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FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-09-29T08:02:52Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Technical Visits */

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 26th September==

===Day course on open source applications===

*Honours and postgraduate students welcome
*Day event in the Geomatics computer lab @ UCT
*Presenter: Martin Dresen from Germany

Course contents:
Morning session
*1. Introduction to Open Source GIS
*2. Introduction to Webmapping
*3. Open Layers
After Lunch
*4. UMN Mapserver

Contacts
*Alize Botha : ABotha1@csir.co.za
*Dr Julian Smith : Julian.Smit@uct.ac.za

==Sunday 28 September==

===SESSION 1. Street Mapping Party in and around Cape Town===

OpenStreetMap will be running a ‘Mapping Party’ in the streets of Cape Town which involves walking / cycling / driving with a GPS and editing and uploading your tracks to the free, public www.openstreetmap.org This promises to be lots of fun and you will also be working towards something useful.

*Date: Sunday 29 September
*Meet at: TBA
*Start time: Morning
*Duration: All Day
*Lunch : To be self organised
*Required equipment : There will be GPS's and Laptops
*What to bring with : GPS if delegates have one
*Contact: Mikel Maron : mikel_maron@yahoo.com
*!! Volunteers needed: to tell teachers about GPS, the street mapping project, and to help with the exercise.!!
Planning and details at:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenMappingAfrica2008 and

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/WikiProject_South_Africa

==Friday 3 October 2008 - morning==

===SESSION 2. Mapping and GIS Options===
2 computer labs of 20 people + classrooms
*Session 1 : 8h30-10h30h Hands-on exposure to GIS by the J-Grass team using uDig
*or QGIS session
*Session 2 : 11h-13h Map Aware session by CDSM
*Session 3 : 9h-12h Hands-on Google earth session by Ed Parsons from Google
*Session 4 : 14h-15h30 Hands-on exposure to ArcView by NSIF

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Trafalgar High School, address, District Six
*Start time: 8h30 am
*Finish time: 15h30pm
*Duration: all day with different sessions to choose from
*Contact: Avis Smith - avis@discoverymail.co.za / 0832439724
or Alize Botha - alizebotha@gmail.com

===SESSION 3. Outdoor event to learn about GPS in the Rondevlei Nature Reserve===
Practical use of GIS technology in nature that includes working with a GPS, marking and finding points, observing wetland bird and looking at data collected previously using GIS software. This is an opportunity to see what how GIS can be applied in real life. GPS will be provided but bring your own if you have.

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Rondevlei Nature Reserve, Fisherman’s Walk Road, Zeekoivlei
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 13.00
*Duration: 2.5 hours
*Max Number: 20
*Book with: Bronwen Foster
Environmental Education Officer
*Tel.: 021 706 2404, Fax: 021 706 2405
*Email: Bronwen.Foster@capetown.gov.za
*Entrance Fee: R6.00 per adult
*!!Volunteers welcome. to assist Bronwen with showing teachers how to use GPS and see RondeVlei Reserve.!!

==Friday afternoon 3 October==

===Independent Schools of South Africa, Geography Teachers Conference===
Workshop with demos and talks from international guest of how GIS is being used in other countries, also local input that will help teachers here teach GIS '''
*Venue: Biships Boys School, Rondebosch, Cape Town
*Session 1: 14h00 - 15h30 Nico Elema from Globalimage
*Session 2: 15h30 - 17h00 Street Mapping guys with GPS demo
*Presentation : Hands-on demo with MapWindow, discussion on GIS in Education and live demo with GPS's
*Contact : John Lanser - jlanser@bishops.org.za, Shawn Lezar - slezar007@yahoo.com, Alize Botha - alizebotha@gmail.com
*24 PC's available

=Technical Visits=

For final technical visit programme see [[FOSS4G2008_Workshops_and_Technical_Visits]]

These are just working notes below.

'''Monday morning'''

'''Option 1'''
*Visit to the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping
*Monday 29th September 2008: 8h30-12h00
*Conference delegates to gather 8h15 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through how the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping operates.

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'''
*Visit to the Institute for Satellite and Software Applications
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 8h00-12h30
*Conference delegates to gather '''7h50''' at the CTICC.
*Bus departing at 8h00
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through their facilities and explain their role in the South African space program.

'''Option 2'''

*Visit to Delheim - Wine Estate GIS
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 13h00-17h30
*Conference delegates to gather '''12h50'''at the CTICC.
*Bus departing at 13h00
*40 delegates and 1 volunteer

Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry.
This will be followed by a wine tasting and tour of the farm.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-09-29T08:01:56Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Technical Visits */

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 26th September==

===Day course on open source applications===

*Honours and postgraduate students welcome
*Day event in the Geomatics computer lab @ UCT
*Presenter: Martin Dresen from Germany

Course contents:
Morning session
*1. Introduction to Open Source GIS
*2. Introduction to Webmapping
*3. Open Layers
After Lunch
*4. UMN Mapserver

Contacts
*Alize Botha : ABotha1@csir.co.za
*Dr Julian Smith : Julian.Smit@uct.ac.za

==Sunday 28 September==

===SESSION 1. Street Mapping Party in and around Cape Town===

OpenStreetMap will be running a ‘Mapping Party’ in the streets of Cape Town which involves walking / cycling / driving with a GPS and editing and uploading your tracks to the free, public www.openstreetmap.org This promises to be lots of fun and you will also be working towards something useful.

*Date: Sunday 29 September
*Meet at: TBA
*Start time: Morning
*Duration: All Day
*Lunch : To be self organised
*Required equipment : There will be GPS's and Laptops
*What to bring with : GPS if delegates have one
*Contact: Mikel Maron : mikel_maron@yahoo.com
*!! Volunteers needed: to tell teachers about GPS, the street mapping project, and to help with the exercise.!!
Planning and details at:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenMappingAfrica2008 and

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/WikiProject_South_Africa

==Friday 3 October 2008 - morning==

===SESSION 2. Mapping and GIS Options===
2 computer labs of 20 people + classrooms
*Session 1 : 8h30-10h30h Hands-on exposure to GIS by the J-Grass team using uDig
*or QGIS session
*Session 2 : 11h-13h Map Aware session by CDSM
*Session 3 : 9h-12h Hands-on Google earth session by Ed Parsons from Google
*Session 4 : 14h-15h30 Hands-on exposure to ArcView by NSIF

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Trafalgar High School, address, District Six
*Start time: 8h30 am
*Finish time: 15h30pm
*Duration: all day with different sessions to choose from
*Contact: Avis Smith - avis@discoverymail.co.za / 0832439724
or Alize Botha - alizebotha@gmail.com

===SESSION 3. Outdoor event to learn about GPS in the Rondevlei Nature Reserve===
Practical use of GIS technology in nature that includes working with a GPS, marking and finding points, observing wetland bird and looking at data collected previously using GIS software. This is an opportunity to see what how GIS can be applied in real life. GPS will be provided but bring your own if you have.

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Rondevlei Nature Reserve, Fisherman’s Walk Road, Zeekoivlei
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 13.00
*Duration: 2.5 hours
*Max Number: 20
*Book with: Bronwen Foster
Environmental Education Officer
*Tel.: 021 706 2404, Fax: 021 706 2405
*Email: Bronwen.Foster@capetown.gov.za
*Entrance Fee: R6.00 per adult
*!!Volunteers welcome. to assist Bronwen with showing teachers how to use GPS and see RondeVlei Reserve.!!

==Friday afternoon 3 October==

===Independent Schools of South Africa, Geography Teachers Conference===
Workshop with demos and talks from international guest of how GIS is being used in other countries, also local input that will help teachers here teach GIS '''
*Venue: Biships Boys School, Rondebosch, Cape Town
*Session 1: 14h00 - 15h30 Nico Elema from Globalimage
*Session 2: 15h30 - 17h00 Street Mapping guys with GPS demo
*Presentation : Hands-on demo with MapWindow, discussion on GIS in Education and live demo with GPS's
*Contact : John Lanser - jlanser@bishops.org.za, Shawn Lezar - slezar007@yahoo.com, Alize Botha - alizebotha@gmail.com
*24 PC's available

=Technical Visits=

For final technical visit programme see [[FOSS4G2008_Workshops_and_Technical_Visits]]

These are just working notes below.

'''Monday morning'''

'''Option 1'''
*Visit to the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping
*Monday 29th September 2008: 8h30-12h00
*Conference delegates to gather 8h15 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through how the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping operates.

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'''
*Visit to the Institute for Satellite and Software Applications
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 8h00-12h30
*Conference delegates to gather '''7h50''' at the CTICC.
*Bus departing at 8h00
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through their facilities and explain their role in the South African space program.

'''Option 2'''

*Visit to Delheim - Wine Estate GIS
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 13h00-17h30
*Conference delegates to gather 12h50 at the CTICC.
*Bus departing at 13h00
*40 delegates and 1 volunteer

Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry.
This will be followed by a wine tasting and tour of the farm.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G2008 LocMembers

2008-09-29T07:56:48Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Foss4G2008 LOC Member Contact Details */

== Foss4G2008 LOC Member Contact Details ==

Name: Alize Botha
Phone: 084 5141966 / 012 8413242
Area of Responsibility: Technical tours and Educational outreach activities
Other relevant/ interesting info: Sunday 28th - Thursday 2nd

Name: Burnie Nawn
Phone: 0721345352
Area of Responsiblity: Workshops/Labs & venues for these/PC's & AV equipment
Other relevant/ interesting info: Sat 27th - Sat 4th

Name: Mandy Vickers
Phone: 083 278 4056
Area of Responsiblity: Posters
Other relevant/ interesting info: Sunday 28th - Friday 3rd

Name: Inge Netterberg
Phone:0824188712
Area of Responsiblity: Technical programme
Other relevant/ interesting info: not available Sat 27th pm

Name: Carrin Martin
Phone: 072 1448510
Area of Responsiblity: Plenaries, education outreach, GISSA notices, engineers CPD
accreditation, GISSA stand. Will be available generally to assist.
Other relevant/ interesting info: Arriving on Saturday mid day to help with bag packing and registration,and leaving Saturday mid-morning in case we need to entertain people on Friday night

Name: Tim Sutton
Phone: 071 407 6101
Area of Responsiblity: Code Sprint, lightning talks, demo theatre
Other relevant/ interesting info: 27th - 4th

Name: Russell Hope
Phone: 084 444 3686
Area of Responsiblity: Volunteer coordinator
Other relevant/ interesting info: attending Monday

Name: Serena Coetzee
Phone: 082 464 4294
Area of Responsiblity: Academic track
Other relevant/ interesting info: Sunday afternoon 28th - Thursday evening 2nd

Name: Jeff McKenna
Phone:
Area of Responsiblity: OSGeo rep, workshop subcommittee
Other relevant/ interesting info: Saturday 27th (to help with workshop room setup on Sunday)

Name:Daina Mudimbu
Phone: 082 880 7571
Area of Responsiblity: Marketing, communications, PR
Other relevant/ interesting info: Arriving Sunday 28th after 4pm leaving Saturday

Name: Graeme McFerren
Phone: 083 540 5108
Area of Responsiblity: Workshops and Labs, website, guest speaker
Other relevant/ interesting info: from the Friday morning 26th September (workshop setup) - Sunday evening 5th October

Name: Magda Roos
Phone: 083 611 1161
Area of Responsiblity: Exhibition coordinator and sponsor liaison
Other relevant/ interesting info: 28th - 3rd

Name: Gavin Fleming
Phone: 0845965680
Area of Responsiblity: general dog's body - all over the place!
Other relevant/ interesting info: 27th - 4th

Name: Petro Farrell, Karryn Gracey
Phone: 0827805111, 0829000021
Area of Responsiblity: Registration, Gala dinner, buses, CTICC liaison, airport transfers
Other relevant/ interesting info:

[[Category:FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G2008 LocMembers

2008-09-29T07:55:01Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Foss4G2008 LOC Member Contact Details */

== Foss4G2008 LOC Member Contact Details ==

Name: Alize Botha
Phone: 084 5141966 / 012 8413242
Contact e-mail during Foss4G : alizebotha@gmail.com
Area of Responsibility: Technical tours and Educational outreach activities
Other relevant/ interesting info: Sunday 28th - Thursday 2nd

Name: Burnie Nawn
Phone: 0721345352
Area of Responsiblity: Workshops/Labs & venues for these/PC's & AV equipment
Other relevant/ interesting info: Sat 27th - Sat 4th

Name: Mandy Vickers
Phone: 083 278 4056
Area of Responsiblity: Posters
Other relevant/ interesting info: Sunday 28th - Friday 3rd

Name: Inge Netterberg
Phone:0824188712
Area of Responsiblity: Technical programme
Other relevant/ interesting info: not available Sat 27th pm

Name: Carrin Martin
Phone: 072 1448510
Area of Responsiblity: Plenaries, education outreach, GISSA notices, engineers CPD
accreditation, GISSA stand. Will be available generally to assist.
Other relevant/ interesting info: Arriving on Saturday mid day to help with bag packing and registration,and leaving Saturday mid-morning in case we need to entertain people on Friday night

Name: Tim Sutton
Phone: 071 407 6101
Area of Responsiblity: Code Sprint, lightning talks, demo theatre
Other relevant/ interesting info: 27th - 4th

Name: Russell Hope
Phone: 084 444 3686
Area of Responsiblity: Volunteer coordinator
Other relevant/ interesting info: attending Monday

Name: Serena Coetzee
Phone: 082 464 4294
Area of Responsiblity: Academic track
Other relevant/ interesting info: Sunday afternoon 28th - Thursday evening 2nd

Name: Jeff McKenna
Phone:
Area of Responsiblity: OSGeo rep, workshop subcommittee
Other relevant/ interesting info: Saturday 27th (to help with workshop room setup on Sunday)

Name:Daina Mudimbu
Phone: 082 880 7571
Area of Responsiblity: Marketing, communications, PR
Other relevant/ interesting info: Arriving Sunday 28th after 4pm leaving Saturday

Name: Graeme McFerren
Phone: 083 540 5108
Area of Responsiblity: Workshops and Labs, website, guest speaker
Other relevant/ interesting info: from the Friday morning 26th September (workshop setup) - Sunday evening 5th October

Name: Magda Roos
Phone: 083 611 1161
Area of Responsiblity: Exhibition coordinator and sponsor liaison
Other relevant/ interesting info: 28th - 3rd

Name: Gavin Fleming
Phone: 0845965680
Area of Responsiblity: general dog's body - all over the place!
Other relevant/ interesting info: 27th - 4th

Name: Petro Farrell, Karryn Gracey
Phone: 0827805111, 0829000021
Area of Responsiblity: Registration, Gala dinner, buses, CTICC liaison, airport transfers
Other relevant/ interesting info:

[[Category:FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-09-29T07:12:02Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* other ideas */

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 26th September==

===Day course on open source applications===

*Honours and postgraduate students welcome
*Day event in the Geomatics computer lab @ UCT
*Presenter: Martin Dresen from Germany

Course contents:
Morning session
*1. Introduction to Open Source GIS
*2. Introduction to Webmapping
*3. Open Layers
After Lunch
*4. UMN Mapserver

Contacts
*Alize Botha : ABotha1@csir.co.za
*Dr Julian Smith : Julian.Smit@uct.ac.za

==Sunday 28 September==

===SESSION 1. Street Mapping Party in and around Cape Town===

OpenStreetMap will be running a ‘Mapping Party’ in the streets of Cape Town which involves walking / cycling / driving with a GPS and editing and uploading your tracks to the free, public www.openstreetmap.org This promises to be lots of fun and you will also be working towards something useful.

*Date: Sunday 29 September
*Meet at: TBA
*Start time: Morning
*Duration: All Day
*Lunch : To be self organised
*Required equipment : There will be GPS's and Laptops
*What to bring with : GPS if delegates have one
*Contact: Mikel Maron : mikel_maron@yahoo.com
*!! Volunteers needed: to tell teachers about GPS, the street mapping project, and to help with the exercise.!!
Planning and details at:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenMappingAfrica2008 and

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/WikiProject_South_Africa

==Friday 3 October 2008 - morning==

===SESSION 2. Mapping and GIS Options===
2 computer labs of 20 people + classrooms
*Session 1 : 8h30-10h30h Hands-on exposure to GIS by the J-Grass team using uDig
*or QGIS session
*Session 2 : 11h-13h Map Aware session by CDSM
*Session 3 : 9h-12h Hands-on Google earth session by Ed Parsons from Google
*Session 4 : 14h-15h30 Hands-on exposure to ArcView by NSIF

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Trafalgar High School, address, District Six
*Start time: 8h30 am
*Finish time: 15h30pm
*Duration: all day with different sessions to choose from
*Contact: Avis Smith - avis@discoverymail.co.za / 0832439724
or Alize Botha - alizebotha@gmail.com

===SESSION 3. Outdoor event to learn about GPS in the Rondevlei Nature Reserve===
Practical use of GIS technology in nature that includes working with a GPS, marking and finding points, observing wetland bird and looking at data collected previously using GIS software. This is an opportunity to see what how GIS can be applied in real life. GPS will be provided but bring your own if you have.

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Rondevlei Nature Reserve, Fisherman’s Walk Road, Zeekoivlei
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 13.00
*Duration: 2.5 hours
*Max Number: 20
*Book with: Bronwen Foster
Environmental Education Officer
*Tel.: 021 706 2404, Fax: 021 706 2405
*Email: Bronwen.Foster@capetown.gov.za
*Entrance Fee: R6.00 per adult
*!!Volunteers welcome. to assist Bronwen with showing teachers how to use GPS and see RondeVlei Reserve.!!

