Over the weekend, OSGeo announced that the deegree project has 'graduated' from incubation status and is now a full OSGeo project. Markus Schneider, Vice President of deegree, has been appointed as project representative.

deegree is a Java Framework offering the main building blocks for Spatial Data Infrastructures. Its entire architecture is developed using standards of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and ISO/TC 211 (ISO Technical Committee 211 -- Geographic Information/Geomatics). deegree encompasses OGC Web Services as well as Clients and security components.

Further information can be found on the main deegree web site.