Code4Lib would love your support to help us run our big annual conference! Being an autonomous group of professionals with no organizational umbrella, we are an experiment in community-driven organizing and the generosity of others. In addition to moving technology forward in libraries, archives, and museums, the visibility you get from sponsoring at Code4Lib can generate sales, spark interest, inspire, and delight our attendees. If you're ready to make a pledge, or have more questions, get in touch with Shaun Ellis.
Code4Lib is a core community of developers and technologists for libraries, museums, and archives who have a strong commitment to open technologies. Code4Lib began as a simple mailing list in 2003 and held its first face-to-face meeting in 2005 in Chicago. The first official annual conference was held in 2006 in Corvallis, Oregon. Code4Lib is dedicated to being a diverse and inclusive community seeking to share ideas and build collaboration.
The Code4Lib 2016 conference, held at the Society Hill Sheraton from March 7-10, presents an opportunity for vendors, organizations, libraries, and projects to show their support for open and collaborative solutions for higher education, libraries, museums, and archives through attending the conference and providing financial sponsorship. Each year, the Code4Lib conference helps revitalize the community as participants meet in person to discuss new and ongoing projects in a single-track format with 20-minute presentations and 5-minute lightning talks. Volunteer-led pre-conference programs provide in-depth participatory learning experiences for participants while ad-hoc afternoon breakout sessions focus on collaboration around specific topics of interest.
11th Annual Conference hosted this year in the historic Old City district of Philadelphia.
Web, Systems, and Information professionals in the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) domain.
Our numbers have grown quickly in recent years. We have doubled our numbers since 2012 and this year we expect around 425 attendees.
A gender diverse conference with approximately 40% women attendees.
Open source, open source, open source. Ever-growing focus on inter-organizational collaboration and shared standards.
Sponsorship Levels help bring down registration costs and affect the quality of the conference experience in a positive way. These opportunities are typically the most visible to the widest audience. Please note: Larger, in-kind contributions for which equivalent monetary value is easy to determine will be considered for Sponsorship Badges of Distinction opportunities found below.
$7500 and above
$5000 - $7499
$2500 - $4999
$1000 - $2499
$250 - $999
Under $250 or non-monetary
Tuesday night reception at a local institution. Sponsorship provides food and drinks while attendees socialize and network. Benefits include:
Tables located just outside the main ballroom provide organizations, projects, and vendors a chance to interact with the code4lib community on-site, and visibility throughout the conference. Participants will be able to visit tables during the morning and afternoon breaks, lunches, breakout sessions, and immediately following daily sessions. This sponsorship is an add on feature that can be combined.
A live webcast and recording of the code4lib Conference is provided to ensure the entire community can participate. Sponsor benefits will include:
These scholarships provide travel costs and conference fees for qualified applicants from groups typically underrepresented at the conference, including women, transgendered people, and minority ethnic and racial groups. Applicants must be interested in actively contributing to the mission and goals of the code4lib conference. Scholarship benefits will include:
Help keep our attendees fed, hydrated and caffeinated with a diverse range of good food and beverages to keep the conference energy levels going strong. Sponsor benefits include:
To facilitate universal participation and access to conference content, real-time live transcription and closed captioning of all presentations, lightning talks, and announcements from the podium at the annual Code4Lib conference will be included with the webstream and in-person, along with full transcription after the fact to accompany recordings.
On-site childcare is provided at the code4lib Conference to make it possible for working parents to attend and fully participate. This sponsorship helps to offset the cost of childcare that the attendee using the service will have to pay. Sponsor Benefits include:
If you would like to pledge your support at any level, or have questions about sponsorship, feel free to email or call (609-258-1698) Shaun Ellis, chair of the Code4Lib 2016 Sponsorship Committee.