Toni, Bastian, Astrid and Harald from the OSGeo
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In the Free Software ecosystem, nearly everybody has heard about KDE. People associate us with a great desktop environment and some interesting applications. On other desktops there may be installations of KDE software, but those people may not know a single KDE application. This is why Torsten Rahn and Bastian Holst went to INTERGEO this year to present Marble.
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There were a number of requests from the KDE-science project to have these sorts of capabilities in KDE, either through marble itself or through a marble-based program. So it is good to see the marble developers actively discussing this with people in the field.