Today, the release of MapGuide Open Source 1.0 RC1 was announced, and the website at http://mapguide.osgeo.org/ was unveiled.
This release appears to be considerably more polished than the 0.91 preview that was released last fall. The installation procedures and documentation are more complete and refined, with one of the more important additions being the developers documentation. There is now a developer’s guide and some well-written API documentation. WMS and WFS services are also now available. Unfortunately, not all of the FDO providers are available yet, but I am hoping that they will be made available soon.
An important feature of this release that may initially be overlooked is that with this release they have officially launched as a true collaborative open source project. I would imagine that it will take time to grow a following, but the steps to get involved as a developer are outlined here, and all of the bug tracking and SVN access are available live. For users that are interested in an open source geospatial data access library, the FDO project is also available, but in a limited state.
One other thing that I noticed is that they have included a screenshot of the MapGuide/Google Earth integration work that I have done, which of course gets my vote :)
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