Expo Hall
We will be having an Expo Hall again at this year's PyCon 2010 in Atlanta!
Sponsor booths will be open during exhibit hall hours, and it will also be open during certain meal times. There is also a lounge area just outside the expo hall.
Many of the exhibitors have indicated that they will be recruiting to fill open positions on their staff, so bring your resumés!
We are very grateful to our generous sponsors and vendors that make PyCon possible. Please visit them in the Expo Hall and show your support!
Schedule
Expo hall open hours:
| Friday, Feb 19: | 10:00am - 4:45pm |
| Saturday, Feb 20: | 10:00am - 4:45pm |
Exhibitor floor move:
| IN: Thu Feb 18: | 12:00n - 5:00pm |
| IN: Fri Feb 19: | 7:00am – 10:00am |
| OUT: Sat Feb 20: | 4:45pm - 6:45pm |
Exhibitors
Diamond Sponsor
Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google's targeted advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit www.google.com
Platinum Sponsor
CCP
We are an independent game developer/publisher founded in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1997. CCP’s international reach now spans the globe with offices in Atlanta, Shanghai and Newcastle as well as a base of operations in London. CCP employees are brilliant individuals, and are the sole reason for our success. They carry us forward with professionalism, ingenuity and pride.
We are enablers of human interactions. We attract people who seek meaningful, compelling experiences: those which will persist in their own memory, and in the minds of those they have interacted with in the virtual world that we provide. We use persistent world technology to create new social networks and build them up in a virtual context. We are changing the world by providing a mirror reality which empowers individuals by removing all barriers to ego, self-expression, collaboration, and outreach.
We are committed to upholding our social responsibility to the communities that we operate within. Through our sponsorship of the Python Software Foundation and direct involvement with the open source community through the StacklessIO input-output framework, we endeavor to do our part to encourage the creative energy from which CCP itself has benefitted.
We are CCP. We care more, we work harder.
Gold Sponsors
ActiveState
ActiveState, established in 1997, is a company of smart people who create and provide solutions, services, tools, and resources for corporations and developers who use dynamic languages. We focus on professional business solutions, developer tools, and community tools for Perl, Python, Tcl, and web development technologies (like PHP, Ruby, and JavaScript, plus CSS, HTML, and XML).
We are firmly rooted in the open source community as supporters and contributors. Our open source language distributions are renowned for their quality and are relied upon by millions of developers worldwide. ActivePerl, ActivePython and ActiveTcl enable programmers to develop across platforms and are provided free to the community.
Canonical
Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, Bazaar and Launchpad, is proud to use Python. Canonical is committed to the development, distribution and support of open-source software products and communities. World-class commercial support for both Ubuntu and Bazaar is available through Canonical’s global support team and partners.
Walt Disney Animation Studios
Walt Disney Animation Studios brings imagination to life through traditional and computer animated films through passion is to create beautiful and timeless films through the art of storytelling, the magic of animation and the science of cutting edge technology. Our Filmmaker driven studio inspires a multi-discipline team to explore and innovate traditional animation and CG films, shorts and special projects. Walt Disney Animation Studios is located in Burbank, California. www.disneyanimation.com
ESRI
ESRI's geographic information system (GIS) software gives you the power to think and plan geographically. GIS is used in more than 350,000 organizations worldwide. It helps cities, governments, universities, and Fortune 500 companies save money, lives, and our environment. Whether transporting ethanol or studying landslides, these organizations use GIS to collect, manage, and analyze geographic information, which helps them see relationships, patterns, and trends. They can then solve problems and make better decisions because they are looking at their data in a way that is quickly understood and easily shared.
Microsoft
IronPython is an open-source implementation of Python which is integrated with the .NET Framework.
Python is an excellent addition to the .NET Framework, providing Python developers with the power of the .NET framework. Existing .NET developers can also use IronPython as a fast and expressive scripting language for embedding, testing, or writing a new application from scratch.
The CLR is a great platform for creating programming languages, and the DLR makes it all the more better for dynamic languages. Also, the .NET framework gives an amazing amount of functionality and power to developers.
For more information, visit http://ironpython.net.
Net-ng
As a specialist of Open Source technologies and Python expert, Net-ng will come up with highly innovative web-based applications. Our expertise covers all types of services, whether you have an editorial website, a full Content Management System, an online shop or a more complex web-based application interfaced with your Information Systems. We also developed skills to design and manage social and collaborative networks and web2.0 oriented interfaces. Our knowledge, coupled with agile practices and topped with a strong experience on peripheral issues (such as hosting, Search Engine Optimizations, User Interface, ergonomy, tec.) allow us to carry out high scalability and high availability projects.
Net-ng is editor of Nagare (www.nagare.org), an Open-Source framework under the BSD license entirely dedicated to web applications development in Python. It has been already deployed for large corporate companies industrials projects.
