Where we've been...
2001: GeoServer project starts as a one-man (Rob Hranac) development project.
2002: GeoServer joins the GeoTools community and adds a second developer.
2003: The Open Geospatial Consortium names GeoServer the Reference Implementation of the WFS specification, complete compliance brings the GeoServer 1.0 release.
2004: A collaboration of contributors brings WMS capabilities and a Web Administration GUI to GeoServer.
2006: OpenPlans starts working to bring in contracts on GeoServer around the development team of Justin Deoliveira and Andrea Aime.
Early 2007: The geospatial team at OpenPlans approaches full cost recovery.
Summer 2007: Tim Schaub, core contributor to OpenLayers, brings his Javascript mapping experience to OpenGeo.
Fall 2007: A growth spurt brings an additional 5 developers to the team.
Winter 2008: GeoWebCache expands on JTileCache to become the third OpenGeo project.
Spring 2008: The geospatial team gets re-branded as “OpenGeo”, to fully develop the open source stack and bring a coherent presence to our work.
Spring 2009: The OpenGeo Suite is announced at Where 2.0
Winter 2009: Paul Ramsey joins OpenGeo, bringing PostGIS into the OpenGeo Suite.
Summer 2010: Rolled out international partner program and online training program.
Winter 2010: GeoNode, a platform for collaborative spatial data infrastructures (SDIs), is released.
