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Press Release Marble Virtual Globe Graduates Incubation

2013-10-02T07:42:48Z

Wiki-Torsten Rahn: /* Details */

'''''Do not publish yet: This is a DRAFT Pending Board Approval!'''''

== Subject ==

Marble Virtual Globe Graduates OSGeo Incubation

== News Date ==

18 October 2013

== Details ==

OSGeo is pleased to announce that the [[Marble Virtual Globe]] project has graduated from incubation and is now a full fledged OSGeo project. [[Torsten Rahn]], co founder and long time maintainer of the [http://www.osgeo.org/marble Marble Virtual Globe] Project has been appointed as project officer.

[[File:Marble logo.png|thumb|right|300px|Marble Virtual Globe - Project Logo]]

[[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's also used in industry and research projects as a software library for displaying maps. No matter whether it's 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's also available for all major operating systems and it's installed on many Linux distributions by default.

Graduating [http://www.osgeo.org/incubator incubation] 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 steering committee 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 geospatial Open Source Software, 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]] 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!

[[Category:Board]]

Press Release Marble Virtual Globe Graduates Incubation

2013-10-02T07:30:58Z

Wiki-Torsten Rahn: /* Details */

'''''Do not publish yet: This is a DRAFT Pending Board Approval!'''''

== Subject ==

Marble Virtual Globe Graduates OSGeo Incubation

== News Date ==

18 October 2013

== Details ==

OSGeo is pleased to announce that the [[Marble Virtual Globe]] project has graduated from incubation and is now a full fledged OSGeo project. [[Torsten Rahn]], co founder and long time maintainer of the [http://www.osgeo.org/marble Marble Virtual Globe] Project has been appointed as project officer.

[[File:Marble logo.png|thumb|right|300px|Marble Virtual Globe - Project Logo]]

[[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's also used in industry and research projects as a software library for displaying maps. No matter whether it's 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's also available for all major operating systems and it's installed on many Linux distributions by default.

Graduating [http://www.osgeo.org/incubator incubation] 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 steering committee 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. ''

[[Arnulf Christl]] 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!

[[Category:Board]]

Press Release Marble Virtual Globe Graduates Incubation

2013-10-02T07:20:02Z

Wiki-Torsten Rahn: /* Details */

'''''Do not publish yet: This is a DRAFT Pending Board Approval!'''''

== Subject ==

Marble Virtual Globe Graduates OSGeo Incubation

== News Date ==

18 October 2013

== Details ==

OSGeo is pleased to announce that the [[Marble Virtual Globe]] project has graduated from incubation and is now a full fledged OSGeo project. [[Torsten Rahn]], co founder and long time maintainer of the [http://www.osgeo.org/marble Marble Virtual Globe] Project has been appointed as project officer.

[[File:Marble logo.png|thumb|right|300px|Marble Virtual Globe - Project Logo]]

[[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's also used in industry and research projects as a software library for displaying maps. No matter whether it's 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's also available for all major operating systems and it's installed on many Linux distributions by default.

Graduating [http://www.osgeo.org/incubator incubation] 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 steering committee says, ''The Marble team is thrilled to be recognized as a full OSGeo project. <...> .''

[[Arnulf Christl]] 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!

[[Category:Board]]

Marble Incubation Status

2013-09-12T12:53:02Z

Wiki-Torsten Rahn: /* Community Functioning */

* ''The project representative and mentor uses this template to inform the IncCom of the project status on a periodic basis. The state of the project, as reported using this template, will be the initial indication that a project is reaching graduation.''
* ''The Mentor ([[Arnulf Christl]]) proposes Marble for graduation on 2013-09-09. ''
* [[Marble Graduation Checklist]]

== General ==

; Has the project been approved for incubation by the OSGeo board?
: Yes

; Has an Incubation Mentor been assigned to the project?
: Yes, [[Arnulf Christl]] has been assigned as mentor.

== Infrastructure Transition ==

''Note, for each of the following it isn't necessary to move to foundation infrastructure, but if you aren't a reason should be provided.''