==Friday afternoon 3 October==

===Independent Schools of South Africa, Geography Teachers Conference===
Workshop with demos and talks from international guest of how GIS is being used in other countries, also local input that will help teachers here teach GIS '''
*Venue: Biships Boys School, Rondebosch, Cape Town
*Session 1: 14h00 - 15h30 Nico Elema from Globalimage
*Session 2: 15h30 - 17h00 Street Mapping guys with GPS demo
*Presentation : Hands-on demo with MapWindow, discussion on GIS in Education and live demo with GPS's
*Contact : John Lanser - jlanser@bishops.org.za, Shawn Lezar - slezar007@yahoo.com, Alize Botha - alizebotha@gmail.com
*24 PC's available

=Technical Visits=

For final technical visit programme see [[FOSS4G2008_Workshops_and_Technical_Visits]]

These are just working notes below.

'''Monday morning'''

'''Option 1'''
*Visit to the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping
*Monday 29th September 2008: 8h30-12h00
*Conference delegates to gather 8h15 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through how the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping operates.

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'''
*Visit to the Institute for Satellite and Software Applications
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 8h00-12h30
*Conference delegates to gather 7h50 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through their facilities and explain their role in the South African space program.

'''Option 2'''

*Visit to Delheim - Wine Estate GIS
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 13h00-17h30
*Conference delegates to gather 12h50 at the CTICC.
*40 delegates and 1 volunteer

Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry.
This will be followed by a wine tasting and tour of the farm.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-09-29T07:11:40Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Workshop for University of Cape Town students and staff */

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 26th September==

===Day course on open source applications===

*Honours and postgraduate students welcome
*Day event in the Geomatics computer lab @ UCT
*Presenter: Martin Dresen from Germany

Course contents:
Morning session
*1. Introduction to Open Source GIS
*2. Introduction to Webmapping
*3. Open Layers
After Lunch
*4. UMN Mapserver

Contacts
*Alize Botha : ABotha1@csir.co.za
*Dr Julian Smith : Julian.Smit@uct.ac.za

==Sunday 28 September==

===SESSION 1. Street Mapping Party in and around Cape Town===

OpenStreetMap will be running a ‘Mapping Party’ in the streets of Cape Town which involves walking / cycling / driving with a GPS and editing and uploading your tracks to the free, public www.openstreetmap.org This promises to be lots of fun and you will also be working towards something useful.

*Date: Sunday 29 September
*Meet at: TBA
*Start time: Morning
*Duration: All Day
*Lunch : To be self organised
*Required equipment : There will be GPS's and Laptops
*What to bring with : GPS if delegates have one
*Contact: Mikel Maron : mikel_maron@yahoo.com
*!! Volunteers needed: to tell teachers about GPS, the street mapping project, and to help with the exercise.!!
Planning and details at:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenMappingAfrica2008 and

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/WikiProject_South_Africa

==Friday 3 October 2008 - morning==

===SESSION 2. Mapping and GIS Options===
2 computer labs of 20 people + classrooms
*Session 1 : 8h30-10h30h Hands-on exposure to GIS by the J-Grass team using uDig
*or QGIS session
*Session 2 : 11h-13h Map Aware session by CDSM
*Session 3 : 9h-12h Hands-on Google earth session by Ed Parsons from Google
*Session 4 : 14h-15h30 Hands-on exposure to ArcView by NSIF

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Trafalgar High School, address, District Six
*Start time: 8h30 am
*Finish time: 15h30pm
*Duration: all day with different sessions to choose from
*Contact: Avis Smith - avis@discoverymail.co.za / 0832439724
or Alize Botha - alizebotha@gmail.com

===SESSION 3. Outdoor event to learn about GPS in the Rondevlei Nature Reserve===
Practical use of GIS technology in nature that includes working with a GPS, marking and finding points, observing wetland bird and looking at data collected previously using GIS software. This is an opportunity to see what how GIS can be applied in real life. GPS will be provided but bring your own if you have.

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Rondevlei Nature Reserve, Fisherman’s Walk Road, Zeekoivlei
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 13.00
*Duration: 2.5 hours
*Max Number: 20
*Book with: Bronwen Foster
Environmental Education Officer
*Tel.: 021 706 2404, Fax: 021 706 2405
*Email: Bronwen.Foster@capetown.gov.za
*Entrance Fee: R6.00 per adult
*!!Volunteers welcome. to assist Bronwen with showing teachers how to use GPS and see RondeVlei Reserve.!!

==Friday afternoon 3 October==

===Independent Schools of South Africa, Geography Teachers Conference===
Workshop with demos and talks from international guest of how GIS is being used in other countries, also local input that will help teachers here teach GIS '''
*Venue: Biships Boys School, Rondebosch, Cape Town
*Session 1: 14h00 - 15h30 Nico Elema from Globalimage
*Session 2: 15h30 - 17h00 Street Mapping guys with GPS demo
*Presentation : Hands-on demo with MapWindow, discussion on GIS in Education and live demo with GPS's
*Contact : John Lanser - jlanser@bishops.org.za, Shawn Lezar - slezar007@yahoo.com, Alize Botha - alizebotha@gmail.com
*24 PC's available

==other ideas==
Still to consider – please give input and ideas

We would also like to organise the following:
* 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

=Technical Visits=

For final technical visit programme see [[FOSS4G2008_Workshops_and_Technical_Visits]]

These are just working notes below.

'''Monday morning'''

'''Option 1'''
*Visit to the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping
*Monday 29th September 2008: 8h30-12h00
*Conference delegates to gather 8h15 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through how the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping operates.

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'''
*Visit to the Institute for Satellite and Software Applications
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 8h00-12h30
*Conference delegates to gather 7h50 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through their facilities and explain their role in the South African space program.

'''Option 2'''

*Visit to Delheim - Wine Estate GIS
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 13h00-17h30
*Conference delegates to gather 12h50 at the CTICC.
*40 delegates and 1 volunteer

Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry.
This will be followed by a wine tasting and tour of the farm.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-09-29T07:10:53Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Independent Schools of South Africa, Geography Teachers Conference */

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 26th September==

===Day course on open source applications===

*Honours and postgraduate students welcome
*Day event in the Geomatics computer lab @ UCT
*Presenter: Martin Dresen from Germany

Course contents:
Morning session
*1. Introduction to Open Source GIS
*2. Introduction to Webmapping
*3. Open Layers
After Lunch
*4. UMN Mapserver

Contacts
*Alize Botha : ABotha1@csir.co.za
*Dr Julian Smith : Julian.Smit@uct.ac.za

==Sunday 28 September==

===SESSION 1. Street Mapping Party in and around Cape Town===

OpenStreetMap will be running a ‘Mapping Party’ in the streets of Cape Town which involves walking / cycling / driving with a GPS and editing and uploading your tracks to the free, public www.openstreetmap.org This promises to be lots of fun and you will also be working towards something useful.

*Date: Sunday 29 September
*Meet at: TBA
*Start time: Morning
*Duration: All Day
*Lunch : To be self organised
*Required equipment : There will be GPS's and Laptops
*What to bring with : GPS if delegates have one
*Contact: Mikel Maron : mikel_maron@yahoo.com
*!! Volunteers needed: to tell teachers about GPS, the street mapping project, and to help with the exercise.!!
Planning and details at:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenMappingAfrica2008 and

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/WikiProject_South_Africa

==Friday 3 October 2008 - morning==

===SESSION 2. Mapping and GIS Options===
2 computer labs of 20 people + classrooms
*Session 1 : 8h30-10h30h Hands-on exposure to GIS by the J-Grass team using uDig
*or QGIS session
*Session 2 : 11h-13h Map Aware session by CDSM
*Session 3 : 9h-12h Hands-on Google earth session by Ed Parsons from Google
*Session 4 : 14h-15h30 Hands-on exposure to ArcView by NSIF

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Trafalgar High School, address, District Six
*Start time: 8h30 am
*Finish time: 15h30pm
*Duration: all day with different sessions to choose from
*Contact: Avis Smith - avis@discoverymail.co.za / 0832439724
or Alize Botha - alizebotha@gmail.com

===SESSION 3. Outdoor event to learn about GPS in the Rondevlei Nature Reserve===
Practical use of GIS technology in nature that includes working with a GPS, marking and finding points, observing wetland bird and looking at data collected previously using GIS software. This is an opportunity to see what how GIS can be applied in real life. GPS will be provided but bring your own if you have.

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Rondevlei Nature Reserve, Fisherman’s Walk Road, Zeekoivlei
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 13.00
*Duration: 2.5 hours
*Max Number: 20
*Book with: Bronwen Foster
Environmental Education Officer
*Tel.: 021 706 2404, Fax: 021 706 2405
*Email: Bronwen.Foster@capetown.gov.za
*Entrance Fee: R6.00 per adult
*!!Volunteers welcome. to assist Bronwen with showing teachers how to use GPS and see RondeVlei Reserve.!!

==Friday afternoon 3 October==

===Independent Schools of South Africa, Geography Teachers Conference===
Workshop with demos and talks from international guest of how GIS is being used in other countries, also local input that will help teachers here teach GIS '''
*Venue: Biships Boys School, Rondebosch, Cape Town
*Session 1: 14h00 - 15h30 Nico Elema from Globalimage
*Session 2: 15h30 - 17h00 Street Mapping guys with GPS demo
*Presentation : Hands-on demo with MapWindow, discussion on GIS in Education and live demo with GPS's
*Contact : John Lanser - jlanser@bishops.org.za, Shawn Lezar - slezar007@yahoo.com, Alize Botha - alizebotha@gmail.com
*24 PC's available

===Workshop for University of Cape Town students and staff===

* Geospatial lab in the Environmental & Geographical Science department @ UCT
* 16 PC's available / 30 Students
* 3rd , 4th year students, postgraduate and UCT staff will attend
* Current software installed on computers: Manifold, may install other software
* To confirm with Dr Kevin Winter at the Environmental and Geographical Sciences department
* GIS delegates/volunteers to present workshop on Spatial data infrastructure development,web-based GIS, any other suggestions preferably OPEN SOURCE

==other ideas==
Still to consider – please give input and ideas

We would also like to organise the following:
* 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

=Technical Visits=

For final technical visit programme see [[FOSS4G2008_Workshops_and_Technical_Visits]]

These are just working notes below.

'''Monday morning'''

'''Option 1'''
*Visit to the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping
*Monday 29th September 2008: 8h30-12h00
*Conference delegates to gather 8h15 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through how the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping operates.

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'''
*Visit to the Institute for Satellite and Software Applications
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 8h00-12h30
*Conference delegates to gather 7h50 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through their facilities and explain their role in the South African space program.

'''Option 2'''

*Visit to Delheim - Wine Estate GIS
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 13h00-17h30
*Conference delegates to gather 12h50 at the CTICC.
*40 delegates and 1 volunteer

Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry.
This will be followed by a wine tasting and tour of the farm.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-09-29T07:08:29Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* SESSION 2. Mapping and GIS Options */

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 26th September==

===Day course on open source applications===

*Honours and postgraduate students welcome
*Day event in the Geomatics computer lab @ UCT
*Presenter: Martin Dresen from Germany

Course contents:
Morning session
*1. Introduction to Open Source GIS
*2. Introduction to Webmapping
*3. Open Layers
After Lunch
*4. UMN Mapserver

Contacts
*Alize Botha : ABotha1@csir.co.za
*Dr Julian Smith : Julian.Smit@uct.ac.za

==Sunday 28 September==

===SESSION 1. Street Mapping Party in and around Cape Town===

OpenStreetMap will be running a ‘Mapping Party’ in the streets of Cape Town which involves walking / cycling / driving with a GPS and editing and uploading your tracks to the free, public www.openstreetmap.org This promises to be lots of fun and you will also be working towards something useful.

*Date: Sunday 29 September
*Meet at: TBA
*Start time: Morning
*Duration: All Day
*Lunch : To be self organised
*Required equipment : There will be GPS's and Laptops
*What to bring with : GPS if delegates have one
*Contact: Mikel Maron : mikel_maron@yahoo.com
*!! Volunteers needed: to tell teachers about GPS, the street mapping project, and to help with the exercise.!!
Planning and details at:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenMappingAfrica2008 and

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/WikiProject_South_Africa

==Friday 3 October 2008 - morning==

===SESSION 2. Mapping and GIS Options===
2 computer labs of 20 people + classrooms
*Session 1 : 8h30-10h30h Hands-on exposure to GIS by the J-Grass team using uDig
*or QGIS session
*Session 2 : 11h-13h Map Aware session by CDSM
*Session 3 : 9h-12h Hands-on Google earth session by Ed Parsons from Google
*Session 4 : 14h-15h30 Hands-on exposure to ArcView by NSIF

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Trafalgar High School, address, District Six
*Start time: 8h30 am
*Finish time: 15h30pm
*Duration: all day with different sessions to choose from
*Contact: Avis Smith - avis@discoverymail.co.za / 0832439724
or Alize Botha - alizebotha@gmail.com

===SESSION 3. Outdoor event to learn about GPS in the Rondevlei Nature Reserve===
Practical use of GIS technology in nature that includes working with a GPS, marking and finding points, observing wetland bird and looking at data collected previously using GIS software. This is an opportunity to see what how GIS can be applied in real life. GPS will be provided but bring your own if you have.

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Rondevlei Nature Reserve, Fisherman’s Walk Road, Zeekoivlei
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 13.00
*Duration: 2.5 hours
*Max Number: 20
*Book with: Bronwen Foster
Environmental Education Officer
*Tel.: 021 706 2404, Fax: 021 706 2405
*Email: Bronwen.Foster@capetown.gov.za
*Entrance Fee: R6.00 per adult
*!!Volunteers welcome. to assist Bronwen with showing teachers how to use GPS and see RondeVlei Reserve.!!

==Friday afternoon 3 October==

===Independent Schools of South Africa, Geography Teachers Conference===
Workshop with demos and talks from international guest of how GIS is being used in other countries, also local input that will help teachers here teach GIS '''
*Venue: Biships Boys School, Rondebosch, Cape Town
*Time: 14h00 - 17h00
*Presenter : Nico Elema from Globalimage
*Presentation : Hands-on demo with MapWindow and discussion on GIS in Education
*Contact : John Lanser - jlanser@bishops.org.za, Shawn Lezar - slezar007@yahoo.com, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za
*24 PC's available

===Workshop for University of Cape Town students and staff===

* Geospatial lab in the Environmental & Geographical Science department @ UCT
* 16 PC's available / 30 Students
* 3rd , 4th year students, postgraduate and UCT staff will attend
* Current software installed on computers: Manifold, may install other software
* To confirm with Dr Kevin Winter at the Environmental and Geographical Sciences department
* GIS delegates/volunteers to present workshop on Spatial data infrastructure development,web-based GIS, any other suggestions preferably OPEN SOURCE

==other ideas==
Still to consider – please give input and ideas

We would also like to organise the following:
* 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

=Technical Visits=

For final technical visit programme see [[FOSS4G2008_Workshops_and_Technical_Visits]]

These are just working notes below.

'''Monday morning'''

'''Option 1'''
*Visit to the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping
*Monday 29th September 2008: 8h30-12h00
*Conference delegates to gather 8h15 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through how the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping operates.

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'''
*Visit to the Institute for Satellite and Software Applications
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 8h00-12h30
*Conference delegates to gather 7h50 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through their facilities and explain their role in the South African space program.

'''Option 2'''

*Visit to Delheim - Wine Estate GIS
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 13h00-17h30
*Conference delegates to gather 12h50 at the CTICC.
*40 delegates and 1 volunteer

Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry.
This will be followed by a wine tasting and tour of the farm.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-09-29T07:08:00Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* SESSION 2. Mapping and GIS Options */

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 26th September==

===Day course on open source applications===

*Honours and postgraduate students welcome
*Day event in the Geomatics computer lab @ UCT
*Presenter: Martin Dresen from Germany

Course contents:
Morning session
*1. Introduction to Open Source GIS
*2. Introduction to Webmapping
*3. Open Layers
After Lunch
*4. UMN Mapserver

Contacts
*Alize Botha : ABotha1@csir.co.za
*Dr Julian Smith : Julian.Smit@uct.ac.za

==Sunday 28 September==

===SESSION 1. Street Mapping Party in and around Cape Town===

OpenStreetMap will be running a ‘Mapping Party’ in the streets of Cape Town which involves walking / cycling / driving with a GPS and editing and uploading your tracks to the free, public www.openstreetmap.org This promises to be lots of fun and you will also be working towards something useful.

*Date: Sunday 29 September
*Meet at: TBA
*Start time: Morning
*Duration: All Day
*Lunch : To be self organised
*Required equipment : There will be GPS's and Laptops
*What to bring with : GPS if delegates have one
*Contact: Mikel Maron : mikel_maron@yahoo.com
*!! Volunteers needed: to tell teachers about GPS, the street mapping project, and to help with the exercise.!!
Planning and details at:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenMappingAfrica2008 and

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/WikiProject_South_Africa

==Friday 3 October 2008 - morning==

===SESSION 2. Mapping and GIS Options===
2 computer labs of 20 people + classrooms
*Session 1 : 8h30-10h30h Hands-on exposure to GIS by the J-Grass team using uDig
*or QGIS session
*Session 2 : 11h-13h Map Aware session by CDSM
*Session 3 : 9h-12h Hands-on Google earth session by Ed Parsons from Google
*Session 4 : 14h-15h30 Hands-on exposure to ArcView by NSIF

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Trafalgar High School, address, District Six
*Start time: 8h30 am
*Finish time: 15h30pm
*Duration: all day with different sessions to choose from
*Contact: Avis Smith - avis@discoverymail.co.za / 0832439724
or Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za

===SESSION 3. Outdoor event to learn about GPS in the Rondevlei Nature Reserve===
Practical use of GIS technology in nature that includes working with a GPS, marking and finding points, observing wetland bird and looking at data collected previously using GIS software. This is an opportunity to see what how GIS can be applied in real life. GPS will be provided but bring your own if you have.

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Rondevlei Nature Reserve, Fisherman’s Walk Road, Zeekoivlei
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 13.00
*Duration: 2.5 hours
*Max Number: 20
*Book with: Bronwen Foster
Environmental Education Officer
*Tel.: 021 706 2404, Fax: 021 706 2405
*Email: Bronwen.Foster@capetown.gov.za
*Entrance Fee: R6.00 per adult
*!!Volunteers welcome. to assist Bronwen with showing teachers how to use GPS and see RondeVlei Reserve.!!

