[frankwiles]

Our company spends the majority of it's advertising money and time on sponsoring conferences. Can definitely see it not working for some companies, but works great for us and helps fund great conferences for the community as a whole.

[samullen]

Yeah, I would have really liked to be able to find some metrics to add to the post, but there just doesn't seem to be much out there. I know developers look at companies and what their reputations in the community are, but it's a really hard number to nail down.

[zmitri]

Twilio has done this aggressively. I don't think I've ever seen a tech event that they weren't involved with somehow.