; Has the projectname.osgeo.org domain been populated with the projects web presence?
: Yes. The project http://www.osgeo.org/marble has been populated with the OSGeo Live info sheet. The project has access to a well established environment and there is no need to migrate anything to OSGeo infrastructure.

; Is the OSGeo bug tracker being used for the project?
: No. The project is happy using the KDE bug tracking infrastructure at https://bugs.kde.org/

; Is the OSGeo mailing list manager (http://lists.osgeo.org/) being used for the project?
: No, the project uses the KDE mailing list: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/marble-devel

; Is the OSGeo SVN being used for the project?
: No, the project uses the KDE git repository: http://marble.kde.org/sources.php

; Are binary and source downloads available from http://download.osgeo.org ?
: No, binaries and sources are available from the project page at: http://marble.kde.org/install.php

== Community Functioning ==

; Is there a functioning user support mechanisms (ie. mailing list)?
: There is a developer mailing list (see above)
: The user forum has a daily activity record: http://forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?f=217

; Are source and binary downloads for the package available?
: Yes:
: http://marble.kde.org/install.php
: http://marble.kde.org/sources.php

; Has a Project Steering Committee been formed, and given control of the project?
: Yes. The steering committee is formed by developers who have contributed significantly to the project. In Marble words they are called "maintainer" and the "Maintainer Group" is what OSGeo calls the PSC. It typically requires one or two years of regular code contributions to become a maintainer. The group solve issues in a consensus process. There is currently no formal voting process in place and no apparent need to change this.

Current maintainer (PSC) are:
* [[Torsten Rahn]]
* Dennis Nienhüser
* Bernhard Beschow

Current core developers are:
* [[Torsten Rahn]] (Education, Science)
* Dennis Nienhüser (navigation, routing, devices, cloud)
* Bernhard Beschow (OpenGL, rendering)
* Thibaut Gridel (internal data structure)
* Jens-Michael Hoffmann (OpenStreetMap)

The list of all authors and contributors is available on the project web site at:
* http://edu.kde.org/marble/authors.php

The liaison officer for OSGeo will be [http://blogs.kde.org/users/torsten-rahn Torsten Rahn].

; Does the Project Steering Committee have documentation on project procedures for PSC decisions, contributor guidelines, etc.
: Yes. The Marble Manifesto summarizes all processes and points to relevant documents. The KDE Policies are part of the Marble project and include contributor guidelines, etc. The QA
* http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Marble/GoMarble/Manifesto
* http://techbase.kde.org/Policies
* http://www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org/krazy/reports/kde-4.x/kdeedu/marble/index.html (QA)
: The full history of all decisions that have been taken since inception in 2006 are available through the mailing list archives.

; How many active developers are there? Are they from multiple organizations?
: The steering group has 3 members from three different organizations. Most code is currently developed by 5 core developers. In total 21 developers have contributed to the project over the past years. Marble is completely built by volunteers which is why there is no single commercial entity currently involved. Contributors come from many different types of organizations the list is available here:
* http://edu.kde.org/marble/authors.php

== Foundation Membership ==

; Have project documents been updated to reflect membership in the foundation, and the relationship of the project to the foundation?
: Yes, the front page of the public web site has the OSGeo logo in place and links back to OSGeo web site. The core values of the Marble Project can be found here: http://marble.kde.org/about.php They line up nicely with OSGeo's mission including efforts of the Education Committee. The [[OSGeo Live]] effort is referenced on: http://marble.kde.org/install.php

; Has an effort been made to brand the project web site with OSGeo foundation web styling and branding marks?
: Branding and link back to OSGeo has been added to the Marbke website footer at http://marble.kde.org/.

== Code Copyright Review ==

; Has a [[Code Provenance Review]] document been prepared for the project?
: Yes, starting point is here: [[Marble Code Provenance Review]]

; Have issues raised in the provenance review been adequately addressed?
: Yes. The [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Marble_Code_Provenance_Review&action=history History] page of the Code Provenance Review shows when individual issues have been addressed, look for things switched from (CHECK) to (clean).

