Deegree Report 2011

THIS IS A DRAFT VERSION AND STILL WORK IN PROGRESS!

deegree

• Contact name: Jens Fitzke
• Web site: http://deegree.org/

Key Accomplishments

• 2011 ...
• Reijer Copier, Johannes Wilden and Andreas Schmitz have been nominated as new TMC members in October.
• Andreas Poth resigned from the PSC in November.
• deegree's 3.2 release has been planned for publication in 2012 as the "INSPIRE release".

• ... was the most important year of deegree v.3 development (AKA deegree3). The module structure has been improved and made stable, configuration has been designed and implemented, the build mechanism set up. Nightly builds have been made available in August [more TBD]
• A first pre-release of deegree's GIS Desktop application named "iGeoDesktop" was released in March
• The first deegree 2.3 release candidate was published in November, after quite some improvements in the release process and result. The package included pre-configured and ready-to-run versions of WMS, WFS, WCS, CSW, WPVS, WPS and iGeoPortal. Those were at the same time made available on http://demo.deegree.org/.
• Participation in the OSGeo Bolsena code sprint:
• Outreach: deegree was presented at Runder Tisch GIS (March in Munich, Germany), FOSSGIS (April in Heidelberg, Germany), AGIT (July in Salzburg, Austria)

Areas for Improvement

• Extend and improve documentation, create tutorials
• Increase involvement of the community
• Increase the number of contributors (code)
• Reduce the number of pre-releases within one release cycle

Opportunities to Help

• Test release candidates at an early stage
• Provide or improve documentation (e.g. QA by native speakers)
• Contribute to tutorial production process
• Actively contribute to deegree 3 development
• Share experiences with deegree

Outlook for 2012

• deegree summit as combined TMC and PSC meeting
• Create/advance security modules
• Improve web site and other outreach material
• Infrastructure review and renewal
• deegree 3.2 "INSPIRE" release
• deegree day