Press Release Marble Virtual Globe Graduates Incubation
Do not publish yet: This is a DRAFT Pending Board Approval!
Subject
Marble Virtual Globe Graduates OSGeo Incubation
News Date
18 October 2013
Details
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 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.
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. ... .
OSGeo would also like to thank Torsten Rahn and Arnulf Christl for their assistance during this Incubation process.
Congratulations to the Marble community!