; Are [[Commiter Responsibilities Guidelines]] covering legal issues in place?
: Yes: http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Marble/GoMarble/Manifesto Adherence to the manifesto is required to become a maintainer / part of the PSC, see above. It has been accepted and is adhered to by all committers.

[[Category:Incubation]]

Marble Incubation Status

2013-09-12T12:49:41Z

Wiki-Torsten Rahn: /* Community Functioning */

* ''The project representative and mentor uses this template to inform the IncCom of the project status on a periodic basis. The state of the project, as reported using this template, will be the initial indication that a project is reaching graduation.''
* ''The Mentor ([[Arnulf Christl]]) proposes Marble for graduation on 2013-09-09. ''
* [[Marble Graduation Checklist]]

== General ==

; Has the project been approved for incubation by the OSGeo board?
: Yes

; Has an Incubation Mentor been assigned to the project?
: Yes, [[Arnulf Christl]] has been assigned as mentor.

== Infrastructure Transition ==

''Note, for each of the following it isn't necessary to move to foundation infrastructure, but if you aren't a reason should be provided.''

; Has the projectname.osgeo.org domain been populated with the projects web presence?
: Yes. The project http://www.osgeo.org/marble has been populated with the OSGeo Live info sheet. The project has access to a well established environment and there is no need to migrate anything to OSGeo infrastructure.

; Is the OSGeo bug tracker being used for the project?
: No. The project is happy using the KDE bug tracking infrastructure at https://bugs.kde.org/

; Is the OSGeo mailing list manager (http://lists.osgeo.org/) being used for the project?
: No, the project uses the KDE mailing list: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/marble-devel

; Is the OSGeo SVN being used for the project?
: No, the project uses the KDE git repository: http://marble.kde.org/sources.php

; Are binary and source downloads available from http://download.osgeo.org ?
: No, binaries and sources are available from the project page at: http://marble.kde.org/install.php

== Community Functioning ==

; Is there a functioning user support mechanisms (ie. mailing list)?
: There is a developer mailing list (see above)
: The user forum has a daily activity record: http://forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?f=217

; Are source and binary downloads for the package available?
: Yes:
: http://marble.kde.org/install.php
: http://marble.kde.org/sources.php

; Has a Project Steering Committee been formed, and given control of the project?
: Yes. The steering committee is formed by developers who have contributed significantly to the project. In Marble words they are called "maintainer" and the "Maintainer Group" is what OSGeo calls the PSC. It typically requires one or two years of regular code contributions to become a maintainer. The group solve issues in a consensus process. There is currently no formal voting process in place and no apparent need to change this.

Current maintainer (PSC) are:
* [[Torsten Rahn]]
* Dennis Nienhüser
* Bernhard Beschow

Current core developers are:
* Torsten Rahn (Education, Science)
* Dennis Nienhüser (navigation, routing, devices, cloud)
* Bernhard Beschow (OpenGL, rendering)
* Thibaut Gridel (internal data structure)
* Jens-Michael Hoffmann (OpenStreetMap)

The list of all authors and contributors is available on the project web site at:
* http://edu.kde.org/marble/authors.php

The liaison officer for OSGeo will be [http://blogs.kde.org/users/torsten-rahn Torsten Rahn].

; Does the Project Steering Committee have documentation on project procedures for PSC decisions, contributor guidelines, etc.
: Yes. The Marble Manifesto summarizes all processes and points to relevant documents. The KDE Policies are part of the Marble project and include contributor guidelines, etc. The QA
* http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Marble/GoMarble/Manifesto
* http://techbase.kde.org/Policies
* http://www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org/krazy/reports/kde-4.x/kdeedu/marble/index.html (QA)
: The full history of all decisions that have been taken since inception in 2006 are available through the mailing list archives.

