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| − | + | Seattle, Washington, USA, July 20 — The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) announced today that Mapbender, DESCRIPTION, has met all of the legal and community requirements to become the first official product supported by the Foundation. Just six months after its inception, the Foundation is already starting to make an impact the geospatial industry, providing a degree of quality assurance for open source geospatial software users and getting its message out to the GIS community at conferences and tradeshows. | |
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The Foundation was formed early in 2006 by a diverse collection of open source advocates with the aim of supporting and promoting open source geospatial projects. Already the Foundation has eight projects under incubation, all open source tools and applications that range from low level libraries to web services enviroments to a broad function desktop GIS. "We have enjoyed a great deal of support everywhere we have taken the OSGeo message," says Frank Warmerdam, Foundation president. "And through the OSGeo incubation process we are able to provide a high degree of confidence in OSGeo approved projects on issues from intellectual property, to healthy community functioning." | The Foundation was formed early in 2006 by a diverse collection of open source advocates with the aim of supporting and promoting open source geospatial projects. Already the Foundation has eight projects under incubation, all open source tools and applications that range from low level libraries to web services enviroments to a broad function desktop GIS. "We have enjoyed a great deal of support everywhere we have taken the OSGeo message," says Frank Warmerdam, Foundation president. "And through the OSGeo incubation process we are able to provide a high degree of confidence in OSGeo approved projects on issues from intellectual property, to healthy community functioning." | ||
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| + | In only six months, the Foundation's mailing lists are reaching hundreds of developers and users across the industry, with hundreds more also registered on the osgeo.org website. | ||
'''OSGeo on the Road''' | '''OSGeo on the Road''' | ||
| − | OSGeo is reaching out to the geospatial community to FEED THEM THE KOOL-AID. Following on it's well-publicized success at Where 2.0 earlier this summer, OSGeo will be at two other events this month. The Foundation is hosting a booth at OSCON.. DETAILS.. INCLUDING PersonA speaking about X and PersonB speaking about Y. The same week, OSGeo members MPG and IANT will be presenting at GeoWeb -- Gerlek will talk about LIME-GREEN BEVERAGES and Turton will talk about SOMETHING which USES OPEN SOURCE to SAVE PLANET. <need to get OK from Ian on this!!> | + | OSGeo is reaching out to the geospatial community to |
| + | FEED THEM THE KOOL-AID. Following on it's well-publicized success at Where 2.0 earlier this summer, OSGeo will be at two other events this month. The Foundation is hosting a booth at OSCON.. DETAILS.. INCLUDING PersonA speaking about X and PersonB speaking about Y. The same week, OSGeo members MPG and IANT will be presenting at GeoWeb -- Gerlek will talk about LIME-GREEN BEVERAGES and Turton will talk about SOMETHING which USES OPEN SOURCE to SAVE PLANET. <need to get OK from Ian on this!!> | ||
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Contact: Michael P. Gerlek
Email: info@osgeo.org
Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) Celebrates Accomplishments at Six-Month Mark
Mapbender is first officially approved project; Foundation reaches hundreds of members; OSGeo presents at OSCON and GeoWeb
Seattle, Washington, USA, July 20 — The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) announced today that Mapbender, DESCRIPTION, has met all of the legal and community requirements to become the first official product supported by the Foundation. Just six months after its inception, the Foundation is already starting to make an impact the geospatial industry, providing a degree of quality assurance for open source geospatial software users and getting its message out to the GIS community at conferences and tradeshows.
Mapbender is First Approved OSGeo Project
<<Text to come from Arnulf: what MapBender is, why it is an important tool, what graduation from Inclubator means. Should include quote from Arnulf, or some Big Name that uses the stuff>>
OSGeo Hitting its Stride
The Foundation was formed early in 2006 by a diverse collection of open source advocates with the aim of supporting and promoting open source geospatial projects. Already the Foundation has eight projects under incubation, all open source tools and applications that range from low level libraries to web services enviroments to a broad function desktop GIS. "We have enjoyed a great deal of support everywhere we have taken the OSGeo message," says Frank Warmerdam, Foundation president. "And through the OSGeo incubation process we are able to provide a high degree of confidence in OSGeo approved projects on issues from intellectual property, to healthy community functioning."
In only six months, the Foundation's mailing lists are reaching hundreds of developers and users across the industry, with hundreds more also registered on the osgeo.org website.
OSGeo on the Road
OSGeo is reaching out to the geospatial community to FEED THEM THE KOOL-AID. Following on it's well-publicized success at Where 2.0 earlier this summer, OSGeo will be at two other events this month. The Foundation is hosting a booth at OSCON.. DETAILS.. INCLUDING PersonA speaking about X and PersonB speaking about Y. The same week, OSGeo members MPG and IANT will be presenting at GeoWeb -- Gerlek will talk about LIME-GREEN BEVERAGES and Turton will talk about SOMETHING which USES OPEN SOURCE to SAVE PLANET. <need to get OK from Ian on this!!>
About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, is a not-for-profit organization 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.
OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration. The foundation's projects are all freely available and useable under an OSI-certified open source license.
© Copyright 2006 Open Source Geospatial Foundation, under the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives (by-nd) License.