Sponsor Prospectus
CodeMash is making available a limited number of sponsorships to companies interested
in a rare opportunity to promote their company and its products & services to a
group of highly-motivated professionals.
Why does CodeMash Need Sponsors?
This event is being offered at a nominal charge to interested professionals. However,
an event like this is not cheap to organize. There are charges for food, facilities,
promotion & equipment. As a sponsor, you'll help to offset these costs, and in exchange,
get great exposure to a group of passionate, motivated professionals.
What's the Story Around CodeMash 2007's Attendees?
CodeMash 2007’s event was a resounding success. Nearly 300 attendees and sponsors
from over 75 different companies were at the event. Attendees were from a wide range
of platforms, disciplines, and roles.
The majority of attendees (50%) were developers; however, we also had developer
managers (12%), solutions and enterprise architects (totaling 20%), and web developers
(10%). The remaining attendees were systems engineers, DBAs, and other roles.
Attendees were involved with a staggering array of languages including C# (76%),
Java (54%), ASP.NET (51%), Ruby (50%), Python (26%), C++ (24%), and PHP (20%). A
few of the other listed languages included Perl, VB6, Lisp, and J#.
Satisfaction ratings on the event’s evaluations were all outstanding with 90% indicating
they were pleased with the content in the event’s sessions.
Perhaps the best indicator that CodeMash’s unique event goals were met was that
a staggering 79% of attendees indicated they learned something about a new technology
or platform.
What Was Some of the Buzz Around CodeMash 2007?
CodeMash 2007 generated a huge amount of interest in the blogosphere at both a regional
and national level. Over 500 blog entries about CodeMash were posted during the
event — resulting in two organizers shaving their heads after having challenged
attendees to spread the word!
A number of post-event blog posts validated the cross-discipline goal of the event:
“The best part of the conference is being able to get exposure to some of the topics
that are hot in the other languages. Many times we attend conferences specific to
our own core skills, but rarely get a chance to experience the other languages.
This conference provide just such an experience. I was able to build on my own core
set while learning more about .Net and Ruby.”-
Christopher Grant
“This idea is what I think the CodeMash coordinators intended, although maybe not
to this extreme. .NET and Java programmers do not have to work in isolation and
should not. They should strive to understand each other's ways to find that there
is probably an inter-locking of strengths and weaknesses in both tool sets that,
if not compatible with each other, at least teach one another lessons that make
both better. After years of skepticism a little rest and a great conference cleared
this up entirely for me.”
- Nick Watts
On the value of CodeMash compared to national events:
“Because of local events like ... CodeMash I'm not really feeling that I'm missing
anything by not going to any of the larger national and international conferences.
The Great Lakes region is really turning into a hotbed of .NET activity, not to
mention the Ruby, PHP, Python, and Java stuff represented at CodeMash and beyond.”
- Dan Hounshell