; How many active developers are there? Are they from multiple organizations?
: The steering group has 3 members from three different organizations. Most code is currently developed by 5 core developers. In total 21 developers have contributed to the project over the past years. Marble is completely built by volunteers which is why there is no single commercial entity currently involved. Contributors come from many different types of organizations the list is available here:
* http://edu.kde.org/marble/authors.php

== Foundation Membership ==

; Have project documents been updated to reflect membership in the foundation, and the relationship of the project to the foundation?
: Yes, the front page of the public web site has the OSGeo logo in place and links back to OSGeo web site. The core values of the Marble Project can be found here: http://marble.kde.org/about.php They line up nicely with OSGeo's mission including efforts of the Education Committee. The [[OSGeo Live]] effort is referenced on: http://marble.kde.org/install.php

; Has an effort been made to brand the project web site with OSGeo foundation web styling and branding marks?
: Branding and link back to OSGeo has been added to the Marbke website footer at http://marble.kde.org/.

== Code Copyright Review ==

; Has a [[Code Provenance Review]] document been prepared for the project?
: Yes, starting point is here: [[Marble Code Provenance Review]]

; Have issues raised in the provenance review been adequately addressed?
: Yes. The [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Marble_Code_Provenance_Review&action=history History] page of the Code Provenance Review shows when individual issues have been addressed, look for things switched from (CHECK) to (clean).

; Are [[Commiter Responsibilities Guidelines]] covering legal issues in place?
: Yes: http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Marble/GoMarble/Manifesto Adherence to the manifesto is required to become a maintainer / part of the PSC, see above. It has been accepted and is adhered to by all committers.

[[Category:Incubation]]

Torsten Rahn

2013-09-12T12:48:39Z

Wiki-Torsten Rahn:

[[File:tackat.jpg]]

Liaison Officer of the [http://marble.kde.org Marble Virtual Globe] project.

'''Location:''' Nuremberg, Germany

'''e-Mail:''' rahn@kde.org

'''IRC:''' tackat

'''Skype:''' tackat73

Torsten Rahn

2013-09-12T12:47:53Z

Wiki-Torsten Rahn:

[[File:tackat.jpg]]

Liaison Officer of the [http://marble.kde.org Marble Virtual Globe] project.

'''Location:''' Nuremberg, Germany

'''e-Mail:''' rahn@kde.org

'''IRC:''' tackat

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2013-09-12T12:47:07Z

Wiki-Torsten Rahn:

Torsten Rahn

2013-09-12T12:46:43Z

Wiki-Torsten Rahn:

[[File:tackat.jpg]]

Liaison Officer of the [http://marble.kde.org Marble Virtual Globe] project.

'''Location:''' Nuremberg, Germany
'''e-Mail:''' rahn@kde.org
'''IRC:''' tackat

Torsten Rahn

2013-09-12T12:44:31Z

Wiki-Torsten Rahn:

Liaison Officer of the [http://marble.kde.org Marble Virtual Globe] project.

'''Location:''' Nuremberg, Germany
'''e-Mail:''' rahn@kde.org
'''IRC:''' tackat

Contacts

2013-09-12T12:42:18Z

Wiki-Torsten Rahn: /* Software Projects */

OSGeo Projects are freestanding entities, handled by their own Project Steering Committees. Each project has been asked to provide a representative to help coordinate OSGeo involvement. These volunteers are listed by project below:

== General ==
* General Foundation Info - info@osgeo.org - [mailto:info@osgeo.org] (emails are currently forwarded to 3 people: FrankW, JeffM, MarkL)
* President - [[Jeff McKenna]] - jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
* [[Board of Directors]] - [[User:warmerda|Frank Warmerdam]] - warmerdam@pobox.com
* [[Treasurer]] (AC/AP) - Daniel Morissette - treasurer at osgeo.org

