OpenGeo Releases Training Courses under Creative Commons
Bigger communities make better software.
New York, New York, September 13 - At the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference in Barcelona this past week, OpenGeo has announced the availability of its training materials online, licensed under the Creative Commons Share-Alike With Attribution license. Introductory workshops on the PostGIS spatial database, OpenLayers web mapping library, and the GeoServer map and feature server are all available online at workshops.opengeo.
The Creative Commons license allows anyone to provide training using these materials provided they give OpenGeo authorial credit and release any further changes to the material under the same license terms. "We love these core open source projects, they form the heart of our OpenGeo Suite product, and we want as many people as possible to learn about them put them to use solving their problems," said Chris Holmes, OpenGeo President. "We are releasing the training materials under an open content license for the same reason we develop our core projected under open source licenses: bigger open source communities make better software, and we want this software to be the best in the world."
OpenGeo will be continuing to add new workshops and advanced material at workshops.opengeo as the material is developed and presented.
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. the company has provided successful consulting services and products to clients like the World Bank, Google, Ordnance Survey Great Britain, 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.
About Creative Commons
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