Community Mapbuilder Incubation Progress

Project Evaluation Criteria

Criteria for prioritizing projects for the incubation process.

the code is under an OSI approved license (data & doc projects need to specify their choice for a type of license).: Mapbender is licensed under the LGPL.
project willing to keep code clear of encumbrances (committer agreements, etc).: Project Management Committee have agreed to sign Individual Contributor License Agreement (CLA) (once it is approved). Our project is young and we can contact all previous committers. I'm not expecting any objections to signing the CLA.

I'm still waiting on guidance from the OSGeo committee as to whether we should support the CLA or not.

the project is "geospatial", or directly in support of geospatial applications.

Mapbuilder is a Web Mapping client which implements many OGC standards.

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This application is a Mapbender MiniMe.

already reasonably mature (working quality code).: Mapbender has been in productive use for more than a year in at least 30 larger installations. The roots go back to the year 1999 when the software was first implemented as a proprietary package. At the end of 2002 it was published for the first time as Free Software, in August 2003 it was moved to SourceForge, at the end of 2004 code moved into the CVS.
already has a substantial user community.: The user mailing list countes 197 subscribers (Feb 2006), at the the first national Mapbender user meeting in May 2005 in Bonn, Germany 80 people showed up.
already has a substantial developer community.: 8 active contributors; 10 to 50 CVS commits per week
adheres to standards (ie. OGC, etc) where appropriate.: Mapbender implements OGC WMS, WFS, WFS-T, WCD, CS-W 2.0 beta, WKT, SFS, and many more
has linkages with existing foundation projects.

fills a gap in the foundation software stack.: Mapbender is probably the only comprehensive server side OGC OWS management interfaces that includes user and group management with multi-client capacity, CMS-style interface development, security module, log, monitor, etc. We do not know whether we fill any gaps, but we have friendly contacts to the MapBuilder team and plan to cooperate closely.
prepared to develop in an open and collaborative fashion.: Contributors are welcome. Cross project interaction is being discussed and joining with the MapBuilder project is planned as long time goal.
has contributions and interest from more than just one company/organization.: Core developers come from the companies CCGIS, CeGIT and terrestris, code contributions come from KARTA.GO, Geo-Consortium, in medias res, some individuals and larger customers.
willing to migrate to foundation support infrastructure, and adopt website style consistent with the foundation.: CVS, Mailing lists (user, CVS) are ready to migrate, mailto:dev@mapbender.osgeo.org has already migrated to OSGeo. The web page, documentation, develoment coordination, demo site, developer beta and testing pages are all integrated into the Mapbender Wiki and available at http://www.mapbender.org which is good as it is, we do not see the need to migrate this URL.