== Software Projects ==
'''Web Mapping'''
* [http://www.degree.org/ deegree]: [http://wiki.deegree.org/deegreeWiki/StructuresAndProcedures PSC] - Contact: [[User:JensFitzke | Jens Fitzke]]
* [http://geomajas.org Geomajas]: [http://www.geomajas.org/community/project-steering-committee PSC] - Chair: Pieter De Graef (pieter.degraef at geosparc.com)
* [http://www.geomoose.org/ GeoMoose]: [http://www.geomoose.org/rfc/rfc-1.html PSC] - Chair: - Brian Fischer (bfischer at houstoneng.com)
* [http://geoserver.org GeoServer]: [http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/developer/policies/psc.html PSC] - Chair: Jody Garnett (jody.garnett at gmail.com)
* [http://www.mapbender.org Mapbender]: [http://www.mapbender.org/index.php/Category:PSC PSC] - Chair: Christian Wygoda
* [http://www.mapfish.org MapFish]: [http://trac.mapfish.org/trac/mapfish/wiki/Community/PSC PSC] - Chair: [[User:Elem | Eric Lemoine]]
* [http://mapguide.osgeo.org/ MapGuide Open Source]: [http://mapguide.osgeo.org/psc.html PSC] - Chair: Robert Bray (robert.bray at autodesk.com)
* [http://mapserver.org/ MapServer]: [http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-23.html PSC] - Chair: Stephen Lime (sdlime at comcast.net)
* [http://openlayers.org/ OpenLayers]: [http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/SteeringCommittee PSC] - Chair: [[User:Tschaub | Tim Schaub]]

'''Desktop Applications'''
* [http://grass.osgeo.org/ GRASS GIS]: [http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/PSC PSC] - Chair: [[Markus Neteler]]
* [http://www.gvsig.org/ gvSIG]: - [[GvSIG Technical Project Committee|PSC]] - Chair: [[Jorge Sanz]]
* [http://marble.kde.org/ Marble]: [http://edu.kde.org/marble/authors.php Authors] - Liaison Officer: [[Torsten Rahn]]
* [http://www.ossim.org/ OSSIM]: [http://trac.osgeo.org/ossim/wiki/ossimgovernance PSC] - Chair: Garrett Potts
* [http://www.qgis.org/ Quantum GIS]: [http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/Project_Organigram PSC] - Chair: Gary Sherman (sherman at mrcc.com)

'''Geospatial Libraries'''
* [http://fdo.osgeo.org/ FDO]: [http://fdo.osgeo.org/psc.html PSC] - Chair: Greg Boone (greg.boone at autodesk.com)
* [http://www.gdal.org/ GDAL/OGR]: [http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/GovernanceAndCommunity PSC] - Chair: Frank Warmerdam (warmerdam@pobox.com)
* [http://www.geotools.org/ GeoTools]: [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOT/4+Project+Management+Committee PSC] - Chair: Jody Garnett (jody.garnett at gmail.com)
* [http://geos.osgeo.org/ GEOS]: [http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/wiki/PSC PSC] - Chair: [[User:Strk | Sandro Santilli]] (strk at keybit.net)
* [http://metacrs.osgeo.org/ MetaCRS]: [http://metacrs.osgeo.org PSC] - Chair: Frank Warmerdam (warmerdam@pobox.com)
* [http://postgis.org/ PostGIS]: [http://postgis.org/documentation/manual-svn/ch01.html#psc PSC] - Chair: [[User:Pwramsey3 | Paul Ramsey]]

'''Metadata Catalog'''
* [http://geonetwork-opensource.org GeoNetwork opensource]: [http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/wiki/PSC PSC] - Chair: Jeroen Ticheler (Jeroen.Ticheler at geocat.net)

== Committees ==
* [[Education and Curriculum Committee]] - Charlie Schweik - cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu
* [[Finance Committee]] - Daniel Morissette - dmorissette at mapgears.com
* [[Incubation Committee]] - Jody Garnett - jody.garnett at gmail.com
* [[Public Geospatial Data Committee]] - David William Bitner - bitner at dbspatial.com
* [[Marketing Committee]] - Cameron Shorter - cameron.shorter at gmail.com
* [[SAC|System Administration Committee]] - Alex Mandel - tech_dev at wildintellect.com
* [[Website Committee]] - Christopher Schmidt - crschmidt at metacarta.com
* [[Conference Committee]] - Jeff McKenna - jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
* OSGeo [[Journal]]

== Packaging ==
* [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live] - Cameron Shorter - cameron.shorter at gmail.com