If you’d like to meet Net-ng guys at the conference, please come by the Net-ng booth (#120) in the Expo hall.
The Rackspace Cloud
The Rackspace Cloud provides on-demand scalable website, application, and storage hosting backed by Fanatical Support®. Through its suite of cloud solutions, Cloud Sites™, Cloud Files™ and Cloud Servers™, The Rackspace Cloud enables astute developers and IT managers to minimize the hassles, upfront investments, and high costs associated with dedicated hardware while offering the ability to easily scale hosting resources. For more information about The Rackspace Cloud, visit www.rackspacecloud.com.
Sauce Labs
Co-founded by the original creator of Selenium, Sauce Labs provides a cloud service that allows users to execute their Selenium scripts in parallel in a wide variety of browsers. The result is continuous integration and deployment of your Selenium test scripts, without the time and heartache of setting up and maintaining test infrastructure. Our cloud service is written almost exclusively in python, and makes heavy use of Twisted with a Diesel-like, generator-based concurrency mechanism. We provide tiered Selenium Support Services and offer open source value-added Selenium distributions. For more information, please visit http://saucelabs.com
White Oak Technologies, Inc.
White Oak Technologies, Inc. (WOTI) is not your ordinary software company. WOTI’s government and commercial customers have learned through years of experience that there in only one place to turn when they have mission critical, large scale, information intensive problems in need of a truly high-performance custom solution. That place is WOTI and its industry-leading expert staff. One of the key factors that differentiates WOTI from its competitors is Python. Python has been part of WOTI’s history and growth strategy dating back to 2001 and with it, WOTI’s future couldn’t be brighter! Visit us at http://www.woti.com/jobs.
Silver Sponsors
Accense Technology, Inc.
Accense Technology Inc, based in Tokyo/Japan, is a software firm specialized in network server technology. Its principal business is to provide RADIUS protocol based software with high performance and reliablity. Visit http://accense.com/ for more information. Hiring information is also available at http://omake.accense.com/wiki/Recruit.
Breadpig
Breadpig is the hub for a wide variety of geeky ideas and designs - many of them for sale, others simply for our own amusement. Breadpig, Inc. was founded with the purpose of being an uncorporation. Rather than following the typical corporate directive of maximizing shareholder wealth, breadpig aims to do interesting (good) things with its profits. Don't tell our shareholders.
Emma
Emma is a Web-based email marketing and communications service helping more than 25,000 small and midsize businesses, agencies and designers manage their email campaigns and online surveys in style. Learn more about Emma’s unique culture and open source job openings in Nashville, TN and Portland, OR at myemma.com/workhere.
Enthought, Inc.
Enthought is a scientific computing company based in Austin, TX. Founded in 2001, we use Python to develop custom applications. We also offer Python training classes and the Enthought Python Distribution (EPD) with over 75 libraries and tools. Our company co-sponsors the annual SciPy Conference for using Python in science and fosters the development of the SciPy scientific library. We are excited to continue to support PyCon.
HiiDef
HiiDef is a web services incubator founded in 2008. We own and operate Superkix, Flavors.me and Goodsie. Our team has a strong track record in the consumer Internet sector with experience from Vimeo, Digg, Meetup, Zend, IAC, Pentagram and Digitalmash. We are a distributed team based around the East Coast of the US.
Imaginary Landscape
Imaginary Landscape is a Python Web development firm. Since 1995, our multidisciplinary staff has created a rich assortment of Websites and Python-based applications. Drop by our booth and let’s talk about we can supplement your team. http://www.chicagopython.com
Visual Numerics, Inc.
Visual Numerics(r) has provided advanced analytics and expert consulting services to technical, business and scientific communities worldwide since 1970. The comprehensive numerical analysis capabilities in the IMSL(r) Numerical Libraries are available to developers in C, C# for .NET, Java, Fortran and Python. The PV-WAVE Family of products provides engineers with powerful tools to efficiently and rapidly import, manipulate, analyze and visualize data. Learn more >> www.vni.com
Wingware
Wingware's integrated development environment is designed specifically for programmers working with the Python programming language. It features powerful code intelligence, testing, and debugging capabilities for web, GUI, and script development. Wing IDE works with Zope, Plone, Django, Turbogears, Google App Engine, wxPython, PyQt, PyGtk, TkInter, pygame, and many other packages.




























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Socialserve.com
Socialserve.com is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization creating software solutions that increase access to affordable housing across the nation. Providing cost-effective solutions so human-resources professionals can invest their dollars in people in need. Established in 1999, Socialserve.com is located in a trendy neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is hiring Python developers with PostgreSQL experience. Socialserve.com boasts a dog-friendly, open work environment. Write good code. Write code for good.