Media and Community Sponsors
We offer a variety of sponsorship opportunities and exhibit options and are ready to work with you to create a custom presence for you onsite (one that will meet your marketing goals and budget). Please contact us at:
or call us 707.827.7272 for more information. We look forward to partnering with you.
Ace Cider
Astound Broadband
Bike Monkey Magazine
Bike Monkey Magazine is the publication for an exciting new age of cycling. Bike Monkey speaks to all bike lovers with insightful reporting, exclusive interviews, great photography, and introspections into all things velo, from Northern California and beyond.
Boing Boing
Forbes voted Boing Boing "best of the web" among tech blogs, as did BusinessWeek. AdRants, ad exec veteran Steve Hall's blog, posted an article to the effect that if Boing Boing covers your ad campaign, it's gone viral. 2006 Bloggies winner: Best Group Blog and Lifetime Achievement. 2006 Webby Awards nominee. Named 'Best of the Web 2006' by BusinessWeek. In a 2006 article, The New Yorker described Boing Boing as "a technology blog that is read by geeks the world over."
Cleantech Group LLC
Crayola
Culture Magazine
The first national cheese magazine, covering international cheeses, cheesemaking, cheesemakers and everything that goes along with the world of cheese. Available in food stores, Borders and larger booksellers nationwide. www.culturecheesemag.com
Devil's Canyon Brewing Company
Elmer's
HomeGrown Village
FARM AID created HOMEGROWN.org to be a place where people connect to the land and to each other. It is a place where we can learn from each other, share our questions, and show off how we dig in the dirt, grow our own food, work with our hands, and cook and share our meals - all things that we call HOMEGROWN. Welcome. Join the conversation.
IBM
Laughing Squid
Founded by Scott Beale in 1995, Laughing Squid is a San Francisco based organization and website/blog focusing on art, culture and technology. Laughing Squid is also an independently owned and operated web host, providing dependable web hosting services to individuals, artists and bloggers.
Marketwire
Marketwire is a full service partner to public relations and marketing communications professionals seeking premiere news distribution, media management, multimedia, and monitoring solutions. The only fully integrated North America-based global newswire, Marketwire offers innovative products and services that help communication professionals maximize their effectiveness while ensuring accuracy and best practices.
Mollie Stone's Markets
Momentum Magazine
Momentum Magazine is a free transportation cycling magazine for North Americans. Momentum’s mission is to reflect the lives of people who ride bikes. Momentum provides urban cyclists with the inspiration, information and resources to fully enjoy their riding experience – and connects readers with their local and global cycling communities.
Ning
Ning lets you create and discover social networks for your interests and passions. With Ning's innovative, easy-to-use platform, you can make new friends, build connections and create a following around the experiences, activities and things that you love. Over one million individual social networks have been created on the Ning Platform since February 2007. Visit http://ning.com for more information.
Nokia
Nuts and Volts
Nuts and Volts is a monthly publication devoted exclusively to electronics topics such as circuit design, lasers, amateur robotics, computer control, home automation, microcontrollers, data acquisition, new technology, DIY projects, electronic theory, etc. Nuts and Volts is written for the hands-on hobbyist, design engineer, technician, and experimenter. The diversity of subjects appeals to all levels of experience but focuses more on the intermediate to advanced level reader.
O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazine, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-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.
San Francisco Bay Guardian
Since 1966, the San Francisco Bay Guardian has been printing the news and raising hell as the Bay Area's independent, locally-owned & edited newspaper. With fearless investigative reporting of local, national and international politics and issues; support of green and sustainable businesses and legislation; extensive arts & entertainment coverage; outrageous web content at sfbg.com; and the pioneering, annual "Best of the Bay" issue, the San Francisco Bay Guardian has become the nation's #1 independent alt-weekly.
San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking
SERVO
SERVO Magazine is a monthly publication for robot innovators at all levels of expertise. There are articles on getting started as well as forward thinking, component-level information on developing robotic systems. New products, events, DIY projects, reviews, hacks, and tutorials round out the editorial.
Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition
Secure Valet Bicycle Parking will be provided by the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition at this year's Maker Faire. The SVBC aims to make bicycling mainstream for both transportation and recreation. Bicycling is a key solution to the environmental, health, and social issues facing our communities. Their programs include Share the Road and Bike to Work Day, bicyclist education for both youth and adults, and the Bicycle Exchange, where rebuilt bikes are donated to needy families.
Silicon Valley Engineering Council
Slashdot
SourceForge.net
The Tech Museum of Innovation
Tech Challenge, The Tech Museum of Innovation’s annual team challenge for youth in Grades 5-12, introduces and reinforces the scientific process with a hands-on project geared to solve real world problems. Designed to provide months of scientific team learning and to provide multiple solutions, Tech Challenge is open to all students, inspiring future innovators. For more info go to www.thetech.org
Widwi
Yelp
