= ZOO Project description =

ZOO is a WPS (Web Processing Service) open source project released under the [wiki:Licence MIT/X-11 license]. It implements [http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wps OGC WPS] in a developer-friendly framework to create and chain WPS webservices. Its main goals are to gather existing open source librairies and to make them communicate in a standardized way, but also to simplify the end-developer's job by providing an easy method to create new webservices.

= The ZOO Project story =

ZOO Project was created by Gerald FENOY, Nicolas BOZON and Venkatesh RAGAHAVAN in October 2008 during the [http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008 FOSS4G 2008 Conference]. Since that date, the desiging and development work have been done by the [http://www.geolabs.fr GeoLabs] and [http://www.3liz.com 3LIZ] companies, in collabration with the various ZOO sponsors and knowledge partners. ZOO Project was then presented at [http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2009 FOSS4G 2009 Conference], and during several conferences, meetings and workshops in Asia, Europe and Africa.

[[Image(http://svn.zoo-project.org/img/zoo-monkeys.png, align=center, nolink, alt=ZOO Project founders at FOSS4G 2009 Syndey, title=ZOO Project founders at FOSS4G 2009 Syndey)]]

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