Boundless Continues its Commitment to the Open Source Community

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.