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 Seattle, Washington, USA, July 19 — The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) announced today that Mapbender, a portal-based suite of software for geodata management using OGC OWS architectures, has met all of the legal and community requirements to become the first official product supported by the Foundation.  Just six months after its inception, the Foundation is already starting to make an impact on the geospatial industry, providing a degree of quality assurance for open source geospatial software users and getting its message out to the GIS community at conferences and tradeshows.
-'''Mapbender is First Approved OSGeo Project'''
+'''Mapbender Is First Approved OSGeo Project'''
 Mapbender (www.mapbender.org) is a client-side framework for orchestrating interoperable web map services. It is implemented in PHP and JavaScript and ships with a set of predefined user interfaces for viewing, editing and managing map services and users.  Mapbender is used throughout the world, with sites ranging from easy-to-use city map services to intricate applications to apply for agricultural subsidy grants; many of these sites can be see at the Mapbender Gallery (http://www.mapbender.org/index.php/Mapbender_Gallery).
-Mapbender is the first project to graduate from the incubation process that every project must complete before being accepted as an official OSGeo project.  This incubation process, now common to many major open source foundations, includes a complete legal review of all the source code; all the Mapbender code has now been reviewed manually to identify, address, and if needed remove any potential encumbrances, such as IP and license issues.  Additionally, the incubation process involves an "health check" of the project's infrastructure and governance: is the project run as a good Open Source project?  does it have a healthy community?  who are the developers and where do they come from? do the project managers foster an open and consensus-based environment?
+Mapbender is the first project to graduate from the incubation process that every project must complete before being accepted as an official OSGeo project.  This incubation process, now common to many major open source foundations, includes a complete legal review of all the source code; all the Mapbender code has now been reviewed manually to identify, address, and if needed remove any potential encumbrances, such as IP and license issues.  Additionally, the incubation process involves a "health check" of the project's infrastructure and governance: is the project run as a good Open Source project?  does it have a healthy community?  who are the developers and where do they come from? do the project managers foster an open and consensus-based environment?
 Paul Spencer, CTO of DM Solutions Group, acted as the project's incubation "mentor".  As an OSGeo member with years of experience in many other Open Source projects, he acted as a consultant to the Mapbender team throughout this process.  Along the way, Spencer was also able to raise the visibility of the Mapbender software within the Foundation, improving opportunities for future cross-project collaborations.
-'''OSGeo Hitting its Stride'''
+'''OSGeo Hitting Its Stride'''
 The Foundation was formed early in 2006 by a diverse collection of open source advocates with the aim of supporting and promoting open source geospatial projects.  In only six months, the Foundation's mailing lists are reaching hundreds of developers and users across the industry, with hundreds more also registered on the OSGeo website (www.osgeo.org).  Already the Foundation has eight projects in incubation, all open source tools and applications that range from low-level libraries to web services environments to a broad function desktop GIS.  "We have enjoyed a great deal of support everywhere we have taken the OSGeo message," says Frank Warmerdam, Foundation president.  "And through the OSGeo incubation process we are able to provide a high degree of confidence in OSGeo approved projects on issues from intellectual property to healthy community functioning."

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 ''Mapbender is first officially approved project; Foundation reaches hundreds of members; OSGeo presents at OSCON and GeoWeb''
-Seattle, Washington, USA, July 20 — The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) announced today that Mapbender, a portal-based suite of software for geodata management using OGC OWS architectures, has met all of the legal and community requirements to become the first official product supported by the Foundation.  Just six months after its inception, the Foundation is already starting to make an impact on the geospatial industry, providing a degree of quality assurance for open source geospatial software users and getting its message out to the GIS community at conferences and tradeshows.
+Seattle, Washington, USA, July 19 — The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) announced today that Mapbender, a portal-based suite of software for geodata management using OGC OWS architectures, has met all of the legal and community requirements to become the first official product supported by the Foundation.  Just six months after its inception, the Foundation is already starting to make an impact on the geospatial industry, providing a degree of quality assurance for open source geospatial software users and getting its message out to the GIS community at conferences and tradeshows.
 '''Mapbender is First Approved OSGeo Project'''

