New York, NY, October 28, 2010 – OpenGeo today announced that OpenGeo’s Paul Ramsey will be a keynote speaker at the upcoming OSGeo.JP, the regional open source conference series held every year in Tokyo and Osaka. This year’s meetings will be held October 31-November 1, in Tokyo and November 5-6 in Osaka. Ramsey will be delivering addresses on open source economics and technology disruptions, as well as teaching hands-on workshops on the PostGIS open source spatial database. Conference attendees can meet up with Paul Ramsey and OpenGeo’s Japanese partners Orkney at OSGeo.jp.
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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 an eight-year history of providing successful consulting services and products to clients like the World Bank, Google, 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.