==Friday afternoon 3 October==

===Independent Schools of South Africa, Geography Teachers Conference===
Workshop with demos and talks from international guest of how GIS is being used in other countries, also local input that will help teachers here teach GIS '''
*Venue: Biships Boys School, Rondebosch, Cape Town
*Time: 14h00 - 17h00
*Presenter : Nico Elema from Globalimage
*Presentation : Hands-on demo with MapWindow and discussion on GIS in Education
*Contact : John Lanser - jlanser@bishops.org.za, Shawn Lezar - slezar007@yahoo.com, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za
*24 PC's available

===Workshop for University of Cape Town students and staff===

* Geospatial lab in the Environmental & Geographical Science department @ UCT
* 16 PC's available / 30 Students
* 3rd , 4th year students, postgraduate and UCT staff will attend
* Current software installed on computers: Manifold, may install other software
* To confirm with Dr Kevin Winter at the Environmental and Geographical Sciences department
* GIS delegates/volunteers to present workshop on Spatial data infrastructure development,web-based GIS, any other suggestions preferably OPEN SOURCE

==other ideas==
Still to consider – please give input and ideas

We would also like to organise the following:
* 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

=Technical Visits=

For final technical visit programme see [[FOSS4G2008_Workshops_and_Technical_Visits]]

These are just working notes below.

'''Monday morning'''

'''Option 1'''
*Visit to the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping
*Monday 29th September 2008: 8h30-12h00
*Conference delegates to gather 8h15 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through how the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping operates.

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'''
*Visit to the Institute for Satellite and Software Applications
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 8h00-12h30
*Conference delegates to gather 7h50 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through their facilities and explain their role in the South African space program.

'''Option 2'''

*Visit to Delheim - Wine Estate GIS
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 13h00-17h30
*Conference delegates to gather 12h50 at the CTICC.
*40 delegates and 1 volunteer

Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry.
This will be followed by a wine tasting and tour of the farm.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-09-23T14:36:28Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* SESSION 3. Outdoor event to learn about GPS in the Rondevlei Nature Reserve */

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 26th September==

===Day course on open source applications===

*Honours and postgraduate students welcome
*Day event in the Geomatics computer lab @ UCT
*Presenter: Martin Dresen from Germany

Course contents:
Morning session
*1. Introduction to Open Source GIS
*2. Introduction to Webmapping
*3. Open Layers
After Lunch
*4. UMN Mapserver

Contacts
*Alize Botha : ABotha1@csir.co.za
*Dr Julian Smith : Julian.Smit@uct.ac.za

==Sunday 28 September==

===SESSION 1. Street Mapping Party in and around Cape Town===

OpenStreetMap will be running a ‘Mapping Party’ in the streets of Cape Town which involves walking / cycling / driving with a GPS and editing and uploading your tracks to the free, public www.openstreetmap.org This promises to be lots of fun and you will also be working towards something useful.

*Date: Sunday 29 September
*Meet at: TBA
*Start time: Morning
*Duration: All Day
*Lunch : To be self organised
*Required equipment : There will be GPS's and Laptops
*What to bring with : GPS if delegates have one
*Contact: Mikel Maron : mikel_maron@yahoo.com
*!! Volunteers needed: to tell teachers about GPS, the street mapping project, and to help with the exercise.!!

==Friday 3 October 2008 - morning==

===SESSION 2. Mapping and GIS Options===
2 computer labs of 20 people + classrooms
*Session 1 : 8h30-10h30h Hands-on exposure to GIS by the J-Grass team using uDig
*Session 2 : 11h-13h Map Aware session by CDSM
*Session 3 : 9h-12h Hands-on Google earth session by Ed Parsons from Google
*Session 4 : 14h-15h30 Hands-on exposure to ArcView by NSIF

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Trafalgar High School, address, District Six
*Start time: 9am
*Finish time: 15h30pm
*Duration: all day with different sessions to choose from
*Contact: Avis Smith - avis@discoverymail.co.za, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za

===SESSION 3. Outdoor event to learn about GPS in the Rondevlei Nature Reserve===
Practical use of GIS technology in nature that includes working with a GPS, marking and finding points, observing wetland bird and looking at data collected previously using GIS software. This is an opportunity to see what how GIS can be applied in real life. GPS will be provided but bring your own if you have.

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Rondevlei Nature Reserve, Fisherman’s Walk Road, Zeekoivlei
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 13.00
*Duration: 2.5 hours
*Max Number: 20
*Book with: Bronwen Foster
Environmental Education Officer
*Tel.: 021 706 2404, Fax: 021 706 2405
*Email: Bronwen.Foster@capetown.gov.za
*Entrance Fee: R6.00 per adult
*!!Volunteers welcome. to assist Bronwen with showing teachers how to use GPS and see RondeVlei Reserve.!!

==Friday afternoon 3 October==

===Independent Schools of South Africa, Geography Teachers Conference===
Workshop with demos and talks from international guest of how GIS is being used in other countries, also local input that will help teachers here teach GIS '''
*Venue: Biships Boys School, Rondebosch, Cape Town
*Time: 14h00 - 17h00
*Presenter : Nico Elema from Globalimage
*Presentation : Hands-on demo with MapWindow and discussion on GIS in Education
*Contact : John Lanser - jlanser@bishops.org.za, Shawn Lezar - slezar007@yahoo.com, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za
*24 PC's available

===Workshop for University of Cape Town students and staff===

* Geospatial lab in the Environmental & Geographical Science department @ UCT
* 16 PC's available / 30 Students
* 3rd , 4th year students, postgraduate and UCT staff will attend
* Current software installed on computers: Manifold, may install other software
* To confirm with Dr Kevin Winter at the Environmental and Geographical Sciences department
* GIS delegates/volunteers to present workshop on Spatial data infrastructure development,web-based GIS, any other suggestions preferably OPEN SOURCE

==other ideas==
Still to consider – please give input and ideas

We would also like to organise the following:
* 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

=Technical Visits=

For final technical visit programme see [[FOSS4G2008_Workshops_and_Technical_Visits]]

These are just working notes below.

'''Monday morning'''

'''Option 1'''
*Visit to the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping
*Monday 29th September 2008: 8h30-12h00
*Conference delegates to gather 8h15 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through how the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping operates.

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'''
*Visit to the Institute for Satellite and Software Applications
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 8h00-12h30
*Conference delegates to gather 7h50 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through their facilities and explain their role in the South African space program.

'''Option 2'''

*Visit to Delheim - Wine Estate GIS
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 13h00-17h30
*Conference delegates to gather 12h50 at the CTICC.
*40 delegates and 1 volunteer

Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry.
This will be followed by a wine tasting and tour of the farm.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-09-23T14:36:03Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* SESSION 2. Mapping and GIS Options */

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 26th September==

===Day course on open source applications===

*Honours and postgraduate students welcome
*Day event in the Geomatics computer lab @ UCT
*Presenter: Martin Dresen from Germany

Course contents:
Morning session
*1. Introduction to Open Source GIS
*2. Introduction to Webmapping
*3. Open Layers
After Lunch
*4. UMN Mapserver

Contacts
*Alize Botha : ABotha1@csir.co.za
*Dr Julian Smith : Julian.Smit@uct.ac.za

==Sunday 28 September==

===SESSION 1. Street Mapping Party in and around Cape Town===

OpenStreetMap will be running a ‘Mapping Party’ in the streets of Cape Town which involves walking / cycling / driving with a GPS and editing and uploading your tracks to the free, public www.openstreetmap.org This promises to be lots of fun and you will also be working towards something useful.

*Date: Sunday 29 September
*Meet at: TBA
*Start time: Morning
*Duration: All Day
*Lunch : To be self organised
*Required equipment : There will be GPS's and Laptops
*What to bring with : GPS if delegates have one
*Contact: Mikel Maron : mikel_maron@yahoo.com
*!! Volunteers needed: to tell teachers about GPS, the street mapping project, and to help with the exercise.!!

==Friday 3 October 2008 - morning==

===SESSION 2. Mapping and GIS Options===
2 computer labs of 20 people + classrooms
*Session 1 : 8h30-10h30h Hands-on exposure to GIS by the J-Grass team using uDig
*Session 2 : 11h-13h Map Aware session by CDSM
*Session 3 : 9h-12h Hands-on Google earth session by Ed Parsons from Google
*Session 4 : 14h-15h30 Hands-on exposure to ArcView by NSIF

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Trafalgar High School, address, District Six
*Start time: 9am
*Finish time: 15h30pm
*Duration: all day with different sessions to choose from
*Contact: Avis Smith - avis@discoverymail.co.za, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za

===SESSION 3. Outdoor event to learn about GPS in the Rondevlei Nature Reserve===
Practical use of GIS technology in nature that includes working with a GPS, marking and finding points, observing wetland bird and looking at data collected previously using GIS software. This is an opportunity to see what how GIS can be applied in real life. GPS will be provided but bring your own if you have.

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Rondevlei Nature Reserve, Fisherman’s Walk Road, Zeekoivlei
*Start time: 9am
*Finish time: 13.00
*Duration: 2.5 hours
*Max Number: 20
*Book with: Bronwen Foster
Environmental Education Officer
*Tel.: 021 706 2404, Fax: 021 706 2405
*Email: Bronwen.Foster@capetown.gov.za
*Entrance Fee: R6.00 per adult
*!!Volunteers welcome. to assist Bronwen with showing teachers how to use GPS and see RondeVlei Reserve.!!

==Friday afternoon 3 October==

===Independent Schools of South Africa, Geography Teachers Conference===
Workshop with demos and talks from international guest of how GIS is being used in other countries, also local input that will help teachers here teach GIS '''
*Venue: Biships Boys School, Rondebosch, Cape Town
*Time: 14h00 - 17h00
*Presenter : Nico Elema from Globalimage
*Presentation : Hands-on demo with MapWindow and discussion on GIS in Education
*Contact : John Lanser - jlanser@bishops.org.za, Shawn Lezar - slezar007@yahoo.com, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za
*24 PC's available

===Workshop for University of Cape Town students and staff===

* Geospatial lab in the Environmental & Geographical Science department @ UCT
* 16 PC's available / 30 Students
* 3rd , 4th year students, postgraduate and UCT staff will attend
* Current software installed on computers: Manifold, may install other software
* To confirm with Dr Kevin Winter at the Environmental and Geographical Sciences department
* GIS delegates/volunteers to present workshop on Spatial data infrastructure development,web-based GIS, any other suggestions preferably OPEN SOURCE

==other ideas==
Still to consider – please give input and ideas

We would also like to organise the following:
* 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

=Technical Visits=

For final technical visit programme see [[FOSS4G2008_Workshops_and_Technical_Visits]]

These are just working notes below.

'''Monday morning'''

'''Option 1'''
*Visit to the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping
*Monday 29th September 2008: 8h30-12h00
*Conference delegates to gather 8h15 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through how the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping operates.

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'''
*Visit to the Institute for Satellite and Software Applications
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 8h00-12h30
*Conference delegates to gather 7h50 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through their facilities and explain their role in the South African space program.

'''Option 2'''

*Visit to Delheim - Wine Estate GIS
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 13h00-17h30
*Conference delegates to gather 12h50 at the CTICC.
*40 delegates and 1 volunteer

Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry.
This will be followed by a wine tasting and tour of the farm.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-09-23T14:34:34Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Independent Schools of South Africa, Geography Teachers Conference */

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 26th September==

===Day course on open source applications===

*Honours and postgraduate students welcome
*Day event in the Geomatics computer lab @ UCT
*Presenter: Martin Dresen from Germany

Course contents:
Morning session
*1. Introduction to Open Source GIS
*2. Introduction to Webmapping
*3. Open Layers
After Lunch
*4. UMN Mapserver

Contacts
*Alize Botha : ABotha1@csir.co.za
*Dr Julian Smith : Julian.Smit@uct.ac.za

==Sunday 28 September==

===SESSION 1. Street Mapping Party in and around Cape Town===

OpenStreetMap will be running a ‘Mapping Party’ in the streets of Cape Town which involves walking / cycling / driving with a GPS and editing and uploading your tracks to the free, public www.openstreetmap.org This promises to be lots of fun and you will also be working towards something useful.

*Date: Sunday 29 September
*Meet at: TBA
*Start time: Morning
*Duration: All Day
*Lunch : To be self organised
*Required equipment : There will be GPS's and Laptops
*What to bring with : GPS if delegates have one
*Contact: Mikel Maron : mikel_maron@yahoo.com
*!! Volunteers needed: to tell teachers about GPS, the street mapping project, and to help with the exercise.!!

==Friday 3 October 2008 - morning==

===SESSION 2. Mapping and GIS Options===
2 computer labs of 20 people + classrooms
*Session 1 : 8h30-10h30h Hands-on exposure to GIS by the J-Grass team using uDig
*Session 2 : 11h-13h Map Aware session by CDSM
*Session 3 : 9h-12h Google earth session by Ed Parsons from Google
*Session 4 : 14h-15h30 Hands-on exposure to ArcView by NSIF

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Trafalgar High School, address, District Six
*Start time: 9am
*Finish time: 15h30pm
*Duration: all day with different sessions to choose from
*Contact: Avis Smith - avis@discoverymail.co.za, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za

===SESSION 3. Outdoor event to learn about GPS in the Rondevlei Nature Reserve===
Practical use of GIS technology in nature that includes working with a GPS, marking and finding points, observing wetland bird and looking at data collected previously using GIS software. This is an opportunity to see what how GIS can be applied in real life. GPS will be provided but bring your own if you have.

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Rondevlei Nature Reserve, Fisherman’s Walk Road, Zeekoivlei
*Start time: 9am
*Finish time: 13.00
*Duration: 2.5 hours
*Max Number: 20
*Book with: Bronwen Foster
Environmental Education Officer
*Tel.: 021 706 2404, Fax: 021 706 2405
*Email: Bronwen.Foster@capetown.gov.za
*Entrance Fee: R6.00 per adult
*!!Volunteers welcome. to assist Bronwen with showing teachers how to use GPS and see RondeVlei Reserve.!!

==Friday afternoon 3 October==

===Independent Schools of South Africa, Geography Teachers Conference===
Workshop with demos and talks from international guest of how GIS is being used in other countries, also local input that will help teachers here teach GIS '''
*Venue: Biships Boys School, Rondebosch, Cape Town
*Time: 14h00 - 17h00
*Presenter : Nico Elema from Globalimage
*Presentation : Hands-on demo with MapWindow and discussion on GIS in Education
*Contact : John Lanser - jlanser@bishops.org.za, Shawn Lezar - slezar007@yahoo.com, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za
*24 PC's available

===Workshop for University of Cape Town students and staff===

* Geospatial lab in the Environmental & Geographical Science department @ UCT
* 16 PC's available / 30 Students
* 3rd , 4th year students, postgraduate and UCT staff will attend
* Current software installed on computers: Manifold, may install other software
* To confirm with Dr Kevin Winter at the Environmental and Geographical Sciences department
* GIS delegates/volunteers to present workshop on Spatial data infrastructure development,web-based GIS, any other suggestions preferably OPEN SOURCE

==other ideas==
Still to consider – please give input and ideas

We would also like to organise the following:
* 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

=Technical Visits=

For final technical visit programme see [[FOSS4G2008_Workshops_and_Technical_Visits]]

These are just working notes below.

'''Monday morning'''

'''Option 1'''
*Visit to the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping
*Monday 29th September 2008: 8h30-12h00
*Conference delegates to gather 8h15 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through how the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping operates.

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'''
*Visit to the Institute for Satellite and Software Applications
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 8h00-12h30
*Conference delegates to gather 7h50 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through their facilities and explain their role in the South African space program.

'''Option 2'''

*Visit to Delheim - Wine Estate GIS
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 13h00-17h30
*Conference delegates to gather 12h50 at the CTICC.
*40 delegates and 1 volunteer

Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry.
This will be followed by a wine tasting and tour of the farm.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-09-23T14:33:06Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Independent Schools of South Africa, Geography Teachers Conference */

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 26th September==

===Day course on open source applications===

*Honours and postgraduate students welcome
*Day event in the Geomatics computer lab @ UCT
*Presenter: Martin Dresen from Germany

Course contents:
Morning session
*1. Introduction to Open Source GIS
*2. Introduction to Webmapping
*3. Open Layers
After Lunch
*4. UMN Mapserver

Contacts
*Alize Botha : ABotha1@csir.co.za
*Dr Julian Smith : Julian.Smit@uct.ac.za

==Sunday 28 September==

===SESSION 1. Street Mapping Party in and around Cape Town===

OpenStreetMap will be running a ‘Mapping Party’ in the streets of Cape Town which involves walking / cycling / driving with a GPS and editing and uploading your tracks to the free, public www.openstreetmap.org This promises to be lots of fun and you will also be working towards something useful.

*Date: Sunday 29 September
*Meet at: TBA
*Start time: Morning
*Duration: All Day
*Lunch : To be self organised
*Required equipment : There will be GPS's and Laptops
*What to bring with : GPS if delegates have one
*Contact: Mikel Maron : mikel_maron@yahoo.com
*!! Volunteers needed: to tell teachers about GPS, the street mapping project, and to help with the exercise.!!

==Friday 3 October 2008 - morning==

===SESSION 2. Mapping and GIS Options===
2 computer labs of 20 people + classrooms
*Session 1 : 8h30-10h30h Hands-on exposure to GIS by the J-Grass team using uDig
*Session 2 : 11h-13h Map Aware session by CDSM
*Session 3 : 9h-12h Google earth session by Ed Parsons from Google
*Session 4 : 14h-15h30 Hands-on exposure to ArcView by NSIF

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Trafalgar High School, address, District Six
*Start time: 9am
*Finish time: 15h30pm
*Duration: all day with different sessions to choose from
*Contact: Avis Smith - avis@discoverymail.co.za, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za

===SESSION 3. Outdoor event to learn about GPS in the Rondevlei Nature Reserve===
Practical use of GIS technology in nature that includes working with a GPS, marking and finding points, observing wetland bird and looking at data collected previously using GIS software. This is an opportunity to see what how GIS can be applied in real life. GPS will be provided but bring your own if you have.