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 '''OSGeo Hitting its Stride'''
-The Foundation was formed early in 2006 by a diverse collection of open source advocates with the aim of supporting and promoting open source geospatial projects.  In only six months, the Foundation's mailing lists are reaching hundreds of developers and users across the industry, with hundreds more also registered on the OSGeo website (www.osgeo.org).  Already the Foundation has eight projects in incubation, all open source tools and applications that range from low-level libraries to web services enviroments to a broad function desktop GIS.  "We have enjoyed a great deal of support everywhere we have taken the OSGeo message," says Frank Warmerdam, Foundation president.  "And through the OSGeo incubation process we are able to provide a high degree of confidence in OSGeo approved projects on issues from intellectual property to healthy community functioning."
+The Foundation was formed early in 2006 by a diverse collection of open source advocates with the aim of supporting and promoting open source geospatial projects.  In only six months, the Foundation's mailing lists are reaching hundreds of developers and users across the industry, with hundreds more also registered on the OSGeo website (www.osgeo.org).  Already the Foundation has eight projects in incubation, all open source tools and applications that range from low-level libraries to web services environments to a broad function desktop GIS.  "We have enjoyed a great deal of support everywhere we have taken the OSGeo message," says Frank Warmerdam, Foundation president.  "And through the OSGeo incubation process we are able to provide a high degree of confidence in OSGeo approved projects on issues from intellectual property to healthy community functioning."
 '''OSGeo on the Road'''
-In addition to supporting actual software development, a big part of OSGeo's mission is to promote the use of open source software and public data within the GIS industry.  Following on its well-publicized success at Where 2.0 earlier this summer, where over 30 OSGeo members exhbited and presented, OSGeo will be at two other events next week.  The Foundation is hosting a booth at OSCON, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, in Portland, Oregon.  OSGeo member Gary Lang (Autodesk) will be offering a keynote, and members Mark Lucas (Radiant Blue), Jo Walsh (Open Knowledge Foundation), and Aaron Racicot (EcoTrust) will all be speaking as well.
+In addition to supporting actual software development, a big part of OSGeo's mission is to promote the use of open source software and public data within the GIS industry.  Following on its well-publicized success at Where 2.0 earlier this summer, where over 30 OSGeo members exhibited and presented, OSGeo will be at two other events next week.  The Foundation is hosting a booth at OSCON, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, in Portland, Oregon.  OSGeo member Gary Lang (Autodesk) will be offering a keynote, and members Mark Lucas (Radiant Blue), Jo Walsh (Open Knowledge Foundation), and Aaron Racicot (EcoTrust) will all be speaking as well.
 Also next week, OSGeo members will be presenting at GeoWeb 2006 in Vancouver, British Columbia.  Michael P. Gerlek (LizardTech) will be speaking on OSGeo's mission, and Ian Turton (Pennsylvania State University) will be presenting a paper on geocollaborative systems using open standards and open software.  Gary Lang (Autodesk) will also be giving a keynote presentation.

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 In addition to supporting actual software development, a big part of OSGeo's mission is to promote the use of open source software and public data within the GIS industry.  Following on its well-publicized success at Where 2.0 earlier this summer, where over 30 OSGeo members exhbited and presented, OSGeo will be at two other events next week.  The Foundation is hosting a booth at OSCON, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, in Portland, Oregon.  OSGeo member Gary Lang (Autodesk) will be offering a keynote, and members Mark Lucas (Radiant Blue), Jo Walsh (Open Knowledge Foundation), and Aaron Racicot (EcoTrust) will all be speaking as well.
-Also next week, OSGeo members will be presenting at GeoWeb 2006 in Vancouver, British Columbia.  Michael P. Gerlek (LizardTech) will be speaking on OSGeo's mission, and Ian Turton (Pennsylvania State University) will be presenting a paper on geocollaborative systems using open standards and open software.
+Also next week, OSGeo members will be presenting at GeoWeb 2006 in Vancouver, British Columbia.  Michael P. Gerlek (LizardTech) will be speaking on OSGeo's mission, and Ian Turton (Pennsylvania State University) will be presenting a paper on geocollaborative systems using open standards and open software.  Gary Lang (Autodesk) will also be giving a keynote presentation.
 '''About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation'''

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	OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration. The Foundation's projects are all freely available and useable under an OSI-certified open source license.		OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration. The Foundation's projects are all freely available and useable under an OSI-certified open source license.

−	© Copyright 2006 Open Source Geospatial Foundation, under the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives (by-nd) License.	+	© Copyright 2006 [http://www.osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation], under the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives ([http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/ by-nd]) License.

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 '''Mapbender is First Approved OSGeo Project'''
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+Mapbender is a client framework for orchestrating interoperable web map services. It is implemented in PHP and JavaScript and ships with a set of predefined user interfaces for viewing, editing and managing map services and users. Find more information at the home of the project at http://www.mapbender.org which also hosts a Gallery where productive sites operating this software are listed ranging from easy-to-use city map services to intricate applications to apply for agricultural subsidy grants or the nacent environmental portal of Germany PortalU.
 '''OSGeo Hitting its Stride'''

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−	Email: ~~info~~@osgeo.org	+	Email: mpg@osgeo.org