Sponsorship Prospectus
Help us support CakePHP and bring this event to a diverse and vibrant worldwide community. Your sponsorship helps keep CakeFest affordable and accessible to the widest possible audience.
Event Profile
- Event Organizer: Cake Software Foundation (http://cakefoundation.org)
- Estimated Attendance: 150-200 (not including live streaming)
- Audience Profile: Web Developers, Technologists, CTOs, Managers and Entrepreneurs
- Subject Matter: CakePHP, plugins, development environments, deployment techniques, third party integrations, APIs and web services, server architectures, caching and performance
- Conference Schedule: 2 days of workshops followed by 2 days of conference
About CakeFest
CakeFest is the official conference dedicated to the CakePHP framework and related technologies for our global community.
Held annually and spanning 4 days, our event is primarily organized for developers, managers and community organizers from around the world, who bring together a unique collection of skill, talent and love for the CakePHP framework.
During the first 2 days we offer developer workshops and courses run by members of the CakePHP core team, targeted at beginners as well as the intermediate to advanced groups of users.
The following 2 days over the weekend are the conference, with presentations, discussions and talks given by core developers and influential members of the global CakePHP community on a wide range of interesting topics. We also include a range of activities, such as lightning talks, core team Q&A, the Hour of Contribution and a raffle.
About CakePHP
Released in 2005 as an open source framework, CakePHP quickly established itself as a strong contender among the available solutions for rapid application development with PHP. Since then, it's become one of the major PHP frameworks, and by far the most popular for developers around the world.
The following are some key details regarding the project:
- Maintained for over 10 years, with more than 130 releases to date
- Some 300 open source contributors to the project, and 370 to the docs
- Ranked by popularity in the top 5 of 160,000+ projects for PHP on GitHub
- Over 8 million visitors and 30 million page views of the CakePHP websites
- Support from major platforms, such as Windows Azure, Rackspace, Amazon and RedHat
- More than 15,000 likes on Facebook, and over 13,000 followers on Twitter
Opportunities Available
The following are the sponsorship packages available for this year's event in . Please contact us for more information or custom sponsorship options. We're flexible about providing the sponsorship package that will fulfill your business needs.