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Rondevlei Nature Reserve, Fisherman’s Walk Road, Zeekoivlei
*Start time: 9am
*Finish time: 13.00
*Duration: 2.5 hours
*Max Number: 20
*Book with: Bronwen Foster
Environmental Education Officer
*Tel.: 021 706 2404, Fax: 021 706 2405
*Email: Bronwen.Foster@capetown.gov.za
*Entrance Fee: R6.00 per adult
*!!Volunteers welcome. to assist Bronwen with showing teachers how to use GPS and see RondeVlei Reserve.!!

==Friday afternoon 3 October==

===Independent Schools of South Africa, Geography Teachers Conference===
Workshop with demos and talks from international guest of how GIS is being used in other countries, also local input that will help teachers here teach GIS '''
*Venue: Biships Boys School, Rondebosch, Cape Town
*Time: 2 - 5pm
*Presenter : Nico Elema from Globalimage
*Presentation : Hans-on demo with MapWindow and discussion on GIS in Education
*Contact : John Lanser - jlanser@bishops.org.za, Shawn Lezar - slezar007@yahoo.com, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za
*24 PC's available

===Workshop for University of Cape Town students and staff===

* Geospatial lab in the Environmental & Geographical Science department @ UCT
* 16 PC's available / 30 Students
* 3rd , 4th year students, postgraduate and UCT staff will attend
* Current software installed on computers: Manifold, may install other software
* To confirm with Dr Kevin Winter at the Environmental and Geographical Sciences department
* GIS delegates/volunteers to present workshop on Spatial data infrastructure development,web-based GIS, any other suggestions preferably OPEN SOURCE

==other ideas==
Still to consider – please give input and ideas

We would also like to organise the following:
* 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

=Technical Visits=

For final technical visit programme see [[FOSS4G2008_Workshops_and_Technical_Visits]]

These are just working notes below.

'''Monday morning'''

'''Option 1'''
*Visit to the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping
*Monday 29th September 2008: 8h30-12h00
*Conference delegates to gather 8h15 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through how the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping operates.

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'''
*Visit to the Institute for Satellite and Software Applications
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 8h00-12h30
*Conference delegates to gather 7h50 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through their facilities and explain their role in the South African space program.

'''Option 2'''

*Visit to Delheim - Wine Estate GIS
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 13h00-17h30
*Conference delegates to gather 12h50 at the CTICC.
*40 delegates and 1 volunteer

Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry.
This will be followed by a wine tasting and tour of the farm.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-09-23T14:31:15Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* SESSION 2. Mapping and GIS Options */

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 26th September==

===Day course on open source applications===

*Honours and postgraduate students welcome
*Day event in the Geomatics computer lab @ UCT
*Presenter: Martin Dresen from Germany

Course contents:
Morning session
*1. Introduction to Open Source GIS
*2. Introduction to Webmapping
*3. Open Layers
After Lunch
*4. UMN Mapserver

Contacts
*Alize Botha : ABotha1@csir.co.za
*Dr Julian Smith : Julian.Smit@uct.ac.za

==Sunday 28 September==

===SESSION 1. Street Mapping Party in and around Cape Town===

OpenStreetMap will be running a ‘Mapping Party’ in the streets of Cape Town which involves walking / cycling / driving with a GPS and editing and uploading your tracks to the free, public www.openstreetmap.org This promises to be lots of fun and you will also be working towards something useful.

*Date: Sunday 29 September
*Meet at: TBA
*Start time: Morning
*Duration: All Day
*Lunch : To be self organised
*Required equipment : There will be GPS's and Laptops
*What to bring with : GPS if delegates have one
*Contact: Mikel Maron : mikel_maron@yahoo.com
*!! Volunteers needed: to tell teachers about GPS, the street mapping project, and to help with the exercise.!!

==Friday 3 October 2008 - morning==

===SESSION 2. Mapping and GIS Options===
2 computer labs of 20 people + classrooms
*Session 1 : 8h30-10h30h Hands-on exposure to GIS by the J-Grass team using uDig
*Session 2 : 11h-13h Map Aware session by CDSM
*Session 3 : 9h-12h Google earth session by Ed Parsons from Google
*Session 4 : 14h-15h30 Hands-on exposure to ArcView by NSIF

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Trafalgar High School, address, District Six
*Start time: 9am
*Finish time: 15h30pm
*Duration: all day with different sessions to choose from
*Contact: Avis Smith - avis@discoverymail.co.za, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za

===SESSION 3. Outdoor event to learn about GPS in the Rondevlei Nature Reserve===
Practical use of GIS technology in nature that includes working with a GPS, marking and finding points, observing wetland bird and looking at data collected previously using GIS software. This is an opportunity to see what how GIS can be applied in real life. GPS will be provided but bring your own if you have.

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Rondevlei Nature Reserve, Fisherman’s Walk Road, Zeekoivlei
*Start time: 9am
*Finish time: 13.00
*Duration: 2.5 hours
*Max Number: 20
*Book with: Bronwen Foster
Environmental Education Officer
*Tel.: 021 706 2404, Fax: 021 706 2405
*Email: Bronwen.Foster@capetown.gov.za
*Entrance Fee: R6.00 per adult
*!!Volunteers welcome. to assist Bronwen with showing teachers how to use GPS and see RondeVlei Reserve.!!

==Friday afternoon 3 October==

===Independent Schools of South Africa, Geography Teachers Conference===
Workshop with demos and talks from international guest of how GIS is being used in other countries, also local input that will help teachers here teach GIS '''
*Venue: Biships Boys School, Rondebosch, Cape Town
*Time: 2 - 5pm
*Presenter : Nico Elema from Globalimage
*Contact : John Lanser - jlanser@bishops.org.za, Shawn Lezar - slezar007@yahoo.com, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za
*24 PC's available

*Suggested options
A hands-on-demo would be great. They have ArcView 3.3 on their computers. We should consider installing and showing something with an open source flavour. Exposure by an international delegate of what’s happening in education elsewhere in the world. Exposure to OS GIS software by means of distributing a CD.

===Workshop for University of Cape Town students and staff===

* Geospatial lab in the Environmental & Geographical Science department @ UCT
* 16 PC's available / 30 Students
* 3rd , 4th year students, postgraduate and UCT staff will attend
* Current software installed on computers: Manifold, may install other software
* To confirm with Dr Kevin Winter at the Environmental and Geographical Sciences department
* GIS delegates/volunteers to present workshop on Spatial data infrastructure development,web-based GIS, any other suggestions preferably OPEN SOURCE

==other ideas==
Still to consider – please give input and ideas

We would also like to organise the following:
* 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

=Technical Visits=

For final technical visit programme see [[FOSS4G2008_Workshops_and_Technical_Visits]]

These are just working notes below.

'''Monday morning'''

'''Option 1'''
*Visit to the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping
*Monday 29th September 2008: 8h30-12h00
*Conference delegates to gather 8h15 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through how the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping operates.

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'''
*Visit to the Institute for Satellite and Software Applications
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 8h00-12h30
*Conference delegates to gather 7h50 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through their facilities and explain their role in the South African space program.

'''Option 2'''

*Visit to Delheim - Wine Estate GIS
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 13h00-17h30
*Conference delegates to gather 12h50 at the CTICC.
*40 delegates and 1 volunteer

Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry.
This will be followed by a wine tasting and tour of the farm.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-09-23T14:16:05Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Day course on open source applications */

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 26th September==

===Day course on open source applications===

*Honours and postgraduate students welcome
*Day event in the Geomatics computer lab @ UCT
*Presenter: Martin Dresen from Germany

Course contents:
Morning session
*1. Introduction to Open Source GIS
*2. Introduction to Webmapping
*3. Open Layers
After Lunch
*4. UMN Mapserver

Contacts
*Alize Botha : ABotha1@csir.co.za
*Dr Julian Smith : Julian.Smit@uct.ac.za

==Sunday 28 September==

===SESSION 1. Street Mapping Party in and around Cape Town===

OpenStreetMap will be running a ‘Mapping Party’ in the streets of Cape Town which involves walking / cycling / driving with a GPS and editing and uploading your tracks to the free, public www.openstreetmap.org This promises to be lots of fun and you will also be working towards something useful.

*Date: Sunday 29 September
*Meet at: TBA
*Start time: Morning
*Duration: All Day
*Lunch : To be self organised
*Required equipment : There will be GPS's and Laptops
*What to bring with : GPS if delegates have one
*Contact: Mikel Maron : mikel_maron@yahoo.com
*!! Volunteers needed: to tell teachers about GPS, the street mapping project, and to help with the exercise.!!

==Friday 3 October 2008 - morning==

===SESSION 2. Mapping and GIS Options===
2 computer labs of 20 people + classrooms
*Session 1 : 9-11h Hands-on exposure to GIS by the J-Grass team
*Session 2 : 11-13h Map Aware session

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Trafalgar High School, address, District Six
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 13pm
*Duration: 3 huors
*Contact: Avis Smith - avis@discoverymail.co.za, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za

===SESSION 3. Outdoor event to learn about GPS in the Rondevlei Nature Reserve===
Practical use of GIS technology in nature that includes working with a GPS, marking and finding points, observing wetland bird and looking at data collected previously using GIS software. This is an opportunity to see what how GIS can be applied in real life. GPS will be provided but bring your own if you have.

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Rondevlei Nature Reserve, Fisherman’s Walk Road, Zeekoivlei
*Start time: 9am
*Finish time: 13.00
*Duration: 2.5 hours
*Max Number: 20
*Book with: Bronwen Foster
Environmental Education Officer
*Tel.: 021 706 2404, Fax: 021 706 2405
*Email: Bronwen.Foster@capetown.gov.za
*Entrance Fee: R6.00 per adult
*!!Volunteers welcome. to assist Bronwen with showing teachers how to use GPS and see RondeVlei Reserve.!!

==Friday afternoon 3 October==

===Independent Schools of South Africa, Geography Teachers Conference===
Workshop with demos and talks from international guest of how GIS is being used in other countries, also local input that will help teachers here teach GIS '''
*Venue: Biships Boys School, Rondebosch, Cape Town
*Time: 2 - 5pm
*Presenter : Nico Elema from Globalimage
*Contact : John Lanser - jlanser@bishops.org.za, Shawn Lezar - slezar007@yahoo.com, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za
*24 PC's available

*Suggested options
A hands-on-demo would be great. They have ArcView 3.3 on their computers. We should consider installing and showing something with an open source flavour. Exposure by an international delegate of what’s happening in education elsewhere in the world. Exposure to OS GIS software by means of distributing a CD.

===Workshop for University of Cape Town students and staff===

* Geospatial lab in the Environmental & Geographical Science department @ UCT
* 16 PC's available / 30 Students
* 3rd , 4th year students, postgraduate and UCT staff will attend
* Current software installed on computers: Manifold, may install other software
* To confirm with Dr Kevin Winter at the Environmental and Geographical Sciences department
* GIS delegates/volunteers to present workshop on Spatial data infrastructure development,web-based GIS, any other suggestions preferably OPEN SOURCE

==other ideas==
Still to consider – please give input and ideas

We would also like to organise the following:
* 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

=Technical Visits=

For final technical visit programme see [[FOSS4G2008_Workshops_and_Technical_Visits]]

These are just working notes below.

'''Monday morning'''

'''Option 1'''
*Visit to the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping
*Monday 29th September 2008: 8h30-12h00
*Conference delegates to gather 8h15 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through how the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping operates.

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'''
*Visit to the Institute for Satellite and Software Applications
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 8h00-12h30
*Conference delegates to gather 7h50 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through their facilities and explain their role in the South African space program.

'''Option 2'''

*Visit to Delheim - Wine Estate GIS
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 13h00-17h30
*Conference delegates to gather 12h50 at the CTICC.
*40 delegates and 1 volunteer

Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry.
This will be followed by a wine tasting and tour of the farm.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-09-23T12:08:26Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Independent Schools of South Africa, Geography Teachers Conference */

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 26th September==

===Day course on open source applications===

*Honours and postgraduate students welcome
*Day event in the Geomatics computer lab @ UCT
*Presenter: Martin Dresen from Germany

Possible contents:
*Survey on webmapping applications
*OpenLayers
*UMN Mapserver applications (MS4W package)

Contacts
*Alize Botha : ABotha1@csir.co.za
*Dr Julian Smith : Julian.Smit@uct.ac.za

==Sunday 28 September==

===SESSION 1. Street Mapping Party in and around Cape Town===

OpenStreetMap will be running a ‘Mapping Party’ in the streets of Cape Town which involves walking / cycling / driving with a GPS and editing and uploading your tracks to the free, public www.openstreetmap.org This promises to be lots of fun and you will also be working towards something useful.

*Date: Sunday 29 September
*Meet at: TBA
*Start time: Morning
*Duration: All Day
*Lunch : To be self organised
*Required equipment : There will be GPS's and Laptops
*What to bring with : GPS if delegates have one
*Contact: Mikel Maron : mikel_maron@yahoo.com
*!! Volunteers needed: to tell teachers about GPS, the street mapping project, and to help with the exercise.!!

==Friday 3 October 2008 - morning==

===SESSION 2. Mapping and GIS Options===
2 computer labs of 20 people + classrooms
*Session 1 : 9-11h Hands-on exposure to GIS by the J-Grass team
*Session 2 : 11-13h Map Aware session

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Trafalgar High School, address, District Six
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 13pm
*Duration: 3 huors
*Contact: Avis Smith - avis@discoverymail.co.za, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za

===SESSION 3. Outdoor event to learn about GPS in the Rondevlei Nature Reserve===
Practical use of GIS technology in nature that includes working with a GPS, marking and finding points, observing wetland bird and looking at data collected previously using GIS software. This is an opportunity to see what how GIS can be applied in real life. GPS will be provided but bring your own if you have.

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Rondevlei Nature Reserve, Fisherman’s Walk Road, Zeekoivlei
*Start time: 9am
*Finish time: 13.00
*Duration: 2.5 hours
*Max Number: 20
*Book with: Bronwen Foster
Environmental Education Officer
*Tel.: 021 706 2404, Fax: 021 706 2405
*Email: Bronwen.Foster@capetown.gov.za
*Entrance Fee: R6.00 per adult
*!!Volunteers welcome. to assist Bronwen with showing teachers how to use GPS and see RondeVlei Reserve.!!

==Friday afternoon 3 October==

===Independent Schools of South Africa, Geography Teachers Conference===
Workshop with demos and talks from international guest of how GIS is being used in other countries, also local input that will help teachers here teach GIS '''
*Venue: Biships Boys School, Rondebosch, Cape Town
*Time: 2 - 5pm
*Presenter : Nico Elema from Globalimage
*Contact : John Lanser - jlanser@bishops.org.za, Shawn Lezar - slezar007@yahoo.com, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za
*24 PC's available

*Suggested options
A hands-on-demo would be great. They have ArcView 3.3 on their computers. We should consider installing and showing something with an open source flavour. Exposure by an international delegate of what’s happening in education elsewhere in the world. Exposure to OS GIS software by means of distributing a CD.

===Workshop for University of Cape Town students and staff===

* Geospatial lab in the Environmental & Geographical Science department @ UCT
* 16 PC's available / 30 Students
* 3rd , 4th year students, postgraduate and UCT staff will attend
* Current software installed on computers: Manifold, may install other software
* To confirm with Dr Kevin Winter at the Environmental and Geographical Sciences department
* GIS delegates/volunteers to present workshop on Spatial data infrastructure development,web-based GIS, any other suggestions preferably OPEN SOURCE

==other ideas==
Still to consider – please give input and ideas

We would also like to organise the following:
* 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

=Technical Visits=

For final technical visit programme see [[FOSS4G2008_Workshops_and_Technical_Visits]]

These are just working notes below.

'''Monday morning'''

'''Option 1'''
*Visit to the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping
*Monday 29th September 2008: 8h30-12h00
*Conference delegates to gather 8h15 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through how the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping operates.

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'''
*Visit to the Institute for Satellite and Software Applications
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 8h00-12h30
*Conference delegates to gather 7h50 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through their facilities and explain their role in the South African space program.

'''Option 2'''

*Visit to Delheim - Wine Estate GIS
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 13h00-17h30
*Conference delegates to gather 12h50 at the CTICC.
*40 delegates and 1 volunteer

Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry.
This will be followed by a wine tasting and tour of the farm.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-09-23T12:06:23Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* SESSION 4. Outdoor event to learn about GPS in the Rondevlei Nature Reserve */

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 26th September==

===Day course on open source applications===

*Honours and postgraduate students welcome
*Day event in the Geomatics computer lab @ UCT
*Presenter: Martin Dresen from Germany

Possible contents:
*Survey on webmapping applications
*OpenLayers
*UMN Mapserver applications (MS4W package)

Contacts
*Alize Botha : ABotha1@csir.co.za
*Dr Julian Smith : Julian.Smit@uct.ac.za

==Sunday 28 September==

===SESSION 1. Street Mapping Party in and around Cape Town===

OpenStreetMap will be running a ‘Mapping Party’ in the streets of Cape Town which involves walking / cycling / driving with a GPS and editing and uploading your tracks to the free, public www.openstreetmap.org This promises to be lots of fun and you will also be working towards something useful.

*Date: Sunday 29 September
*Meet at: TBA
*Start time: Morning
*Duration: All Day
*Lunch : To be self organised
*Required equipment : There will be GPS's and Laptops
*What to bring with : GPS if delegates have one
*Contact: Mikel Maron : mikel_maron@yahoo.com
*!! Volunteers needed: to tell teachers about GPS, the street mapping project, and to help with the exercise.!!