== Local Chapters ==

Contacts list for the [[:Category:Local_Chapters|local chapters]]:
* [[Ottawa Chapter]] - Scott Mitchell - smitch at mac.com
* [[China]] - Chen Rongguo - chenrg at lreis.ac.cn
* [[Japan]] - Mr. Mori Toru - moritoru at orkney.co.jp
* [[Korea | Korean Language Chapter]] - [[User:Endofcap|Sanghee Shin]] - shshin at gaia3d.com or endofcap at gmail.com
* [[KSA Chapter]] - Awase Khirni Syed - awasekhirni at gmail.com
* [[India]] - P.S. Roy - psroy13 at gmail.com
* [[Brazil]] - Helton Uchoa - engenheiro.uchoa at gmail.com
* [[Taiwan]] - Sander Borghuis - s.borghuis at geo.uu.nl
* [[Spanish]] - [[Pedro-Juan Ferrer]] - vehrka at gmail.com
* [[Aust-NZ]] - Australia and New Zealand Chapter- Bruce Bannerman - bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com
* [[Finland]] - Ari Jolma - ajolma at osgeo.org
* [[Francophone]] - board at osgeo.asso dot fr (or [[User:Yjacolin|yjacolin]])
* [[D-A-CH]] (German language) - [[User:Mlechner|Marco Lechner]]
* [[Nederlands | Dutch language Chapter]] - [[User:Just|Just van den Broecke]] - Kwartiermaker en primair contact
* [[California]] - Landon Blake - sunburned.surveyor at gmail dot com
* [[Quebec]] - [[User:Dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]] - dmorissette at mapgears dot com
* [[Portugal]] - Jorge Gustavo Rocha - [[Jorge_Gustavo_Rocha]], Giovanni Manghi - [[Giovanni_Manghi]]
* [[Greek]] - [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]] - kotzino at csd dot uoc dot gr
* [[Italy]] - [[User:epifanio|Massimo Di Stefano]] - IT -- epiesasha at me dot com
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/California California Chapter] - Landon Blake sunburned dot surveyor at gmail dot com
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Cascadia CUGOS - Cascadia Chapter US] - [[User:Racicot|Aaron Racicot]] - aaronr at cugos.org
* [[PDX-OSGEO]] - Oregon, US Chapter -- [[User:EliL|Eli L Adam]] - eadam at
* [[Twin_Cities]] - Twin Cities, MN -- David Bitner - bitner at dbspatial dot com
* [[Philippines]] - [[User:maning|Maning Sambale]] - emmanuel dot sambale at gmail dot com
* [[Africa Local Chapter]] - [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]
* [[Poland]] - Tomasz Kubik - tomasz kubik at pwr wroc pl
* [http://www.osgeo.org/uk UK] - [[User:JoCook|Jo Cook]]

== Infrastructure ==

* [[SAC:Primary Administrators]]

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Torsten Rahn

2013-09-12T12:40:53Z

Wiki-Torsten Rahn: Created page with "Liaison Officer of the [http://marble.kde.org Marble Virtual Globe] project."

Liaison Officer of the [http://marble.kde.org Marble Virtual Globe] project.

Marble Graduation Checklist

2013-09-12T12:37:48Z

Wiki-Torsten Rahn: /* Documentation */

= Incubation Checklist =
More details are linked from the corresponding section on the [[Marble Incubation Status]] page.

== Open ==

The project has demonstrated that it has an open, active and healthy user and developer community:
# Open: projects are expected to function in an open and public manner and include:
#* Open source license: '''GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1'''
#* Open communication channels: '''Mailing Lists, IRC, Wiki'''
#* Open decision making process: '''Open developer mailing list'''
# Active and healthy community: '''Yes'''
#* The project has a community of developers and users who actively collaborate and support each other in a healthy way. '''Yes'''
#* Long term viability of the project is demonstrated by showing participation and direction from multiple developers, who come from multiple organisations. The project is resilient enough to sustain loss of a developer. It has a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor bus factor] of '''5'''. Decisions are made openly, which empowers all developers to take ownership of the project and facilitates spreading of knowledge between current and future team members.

