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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Hi Incubation Committee,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">We would like to officially state our intentions for GPlates to join the OSGeo Incubation process.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">To summarise GPlates, it is desktop software for the interactive visualisation of plate tectonics -
<a href="http://www.gplates.org" target="_blank">http://www.gplates.org</a> – and is a collaboration between the University of Sydney, Caltech and the Geological Survey of Norway.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I’m a GPlates software developer and will be handling the application on behalf of Prof. Dietmar Müller (who leads the Earthbyte group
<a href="http://www.earthbyte.org/" target="_blank">http://www.earthbyte.org/</a> here at the University of Sydney) and our other GPlates collaborators.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Some background on GPlates...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">GPlates started as an application for researchers at the University of Sydney and has since been released bi-annually to the public for almost a decade. With over 50,000 downloads in total it is widely used in
industry, academic institutions and government departments. It is open-source, uses open standards (such as OGC) and accesses OSGeo libraries (GDAL and PROJ4). It runs as a graphical application on Windows, MacOS X and Linux platforms. And we are also developing
a non-graphical Python GPlates library (first public beta release end of this year).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">John<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:black"><br>
--<br>
John Cannon, Lead GPlates Developer - <a href="http://www.gplates.org" target="_blank">
http://www.gplates.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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