The OSGeo Board has approved the application by the QGIS project, and
the FDO project to enter the incubation process. Incubation is a
stepping stone to becoming a full fledged OSGeo project.
http://www.osgeo.org/incubator
QGIS is a cross platform user friendly desktop GIS. QGIS supports vector,
raster, and database formats and lets you browse and create map data.
FDO is a C++ library for accessing feature data from a variety of vector,
database, and raster sources. It includes many enterprise-class features
such as transactions and complex schema support.