==Friday 3 October 2008 - morning==

===SESSION 2. Mapping and GIS Options===
2 computer labs of 20 people + classrooms
*Session 1 : 9-11h Hands-on exposure to GIS by the J-Grass team
*Session 2 : 11-13h Map Aware session

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Trafalgar High School, address, District Six
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 13pm
*Duration: 3 huors
*Contact: Avis Smith - avis@discoverymail.co.za, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za

===SESSION 3. Outdoor event to learn about GPS in the Rondevlei Nature Reserve===
Practical use of GIS technology in nature that includes working with a GPS, marking and finding points, observing wetland bird and looking at data collected previously using GIS software. This is an opportunity to see what how GIS can be applied in real life. GPS will be provided but bring your own if you have.

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Rondevlei Nature Reserve, Fisherman’s Walk Road, Zeekoivlei
*Start time: 9am
*Finish time: 13.00
*Duration: 2.5 hours
*Max Number: 20
*Book with: Bronwen Foster
Environmental Education Officer
*Tel.: 021 706 2404, Fax: 021 706 2405
*Email: Bronwen.Foster@capetown.gov.za
*Entrance Fee: R6.00 per adult
*!!Volunteers welcome. to assist Bronwen with showing teachers how to use GPS and see RondeVlei Reserve.!!

==Friday afternoon 3 October==

===Independent Schools of South Africa, Geography Teachers Conference===
Workshop with demos and talks from international guest of how GIS is being used in other countries, also local input that will help teachers here teach GIS '''
*Venue: Biships Boys School, Rondebosch, Cape Town
*Time: 2 - 5pm
*Contact : John Lanser - jlanser@bishops.org.za, Shawn Lezar - slezar007@yahoo.com, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za
*24 PC's available

*Suggested options
A hands-on-demo would be great. They have ArcView 3.3 on their computers. We should consider installing and showing something with an open source flavour. Exposure by an international delegate of what’s happening in education elsewhere in the world. Exposure to OS GIS software by means of distributing a CD.

===Workshop for University of Cape Town students and staff===

* Geospatial lab in the Environmental & Geographical Science department @ UCT
* 16 PC's available / 30 Students
* 3rd , 4th year students, postgraduate and UCT staff will attend
* Current software installed on computers: Manifold, may install other software
* To confirm with Dr Kevin Winter at the Environmental and Geographical Sciences department
* GIS delegates/volunteers to present workshop on Spatial data infrastructure development,web-based GIS, any other suggestions preferably OPEN SOURCE

==other ideas==
Still to consider – please give input and ideas

We would also like to organise the following:
* 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

=Technical Visits=

For final technical visit programme see [[FOSS4G2008_Workshops_and_Technical_Visits]]

These are just working notes below.

'''Monday morning'''

'''Option 1'''
*Visit to the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping
*Monday 29th September 2008: 8h30-12h00
*Conference delegates to gather 8h15 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through how the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping operates.

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'''
*Visit to the Institute for Satellite and Software Applications
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 8h00-12h30
*Conference delegates to gather 7h50 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through their facilities and explain their role in the South African space program.

'''Option 2'''

*Visit to Delheim - Wine Estate GIS
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 13h00-17h30
*Conference delegates to gather 12h50 at the CTICC.
*40 delegates and 1 volunteer

Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry.
This will be followed by a wine tasting and tour of the farm.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-09-23T12:05:27Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* SESSION 3. Mapping and GIS Options */

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 26th September==

===Day course on open source applications===

*Honours and postgraduate students welcome
*Day event in the Geomatics computer lab @ UCT
*Presenter: Martin Dresen from Germany

Possible contents:
*Survey on webmapping applications
*OpenLayers
*UMN Mapserver applications (MS4W package)

Contacts
*Alize Botha : ABotha1@csir.co.za
*Dr Julian Smith : Julian.Smit@uct.ac.za

==Sunday 28 September==

===SESSION 1. Street Mapping Party in and around Cape Town===

OpenStreetMap will be running a ‘Mapping Party’ in the streets of Cape Town which involves walking / cycling / driving with a GPS and editing and uploading your tracks to the free, public www.openstreetmap.org This promises to be lots of fun and you will also be working towards something useful.

*Date: Sunday 29 September
*Meet at: TBA
*Start time: Morning
*Duration: All Day
*Lunch : To be self organised
*Required equipment : There will be GPS's and Laptops
*What to bring with : GPS if delegates have one
*Contact: Mikel Maron : mikel_maron@yahoo.com
*!! Volunteers needed: to tell teachers about GPS, the street mapping project, and to help with the exercise.!!

==Friday 3 October 2008 - morning==

===SESSION 2. Mapping and GIS Options===
2 computer labs of 20 people + classrooms
*Session 1 : 9-11h Hands-on exposure to GIS by the J-Grass team
*Session 2 : 11-13h Map Aware session

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Trafalgar High School, address, District Six
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 13pm
*Duration: 3 huors
*Contact: Avis Smith - avis@discoverymail.co.za, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za

===SESSION 4. Outdoor event to learn about GPS in the Rondevlei Nature Reserve===
Practical use of GIS technology in nature that includes working with a GPS, marking and finding points, observing wetland bird and looking at data collected previously using GIS software. This is an opportunity to see what how GIS can be applied in real life. GPS will be provided but bring your own if you have.

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Rondevlei Nature Reserve, Fisherman’s Walk Road, Zeekoivlei
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 13.00
*Duration: 2.5 hours
*Max Number: 20
*Book with: Bronwen Foster
Environmental Education Officer
*Tel.: 021 706 2404, Fax: 021 706 2405
*Email: Bronwen.Foster@capetown.gov.za
*Entrance Fee: R6.00 per adult
*!!Volunteers welcome. to assist Bronwen with showing teachers how to use GPS and see RondeVlei Reserve.!!

==Friday afternoon 3 October==

===Independent Schools of South Africa, Geography Teachers Conference===
Workshop with demos and talks from international guest of how GIS is being used in other countries, also local input that will help teachers here teach GIS '''
*Venue: Biships Boys School, Rondebosch, Cape Town
*Time: 2 - 5pm
*Contact : John Lanser - jlanser@bishops.org.za, Shawn Lezar - slezar007@yahoo.com, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za
*24 PC's available

*Suggested options
A hands-on-demo would be great. They have ArcView 3.3 on their computers. We should consider installing and showing something with an open source flavour. Exposure by an international delegate of what’s happening in education elsewhere in the world. Exposure to OS GIS software by means of distributing a CD.

===Workshop for University of Cape Town students and staff===

* Geospatial lab in the Environmental & Geographical Science department @ UCT
* 16 PC's available / 30 Students
* 3rd , 4th year students, postgraduate and UCT staff will attend
* Current software installed on computers: Manifold, may install other software
* To confirm with Dr Kevin Winter at the Environmental and Geographical Sciences department
* GIS delegates/volunteers to present workshop on Spatial data infrastructure development,web-based GIS, any other suggestions preferably OPEN SOURCE

==other ideas==
Still to consider – please give input and ideas

We would also like to organise the following:
* 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

=Technical Visits=

For final technical visit programme see [[FOSS4G2008_Workshops_and_Technical_Visits]]

These are just working notes below.

'''Monday morning'''

'''Option 1'''
*Visit to the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping
*Monday 29th September 2008: 8h30-12h00
*Conference delegates to gather 8h15 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through how the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping operates.

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'''
*Visit to the Institute for Satellite and Software Applications
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 8h00-12h30
*Conference delegates to gather 7h50 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through their facilities and explain their role in the South African space program.

'''Option 2'''

*Visit to Delheim - Wine Estate GIS
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 13h00-17h30
*Conference delegates to gather 12h50 at the CTICC.
*40 delegates and 1 volunteer

Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry.
This will be followed by a wine tasting and tour of the farm.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-09-23T12:04:46Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* SESSION 3. Mapping and GIS Options */

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 26th September==

===Day course on open source applications===

*Honours and postgraduate students welcome
*Day event in the Geomatics computer lab @ UCT
*Presenter: Martin Dresen from Germany

Possible contents:
*Survey on webmapping applications
*OpenLayers
*UMN Mapserver applications (MS4W package)

Contacts
*Alize Botha : ABotha1@csir.co.za
*Dr Julian Smith : Julian.Smit@uct.ac.za

==Sunday 28 September==

===SESSION 1. Street Mapping Party in and around Cape Town===

OpenStreetMap will be running a ‘Mapping Party’ in the streets of Cape Town which involves walking / cycling / driving with a GPS and editing and uploading your tracks to the free, public www.openstreetmap.org This promises to be lots of fun and you will also be working towards something useful.

*Date: Sunday 29 September
*Meet at: TBA
*Start time: Morning
*Duration: All Day
*Lunch : To be self organised
*Required equipment : There will be GPS's and Laptops
*What to bring with : GPS if delegates have one
*Contact: Mikel Maron : mikel_maron@yahoo.com
*!! Volunteers needed: to tell teachers about GPS, the street mapping project, and to help with the exercise.!!

==Friday 3 October 2008 - morning==

===SESSION 3. Mapping and GIS Options===
2 computer labs of 20 people + classrooms
*Session 1 : 9-11h Hands-on exposure to GIS by the J-Grass team
*Session 2 : 11-13h Map Aware session

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Trafalgar High School, address, District Six
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 13pm
*Duration: 3 huors
*Contact: Avis Smith - avis@discoverymail.co.za, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za

===SESSION 4. Outdoor event to learn about GPS in the Rondevlei Nature Reserve===
Practical use of GIS technology in nature that includes working with a GPS, marking and finding points, observing wetland bird and looking at data collected previously using GIS software. This is an opportunity to see what how GIS can be applied in real life. GPS will be provided but bring your own if you have.

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Rondevlei Nature Reserve, Fisherman’s Walk Road, Zeekoivlei
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 13.00
*Duration: 2.5 hours
*Max Number: 20
*Book with: Bronwen Foster
Environmental Education Officer
*Tel.: 021 706 2404, Fax: 021 706 2405
*Email: Bronwen.Foster@capetown.gov.za
*Entrance Fee: R6.00 per adult
*!!Volunteers welcome. to assist Bronwen with showing teachers how to use GPS and see RondeVlei Reserve.!!

==Friday afternoon 3 October==

===Independent Schools of South Africa, Geography Teachers Conference===
Workshop with demos and talks from international guest of how GIS is being used in other countries, also local input that will help teachers here teach GIS '''
*Venue: Biships Boys School, Rondebosch, Cape Town
*Time: 2 - 5pm
*Contact : John Lanser - jlanser@bishops.org.za, Shawn Lezar - slezar007@yahoo.com, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za
*24 PC's available

*Suggested options
A hands-on-demo would be great. They have ArcView 3.3 on their computers. We should consider installing and showing something with an open source flavour. Exposure by an international delegate of what’s happening in education elsewhere in the world. Exposure to OS GIS software by means of distributing a CD.

===Workshop for University of Cape Town students and staff===

* Geospatial lab in the Environmental & Geographical Science department @ UCT
* 16 PC's available / 30 Students
* 3rd , 4th year students, postgraduate and UCT staff will attend
* Current software installed on computers: Manifold, may install other software
* To confirm with Dr Kevin Winter at the Environmental and Geographical Sciences department
* GIS delegates/volunteers to present workshop on Spatial data infrastructure development,web-based GIS, any other suggestions preferably OPEN SOURCE

==other ideas==
Still to consider – please give input and ideas

We would also like to organise the following:
* 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

=Technical Visits=

For final technical visit programme see [[FOSS4G2008_Workshops_and_Technical_Visits]]

These are just working notes below.

'''Monday morning'''

'''Option 1'''
*Visit to the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping
*Monday 29th September 2008: 8h30-12h00
*Conference delegates to gather 8h15 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through how the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping operates.

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'''
*Visit to the Institute for Satellite and Software Applications
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 8h00-12h30
*Conference delegates to gather 7h50 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through their facilities and explain their role in the South African space program.

'''Option 2'''

*Visit to Delheim - Wine Estate GIS
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 13h00-17h30
*Conference delegates to gather 12h50 at the CTICC.
*40 delegates and 1 volunteer

Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry.
This will be followed by a wine tasting and tour of the farm.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-09-23T12:01:53Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Monday 29 September */

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 26th September==

===Day course on open source applications===

*Honours and postgraduate students welcome
*Day event in the Geomatics computer lab @ UCT
*Presenter: Martin Dresen from Germany

Possible contents:
*Survey on webmapping applications
*OpenLayers
*UMN Mapserver applications (MS4W package)

Contacts
*Alize Botha : ABotha1@csir.co.za
*Dr Julian Smith : Julian.Smit@uct.ac.za

==Sunday 28 September==

===SESSION 1. Street Mapping Party in and around Cape Town===

OpenStreetMap will be running a ‘Mapping Party’ in the streets of Cape Town which involves walking / cycling / driving with a GPS and editing and uploading your tracks to the free, public www.openstreetmap.org This promises to be lots of fun and you will also be working towards something useful.

*Date: Sunday 29 September
*Meet at: TBA
*Start time: Morning
*Duration: All Day
*Lunch : To be self organised
*Required equipment : There will be GPS's and Laptops
*What to bring with : GPS if delegates have one
*Contact: Mikel Maron : mikel_maron@yahoo.com
*!! Volunteers needed: to tell teachers about GPS, the street mapping project, and to help with the exercise.!!

==Friday 3 October 2008 - morning==

===SESSION 3. Mapping and GIS Options===
2 computer labs of 20 people + classrooms
*Option 1. Map-aware where basic map skills are limited.
!!Volunteers needed: talk about basic mapping with examples!!

*Option 2. Demos of internet examples for grades 10 - 12 for teachers who don't want to learn GIS but want to know where to find examples to use in the classroom.
!!Volunteers needed: people who know about web sites that will be useful to teachers and who have experience with what is happening elsewhere. this could be 2 different people sharing a session!!

*Option 3. Hands-on exposure to GIS.
!!Voluneers needed: to give teachers an overview of GIS functionality. Software still to be decided in consultation with Department of Education!!

*Option 4 Google Earth for educators
!! Volunteers needed: experience with Google earth who can show teachers a practical hands-on of how they can use it!!!

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Trafalgar High School, address, District Six
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 2pm
*Duration: 2-3 hours
*Contact: Avis Smith - avis@discoverymail.co.za, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za

===SESSION 4. Outdoor event to learn about GPS in the Rondevlei Nature Reserve===
Practical use of GIS technology in nature that includes working with a GPS, marking and finding points, observing wetland bird and looking at data collected previously using GIS software. This is an opportunity to see what how GIS can be applied in real life. GPS will be provided but bring your own if you have.

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Rondevlei Nature Reserve, Fisherman’s Walk Road, Zeekoivlei
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 13.00
*Duration: 2.5 hours
*Max Number: 20
*Book with: Bronwen Foster
Environmental Education Officer
*Tel.: 021 706 2404, Fax: 021 706 2405
*Email: Bronwen.Foster@capetown.gov.za
*Entrance Fee: R6.00 per adult
*!!Volunteers welcome. to assist Bronwen with showing teachers how to use GPS and see RondeVlei Reserve.!!

==Friday afternoon 3 October==

===Independent Schools of South Africa, Geography Teachers Conference===
Workshop with demos and talks from international guest of how GIS is being used in other countries, also local input that will help teachers here teach GIS '''
*Venue: Biships Boys School, Rondebosch, Cape Town
*Time: 2 - 5pm
*Contact : John Lanser - jlanser@bishops.org.za, Shawn Lezar - slezar007@yahoo.com, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za
*24 PC's available

*Suggested options
A hands-on-demo would be great. They have ArcView 3.3 on their computers. We should consider installing and showing something with an open source flavour. Exposure by an international delegate of what’s happening in education elsewhere in the world. Exposure to OS GIS software by means of distributing a CD.

===Workshop for University of Cape Town students and staff===

* Geospatial lab in the Environmental & Geographical Science department @ UCT
* 16 PC's available / 30 Students
* 3rd , 4th year students, postgraduate and UCT staff will attend
* Current software installed on computers: Manifold, may install other software
* To confirm with Dr Kevin Winter at the Environmental and Geographical Sciences department
* GIS delegates/volunteers to present workshop on Spatial data infrastructure development,web-based GIS, any other suggestions preferably OPEN SOURCE

==other ideas==
Still to consider – please give input and ideas

We would also like to organise the following:
* 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

=Technical Visits=

For final technical visit programme see [[FOSS4G2008_Workshops_and_Technical_Visits]]

These are just working notes below.

'''Monday morning'''

'''Option 1'''
*Visit to the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping
*Monday 29th September 2008: 8h30-12h00
*Conference delegates to gather 8h15 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through how the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping operates.

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'''
*Visit to the Institute for Satellite and Software Applications
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 8h00-12h30
*Conference delegates to gather 7h50 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through their facilities and explain their role in the South African space program.

'''Option 2'''

*Visit to Delheim - Wine Estate GIS
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 13h00-17h30
*Conference delegates to gather 12h50 at the CTICC.
*40 delegates and 1 volunteer

Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry.
This will be followed by a wine tasting and tour of the farm.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-09-23T12:01:26Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* SESSION 2 : Google Earth for Educators */

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 26th September==

===Day course on open source applications===

*Honours and postgraduate students welcome
*Day event in the Geomatics computer lab @ UCT
*Presenter: Martin Dresen from Germany

Possible contents:
*Survey on webmapping applications
*OpenLayers
*UMN Mapserver applications (MS4W package)

Contacts
*Alize Botha : ABotha1@csir.co.za
*Dr Julian Smith : Julian.Smit@uct.ac.za

==Sunday 28 September==

===SESSION 1. Street Mapping Party in and around Cape Town===

OpenStreetMap will be running a ‘Mapping Party’ in the streets of Cape Town which involves walking / cycling / driving with a GPS and editing and uploading your tracks to the free, public www.openstreetmap.org This promises to be lots of fun and you will also be working towards something useful.

