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Founding Sponsors

Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, honing in on the technology trends that really matter and galvanizing their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.

For over 10 years, CatalystIT has been providing Open Source solutions to their clients. The company’s success builds on the ethos that working together, collaboratively and collegially, they can achieve far more for their clients than would otherwise be the case. CatalystIT has a demonstrated track record in supporting open standards and open source technologies. They are a major supporter of the New Zealand Open Source Awards which this year included an Open Science category. Silver Sponsors

The Centre for Brain Research - Rangahau Te Roro Me Te Hinengaro at the University of Auckland is a unique partnership between scientists, doctors and the community. Established in 2009, the Centre excels in world class neuroscience research carried out by cross-faculty research teams, alongside clinical collaborations with leading neurologists, neurosurgeons and physicians in the Auckland Region.

Symplectic is a leading developer of integrated research information management systems. Founded in 2003, Symplectic’s flagship product Elements is used by thousands of researchers, repository managers and librarians at some of the world’s top universities including: Oxford, Cambridge and Duke.

Google was born in Stanford's Computer Science department and the company has always maintained and valued strong relations with universities and research institutes. We run a variety of programs that provide funding and resources to the academic and external research community. Google, in turn, learns from the community through exposure to a broader set of ideas and approaches. The New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI) accelerates research by providing access to vastly superior computing power, data storage and expertise. NeSI provides the New Zealand research community with supercomputers to help find answers to the world's toughest scientific problems.Bronze Sponsors

DigitalNZ is committed to making New Zealand's digital content from libraries, museums, government departments, publicly funded organisations, the private sector and community groups easy to find, share and reuse. Their site provides access to over 25 million digital items contributed from partners such as Te Papa, the Alexander Turnbull Library, Auckland Art Gallery, Te Ara, NZ On Screen and many more. DigitalNZ recognises the need to create and digitise New Zealand content so we can stay connected to our own creative and cultural Heritage.

Open New Zealand is a community of practice and an advocacy group focused on open and transparent government. Open NZ develops and hosts projects around transparency, participatory democracy, other initiatives that make central and local government data and information more useful to citizens and businesses. Endorsed by

CC-ANZ are the kaitiaki of the New Zealand Creative Commons licences that enable the sharing of copyright material in Aotearoa. They play a crucial role in an international movement toward open access licencing.Friends of ORC

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Sponsorship Packages

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