Midwest Drupal Camp (MidCamp) 2019 is the sixth annual Chicago-area event that brings together designers, developers, users, and evaluators of the open source Drupal content management software. Attendees come for four days of presentations, professional training, contribution sprints, and socials while brushing shoulders with Drupal service providers, hosting vendors, and other members of the broader web development community.
Organized by volunteers from the Midwest Drupal community, MidCamp features curated sessions and panel conversations by internationally-renowned web development and Drupal experts. MidCamp offers attendees the opportunity to increase their Drupal knowledge through networking, contribution sprints, training, and more.
Sponsoring MidCamp is a great way to promote your company, organization, or offerings while showing your support for Drupal and the Midwest’s Drupal community. It also is a great opportunity to connect with potential customers and recruit people.
Camp Highlights
- In Chicago's beautiful Lincoln Park neighborhood
- Accessibility-focused and Diversity-minded
- Sixth annual camp
- 200+ attendees
- Wednesday summits, training, and contribution sprints
- Thursday and Friday sessions
- Saturday contribution day
2018 Attendee Relationship with Drupal
- 35% Back-end developer
- 8% Business owner
- 13% Front-end developer
- 11% Project manager
- 11% Site builder
- 23% Other
Experience Level
- 18% Less than 1 year
- 17% 1 to 3 years
- 25% 3 to 6 years
- 41% More than 6 years
Attendees come from
- 60% Illinois
- 20% Greater Midwest
- 10% East Coast
- 5% West Coast
- 5% International
MidCamp offers a variety of sponsorship packages that are designed to provide improved exposure, greater flexibility, and more opportunities for companies and organizations to sponsor, regardless of budget.
MidCamp’s sponsorship packages are designed for flexibility. Whether you’re primarily interested in networking with attendees or just getting exposure for your brand, we have you covered. Additionally, at the bottom are our Custom and In-kind Sponsorships opportunities.
Available Sponsor Packages
Core Sponsor (limit 3 — SOLD OUT)
$3,000
Core sponsors have the highest access to all MidCamp attendees with a venue table on Thursday and Friday during sessions and a guaranteed session slot in our Sponsor track. So bring your best presentation, case study, product demo, or hour-long training, and we will provide you with a room and time slot.
At this level, sponsors will receive:
- A table at the venue
- Your logo and thanks in opening and closing sessions
- Your logo on sponsor banners at registration, by the classrooms and on the main stage
- Logo in prominent space in the program
- Logo in the footer of the midcamp.org website
- Company landing page and description on midcamp.org website
- Job board listings on midcamp.org website
- Ability to be included in an email to all attendees who checked “I'm interested in information about job opportunities” during registration.
- Inclusion of short description in one MidCamp email
- Logo in the footer of every email sent for MidCamp 2019
- Mentions in MidCamp’s social media channels
- 1 Presentation session slot
- Up to 6 tickets to camp
- 2 tickets to the Wednesday Sponsor Round Table
Contrib Sponsor (limit 6 — 3 remaining)
$1,500
Contrib sponsors can reach MidCamp attendees with a venue table on Thursday and Friday during sessions, your company’s brand on banners at the conference venue, your logo in the program, on the website and mentions in social media.
At this level, sponsors will receive:
- A table at the venue
- Logo on sponsor banners at registration and by the classrooms
- Logo in program
- Company logo on midcamp.org website linked to own site
- Job board listings on midcamp.org website
- Ability to be included in an email to all attendees who checked “I'm interested in information about job opportunities” during registration.
- Mentions in MidCamp’s social media channels
- Up to 4 tickets to camp
- 2 tickets to the Wednesday Sponsor Round Table
Supporting Sponsor (unlimited)
$600
Supporting sponsors can reach MidCamp attendees via banners at the conference venue, logo in the program, on the website and mentions in social media.
At this level, sponsors will receive:
- Your logo on sponsor banners at registration
- Logo in program
- Company logo on midcamp.org website linked to own site
- Job board listings on midcamp.org website
- Up to 2 tickets to camp
- 1 ticket to the Wednesday Sponsor Round Table
Contribution Day Sponsor (unlimited)
$600
MidCamp Contribution Day is where community leaders, newcomers, and everyone in between attend to work on Drupal code and documentation and give back to the Drupal project and community. Contribution Day officially takes place space on Saturday, but space is also available all camp days.
At this level, sponsors will receive:
- Your logo on Contribution Day room signage
- Company logo on midcamp.org website linked to own site
- Job board listings on midcamp.org website
- Option to help staff registration desk on Contribution Day to reach out to attendees personally
Party Sponsor (limit 2 — 1 remaining)
$2,500
Party time! We have the opportunity to network, socialize, and enjoy the company of the Chicago and Midwest Drupal community at two different social events.
[SOLD] On Thursday night, we will have an on-site game night event. This has always been a big hit with the community to offer at least one low-key, alcohol-free event for all to attend. Historically, we have been able to get a food truck come to feed all the hungry gamers!
On Friday night, we will have an off-site closing party at a nearby establishment in Lincoln Park.
At this level, sponsors will receive:
- A table at the venue
- Your logo and mentions in opening and closing sessions before your party night
- Signage at the party
- Company logo on midcamp.org website linked to own site
- Job board listings on midcamp.org website
- Inclusion in emails when the party is mentioned
- Up to 4 tickets to camp
- 2 tickets to the Wednesday Sponsor Round Table
Custom and In-kind Sponsorships
In addition to these packages, custom and in-kind sponsorship opportunities are available. Do you have a product, service that you would like to offer MidCamp attendees? Contact us at [email protected] and we will work with you to customize a sponsorship. In order to list your in-kind sponsorship on the site and in print materials, we generally ask that the value of the sponsorship be at least as much as our minimum sponsor level.
Job Board Posting
For companies who are unable to attend camp or aren’t looking for full benefits of sponsorship we offer, we want to give you the chance to spread the word about your company. For $350 you can get access to post up to 3 jobs on our Job Board, targeting our audience of experienced web professionals from Chicagoland and beyond. MidCamp attracts Front End Developers, Engineers, Team Leads, Project Managers, Designers, and more. Over 50% of our audience have 3 or more years experience in the field. We promote the board before camp on social media and during camp during all of our announcements. To get started, email [email protected].
Midwest Drupal Camp (MidCamp) is supported via fiscal sponsorship from Midwest Open Source Alliance, a federal 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization.
