We want to thank the companies and organisations that help us make the Perl QA Hackathon 2012.
Our partners
The City of Science and Industry was established by the Decree of 18 February 1985 amended in July 1998 and October 2004. The decree of 24 February 2006 was given a new status. This is a public national à caractère industriel et commercial (EPIC) under the supervision of the ministers responsible for culture and research. It was opened on 13 March 1986. The institution's mission is to "make available to all public scientific, technical and industrial, as well as present social issues related to their development. It contributes to the dissemination in France and abroad."
» http://www.cite-sciences.fr/
Our corporate sponsors
Diablocom
Diabolocom was created in 2005 by professionals from the Telecommunications and IT industries to offer medium and large companies innovating Online, Internet and Voice Services at the very highest levels of availability. As a software editor, a telecom operator and a leading provider of managed hosting solutions, Diabolocom provides on-demand (cloud-based) state of the art solutions for advanced Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and Multichannel Contact Centers.
Dijkmat
Dijkmat BV was founded in January 2000 by Elizabeth Mattijsen and Wendy GA van Dijk. Dijkmat has years of experience in the development of programming toolkits and interactive websites, supported by the corresponding knowledge and experience in project management, personnel management, design, marketing, sales, administration and systems management. Dijkmat works with Perl and C, and is a proud supporter of open source. Dijkmat is a regular sponsor of Perl conferences, and has made a large number of Elizabeth Mattijsen's modules available on CPAN.
DDG
DuckDuckGo is a general purpose search engine, primarily written in Perl. DDG offers way more instant answers, way less spam/clutter and real privacy. DuckDuckGo has been giving back to open source, and we're proud to include them as our sponsor for the Perl QA Hackathon 2012. A growing portion of DDG itself is open, including user-contributed Perl goodies.
DYN
Dyn is built upon open source software and as such believes in the importance of contributing back to open source communities. Dyn does so by sponsoring conferences where the communities can grow and thrive, and donating money, services, and resources to open source projects. Dyn also encourages its employees to create, test, and improve upon open source projects that they have interest in.
Founded in 1998, Dyn
To learn more about Dyn, follow us on twitter (Twitter.com/dyninc)
Freeside Internet Services, Inc.
Freeside is the premier open-source billing, trouble ticketing, network monitoring and provisioning software for ISPs, WISPs, VoIP providers and other online businesses. Freeside Internet Services offers turnkey billing appliances, installation service and custom billing solutions.
Hedera Technology
Hedera Technology is the European’s largest pure-play Private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider in the Cloud Computing domain specializing in IT Intelligence Management Software Solutions.
Kanopya, is the first and only solution that bridges the gap between SLA driven applications and the underlying infrastructure while maintaining user experience quality of service. Kanopya accelerates the ultimate transition to a cloud infrastructure while preserving existing investments and minimizing capex costs, maximizing operational efficiency and reliability.
For more information, please visit:
Jaguar Network
Jaguar Network is a French & Swiss network operator founded in 2001 in Marseille (France). Our main target is providing small & medium business IP connectivity, IP/MPLS VPN, colocation with housing services and value added web hosting (servers, storage, managed IT services, ...) in more than 28 facilities across Europe.
Jaguar Network is building a powerful and resilient optical fiber network in Europe to provide high speed and redundant access for all the services provided. Developing its own label known as "THD" (Très Haute Disponibilité), Jaguar Network focuses on quality and proximity with its customers in order to bring valued services to our customers.
» http://www.jaguar-network.com/
Shadowcat
Shadowcat Systems is a developer, sponsor of, and contributor to open source software projects including Catalyst, Moose, Moo, Tak, Devel::Declare and DBIx::Class. Shadowcat provides consultancy, training and support for these projects and for most of CPAN; systems management and automation; the design and implementation of network architecture; the development of proprietary and open source custom web applications; and offers Perl refactoring and project crisis management.
Shadowcat Systems are based in the United Kingdom but we deliver solutions to a global community of clients via onsite supervision along with traditional and internet based communications.
SPLIO
Splio assists its clients in creating and managing multichannel marketing strategies for prospects and customers.
For 10 years, Splio has been renowned for its innovating solutions dedicated to the marketing managers (CRM and eCRM, email and SMS marketing, loyalty programs). Splio distinguishes itself by its ability to deliver functionnal SaaS platforms, available on internet and customized specifically for each client.
Splio's expertise is now available in China, Italy, Spain, France and Brazil. All the products are designed and developed in the headquarters located near Paris.
TECLIB'
TECLIB' is an IT service and computer consultancy company specializing in open source technologies.
We are based in Paris and have offices in Chartres, Colmar and Montpellier
for a total of 16 employees.
Specialized in Free Open Source solutions, TECLIB' supports its clients
from the simple integration of a free software to complete outsourcing of
its IT, also providing expertise on specific developments.
We also have a training department that helps our clients acquiring
perfect knowledge of our solutions.
Our company is a regular contributor to the activity of free and open source communities by providing free code developed within TECLIB'.
For more information:
weborama
Founded in 1998, weborama is one of Europe’s pioneers in online Marketing technologies. The company develops its own audience measurement, adserving and behavioral targeting tools in order to optimize its clients’ campaigns’ performances. weborama also pays special attention to web users’ privacy and therefore all the data collected is anonymous.
The heart of the company’s products (data collection and consolidation) is built on an architecture hinged on free software systems and in particular the Perl programming language. Several among the products’ web interfaces are created using the Ruby on Rails framework. The technical platform’s architecture is based on Apache web server, MySQL database engine and Linux operating system.
weborama builds all of its products with free software programs and stays up-to-date concerning the open-source market and its actors.
Our community sponsors
EPO
Enlightened Perl is a membership organization within the Perl community, It has goals that are complementary to the Perl Foundation. Specifically, we support many Perl development efforts that ensure Perl's future as an enterprise-grade development platform.
The EPO helps to manage many Perl projects, competitions, initiatives and conferences. Lending business aid, advice and management services on a not-for-profit basis. All donations and membership fees are used in direct support of community projects.
The EPO have been providing banking and organisation facilities for the London Perl Workshop for 2009-11, for Dynamic Languages Conference in 2010, have provided sponsorship and organisation of the Send-A-Newbie program since 2009, and have sponsored the QA Hackathon since 2011.
» http://www.enlightenedperl.org/
$foo Magazin
$foo is the first German Perl magazine dedicated to Perl. It is published every three months and can be purchased as PDF or printed.
You can read workshops about topics as Perl 6 or WxPerl, tutorials about Moose and many more. There are 6 CPAN modules introduced with a short abstract each issue.
Mongueurs de Perl
The French Perl Mongers is a non-profit association whose main goal is to promote Perl in French speaking events. It organizes events such as the Journées Perl (French Perl Workshop) and the French Open Source Developer Conference (OSDC.fr).
It also sponsors Perl projects like Dancer, Fusion Inventory, and... this Perl QA Hackathon.