*Date: Sunday 29 September
*Meet at: TBA
*Start time: Morning
*Duration: All Day
*Lunch : To be self organised
*Required equipment : There will be GPS's and Laptops
*What to bring with : GPS if delegates have one
*Contact: Mikel Maron : mikel_maron@yahoo.com
*!! Volunteers needed: to tell teachers about GPS, the street mapping project, and to help with the exercise.!!

==Monday 29 September==

==Friday 3 October 2008 - morning==

===SESSION 3. Mapping and GIS Options===
2 computer labs of 20 people + classrooms
*Option 1. Map-aware where basic map skills are limited.
!!Volunteers needed: talk about basic mapping with examples!!

*Option 2. Demos of internet examples for grades 10 - 12 for teachers who don't want to learn GIS but want to know where to find examples to use in the classroom.
!!Volunteers needed: people who know about web sites that will be useful to teachers and who have experience with what is happening elsewhere. this could be 2 different people sharing a session!!

*Option 3. Hands-on exposure to GIS.
!!Voluneers needed: to give teachers an overview of GIS functionality. Software still to be decided in consultation with Department of Education!!

*Option 4 Google Earth for educators
!! Volunteers needed: experience with Google earth who can show teachers a practical hands-on of how they can use it!!!

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Trafalgar High School, address, District Six
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 2pm
*Duration: 2-3 hours
*Contact: Avis Smith - avis@discoverymail.co.za, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za

===SESSION 4. Outdoor event to learn about GPS in the Rondevlei Nature Reserve===
Practical use of GIS technology in nature that includes working with a GPS, marking and finding points, observing wetland bird and looking at data collected previously using GIS software. This is an opportunity to see what how GIS can be applied in real life. GPS will be provided but bring your own if you have.

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Rondevlei Nature Reserve, Fisherman’s Walk Road, Zeekoivlei
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 13.00
*Duration: 2.5 hours
*Max Number: 20
*Book with: Bronwen Foster
Environmental Education Officer
*Tel.: 021 706 2404, Fax: 021 706 2405
*Email: Bronwen.Foster@capetown.gov.za
*Entrance Fee: R6.00 per adult
*!!Volunteers welcome. to assist Bronwen with showing teachers how to use GPS and see RondeVlei Reserve.!!

==Friday afternoon 3 October==

===Independent Schools of South Africa, Geography Teachers Conference===
Workshop with demos and talks from international guest of how GIS is being used in other countries, also local input that will help teachers here teach GIS '''
*Venue: Biships Boys School, Rondebosch, Cape Town
*Time: 2 - 5pm
*Contact : John Lanser - jlanser@bishops.org.za, Shawn Lezar - slezar007@yahoo.com, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za
*24 PC's available

*Suggested options
A hands-on-demo would be great. They have ArcView 3.3 on their computers. We should consider installing and showing something with an open source flavour. Exposure by an international delegate of what’s happening in education elsewhere in the world. Exposure to OS GIS software by means of distributing a CD.

===Workshop for University of Cape Town students and staff===

* Geospatial lab in the Environmental & Geographical Science department @ UCT
* 16 PC's available / 30 Students
* 3rd , 4th year students, postgraduate and UCT staff will attend
* Current software installed on computers: Manifold, may install other software
* To confirm with Dr Kevin Winter at the Environmental and Geographical Sciences department
* GIS delegates/volunteers to present workshop on Spatial data infrastructure development,web-based GIS, any other suggestions preferably OPEN SOURCE

==other ideas==
Still to consider – please give input and ideas

We would also like to organise the following:
* 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

=Technical Visits=

For final technical visit programme see [[FOSS4G2008_Workshops_and_Technical_Visits]]

These are just working notes below.

'''Monday morning'''

'''Option 1'''
*Visit to the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping
*Monday 29th September 2008: 8h30-12h00
*Conference delegates to gather 8h15 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through how the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping operates.

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'''
*Visit to the Institute for Satellite and Software Applications
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 8h00-12h30
*Conference delegates to gather 7h50 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through their facilities and explain their role in the South African space program.

'''Option 2'''

*Visit to Delheim - Wine Estate GIS
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 13h00-17h30
*Conference delegates to gather 12h50 at the CTICC.
*40 delegates and 1 volunteer

Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry.
This will be followed by a wine tasting and tour of the farm.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-09-23T12:00:59Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* SESSION 1. Street Mapping Party in and around Cape Town */

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 26th September==

===Day course on open source applications===

*Honours and postgraduate students welcome
*Day event in the Geomatics computer lab @ UCT
*Presenter: Martin Dresen from Germany

Possible contents:
*Survey on webmapping applications
*OpenLayers
*UMN Mapserver applications (MS4W package)

Contacts
*Alize Botha : ABotha1@csir.co.za
*Dr Julian Smith : Julian.Smit@uct.ac.za

==Sunday 28 September==

===SESSION 1. Street Mapping Party in and around Cape Town===

OpenStreetMap will be running a ‘Mapping Party’ in the streets of Cape Town which involves walking / cycling / driving with a GPS and editing and uploading your tracks to the free, public www.openstreetmap.org This promises to be lots of fun and you will also be working towards something useful.

*Date: Sunday 29 September
*Meet at: TBA
*Start time: Morning
*Duration: All Day
*Lunch : To be self organised
*Required equipment : There will be GPS's and Laptops
*What to bring with : GPS if delegates have one
*Contact: Mikel Maron : mikel_maron@yahoo.com
*!! Volunteers needed: to tell teachers about GPS, the street mapping project, and to help with the exercise.!!

==Monday 29 September==

===SESSION 2 : Google Earth for Educators===
How to use Google earth in the classroom and its application in geography, biology, history and anything that want to know where things are on our planet.

*Date: Monday 29 September
*Venue: Trafalgar High School, address, District Six
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 2pm
*Duration: 2 hours
*Contact: Alize Botha - ABotha1@csir.co.za
*!! Volunteers needed: experience with Google earth who can show teachers a practical hands-on of how they can use it!!!

==Friday 3 October 2008 - morning==

===SESSION 3. Mapping and GIS Options===
2 computer labs of 20 people + classrooms
*Option 1. Map-aware where basic map skills are limited.
!!Volunteers needed: talk about basic mapping with examples!!

*Option 2. Demos of internet examples for grades 10 - 12 for teachers who don't want to learn GIS but want to know where to find examples to use in the classroom.
!!Volunteers needed: people who know about web sites that will be useful to teachers and who have experience with what is happening elsewhere. this could be 2 different people sharing a session!!

*Option 3. Hands-on exposure to GIS.
!!Voluneers needed: to give teachers an overview of GIS functionality. Software still to be decided in consultation with Department of Education!!

*Option 4 Google Earth for educators
!! Volunteers needed: experience with Google earth who can show teachers a practical hands-on of how they can use it!!!

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Trafalgar High School, address, District Six
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 2pm
*Duration: 2-3 hours
*Contact: Avis Smith - avis@discoverymail.co.za, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za

===SESSION 4. Outdoor event to learn about GPS in the Rondevlei Nature Reserve===
Practical use of GIS technology in nature that includes working with a GPS, marking and finding points, observing wetland bird and looking at data collected previously using GIS software. This is an opportunity to see what how GIS can be applied in real life. GPS will be provided but bring your own if you have.

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Rondevlei Nature Reserve, Fisherman’s Walk Road, Zeekoivlei
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 13.00
*Duration: 2.5 hours
*Max Number: 20
*Book with: Bronwen Foster
Environmental Education Officer
*Tel.: 021 706 2404, Fax: 021 706 2405
*Email: Bronwen.Foster@capetown.gov.za
*Entrance Fee: R6.00 per adult
*!!Volunteers welcome. to assist Bronwen with showing teachers how to use GPS and see RondeVlei Reserve.!!

==Friday afternoon 3 October==

===Independent Schools of South Africa, Geography Teachers Conference===
Workshop with demos and talks from international guest of how GIS is being used in other countries, also local input that will help teachers here teach GIS '''
*Venue: Biships Boys School, Rondebosch, Cape Town
*Time: 2 - 5pm
*Contact : John Lanser - jlanser@bishops.org.za, Shawn Lezar - slezar007@yahoo.com, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za
*24 PC's available

*Suggested options
A hands-on-demo would be great. They have ArcView 3.3 on their computers. We should consider installing and showing something with an open source flavour. Exposure by an international delegate of what’s happening in education elsewhere in the world. Exposure to OS GIS software by means of distributing a CD.

===Workshop for University of Cape Town students and staff===

* Geospatial lab in the Environmental & Geographical Science department @ UCT
* 16 PC's available / 30 Students
* 3rd , 4th year students, postgraduate and UCT staff will attend
* Current software installed on computers: Manifold, may install other software
* To confirm with Dr Kevin Winter at the Environmental and Geographical Sciences department
* GIS delegates/volunteers to present workshop on Spatial data infrastructure development,web-based GIS, any other suggestions preferably OPEN SOURCE

==other ideas==
Still to consider – please give input and ideas

We would also like to organise the following:
* 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

=Technical Visits=

For final technical visit programme see [[FOSS4G2008_Workshops_and_Technical_Visits]]

These are just working notes below.

'''Monday morning'''

'''Option 1'''
*Visit to the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping
*Monday 29th September 2008: 8h30-12h00
*Conference delegates to gather 8h15 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through how the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping operates.

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'''
*Visit to the Institute for Satellite and Software Applications
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 8h00-12h30
*Conference delegates to gather 7h50 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through their facilities and explain their role in the South African space program.

'''Option 2'''

*Visit to Delheim - Wine Estate GIS
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 13h00-17h30
*Conference delegates to gather 12h50 at the CTICC.
*40 delegates and 1 volunteer

Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry.
This will be followed by a wine tasting and tour of the farm.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-09-23T11:57:31Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Day course on open source applications */

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 26th September==

===Day course on open source applications===

*Honours and postgraduate students welcome
*Day event in the Geomatics computer lab @ UCT
*Presenter: Martin Dresen from Germany

Possible contents:
*Survey on webmapping applications
*OpenLayers
*UMN Mapserver applications (MS4W package)

Contacts
*Alize Botha : ABotha1@csir.co.za
*Dr Julian Smith : Julian.Smit@uct.ac.za

==Sunday 28 September==

===SESSION 1. Street Mapping Party in and around Cape Town===

OpenStreetMap will be running a ‘Mapping Party’ in the streets of Cape Town which involves walking / cycling / driving with a GPS and editing and uploading your tracks to the free, public www.openstreetmap.org This promises to be lots of fun and you will also be working towards something useful.

*Date: Sunday 29 September
*Meet at:
*Start time:
*Duration:
*Contact:
*!! Volunteers needed: to tell teachers about GPS, the street mapping project, and to help with the exercise.!!

==Monday 29 September==

===SESSION 2 : Google Earth for Educators===
How to use Google earth in the classroom and its application in geography, biology, history and anything that want to know where things are on our planet.

*Date: Monday 29 September
*Venue: Trafalgar High School, address, District Six
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 2pm
*Duration: 2 hours
*Contact: Alize Botha - ABotha1@csir.co.za
*!! Volunteers needed: experience with Google earth who can show teachers a practical hands-on of how they can use it!!!

==Friday 3 October 2008 - morning==

===SESSION 3. Mapping and GIS Options===
2 computer labs of 20 people + classrooms
*Option 1. Map-aware where basic map skills are limited.
!!Volunteers needed: talk about basic mapping with examples!!

*Option 2. Demos of internet examples for grades 10 - 12 for teachers who don't want to learn GIS but want to know where to find examples to use in the classroom.
!!Volunteers needed: people who know about web sites that will be useful to teachers and who have experience with what is happening elsewhere. this could be 2 different people sharing a session!!

*Option 3. Hands-on exposure to GIS.
!!Voluneers needed: to give teachers an overview of GIS functionality. Software still to be decided in consultation with Department of Education!!

*Option 4 Google Earth for educators
!! Volunteers needed: experience with Google earth who can show teachers a practical hands-on of how they can use it!!!

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Trafalgar High School, address, District Six
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 2pm
*Duration: 2-3 hours
*Contact: Avis Smith - avis@discoverymail.co.za, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za

===SESSION 4. Outdoor event to learn about GPS in the Rondevlei Nature Reserve===
Practical use of GIS technology in nature that includes working with a GPS, marking and finding points, observing wetland bird and looking at data collected previously using GIS software. This is an opportunity to see what how GIS can be applied in real life. GPS will be provided but bring your own if you have.

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Rondevlei Nature Reserve, Fisherman’s Walk Road, Zeekoivlei
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 13.00
*Duration: 2.5 hours
*Max Number: 20
*Book with: Bronwen Foster
Environmental Education Officer
*Tel.: 021 706 2404, Fax: 021 706 2405
*Email: Bronwen.Foster@capetown.gov.za
*Entrance Fee: R6.00 per adult
*!!Volunteers welcome. to assist Bronwen with showing teachers how to use GPS and see RondeVlei Reserve.!!

==Friday afternoon 3 October==

===Independent Schools of South Africa, Geography Teachers Conference===
Workshop with demos and talks from international guest of how GIS is being used in other countries, also local input that will help teachers here teach GIS '''
*Venue: Biships Boys School, Rondebosch, Cape Town
*Time: 2 - 5pm
*Contact : John Lanser - jlanser@bishops.org.za, Shawn Lezar - slezar007@yahoo.com, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za
*24 PC's available

*Suggested options
A hands-on-demo would be great. They have ArcView 3.3 on their computers. We should consider installing and showing something with an open source flavour. Exposure by an international delegate of what’s happening in education elsewhere in the world. Exposure to OS GIS software by means of distributing a CD.

===Workshop for University of Cape Town students and staff===

* Geospatial lab in the Environmental & Geographical Science department @ UCT
* 16 PC's available / 30 Students
* 3rd , 4th year students, postgraduate and UCT staff will attend
* Current software installed on computers: Manifold, may install other software
* To confirm with Dr Kevin Winter at the Environmental and Geographical Sciences department
* GIS delegates/volunteers to present workshop on Spatial data infrastructure development,web-based GIS, any other suggestions preferably OPEN SOURCE

==other ideas==
Still to consider – please give input and ideas

We would also like to organise the following:
* 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

=Technical Visits=

For final technical visit programme see [[FOSS4G2008_Workshops_and_Technical_Visits]]

These are just working notes below.

'''Monday morning'''

'''Option 1'''
*Visit to the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping
*Monday 29th September 2008: 8h30-12h00
*Conference delegates to gather 8h15 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through how the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping operates.

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'''
*Visit to the Institute for Satellite and Software Applications
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 8h00-12h30
*Conference delegates to gather 7h50 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through their facilities and explain their role in the South African space program.

'''Option 2'''

*Visit to Delheim - Wine Estate GIS
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 13h00-17h30
*Conference delegates to gather 12h50 at the CTICC.
*40 delegates and 1 volunteer

Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry.
This will be followed by a wine tasting and tour of the farm.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-09-16T08:28:21Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* SESSION 1. Street Mapping Party in and around Cape Town */

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 26th September==

===Day course on open source applications===

*Honours and postgraduate students to attend
*Day event in the Geomatics computer lab @ UCT
*Presenter: Martin Dresen from Germany

Possible contents:
*Survey on webmapping applications
*OpenLayers
*UMN Mapserver applications (MS4W package)

==Sunday 28 September==

===SESSION 1. Street Mapping Party in and around Cape Town===

OpenStreetMap will be running a ‘Mapping Party’ in the streets of Cape Town which involves walking / cycling / driving with a GPS and editing and uploading your tracks to the free, public www.openstreetmap.org This promises to be lots of fun and you will also be working towards something useful.

*Date: Sunday 29 September
*Meet at:
*Start time:
*Duration:
*Contact:
*!! Volunteers needed: to tell teachers about GPS, the street mapping project, and to help with the exercise.!!

==Monday 29 September==

===SESSION 2 : Google Earth for Educators===
How to use Google earth in the classroom and its application in geography, biology, history and anything that want to know where things are on our planet.

*Date: Monday 29 September
*Venue: Trafalgar High School, address, District Six
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 2pm
*Duration: 2 hours
*Contact: Alize Botha - ABotha1@csir.co.za
*!! Volunteers needed: experience with Google earth who can show teachers a practical hands-on of how they can use it!!!

==Friday 3 October 2008 - morning==

===SESSION 3. Mapping and GIS Options===
2 computer labs of 20 people + classrooms
*Option 1. Map-aware where basic map skills are limited.
!!Volunteers needed: talk about basic mapping with examples!!

*Option 2. Demos of internet examples for grades 10 - 12 for teachers who don't want to learn GIS but want to know where to find examples to use in the classroom.
!!Volunteers needed: people who know about web sites that will be useful to teachers and who have experience with what is happening elsewhere. this could be 2 different people sharing a session!!

*Option 3. Hands-on exposure to GIS.
!!Voluneers needed: to give teachers an overview of GIS functionality. Software still to be decided in consultation with Department of Education!!

*Option 4 Google Earth for educators
!! Volunteers needed: experience with Google earth who can show teachers a practical hands-on of how they can use it!!!

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Trafalgar High School, address, District Six
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 2pm
*Duration: 2-3 hours
*Contact: Avis Smith - avis@discoverymail.co.za, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za

===SESSION 4. Outdoor event to learn about GPS in the Rondevlei Nature Reserve===
Practical use of GIS technology in nature that includes working with a GPS, marking and finding points, observing wetland bird and looking at data collected previously using GIS software. This is an opportunity to see what how GIS can be applied in real life. GPS will be provided but bring your own if you have.

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Rondevlei Nature Reserve, Fisherman’s Walk Road, Zeekoivlei
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 13.00
*Duration: 2.5 hours
*Max Number: 20
*Book with: Bronwen Foster
Environmental Education Officer
*Tel.: 021 706 2404, Fax: 021 706 2405
*Email: Bronwen.Foster@capetown.gov.za
*Entrance Fee: R6.00 per adult
*!!Volunteers welcome. to assist Bronwen with showing teachers how to use GPS and see RondeVlei Reserve.!!

