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\title{deegree}
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\begin{itemize}
\item  Contact name: \textbf{Jens Fitzke}
\item  Web site: \url{http://deegree.org/}
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\section{Key Accomplishments}
2009 was the most important year of deegree v.3 development (AKA deegree 3). The module structure has been improved and made stable, configuration has been designed and implemented, and the build mechanism set up. Nightly builds have been made available in August [more TBD].

A first pre-release of deegree's GIS Desktop application named "iGeoDesktop" was released in March.

The fourth deegree day successfully took place in Bonn in May, together with a local OpenStreetMap outreach activity. There were about 120 participants and Steve Coast even dropped in (http://deegreeday.deegree.org/archive).

The first deegree 2.3 release candidate was published in November, after quite some improvements in the release process and result. The package included pre-configured and ready-to-run versions of WMS, WFS, WCS, CSW, WPVS, WPS and iGeoPortal. Those were at the same time made available on http://demo.deegree.org/.

Outreach: deegree was presented at FOSSGIS (March in Hannover, Germany), deegree day (May in Bonn, Germany), AGIT (July in Salzburg, Austria), INTERGEO (September in Karlsruhe, Germany), FOSS4G (October in Sydney, Australia)

\section{Areas for Improvement}
\begin{itemize}
\item  Extend and 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
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\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 2010}
\begin{itemize}
\item  OSGeo incubation process to be finalized
\item  Though we made some progress in release management, there are still issues to improve
\item  deegree 2.3 stable to be released in early 2010
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