== Copyright and License ==

We need to ensure that the project owns or otherwise has obtained the ability to release the project code by completing the following steps:
# All project source code is available under an Open Source license. '''Yes'''
# Project documentation is available under an open license, such as Creative Commons. '''Yes'''
# The project code, documentation and data has been adequately vetted to assure it is all properly licensed, and a copyright notice included, as per a [http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/codereview.html Provenance Review]. '''Yes, see [[Marble Code Provenance Review]]'''
# The project maintains a list of all copyright holders identified in the Provenance Review Document. '''Yes''
# All code contributors have agreed to abide by the project's license policy, and this agreement has been documented and archived. '''Yes''

== Processes ==

# The project has code under configuration management. '''Yes'''
# The project uses an issue tracker and keeps the status of the issue tracker up to date. '''Yes'''
# The project has documented its management processes. '''Yes: http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Marble/GoMarble'''
#* The project has a suitable open governance policy ensuring decisions are made, documented and adhered to in a public manner. '''Yes'''
#* The project uses public communication channels for decision making to maintain transparency. '''Yes'''

== Documentation ==

# The project has user documentation: '''Yes: http://marble.kde.org/documentation.php'''
#* Including sufficient detail to guide a new user through performing the core functionality provided by the application. '''Yes'''
# The project has developer documentation:
#* Including checkout and build instructions. '''Yes: http://marble.kde.org/sources.php'''
#* Including commented code, ideally published for developer use. '''Yes'''
#* Providing sufficient detail for an experienced programmer to contribute patches or a new module in accordance with the project's programming conventions. '''Yes'''

==Release Procedure==

In order to maintain a consistent level of quality, the project should follow defined release and testing processes. '''As a KDE project Marble follows the processes defined in the KDE community.'''

# The project follows a defined release process: '''Yes: http://techbase.kde.org/Policies'''
#* Which includes execution of the testing process before releasing a stable release. '''Yes'''
# The project follows a documented testing process. '''Yes: [http://www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org/krazy/reports/kde-4.x/kdeedu/marble/index.html QA page with code checker]'''
# Release and testing processes provide sufficient detail for an experienced programmer to follow. '''Yes'''

= OSGeo Committees and Community =

The OSGeo Foundation is made up of a number of committees, projects and local chapters. This section gathers up information these groups have requested from OSGeo projects. These expectations are not mandatory requirements before graduation, but a project should be prepared to address them in order to be considered a good OSGeo citizen.

== Board ==

The OSGeo [[Board]] holds ultimate responsibility for all OSGeo activities. The Board requests:

# A project provide a Project Officer as a contract point: '''Yes'''
#* The Project Officer should be listed at: [[Contacts#Software_Projects|Project Officer]]
#* This person is established when the incubation committee recommends the project for graduation.
#* Your community can change the project officer as needed (just add an agenda item to the next board meeting so they can recognise the change of officer).

== Marketing ==

Access to OSGeo's [[Marketing_Committee]] and associated [[Marketing_Pipeline]] is one of the key benefits of joining the OSGeo foundation. The Marketing Committee requests:

# Marketing artefacts have been created about the project in line with the incubation criteria listed in the OSGeo Marketing Committee's [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Artefacts Marketing Artefacts]. This lists the documentation requirements for [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]. Marketing Artefacts include:
#* Application Overview '''Yes'''
#* Application Quick Start '''Yes'''
#* Logo '''Yes'''
#* Graphical Image '''Yes'''
# Ideally, stable version(s) of executable applications are bundled with appropriate distributions. '''Yes'''
* [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]
* [http://debian.org/ Debian]
* [https://ubuntu.com Ubuntu]
* [http://edu.kde.org/marble/ KDE]
* many more...

== Projects ==

Projects do not exist in isolation; and are expected to communicate and collaborate on key issues.

'''Marble is part of a major release process within the KDE community. As a desktop application there are not many dependencies to other libraries. '''

== SAC ==

The [[SAC|System Administration Committee]] is available to help infrastructure and facilities. Information for this committee is collected as part of the [[Project Status Template]]. The following should be set up:
* http://osgeo.org/marble has been set up.

A project may optionally request SAC help to make use of: '''None required, the project is in a safe haven at the KDE community-'''
* OSGeo issue tracker
* OSGeo mailing list
* OSGeo svn
* http://downloads.osgeo.org

[[Category: Incubation]]