We’re proud to announce that OpenGeo has spun out from OpenPlans to form its own independent company....

You have two challenges in front of you.  The first is that you're leading the charge to something profoundly new, and that's going to scare people who are entrenched in something old.  The second is that what you are doing is so local, so fundamentally grassroots-based, so under the radar, that your work is probably going to go unrecognized outside of a small devoted circle for a while.