[Marble-devel] Marble and OSGeo

[Torsten Rahn]

Hi,

During the last two days Bastian Host and me have presented Marble at the 
OSGeo (http://www.osgeo.org) booth of the InterGeo fair 
(http://www.intergeo.de). The topic of active participation in OSGeo and OSGeo 
incubation came up again. 

I think that Marble should enter the OSGeo incubation process 

http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/application.html

Compared to other OSGeo projects the difference with Marble is that we already 
have an umbrella project: KDE. 

KDE is already hosting our infrastructure and I feel that KDE is a great match 
in terms of support in terms of getting the cause of Free Software, KDE/Qt 
usage and Educational applications (via KDE EDU) pushed. And I don't want to 
see this changed.

However Marble also promotes the usage of free geo data and its goals have 
shifted way beyond the pure educational aspect.
 As such I feel that we are completely in line with the goals of osgeo.org 
regarding the Free Geographical Data aspect and the cause of Free Geographical 
Software.

So I feel that active OSGeo.org participation and membership in addition to 
the KDE membership would have a few advantages for the Marble project as well 
as for the OSGeo project. In fact I think that this step is long overdue 
already. 

So I plan to apply for incubation via answering the questions linked above. 
Any comments, suggestions, concerns? :-)

Best Regards,

Torsten