\title{deegree}
\author{Jens Fitzke, \url{http://deegree.org}}
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\section{Key Accomplishments}
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\item  The deegree Project Steering Commitee (PSC) was instantiated in January.
\item  deegree 2.1 demo packages have been released in January, including OGC reference implementation for WMS 1.1.1,  1.3.0 and WCS 1.0.0.
\item  The coordinate reference system component has been completely redesigned to meet the requirement to be highly configurable.
\item  Release management was formally installed and a release manager appointed by the PSC.
\item  deegree applied for OSGeo incubation and started the incubation process in May.
\item  Third deegree day successfully took place in Bonn in June with about 80 participants.\footnote{deegree day event: \url{http://deegreeday.deegree.org/archive}}
\item  Work on the next major version (deegree 3) started.
\item  deegree 3 alpha has been released, containing SOS as a first ready-to-run demo.
\item  deegree 2.2 stable released in December.
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\section{Areas for Improvement}
\begin{itemize}
\item  Extend, improve documentation, create tutorials.
\item  Increase involvement of the community.
\item  Increase the number of contributors (code).
\item  Reduce the number of pre-releases within one release cycle.
\end{itemize}

\section{Opportunities to Help}
\begin{itemize}
\item  Test release candidates at an early stage.
\item  Provide or improve documentation (e.g. QA by native speakers).
\item  Contribute to tutorial production process.
\item  Actively contribute to deegree 3 development.
\item  Share experiences with deegree.
\end{itemize}

\section{Outlook for 2009}
\begin{itemize}
\item  Release management to be refined.
\item  Establish new build mechanism based on ant/ivy
\item  deegree 2.3 to be released, including improved iGeoPortal GUI.
\item  deegree iGeoDesktop preview to be published.
\item  4th deegree day  held on May 26th/27th, with local OpenStreetMap outreach activity.
\item  More deegree 3 alpha versions to be released, including demo packages for SOS, WPS, WCS, WFS and WMS.
\item  OSGeo incubation to be continued.
\end{itemize}
