Board Press Release New Sponsor Karttakeskus

New OSGeo Associate Sponsor: Karttakeskus

News Date

7 Mar 2013

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• Karttakeskus: http://www.karttakeskus.fi/
• OSGeo Sponsors: http://www.osgeo.org/sponsors
• Help Sponsor OSGeo: http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship

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OSGeo is pleased to announce Karttakeskus(http://www.karttakeskus.fi/) as OSGeo's latest Associate Sponsor. Director, Sami Masala, says "In Finland, there is an increasing interest towards Open Source software among our clients. Open Source attracts enterprises as it is fast, flexible and cost-efficient. Open source is also easy to integrate with other software. From our viewpoint, open source and commercial software are not opposites, but complement each other. Karttakeskus wants to offer the best possible support and expertise in this field and promote the use of Open Source solutions in the private and public sectors. We find OSGeo an important partner for us in this, as OSGeo is working with the most important open source implementation projects, such as Geoserver, Openlayers and QGIS. This year, we want to participate in the open source development projects, for example in the Finnish translations of the user interfaces."

Thank you to Karttakeskus for supporting OSGeo and its vibrant community!

Jeff McKenna
OSGeo President

About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2006 whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open geospatial technologies and data. The Foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit.