FOSS4G 2008 Activities

Page owner: Alize

This page is for organising and documenting all non-workshop activities for the morning and afternoon of 3 Oct and other times where available.

=Outreach= !!!!!!Volunteers needed!!!!!!!!!!

Friday morning 3 October 2008


 * UCT workshop for University students and staff. 22 PC's available.
 * UCT Geomatics department.
 * 3rd, 4th year students, postgraduate and UCT staff will attend.
 * GIS delegates to present workshop on :
 * Spatial data infrastructure development and web-based GIS. - OPEN SOURCE
 * Volunteer(s) needed! Workshop or talk for school teachers on FOSS GIS in the class room. Who is doing what, how can it be used best, what can be used in different situations and with different resources, etc. Leads onto afternoon workshop - see below. It can be a hands-on workshop if a venue with computers can be secured.

Friday afternoon 3 October 2008


 * High school geography teachers workshop. 22 PC's available.
 * UCT Geomatics department or Bishops College
 * Volunteer(s) needed! Workshop / demonstration for school teachers (and university lecturers, government officials, etc. Free to the public!). It can be a hands-on workshop if a venue with computers can be secured. Else it will just be a talk / lecture / demonstration. This could be in a public place like the Cape Town City Hall, distilling the coollest stuff from the conference, by a really exciting presenter. Something like 'GIS in your life and work' showing off web mashups, routing and GPS, LBS, cool website, web processing, desktop GIS, advanced analysis (cool maps and outputs), etc. Broadcast / video / podcast.

We would like to organise the following as well.
 * Public lectures on FOSS GIS given by FOSS GIS delegates. One or more people volunteer to give a flashy lecture and demo at UCT great hall or civic centre, free to the public and well marketed.
 * FOSS GIS workshops for
 * Government officials
 * Install and configure (Ubuntu and) FOSS GIS software stack and data at schools / local municipalities around Cape Town
 * a public talk and demo in a township that's a wow! For all the kids
 * a field mapping or participatory GIS exercise in a township

These activities would be held at schools, universities or other public facilities in and around Cape Town.

=Technical Visits=

Monday morning

Option 1 (1.5h visit) leaving 8h00. Back 12h30 ( no additional costs)
 * Houwteq Satellite Integration Facility in Grabouw – Institute for satellite and software application

44 Seater : R 3939 ( Grabouw)Transport

18 Seater : R2375 (Grabouw)Transport

Option 2
 * Chief Directorate: Surveys and Mapping (1.5h visit)(no additional costs)

44 Seater : R 3136 ( Cape Town)Transport

18 Seater : R1843 ( Cape Town)Transport

The following areas will be covered:

- Image Acquisition and Field Surveying , Trignet - permanent GPS base stations , Data Extraction and Manipulation , Geospatial Data Management & Cartographic Production

Friday morning

Option 1 (1.5h visit) leaving 8h00. Back 12h30 ( No additional costs) Available for 22 people 44 Seater : R 3939 ( Grabouw)Transport
 * Houwteq Satellite Integration Facility in Grabouw – Institute for satellite and software application

18 Seater : R2375 (Grabouw)Transport

Option 2 Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry Available for 22 people ( Venue costs of wine farm still to be confirmed, no additional costs for speaker)
 * Wine tasting on wine farm in Grabouw. (1.5h visit) leving 8h00. Back 12h30

44 Seater : R 3939 ( Grabouw)Transport

18 Seater : R2375 (Grabouw)Transport

=Other activities=
 * student competition a la GeoWeb 2008?
 * school competition?