==Friday afternoon 3 October==

===Independent Schools of South Africa, Geography Teachers Conference===
Workshop with demos and talks from international guest of how GIS is being used in other countries, also local input that will help teachers here teach GIS '''
*Venue: Biships Boys School, Rondebosch, Cape Town
*Time: 2 - 5pm
*Contact : John Lanser - jlanser@bishops.org.za, Shawn Lezar - slezar007@yahoo.com, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za
*24 PC's available

*Suggested options
A hands-on-demo would be great. They have ArcView 3.3 on their computers. We should consider installing and showing something with an open source flavour. Exposure by an international delegate of what’s happening in education elsewhere in the world. Exposure to OS GIS software by means of distributing a CD.

===Workshop for University of Cape Town students and staff===

* Geospatial lab in the Environmental & Geographical Science department @ UCT
* 16 PC's available / 30 Students
* 3rd , 4th year students, postgraduate and UCT staff will attend
* Current software installed on computers: Manifold, may install other software
* To confirm with Dr Kevin Winter at the Environmental and Geographical Sciences department
* GIS delegates/volunteers to present workshop on Spatial data infrastructure development,web-based GIS, any other suggestions preferably OPEN SOURCE

==other ideas==
Still to consider – please give input and ideas

We would also like to organise the following:
* 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

=Technical Visits=

For final technical visit programme see [[FOSS4G2008_Workshops_and_Technical_Visits]]

These are just working notes below.

'''Monday morning'''

'''Option 1'''
*Visit to the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping
*Monday 29th September 2008: 8h30-12h00
*Conference delegates to gather 8h15 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through how the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping operates.

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'''
*Visit to the Institute for Satellite and Software Applications
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 8h00-12h30
*Conference delegates to gather 7h50 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through their facilities and explain their role in the South African space program.

'''Option 2'''

*Visit to Delheim - Wine Estate GIS
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 13h00-17h30
*Conference delegates to gather 12h50 at the CTICC.
*40 delegates and 1 volunteer

Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry.
This will be followed by a wine tasting and tour of the farm.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G2008 LocMembers

2008-09-16T06:11:26Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Foss4G2008 LOC Member Contact Details */

== Foss4G2008 LOC Member Contact Details ==

Name: Alize Botha
Phone: 084 5141966 / 012 8413242
Area of Responsiblity: Technical tours and Educational outreaches
Other relevant/ interesting info: Sunday 28th - Thursday 2nd

Name: Burnie Nawn
Phone: 0721345352
Area of Responsiblity: Workshops/Labs & venues for these/PC's & AV equipment
Other relevant/ interesting info: Sat 27th - Sat 4th

Name: Mandy Vickers
Phone: 083 278 4056
Area of Responsiblity: Posters
Other relevant/ interesting info: Sunday 28th - Friday 3rd

Name: Inge Netterberg
Phone:0824188712
Area of Responsiblity: Technical programme
Other relevant/ interesting info: not available Sat 27th pm

Name: Carrin Martin
Phone: 072 1448510
Area of Responsiblity: Plenarys, education outreach, GISSA notices, engineers CPD
accreditation, GISSA stand. Will be available generally to assist.
Other relevant/ interesting info: Arriving on Saturday mid day to help with bag packing and registration,and leaving Saturday mid-morning in case we need to entertain people on Friday night

Name: Tim Sutton
Phone: 071 407 6101
Area of Responsiblity: Code Sprint, lightning talks, demos
Other relevant/ interesting info: 27th - 4th

Name: Russell Hope
Phone: 084 444 3686
Area of Responsiblity: Volunteer coordinator
Other relevant/ interesting info: attending Monday

Name: Serena
Phone:
Area of Responsiblity
Other relevant/ interesting info: Sunday 28th - Thursday2nd

Name: Jeff McKenna
Phone:
Area of Responsiblity
Other relevant/ interesting info: Saturday 27th (to help with workshop room setup on Sunday)

Name:Daina Mudimbu
Phone: 082 880 7571
Area of Responsiblity: With marketing done I'm free to help so let me know..
Other relevant/ interesting info: Arriving Sunday 28th after 4pm leaving Saturday

Name: Graeme McFerren
Phone: 083 540 5108
Area of Responsiblity: Workshops and Labs, website, guest speaker
Other relevant/ interesting info: from the Friday morning 26th September (workshop setup) - Sunday evening 5th October

Name: Magda Roos
Phone: 083 611 1161
Area of Responsiblity: Exhibition coordinator
Other relevant/ interesting info: 28th - 3rd

Name: Gavin Flemming
Phone: 0845965680
Area of Responsiblity: general dog's body - all over the place!
Other relevant/ interesting info: 27th - 4th

Name:
Phone:
Area of Responsiblity
Other relevant/ interesting info

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-09-12T10:57:15Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Technical Visits */

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 26th September==

===Day course on open source applications===

*Honours and postgraduate students to attend
*Day event in the Geomatics computer lab @ UCT
*Presenter: Martin Dresen from Germany

Possible contents:
*Survey on webmapping applications
*OpenLayers
*UMN Mapserver applications (MS4W package)

==Sunday 28 September==

===SESSION 1. Street Mapping Party in and around Cape Town===

OpenStreetMap will be running a ‘Mapping Party’ in the streets of Cape Town which involves walking / cycling / driving with a GPS and editing and uploading your tracks to the free, public www.openstreetmap.org This promises to be lots of fun and you will also be working towards something useful.

*Date: Sunday 29 September
*Meet at:
*Start time:
*Duration:
*Contact:Alize Botha - ABotha1@csir.co.za
*!! Volunteers needed: to tell teachers about GPS, the street mapping project, and to help with the exercise.!!

==Monday 29 September==

===SESSION 2 : Google Earth for Educators===
How to use Google earth in the classroom and its application in geography, biology, history and anything that want to know where things are on our planet.

*Date: Monday 29 September
*Venue: Trafalgar High School, address, District Six
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 2pm
*Duration: 2 hours
*Contact: Alize Botha - ABotha1@csir.co.za
*!! Volunteers needed: experience with Google earth who can show teachers a practical hands-on of how they can use it!!!

==Friday 3 October 2008 - morning==

===SESSION 3. Mapping and GIS Options===
2 computer labs of 20 people + classrooms
*Option 1. Map-aware where basic map skills are limited.
!!Volunteers needed: talk about basic mapping with examples!!

*Option 2. Demos of internet examples for grades 10 - 12 for teachers who don't want to learn GIS but want to know where to find examples to use in the classroom.
!!Volunteers needed: people who know about web sites that will be useful to teachers and who have experience with what is happening elsewhere. this could be 2 different people sharing a session!!

*Option 3. Hands-on exposure to GIS.
!!Voluneers needed: to give teachers an overview of GIS functionality. Software still to be decided in consultation with Department of Education!!

*Option 4 Google Earth for educators
!! Volunteers needed: experience with Google earth who can show teachers a practical hands-on of how they can use it!!!

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Trafalgar High School, address, District Six
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 2pm
*Duration: 2-3 hours
*Contact: Avis Smith - avis@discoverymail.co.za, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za

===SESSION 4. Outdoor event to learn about GPS in the Rondevlei Nature Reserve===
Practical use of GIS technology in nature that includes working with a GPS, marking and finding points, observing wetland bird and looking at data collected previously using GIS software. This is an opportunity to see what how GIS can be applied in real life. GPS will be provided but bring your own if you have.

*Date: Friday 3 October
*Venue: Rondevlei Nature Reserve, Fisherman’s Walk Road, Zeekoivlei
*Start time: 9am
*Start time: 13.00
*Duration: 2.5 hours
*Max Number: 20
*Book with: Bronwen Foster
Environmental Education Officer
*Tel.: 021 706 2404, Fax: 021 706 2405
*Email: Bronwen.Foster@capetown.gov.za
*Entrance Fee: R6.00 per adult
*!!Volunteers welcome. to assist Bronwen with showing teachers how to use GPS and see RondeVlei Reserve.!!

==Friday afternoon 3 October==

===Independent Schools of South Africa, Geography Teachers Conference===
Workshop with demos and talks from international guest of how GIS is being used in other countries, also local input that will help teachers here teach GIS '''
*Venue: Biships Boys School, Rondebosch, Cape Town
*Time: 2 - 5pm
*Contact : John Lanser - jlanser@bishops.org.za, Shawn Lezar - slezar007@yahoo.com, Alize Botha - abotha1@csir.co.za
*24 PC's available

*Suggested options
A hands-on-demo would be great. They have ArcView 3.3 on their computers. We should consider installing and showing something with an open source flavour. Exposure by an international delegate of what’s happening in education elsewhere in the world. Exposure to OS GIS software by means of distributing a CD.

===Workshop for University of Cape Town students and staff===

* Geospatial lab in the Environmental & Geographical Science department @ UCT
* 16 PC's available / 30 Students
* 3rd , 4th year students, postgraduate and UCT staff will attend
* Current software installed on computers: Manifold, may install other software
* To confirm with Dr Kevin Winter at the Environmental and Geographical Sciences department
* GIS delegates/volunteers to present workshop on Spatial data infrastructure development,web-based GIS, any other suggestions preferably OPEN SOURCE

==other ideas==
Still to consider – please give input and ideas

We would also like to organise the following:
* 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

=Technical Visits=

For final technical visit programme see [[FOSS4G2008_Workshops_and_Technical_Visits]]

These are just working notes below.

'''Monday morning'''

'''Option 1'''
*Visit to the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping
*Monday 29th September 2008: 8h30-12h00
*Conference delegates to gather 8h15 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through how the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping operates.

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'''
*Visit to the Institute for Satellite and Software Applications
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 8h00-12h30
*Conference delegates to gather 7h50 at the CTICC.
*20 delegates and 1 volunteer

The tour will take the delegates through their facilities and explain their role in the South African space program.

'''Option 2'''

*Visit to Delheim - Wine Estate GIS
*Friday 3rd October 2008: 13h00-17h30
*Conference delegates to gather 12h50 at the CTICC.
*40 delegates and 1 volunteer

Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry.
This will be followed by a wine tasting and tour of the farm.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-08-19T08:01:21Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Outreach */

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'''

'''SESSION 1 : Hands-on lab GIS exposure to open source packages'''

Hands on GIS exposure

*High School Geography teacher's workshop in Cape Town
* Marketed through Khanya geography team
* They will recruit educators to attend the workshop/demo.
* Our contact : Avis a Khanya facilitator
* 2 Labs of 20 People @ schools in Central Cape Town ( Possibly Trafalgar High School in District Six - to confirm)

Suggested options:
An activity that the teachers could implement back in their classrooms - some data capturing on the ground, ground-truthing with a pre existing map, and then put into a GIS and produce a maps etc - learners can add to their portfolios. Time: an hour in the field and an hour back in the lab - i.e. a morning.

Ideas to consider and that needs practical feasibility for teacher workshops

1. Map-aware and GPS in an area where basic map skills may be limited.

2. Demos of internet examples for grades 10 - 12 for teachers who don't want to learn GIS but want to know how it is used.

'''SESSION 2 : An outdoor event for teachers to learn about GPS in the Rondevlei Nature Reserve.'''

Practical Application of GIS with the natural environment:
* Life Sciences and geography Teachers; Grades 10-12
* Contact person : Bronwen Foster (Environmental Education Officer)

The Rondevlei programme is designed to make use of GIS technology by doing something practical in nature. They will work with a GPS, learn to mark and find points, observe wetland bird species in the environment and have a look at data collected previously using GIS software. This is an opportunity to see what how GIS can be applied in real life.

* GIS is part of the Geography Curriculum
* Data collection
* Application of Geographical skills
* Data analysis
* Use of Satellite Remote sensing
* Application of GIS
* Examining human- environment issues

'''Friday afternoon 3 October 2008'''

'''SESSION 1 : Talks with examples from international guest of how GIS is being used in other countries - with demos. '''

Hands on GIS exposure

*High School Geography teacher's workshop
*Marketed through ISASA
*Our contact : John Lanser (HoD Geography - Bishops) and Shawn Lezar
*24 PC's available at Bishop
*The ISASA geography conference has scheduled an open spot in their conference for this.

Suggested options

A hands-on-demo would be great. They have ArcView 3.3 on their computers. We should consider installing and showing something with an open source flavour. Exposure by an international delegate of what’s happening in education elsewhere in the world. Exposure to OS GIS software by means of distributing a CD.

'''SESSION 2 : UCT workshop for University students and staff'''

* Geospatial lab in the Environmental & Geographical Science department @ UCT
* 16 PC's available / 30 Students
* 3rd , 4th year students, postgraduate and UCT staff will attend
* Current software installed on computers: Manifold, may install other software
* To confirm with Dr Kevin Winter at the Environmental and Geographical Sciences department
* GIS delegates/volunteers to present workshop on Spatial data infrastructure development,web-based GIS, any other suggestions preferably OPEN SOURCE

Still to consider – please give input an ideas

'''OTHER OUTREACH ACTIVITIES BEFORE CONFERENCE'''

Friday 26th September

Day course on open source applications

*Honours and postgraduate students to attend
*Day event in the Geomatics computer lab @ UCT
*Presenter: Martin Dresen from Germany

Possible contents:
*Survey on webmapping applications
*OpenLayers
*UMN Mapserver applications (MS4W package)

We would also like to organise the following:
* 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

=Technical Visits=

'''Monday morning'''

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

44 Seater : R 3939 ( Grabouw)Transport
18 Seater : R2375 (Grabouw)Transport

'''Option 2'''
*Wine tasting on wine farm in Grabouw. (1.5h visit) leving 8h00. Back 12h30
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)

44 Seater : R 3939 ( Grabouw)Transport
18 Seater : R2375 (Grabouw)Transport

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-08-19T07:50:20Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Outreach */

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'''

'''SESSION 1 : Hands-on lab GIS exposure to open source packages'''

Hands on GIS exposure

*High School Geography teacher's workshop in Cape Town
* Marketed through Khanya geography team
* They will recruit educators to attend the workshop/demo.
* Our contact : Avis a Khanya facilitator
* 2 Labs of 20 People @ schools in Central Cape Town ( Possibly Trafalgar High School in District Six - to confirm)

Suggested options:
An activity that the teachers could implement back in their classrooms - some data capturing on the ground, ground-truthing with a pre existing map, and then put into a GIS and produce a maps etc - learners can add to their portfolios. Time: an hour in the field and an hour back in the lab - i.e. a morning.

Ideas to consider and that needs practical feasibility for teacher workshops

1. Map-aware and GPS in an area where basic map skills may be limited.

2. Demos of internet examples for grades 10 - 12 for teachers who don't want to learn GIS but want to know how it is used.

'''SESSION 2 : An outdoor event for teachers to learn about GPS in the Rondevlei Nature Reserve.'''

Practical Application of GIS with the natural environment:
* Life Sciences and geography Teachers; Grades 10-12
* Contact person : Bronwen Foster (Environmental Education Officer)

The Rondevlei programme is designed to make use of GIS technology by doing something practical in nature. They will work with a GPS, learn to mark and find points, observe wetland bird species in the environment and have a look at data collected previously using GIS software. This is an opportunity to see what how GIS can be applied in real life.

* GIS is part of the Geography Curriculum
* Data collection
* Application of Geographical skills
* Data analysis
* Use of Satellite Remote sensing
* Application of GIS
* Examining human- environment issues

'''Friday afternoon 3 October 2008'''

'''SESSION 1 : Talks with examples from international guest of how GIS is being used in other countries - with demos. '''

Hands on GIS exposure

*High School Geography teacher's workshop
*Marketed through ISASA
*Our contact : John Lanser (HoD Geography - Bishops) and Shawn Lezar
*24 PC's available at Bishop
*The ISASA geography conference has scheduled an open spot in their conference for this.

Suggested options

A hands-on-demo would be great. They have ArcView 3.3 on their computers. We should consider installing and showing something with an open source flavour. Exposure by an international delegate of what’s happening in education elsewhere in the world. Exposure to OS GIS software by means of distributing a CD.

'''SESSION 2 : UCT workshop for University students and staff'''

* Geospatial lab in the Environmental & Geographical Science department @ UCT
* 16 PC's available / 30 Students
* 3rd , 4th year students, postgraduate and UCT staff will attend
* Current software installed on computers: Manifold, may install other software
* To confirm with Dr Kevin Winter at the Environmental and Geographical Sciences department
* GIS delegates/volunteers to present workshop on Spatial data infrastructure development,web-based GIS, any other suggestions preferably OPEN SOURCE

Still to consider – please give input an ideas

We would also like to organise the following:
* 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

=Technical Visits=

'''Monday morning'''

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

44 Seater : R 3939 ( Grabouw)Transport
18 Seater : R2375 (Grabouw)Transport

'''Option 2'''
*Wine tasting on wine farm in Grabouw. (1.5h visit) leving 8h00. Back 12h30
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)

44 Seater : R 3939 ( Grabouw)Transport
18 Seater : R2375 (Grabouw)Transport

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-08-18T10:39:26Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Outreach */

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'''

'''SESSION 1 : Hands-on lab GIS exposure to open source packages'''

Hands on GIS exposure

*High School Geography teacher's workshop in Cape Town
* Marketed through Khanya geography team
* They will recruit educators to attend the workshop/demo.
* Our contact : Avis of DoE in the WCape.
* 2 Labs of 20 People @ schools in Central Cape Town

Suggested options:
An activity that the teachers could implement back in their classrooms - some data capturing on the ground, ground-truthing with a pre existing map, and then put into a GIS and produce a maps etc - learners can add to their portfolios. Time: an hour in the field and an hour back in the lab - i.e. a morning.

