As anyone who was present at this year's European Ruby Conference, EURUKO 2008, will attest: it was a great event! Over 300 Rubyists from all over Europe (and the world, with attendees from Japan, Australia and the US too) got together to talk, drink, and be merry.

The level of attendance came as a shock to the organizers, but they dealt with it excellently and put on a great event for all of us. Thanks must go to the CSRUG (Czechoslovakian Ruby Users' Group) and its chairman Jiří Kubíček, along with Karel Minařík who played a big role. The Faculty of Philosophy and Arts at Charles University, Prague, also deserves a massive mention for providing such a great venue.

With a (very) minor role in helping to organize the conference, I post on Ruby Inside to thank the sponsors who helped make the event such a success. Their contributions enabled us all to get a pretty cool t-shirt (designed by Thomas Fuchs, of script.aculo.us fame), a Ruby notepad, and lots of other swag.

Platinum Sponsor - Sun Microsystems

You know who Sun are! They're the creators and innovators behind lots of different technologies, both online and offline, software and hardware. They're best known in the Ruby community as the sponsors of the JRuby project.

Gold Sponsors

Ataxo

Ataxo is the biggest Internet marketing agency in the Czech Republic.

CodeGear

CodeGear is a brand name of Borland, the developer tools company. They've recently released 3rdRail, a high power Ruby on Rails IDE.

Brightbox

Brightbox is a British provider of Ruby on Rails hosting. They're also a Ruby Inside sponsor.

Engine Yard

Engine Yard is one of the world's largest Rails hosting providers, and sponsors of the Rubinius, Merb, and other Ruby projects. They provide a 24/7 hosting and support service.

Unicorn College

Unicorn College is a modern private college oriented to providing high-quality higher education in information and communication technologies (ICT), economics, and management.

Silver Sponsors

BitNami

BitNami builds easy to install packages of open source software. Currently available BitNami Stacks include RubyStack, JRubyStack, Drupal, Joomla! and many more.

Dr. Nic Academy

Dr. Nic Williams is a key member of the Ruby and Rails communities and provides Rails training through his Dr. Nic Academy.

iQuest

iQuest is a Czech information system architecture company.

Kraxnet

Kraxnet delivers geek-friendly and stable FreeBSD-based Rails hosting (Mongrel, SVN, MySQL, Capistrano) for Central Europe starting at EUR 8 per month.

Nodeta

Nodeta is a fast and furious Finnish company full of Ruby on Rails fanatics and experts of agile.

Skvělý.cz

Skvělý is a Czech company providing complex internet solutions from prezentations, CMS, SEO, internal systems to outsourcing Ruby on Rails development.