OpenGeo Announces Meeting of Global Partner Network
Network to Promote Open Source Geospatial Solutions
New York, New York, August 01 — OpenGeo, producer of the OpenGeo Suite, will hold the first annual OpenGeo Global Partner Meeting just prior to the FOSS4G Conference in Denver, Colorado on September 11th. With a rapidly growing network of international partners, the OpenGeo Global Partner Meeting will focus on developing plans for continuing to support the increasing demand for open source geospatial software.
Ken Bossung, Senior Vice President of OpenGeo notes, "Our partners are key to helping users around the world improve their geospatial applications with open source software. These organizations extend the first line of support for the OpenGeo Suite, provide important translation services, and are skilled at implementing solutions based on proven open source software.”
Dennis Wuthrich, CEO of OpenGeo partner Farallon Geographics, adds: "The open source technologies endorsed by OpenGeo strengthen our solutions. From Mobile GIS applications to Enterprise Addressing the OpenGeo technology enhances our offerings to inter-operate with any database, GIS, or mapping technology. The result is a reduced cost of ownership that brings interactive and intuitive location intelligence within reach of a larger audience."
With many partners traveling internationally to participate, the partner event is expected to be well attended. The FOSS4G conference presents a special opportunity for leading organizations to gather, discuss, and dissect the state of the open source geospatial industry. The inaugural partner event is anticipated to be the highlight of FOSS4G for the many OpenGeo partners participating.
"Spatialytics believes that the partner program will help raise market awareness of the OpenGeo open source alternative. We see first-hand how the global reach of the partner network encourages and facilitates adoption. The partner meeting will allow us to perfect our knowledge of the technologies as well as continue developing our relationship with OpenGeo and other partners." said Luc Vaillancourt, CEO of Spatialytics, a leading geospatial provider based out of Quebec, Canada.
OpenGeo is well known for its leadership in developing powerful open source geospatial technologies. Its best-in-class partners—with compatible business models and social objectives—have helped to increase the reach of these technologies in real-world solutions for clients. To learn more about OpenGeo’s Global Partner Network please visit the partner website.OpenGeo Partners.
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.