Press Release Marble Virtual Globe Graduates Incubation

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Subject

Marble Virtual Globe Graduates OSGeo Incubation

News Date

18 October 2013

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OSGeo is pleased to announce that the Marble Virtual Globe project has graduated from incubation and is now a full fledged OSGeo project. Torsten Rahn, co founder and long time maintainer of the Marble Virtual Globe Project has been appointed as project officer.

Marble Virtual Globe - Project Logo

Marble is a virtual globe and world atlas — your swiss army knife for maps. Find your way and explore the world! Marble is known to be used a lot in education from primary school throughout higher level classes. <add a little more about what makes Marble cool and special...>

Graduating incubation includes fulfilling requirements for open community operation, a responsible project governance model, code provenance, and general good project operation. Graduation is the OSGeo seal of approval for a project and gives potential users and the community at large an added confidence in the viability and safety of the project.

The project steering committee says, The Marble team is thrilled to be recognized as a full OSGeo project. <...> .

Arnulf Christl mentor of the incubation process says: Marble Incubation was a breeze. One can immediately see that it is a well maintained project with experienced project leads and a great developer team. There were practically no open issues regarding code provenance and licensing showing that the KDE community which is the home of Marble provides a really good environment. Marble is a great addition to the OSGeo software stack because it makes accessing geospatial data and maps easy. It has already become a great tool for teachers around the world and we hope that by becoming an OSGeo project it will spread even further.

Congratulations to the Marble community!