[OSGeo-Announce] Marble Virtual Globe Graduates OSGeo Incubation

[Anne Ghisla]

OSGeo is pleased to announce that the Marble Virtual Globe [0] project
has graduated from incubation and is now a full fledged OSGeo project.
Torsten Rahn [1], co founder and long time maintainer of Marble [2] has
been appointed as project officer.

Marble is a virtual globe and world atlas - your swiss army knife
for maps. Marble is known to be used a lot in education from primary
school throughout higher level classes. And it is also used in industry
and research projects as a software library for displaying maps. No
matter whether the topic is navigation, space science, earth science or
geo-caching: Marble offers a wealth of functionality and comes with
free maps which help to visualize and understand each topic. It is
available for all major operating systems and it's installed on many
Linux distributions by default.     

Graduating incubation [3] 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 lead says, "The Marble team is thrilled to be recognized
as a full OSGeo project. Being part of OSGeo is important for us since
OSGeo supports the collaborative development of open source geospatial
software. The Marble team would like to support this mission by
offering Marble as a showcase to illustrate the power of Open Source,
Free Software and Free Maps. Since Marble is easy to use and fun to
work with it's the perfect tool to introduce a wider audience into the
world of GIS and to get people excited about it."

Arnulf Christl [4], 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! 


[0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marble_Virtual_Globe
[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Torsten_Rahn
[2] http://www.osgeo.org/marble
[3] http://www.osgeo.org/incubator
[4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Arnulf_Christl
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