[OSGeo-Announce] GeoServer and MapFish enter OSGeo Incubation

[Frank Warmerdam]

The OSGeo Board is pleased to announce that it has approved the application by 
the MapFish and GeoServer projects to enter the incubation process. Incubation 
is a stepping stone to becoming a full fledged OSGeo project.

   http://www.osgeo.org/incubator

GeoServer is a server written in Java that allows users to share and edit 
geospatial data. Designed for interoperability, it publishes data from any 
major spatial data source using open standards. GeoServer is the reference 
implementation of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Feature Service 
(WFS) and Web Coverage Service (WCS) standards, as well as a high performance 
certified compliant Web Map Service (WMS). GeoServer makes extensive use of the 
GeoTools Java library.

   http://geoserver.org/

MapFish is a flexible and complete framework for building rich web-mapping 
applications. It is based on the Pylons Python web framework, and emphasizes 
high productivity, and high-quality development. MapFish also provides a 
complete RIA-oriented JavaScript toolbox. The JavaScript toolbox is composed of 
the ExtJS, OpenLayers, GeoExt JavaScript toolkits, and specific components for 
interacting with MapFish web services. MapFish supports several OGC standards, 
including WMS, WFS, WMC, KML and GML via GeoExt and OpenLayers.

   http://mapfish.org/