Those interested in GIS might want to check out MapServerFoundation.org. It was set up in November.

Intro from the site:The MapServer Foundation has been created to support and build the highest-quality open source geospatial software. The foundation's goal is to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led projects.

Developed by NASA and University of Minnesota... it's something of a convergent set of technology.

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The software is built on top of other popular open source software libraries including: GDAL/OGR, Proj.4, Shapelib, GD, FreeType, etc. It supports dozens of vector and over 40 raster data formats. It can run as a CGI application using Apache or IIS web servers or scripted through several programming languages including Perl, Python, PHP, Java and more. MapServer is known to run on Linux, most versions of Unix, Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX.