Welcome to the FOSS4G 2009 OpenGeo Stack Workshop. This workshop is designed to give you a comprehensive overview of the entire OpenGeo Stack which includes PostGIS, GeoServer, OpenLayers, and GeoExt.
This workshop is presented as a set of lesson modules. In each module the reader will perform a set of tasks designed to achieve a specific goal for that module. For example the Basics module walks the reader through the steps of publishing and styling a simple Shapefile.
Each module builds upon lessons learned in previous modules and is designed to iteratively build up the readers knowledge base. The following modules will be covered in this workshop:
The following directories will be found inside of the workshop bundle:
- doc
- All the workshop documentation in HTML format.
- data
- Geospatial data to be used throughout workshop modules.
- openlayers
- A copy of the OpenLayers library.
A couple of useful tasks to perform before getting started:
You are now ready to start this workshop. Begin by jumping to the first module, GeoServer Basics.