[Marble-devel] Re: Marble and OSGeo

[Tyler Mitchell]

Great to hear Torsten and glad you made it to Intergeo.  When you are ready you just have to answer the questions in a trac ticket and tag it for incubation.

http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo

Just yell if you need a hand.

Tyler

On 2010-10-08, at 6:41 AM, Torsten Rahn wrote:

> 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
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