Boundless Continues its Commitment to the Open Source Community with Platinum FOSS4G NA Sponsorship
Company to Sponsor, Speak and Exhibit at Booth #5
St. Louis, MO – May 7, 2018 – Boundless, the leader in open GIS, today announced it has reinforced its ongoing commitment to open source by providing a Platinum Sponsorship of FOSS4G NA, taking place May 14-16 in St. Louis, MO. The conference provides opportunities for the open source geospatial community to learn, explore, share and collaborate on the latest ideas and information. In addition to its sponsorship, Boundless will be presenting a total of nine talks on a variety of topics as well as welcoming attendees to its hometown of St. Louis at booth #5.
"At Boundless, we remain fully committed to the open source community and continue to contribute to each of the projects we build our supported products around,” said Anthony Calamito, Chief Geospatial Officer at Boundless. "This sponsorship further cements our commitment to build on a foundation of open source, open collaboration, open standards and open education."
Highlights of planned presentations from Boundless include talks on OpenLayers, the State of GeoWebCache, mapping and more. Additionally, the company will be co-sponsoring a Community & Workshop Day which features workshops, technical training sessions, a code sprint and more. Sample sessions, along with additional information on Community & Workshop Day can be found below.
Sample Workshops & Sessions
What: Working with OpenLayers Workshop
When: Monday, May 14 at 9:00am - 12:00pm
Where: Salon E, F & G
Who: Andreas Hocevar, Software Engineer at Boundless
What: State of GeoServer
When: Monday, May 14 at 4:30 - 5:05pm
Where: Salon E & F & G
Who: Kevin Smith, Software Engineer and Jody Garnett, Training Specialist and Community Lead at Boundless
What: Building an Image Processing Pipeline at Scale using Open Source
When: Tuesday, May 15 at 10:30 - 11:05am
Where: Gateway II
Who: Tom Ingold, Chief Technology Officer of Boundless
What: The Boundless Web SDK, Powering OpenLayers with React and Redux
When: Wednesday, May 16 at 10:30 - 11:05am
Where: Gateway II
Who: Dan Little, Software Engineer at Boundless
Community & Workshop Day
What: Sponsored by Boundless, LocationTech and T-REX, Community & Workshop Day features workshops, technical training sessions, a code sprint, co-located events and even some community mapping. To see the detailed schedule, visit this page.
When: Thursday May 17 at 9:30am - 5:30pm
Where: T-REX, 911 Washington Avenue, St. Louis, MO
For more information and a full list of Boundless’ scheduled presentations, please visit: the program list on the FOSS4G NA website.
Boundless delivers innovative GIS solutions through a unique combination of technology, products, and expertise, giving enterprises deeper intelligence and insights into their location-based data. Boundless solutions are built on open GIS technology and APIs that generate actionable location intelligence across third-party apps, content services and plugins for enterprise applications.
Connect with Boundless at FOSS4G-NA
To schedule one-on-one meetings with Boundless executives at the event, please email press@boundlessgeo.com. Follow the company on Twitter at @boundlessgeo or stop by booth #5.
Helpful Links
● Boundless website
● Boundless blog
● Boundless Server
● Boundless Exchange
● Boundless Desktop
● Boundless Anywhere
● Boundless GIS solutions
About Boundless
Boundless is the leader in open, scalable enterprise-grade GIS software. Boundless empowers state and local governments, federal agencies and commercial enterprises to control the development of their GIS ecosystems and unlock the value of their location-based data to make better decisions, answer location intelligence questions and more fully understand their world. The experts at Boundless reduce the cost and time of deploying, managing and enriching the use of geospatial software with scalable, open GIS solutions – including Server™, Exchange™, AnywhereTM, Desktop™, and Connect™. Learn more at boundlessgeo.com. Follow Boundless @boundlessgeo.
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