Vote for OpenGeo at SXSW
We at OpenGeo are proud to be visible members of various open source communities and make it a priority to attend many conferences and sprints throughout the year. You’ve probably seen us recently at Where 2.0 or GeoWeb and will see a lot of us at FOSS4G this year. In addition to the usual GIS conferences though, we’ve decided to do some proselytizing and bring our message of an open geospatial web to SXSW. If you want to help, please vote for our panels on the SXSW Panel Picker.
Beyond Google Maps: The Open Source Geospatial Web
For the web developers in the crowd, we’ve proposed a panel to introduce open source alternatives to Google Maps and address how open software, standards, and data provide a foundation on which web developers can build spatially aware applications. If accepted, the panel will feature:
- Paul Ramsey, geospatial rockstar and major force behind PostGIS
- Tim Schaub, a core contributor and steering committee chair of OpenLayers, and co-founder of GeoExt
- Justin Deoliveira, a charter member of the Open Source GeoSpatial Foundation, lead developer on GeoServer, and contributor to GeoTools and uDig
- Sebastian Benthall, core committer to GeoExt
Government 2.0: Towards an Open Geospatial Web
Chris Holmes also hopes to give a talk exploring how software can create architectures of participation that reduce costs to government while increasing transparency and liberating data for public consumption across the web. You can learn more about his previous speaking engagements on his OpenGeo biography.