Rails Underground: Sponsor Rails Underground '09!

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Thank you for your interest in our conference. Your sponsorship will provide an excellent opportunity to reach out to hundreds of highly motivated Ruby, Rails, and IT professionals, managers and business leaders.
Before the event begins, we will be providing information to delegates and interested parties on our web site, and following up with supplementary materials and videos once the conference is complete.
Your support will also help us attract the best speakers, improve the facilities available, and help us gain more delegates, for which we are extremely grateful.
Our conference is targeted at two main audiences:

Professional Rails developers who want to learn about best practices, the latest techniques and upcoming developments.
IT professionals who are curious about Rails, and want to learn what makes Rails such a great development platform.

The event will be a two day conference, with a great line-up of speakers and keynotes. We will have a combination of talks about cutting edge rails techniques and developments, along with some of rails 'evangelism' - talks showcasing the best of rails, and what makes it such a great framework.
We are also planning a panel Q&A / discussion session and hoping to arrange a tutorial day and some evening social events.

The three main themes of the conference are:

The latest techniques, idioms, best practices and upcoming developments in Ruby & Rails.
Managing deployment, scaling, performance monitoring, and how to handle a growing user base effectively.
The best features of Ruby & Rails - a showcase of its power, flexibility, ease of use, and the business case for choosing Rails for your next project.

Our sponsorship programme is as follows:

Platinum Sponsorship £3,000

3 Conference Passes
Full page ad in conference programme
Company name and logo on t-shirt
300 word description in programme
Priority for ID tag sponsorship, and 20% discount
Prominent display on conference web site
Link displayed in e-mail newsletters
Exhibit table in main hall
Flyer handout in delegate pack (supplied by sponsor)
Banner on main stage (supplied by sponsor)

Gold Sponsorship £1,500

2 Conference Passes
Half page ad in conference programme
150 word description in programme
Company name and logo on t-shirt
Logo and link on conference web site
50% discount off exhibit table in main hall
Flyer handout in delegate pack (supplied by sponsor)
Freebie novelty in delegate pack (supplied by sponsor)
Banner on main stage (supplied by sponsor)

Silver Sponsorship £750

1 Conference Pass
100 word description in programme
Prominent display on conference web site
20% discount on exhibit table in main hall
Flier handout in delegate pack (supplied by sponsor)

Bronze Sponsorship £375

70 word description in programme
Logo and link on conference web site

Other Sponsorship Opportunities

Sponsor a speaker

We would really like to attract the best speakers and keynotes from across the globe. It may be possible to sponsor a speaker to encourage their attendance. Please for more details.

Sponsor a video presentation

We are hoping to provide videos of conference presentations where possible, to be published after the event. These can be expensive to produce and edit. Sponsor a video presentation, and your logo will appear at the start and finish of the presentation. Please for more details.

Tutorial Sponsorship

We are currently investigating the possibility of holding a tutorial session preceding the conference. Hopefully, there will be a charity event, but details have not been finalised yet. for more details.