Update, August 20: After some more sponsors have come forward (thank you!), Drupalcon Szeged now needs about €10,000 of new sponsorship to meet costs.

Looking for a way to show your support for Drupal? Easy: sponsor the upcoming European Drupalcon. You'll be helping to fund critically important work--and increasing your exposure and profile in the community at the same time.

Drupalcon sponsorship: mainstay of the Drupal Association

Drupalcon is the single largest source of revenue for the Drupal Association, the non-profit that supports Drupal. Sponsorship revenues make it possible for us to tackle key Association priorities, from protecting the legal integrity of the Drupal codebase to improving the infrastructure driving drupal.org.

Revenue from past Drupalcons is directly funding pressing projects like our top priority this year: improving the drupal.org website. Sponsoring Drupalcon is a direct and concrete way to financially support the Association's work.

Profile and Benefits

Sponsoring Drupalcon is not just a way to support important work promoting the Drupal platform. It's also an opportunity for exposure and profile in the Drupal community.

The registration list for Drupalcon Szeged already includes top talent in the Drupal development community as well as many up and coming adopters, coders, and contributors.

The sponsorship packages are designed to get your company's name out there, even if you can't attend the conference yourself. If you can attend, you'll have direct opportunities to meet and connect with the cream of the Drupal community.

If you're ever in need of Drupal talent, or if you need to connect and collaborate with other Drupal players, extra connections and profile can't hurt.

Company sponsors

Does your company or organization rely on Drupal? Do you ever find yourself saying, "I wish there was a way we could give back and secure our investment in Drupal by helping make sure the Drupal platform continues to grow and thrive?"

There is. Sponsor Drupalcon.

Drupalcon itself plays a key role in promoting and expanding the Drupal platform. It brings together Drupal talent to tackle key problems with the effectiveness that only face to face meetings can provide. It renews the Drupal talent pool by bringing whole new contingents of Drupal users and contributors quickly up to speed.

Glance through the program. You'll find sessions that tackle pretty much all the priority problems and areas in Drupal development and expansion. If your company relies on Drupal, you need Drupalcon Szeged.

Individual sponsors

As well as the company sponsorship packages, there are also individual sponsorships. Do you make your living with Drupal? Do you want a chance get recognition and give back--as a business expense? Consider signing up as an individual sponsor. Ditto for companies. If for whatever reason your company can't swing a sponsorship package, consider an individual sponsorship as a fallback. It all adds up.

The low down on Szeged finances

The Drupalcon Szeged organizers put together valuable institutional and media partnerships, keeping overall prices down, particularly for the facility.

Drupalcon attendance fees are kept purposely low to encourage the broadest participation. That means we rely mainly on sponsorships to cover costs and generate revenue.

And so far we don't have enough sponsorships even to cover the costs. As things stand, the Drupal Association could be out as much as €17,000.

All of which is to say: if you haven't yet talked to your company about sponsoring Drupalcon Szeged, now's the time. Sponsorship packages start at €1,000. If you've pegged your future on Drupal, it's a sensible investment.

Find out more and sign up.