OpenGeo Staff Featured in Technical and Topical Sessions

New York, New York, July 01, 2011 — OpenGeo presenters will be easy to find this year at the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference in Denver, Colorado. In addition to six half-day hands-on workshops, a number of talks from OpenGeo presenters have been accepted in the program:

• State of PostGIS, Paul Ramsey
• Designing a better SDI, Sebastian Benthall & Rolando Peñate
• The State of GeoServer, Justin Deoliveira
• Introducing GXP: Web-mapping Made Easy, Bart van den Eijnden
• GeoScript – Spatial Capabilities for Scripting Languages, Justin Deoliveira
• Scripting GeoServer with GeoScript, Justin Deoliveira & Tim Schaub
• OpenLayers Mobile, Tim Schaub
• Mapnik2GeoTools, David Winslow & Alyssa Wright
• Tips for the PostGIS Power User, Paul Ramsey

OpenGeo is a Gold Sponsor of FOSS4G and will be an exhibiting there from September 14-16.

"We are proud of our staff's open source credentials and credibility, and having so many of our people showing off their work at FOSS4G is very gratifying for us." said Eddie Pickle, OpenGeo Senior Vice President.

About OpenGeo

OpenGeo is a social enterprise working to build the best web-based geospatial technology. The company brings the best practices of open source software to geospatial organizations around the world by providing enterprises with supported, tested, and integrated open source solutions to build the Geospatial Web. OpenGeo also supports open source communities by employing key developers of PostGIS, GeoServer, and OpenLayers. Since 2002, the company has provided successful consulting services and products to clients like the World Bank, Google, the UK Ordnance Survey, Portland TriMet, MassGIS, Landgate, and the Federal Communications Commission. OpenGeo is the geospatial division of OpenPlans, a New York-based 501(c)(3) non-profit that informs and engages communities through journalism and open source software. All of OpenGeo's revenue has been and will continue to be re-invested into innovative and useful software in support of the OpenPlans mission.

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Eddie Pickle
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