardcore developers. The revolutionary Pluralsight training library provides developers with instant access to a rich collection of online training courses delivered by industry authorities. See what you can learn at pluralsight.com and join the @pluralsight community on Twitter.

SWAG Sponsors

Minnesota Workwear
Minnesota Workwear has been a provider of premier workwear brands such as Dickies, Carhartt, Red Kap, Bulwark, and others for about 15 years. We started out very small like most businesses and grew our sales through providing the highest quality products, dedication to outstanding customer service, and complete satisfaction. All we do is Workwear—fulltime. Our prices are of the lowest you will find anywhere. Our service is still real people who want to help. Let us know how Minnesota Workwear can help you.
The Nerdery
The Nerdery is a developer-driven interactive production shop that partners with creative minds and big thinkers to envision and execute cool interactive projects, including websites, mobile apps and social media. The Nerdery’s team 400+ Nerds are collectively versed in every viable development platform and programming discipline. The Nerdery’s overarching development philosophy is technology agnostic; our toolbox is among the deepest in the galaxy. Our UX team is skilled at helping clients and developers begin their work with a well-realized end in mind. Our QA team is similarly adept at rigorously testing software so interactive projects launch successfully – bug-free and secure. Backed by an unstumpable army of Nerds who work/play at our offices in Minneapolis and Chicago, The Nerdery was twice voted #1 Best Place to Work in Biz Journal and has made Inc Magazine’s list of fast-growing privately owned companies for five consecutive years. Through our annual 24-hour Nerdery Overnight Website Challenge, developers from The Nerdery and our friends throughout the interactive community have donated more than $2.5 million in professional services to 84 nonprofit organizations in Minnesota and Illinois.
ComponentOne
Founded in 1980, ComponentOne, a division of GrapeCity, is an award-winning Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, a premier Visual Studio Industry Partner, and one of the world’s largest providers of developer components. The company has more than 850 employees and hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide. For close to 30 years, ComponentOne has provided enterprises around the world with state-of-the-art developer tools and components, software services and solutions. For more company information, visit the ComponentOne division website at http://www.componentone.com.

Friends of GiveCamp
The kind folks that pressed the "Donate" button. Yea I know you see it. Just press it, I know you can. $5 or $10 bucks, every little bit helps!