Sponsors

We are looking for sponsors. Please contact us (yapc-sponsors@mongueurs.net) for information about how you can help support YAPC Paris 2003. Much of the necessary funding for YAPC comes from the generous donations of our sponsors.

We would like to thank all our sponsors for their help and confidence. By order of appearance:

Le Monde en Tique	Pearson	Alixen	O'Reilly France
Fotango	ActiveState	Michel Rodriguez	i-technology
Nerim	Linux Magazine France	Planète LINUX

Please allow us to introduce our sponsors in more detail:

	Few bookshops can match the bookshop "le Monde en Tique", founded in 1987, in terms of its coverage of computing and scientific publishing. More than 75000 titles, in French and English, are available on their web site. http://www.lmet.fr/
	Pearson Technology Group includes the publishing industry's leading imprints for authoritative technical and professional information at the cutting edge. Pearson PTG imprints include Addison-Wesley Professional, Adobe Press, Cisco Press, New Riders Publishing, Peachpit Press, Que Publishing, Prentice Hall PTR, and Sams Publishing and Pearson also distributes Manning books in Europe. PTG publishes about 1000 new titles each year from reknowned authors such as Tanenbaum, Stroustrup, Kernighan, Eckel, Fowler... http://www.pearsonptg.com/
	Alixen specialises in the study, realisation, deployement and maintenance of computer and network infrastructure based on open source software. We are involved in the development of open source software in France and worldwide, throughout our active participation to projects such as Mioga, Debian, Catalog, Webbase and Mifluz. http://www.alixen.fr/
	O'Reilly & Associates is the premier information source for leading-edge computer technologies. The company's books, conferences, and web sites bring to light the knowledge of technology innovators. O'Reilly books, known for the animals on their covers, occupy a treasured place on the shelves of the developers building the next generation of software. http://www.oreilly.fr/
	Fotango is a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon Europe NV that provides creative design, development, and systems administration solutions to both Canon and other organizations. Fotango software relies heavily on tools that other people have built, and Fotango has a policy of releasing much of its software under a license compatible with the OSI (Open Source Initiative). http://opensource.fotango.com/
	ActiveState is the leading provider of software solutions that increase productivity and organizational efficiency through the innovative use of open source technology. Additional information on ActiveState's industrial strength anti-spam software for enterprises and programming tools for open source language developers is available at: http://www.activestate.com/
	Michel Rodriguez is a Perl and XML consultant. He has been involved in all sorts of SGML/XML endeavors in the last 10 years, and is the developper of the XML::Twig Perl module. He has been using Perl for the past 7 years and he is still amazed at how much fun it brought back into programming. http://www.xmltwig.com/
	i-technology creates software for the intra/extra/internet of entreprises. Development, sales, installation of operational solutions, notably: workflow, on-line sales, content management, portals, complex forms and fax-sms-voice-email gateways. Entreprise consulting on Linux and open source environments. http://www.i-technology.fr/
	NERIM is an xDSL Internet Service Provider specialising in small and medium-size businesses, home users with heavy internet usage. NERIM is a high-quality ISP, providing hosting, personal pages and e-mail services. http://www.nerim.fr/
	Linux Magazine France, the French magazine 100% GNU/Linux. Each month providing the news of the Free Software world, reports and interviews, technical articles concerning system and network administration, development, graphics... The technical reference of the French Linux world! http://www.linuxmag-france.org/
	Planète LINUX, a magazine for Linux users. Every two months, discover the distribution of the month and a lot of Free Software for Linux. Not forgetting the regular columns: software tests, applications, development, games, tips & tricks that help everyone progress in using Linux. http://www.dppresse.com/pl.htm