OpenGeo has announced the official opening of it’s office in Victoria, Canada. This location accommodates a significant growth in OpenGeo staff and will serve as a hub to support West Coast and Canadian clients. Amongst others, the office will house geospatial veterans and winners of the prestigious Sol Katz Award for achievement in open source geospatial software Paul Ramsey (2008 recipient) and Martin Davis (2011 recipient). When announcing the opening, Eddie Pickle, COO, remarked, “With the impressive level of geospatial capabilities within Victoria, our recent hiring activity and the increase in our West Coast and Canadian clientele, Victoria is a natural fit for OpenGeo expansion. This office is one of many ways we’re investing to better serve our clients and the open source products we support. OpenGeo has a global presence and we are continually investing in to bringing open source geospatial software to ever larger community of developers and users.”
The Victoria office will serve numerous functions around the development of open source software and will be central central to OpenGeo’s global support network. “OpenGeo has matured significantly in the last few years. By establishing a bi-coastal presence and cementing our support functions, we’re better situated to serve our clients and support open source communities. We’re looking forward to having a local presence in Victoria,” noted open source evangelist Paul Ramsey. Read More