Ideas to consider and that needs practical feasibility for teacher workshops

1. Map-aware and GPS in an area where basic map skills may be limited.

2. Demos of internet examples for grades 10 - 12 for teachers who don't want to learn GIS but want to know how it is used.

'''SESSION 2 : An outdoor event for teachers to learn about GPS in the Rondevlei Nature Reserve.'''

Practical Application of GIS with the natural environment:
* Life Sciences and geography Teachers; Grades 10-12
* Contact person : Bronwen Foster (Environmental Education Officer)

The Rondevlei programme is designed to make use of GIS technology by doing something practical in nature. They will work with a GPS, learn to mark and find points, observe wetland bird species in the environment and have a look at data collected previously using GIS software. This is an opportunity to see what how GIS can be applied in real life.

* GIS is part of the Geography Curriculum
* Data collection
* Application of Geographical skills
* Data analysis
* Use of Satellite Remote sensing
* Application of GIS
* Examining human- environment issues

'''Friday afternoon 3 October 2008'''

'''SESSION 1 : Talks with examples from international guest of how GIS is being used in other countries - with demos. '''

Hands on GIS exposure

*High School Geography teacher's workshop
*Marketed through ISASA
*Our contact : John Lanser (HoD Geography - Bishops) and Shawn Lezar
*24 PC's available at Bishop
*The ISASA geography conference has scheduled an open spot in their conference for this.

Suggested options

A hands-on-demo would be great. They have ArcView 3.3 on their computers. We should consider installing and showing something with an open source flavour. Exposure by an international delegate of what’s happening in education elsewhere in the world. Exposure to OS GIS software by means of distributing a CD.

'''SESSION 2 : UCT workshop for University students and staff'''

* Geospatial lab in the Environmental & Geographical Science department @ UCT
* 16 PC's available / 30 Students
* 3rd , 4th year students, postgraduate and UCT staff will attend
* Current software installed on computers: Manifold, may install other software
* To confirm with Dr Kevin Winter at the Environmental and Geographical Sciences department
* GIS delegates/volunteers to present workshop on Spatial data infrastructure development,web-based GIS, any other suggestions preferably OPEN SOURCE

Still to consider – please give input an ideas

We would also like to organise the following:
* 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

=Technical Visits=

'''Monday morning'''

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

44 Seater : R 3939 ( Grabouw)Transport
18 Seater : R2375 (Grabouw)Transport

'''Option 2'''
*Wine tasting on wine farm in Grabouw. (1.5h visit) leving 8h00. Back 12h30
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)

44 Seater : R 3939 ( Grabouw)Transport
18 Seater : R2375 (Grabouw)Transport

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-08-18T07:34:28Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Technical Visits */

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'''

'''SESSION 1 : Hands-on lab GIS exposure to open source packages'''

Hands on GIS exposure

*High School Geography teacher's workshop in Cape Town
* Marketed through Khanya geography team
* They will recruit educators to attend the workshop/demo.
* Our contact : Avis of DoE in the WCape.
* 2 Labs of 20 People @ schools in Central Cape Town

Suggested options:
An activity that the teachers could implement back in their classrooms - some data capturing on the ground, ground-truthing with a pre existing map, and then put into a GIS and produce a maps etc - learners can add to their portfolios. Time: an hour in the field and an hour back in the lab - i.e. a morning.

Ideas to consider and that needs practical feasibility for teacher workshops

1. Map-aware and GPS in an area where basic map skills may be limited.

2. Demos of internet examples for grades 10 - 12 for teachers who don't want to learn GIS but want to know how it is used.

'''SESSION 2 : An outdoor event for teachers to learn about GPS in the Rondevlei Nature Reserve.'''

Practical Application of GIS with the natural environment:
* Life Sciences and geography Teachers; Grades 10-12
* Contact person : Bronwen Foster (Environmental Education Officer)

The Rondevlei programme is designed to make use of GIS technology by doing something practical in nature. They will work with a GPS, learn to mark and find points, observe wetland bird species in the environment and have a look at data collected previously using GIS software. This is an opportunity to see what how GIS can be applied in real life.

* GIS is part of the Geography Curriculum
* Data collection
* Application of Geographical skills
* Data analysis
* Use of Satellite Remote sensing
* Application of GIS
* Examining human- environment issues

'''Friday afternoon 3 October 2008'''

'''SESSION 1 : Talks with examples from international guest of how GIS is being used in other countries - with demos. '''

Hands on GIS exposure

*High School Geography teacher's workshop
*Marketed through ISASA
*Our contact : John Lanser (HoD Geography - Bishops) and Shawn Lezar
*24 PC's available at Bishop
*The ISASA geography conference has scheduled an open spot in their conference for this.

Suggested options

A hands-on-demo would be great. They have ArcView 3.3 on their computers. We should consider installing and showing something with an open source flavour. Exposure by an international delegate of what’s happening in education elsewhere in the world. Exposure to OS GIS software by means of distributing a CD.

'''SESSION 2 : UCT workshop for University students and staff'''

* Geospatial lab in the Environmental & Geographical Science department @ UCT
* 16 PC's available / 30 Students
* 3rd , 4th year students, postgraduate and UCT staff will attend
* Current software installed on computers: Manifold, may install other software
* To confirm with Julian Smith from Geomatics department
* GIS delegates/volunteers to present workshop on Spatial data infrastructure development,web-based GIS, any other suggestions preferably OPEN SOURCE

Still to consider – please give input an ideas

We would also like to organise the following:
* 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

=Technical Visits=

'''Monday morning'''

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

44 Seater : R 3939 ( Grabouw)Transport
18 Seater : R2375 (Grabouw)Transport

'''Option 2'''
*Wine tasting on wine farm in Grabouw. (1.5h visit) leving 8h00. Back 12h30
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)

44 Seater : R 3939 ( Grabouw)Transport
18 Seater : R2375 (Grabouw)Transport

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-08-15T09:17:58Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Outreach */

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'''

'''SESSION 1 : Hands-on lab GIS exposure to open source packages'''

Hands on GIS exposure

*High School Geography teacher's workshop in Cape Town
*Marketed through Khanya geography team
* They will recruit educators to attend the workshop/demo.
*Our contact : Avis of DoE in the WCape.
*2 Labs of 20 People @ schools in Central Cape Town

Suggested options

Suggest an activity that the teachers could implement back in their classrooms - some data capturing on the ground, ground-truthing with a pre existing map, and then put into a GIS and produce a maps etc - learners can add to their portfolios. Time: an hour in the field and an hour back in the lab - i.e. a morning.

Ideas to consider and that needs practical feasibility for teacher workshops

1. Have map-aware and GPS in an area where basic map skills may be limited.

2. Demos of internet examples for grades 10 - 12 for teachers who don't want to learn GIS but want to know how it is used.

'''SESSION 2 : An outdoor event for teachers to bring their kids to learn about GPS.'''

Practical Application of GIS with the natural environment

*Life Sciences and geography Teachers; Grades 10-12
* Contact person : Bronwen Foster (Environmental Education Officer)
*Rondevlei nature reserve

The Rondevlei programme is designed to make use of GIS technology by doing something practical in nature.
They will work with a GPS, learn to mark and find points, observe wetland bird species in the environment and have a look at data collected previously using GIS software. This is an opportunity to see what how GIS can be applied in real life.

In terms of the curriculum links.

* GIS is part of the Geography Curriculum
* Data collection
* Application of Geographical skills
* Data analysis
* Use of Satellite Remote sensing
* Application of GIS
* Examining human- environment issues

'''Friday afternoon 3 October 2008'''

'''SESSION 1 : Talks with examples from international guest of how GIS is being used in other countries - with demos. '''

Hands on GIS exposure

*High School Geography teacher's workshop
*Marketed through ISASA
*Our contact : John Lanser (HoD Geography - Bishops) and Shawn Lezar
*24 PC's available at Bishop
*The ISASA geography conference has scheduled an open spot in their conference for this.

Suggested options

A hands-on-demo would be great. They have ArcView 3.3 on their computers. We should consider installing and showing something with an open source flavour. Exposure by an international delegate of what’s happening in education elsewhere in the world. Exposure to OS GIS software by means of distributing a CD.

'''SESSION 2 : UCT workshop for University students and staff'''

*Geospatial lab in the Environmental & Geographical Science department @ UCT
*16 PC's available / 30 Students
*3rd , 4th year students, postgraduate and UCT staff will attend ? ? ?
*Current software installed on computers: Manifold, may install other software
*To confirm with Julian Smith from Geomatics department
*GIS delegates/volunteers to present workshop on :
*Spatial data infrastructure development and web-based GIS. - OPEN SOURCE

Still to consider – please give input an ideas

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

=Technical Visits=

'''Monday morning'''

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

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'''
*Houwteq Satellite Integration Facility in Grabouw – Institute for satellite and software application
(1.5h visit) leaving 8h00. Back 12h30 ( No additional costs)
Available for 22 people

44 Seater : R 3939 ( Grabouw)Transport

18 Seater : R2375 (Grabouw)Transport

'''Option 2'''
*Wine tasting on wine farm in Grabouw. (1.5h visit) leving 8h00. Back 12h30
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)

44 Seater : R 3939 ( Grabouw)Transport

18 Seater : R2375 (Grabouw)Transport

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-07-21T14:19:08Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Technical Visits */

Page owner: Alize

This page is for organising and documenting all non-workshop activities for the morning of 29 Sept and 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
**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'''
*Houwteq Satellite Integration Facility in Grabouw – Institute for satellite and software application
(1.5h visit) leaving 8h00. Back 12h30 ( no additional costs)

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'''
*Houwteq Satellite Integration Facility in Grabouw – Institute for satellite and software application
(1.5h visit) leaving 8h00. Back 12h30 ( No additional costs)
Available for 22 people

44 Seater : R 3939 ( Grabouw)Transport

18 Seater : R2375 (Grabouw)Transport

'''Option 2'''
*Wine tasting on wine farm in Grabouw. (1.5h visit) leving 8h00. Back 12h30
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)

44 Seater : R 3939 ( Grabouw)Transport

18 Seater : R2375 (Grabouw)Transport

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-07-21T14:18:35Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Technical Visits */

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-07-21T14:16:26Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Technical Visits */

Page owner: Alize

This page is for organising and documenting all non-workshop activities for the morning of 29 Sept and 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
**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'''
*Houwteq Satellite Integration Facility in Grabouw – Institute for satellite and software application
(1.5h visit) leaving 8h00. Back 12h30

44 Seater : R 3939 ( Grabouw)

18 Seater : R2375 (Grabouw)

'''Option 2'''
*Chief Directorate: Surveys and Mapping (1.5h visit)

44 Seater : R 3136 ( Cape Town)

18 Seater : R1843 ( Cape Town)

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'''
*Houwteq Satellite Integration Facility in Grabouw – Institute for satellite and software application
(1.5h visit) leaving 8h00. Back 12h30
Available for 22 people

44 Seater : R 3939 ( Grabouw)

18 Seater : R2375 (Grabouw)

'''Option 2'''
*Wine tasting on wine farm in Grabouw. (1.5h visit) leving 8h00. Back 12h30
Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry
Available for 22 people

44 Seater : R 3939 ( Grabouw)

18 Seater : R2375 (Grabouw)

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-06-17T06:06:34Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Technical Visits */

Page owner: Alize

This page is for organising and documenting all non-workshop activities for the morning of 29 Sept and 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

'''Friday afternoon 3 October 2008'''

High school geography teachers workshop. 22 PC's available.
UCT Geomatics department

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'''
*Houwteq Satellite Integration Facility in Grabouw – Institute for satellite and software application
(1.5h visit) leaving 8h00. Back 12h30

'''Option 2'''
*Chief Directorate: Surveys and Mapping (1.5h visit)

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'''
*Houwteq Satellite Integration Facility in Grabouw – Institute for satellite and software application
(1.5h visit) leaving 8h00. Back 12h30
Available for 22 people

'''Option 2'''
*Wine tasting on wine farm in Grabouw. (1.5h visit) leving 8h00. Back 12h30
Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry
Available for 22 people

or

*The Directorate Disaster Management and Fire Brigade Services
- Progress : in process
- Contact person : Schalk Carstens
*SANBI (South African National Biodiversity Institute) - with Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
*SAS Protea - Navy Survey Ship
*Dept of Agriculture in Stellenbosch
*Stellenbosch / Western Cape / Cape Town University GIS departments
*Cape Town Metro GIS department.
*We have also had offers from the Overberg and Saldanha municipalities.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-06-09T07:08:43Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Outreach */

Page owner: Alize

This page is for organising and documenting all non-workshop activities for the morning of 29 Sept and 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

'''Friday afternoon 3 October 2008'''

High school geography teachers workshop. 22 PC's available.
UCT Geomatics department

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'''
*Sunspace in Technopark ( 1.5h visit) leaving 8h00. Back 12h30
Available for 22 people - still considering costs involved for visit.

'''Option 2'''
*Chief Directorate: Surveys and Mapping (1.5h visit)

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'''
*Houwteq Satellite Integration Facility in Grabouw – Institute for satellite and software application
(1.5h visit) leaving 8h00. Back 12h30
Available for 22 people

'''Option 2'''
*Wine tasting on wine farm in Grabouw. (1.5h visit) leving 8h00. Back 12h30
Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry
Available for 22 people

or

*The Directorate Disaster Management and Fire Brigade Services
- Progress : in process
- Contact person : Schalk Carstens
*SANBI (South African National Biodiversity Institute) - with Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
*SAS Protea - Navy Survey Ship
*Dept of Agriculture in Stellenbosch
*Stellenbosch / Western Cape / Cape Town University GIS departments
*Cape Town Metro GIS department.
*We have also had offers from the Overberg and Saldanha municipalities.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-06-09T07:07:46Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Outreach */

Page owner: Alize

This page is for organising and documenting all non-workshop activities for the morning of 29 Sept and 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

'''Friday afternoon 3 October 2008'''

High school geography teachers workshop. 22 PC's available.
UCT Geomatics department

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'''
*Sunspace in Technopark ( 1.5h visit) leaving 8h00. Back 12h30
Available for 22 people - still considering costs involved for visit.

'''Option 2'''
*Chief Directorate: Surveys and Mapping (1.5h visit)

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'''
*Houwteq Satellite Integration Facility in Grabouw – Institute for satellite and software application
(1.5h visit) leaving 8h00. Back 12h30
Available for 22 people

'''Option 2'''
*Wine tasting on wine farm in Grabouw. (1.5h visit) leving 8h00. Back 12h30
Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry
Available for 22 people

or

*The Directorate Disaster Management and Fire Brigade Services
- Progress : in process
- Contact person : Schalk Carstens
*SANBI (South African National Biodiversity Institute) - with Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
*SAS Protea - Navy Survey Ship
*Dept of Agriculture in Stellenbosch
*Stellenbosch / Western Cape / Cape Town University GIS departments
*Cape Town Metro GIS department.
*We have also had offers from the Overberg and Saldanha municipalities.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-06-09T07:07:11Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Technical Visits */

Page owner: Alize

This page is for organising and documenting all non-workshop activities for the morning of 29 Sept and 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

'''Friday afternoon 3 October 2008'''

High school geography teachers workshop. 22 PC's available.
UCT Geomatics department

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'''
*Sunspace in Technopark ( 1.5h visit) leaving 8h00. Back 12h30
Available for 22 people - still considering costs involved for visit.

'''Option 2'''
*Chief Directorate: Surveys and Mapping (1.5h visit)

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'''
*Houwteq Satellite Integration Facility in Grabouw – Institute for satellite and software application
(1.5h visit) leaving 8h00. Back 12h30
Available for 22 people

'''Option 2'''
*Wine tasting on wine farm in Grabouw. (1.5h visit) leving 8h00. Back 12h30
Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry
Available for 22 people

or

*The Directorate Disaster Management and Fire Brigade Services
- Progress : in process
- Contact person : Schalk Carstens
*SANBI (South African National Biodiversity Institute) - with Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
*SAS Protea - Navy Survey Ship
*Dept of Agriculture in Stellenbosch
*Stellenbosch / Western Cape / Cape Town University GIS departments
*Cape Town Metro GIS department.
*We have also had offers from the Overberg and Saldanha municipalities.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-06-09T07:04:05Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Outreach */

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-06-09T06:59:04Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Outreach */

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-06-09T06:52:42Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Technical Visits */

Page owner: Alize

This page is for organising and documenting all non-workshop activities for the morning of 29 Sept and the morning and afternoon of 3 Oct and other times where available.
=Outreach=
'''!!!!!!Volunteers needed!!!!!!!!!!'''

We would like to organise the following, other ideas welcome:
*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
**High School teachers (Fri afternoon 3 Oct at UCT or UWC?)
**University students
**University lecturers / faculty (Friday morning 3 Oct at UCT or UWC?)
**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
*Sunspace in Technopark ( 1.5h visit) leaving 8h00. Back 12h30
Available for 22 people - still considering costs involved for visit.

Option 2
*Chief Directorate: Surveys and Mapping (1.5h visit)

'''Friday morning'''

Option 1
*Houwteq Satellite Integration Facility in Grabouw – Institute for satellite and software application
(1.5h visit) leaving 8h00. Back 12h30
Available for 22 people

Option 2
*Wine tasting on wine farm in Grabouw. (1.5h visit) leving 8h00. Back 12h30
Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry
Available for 22 people

or

*The Directorate Disaster Management and Fire Brigade Services
- Progress : in process
- Contact person : Schalk Carstens
*SANBI (South African National Biodiversity Institute) - with Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
*SAS Protea - Navy Survey Ship
*Dept of Agriculture in Stellenbosch
*Stellenbosch / Western Cape / Cape Town University GIS departments
*Cape Town Metro GIS department.
*We have also had offers from the Overberg and Saldanha municipalities.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-06-09T06:51:06Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Technical Visits */

Page owner: Alize

This page is for organising and documenting all non-workshop activities for the morning of 29 Sept and the morning and afternoon of 3 Oct and other times where available.
=Outreach=
'''!!!!!!Volunteers needed!!!!!!!!!!'''

We would like to organise the following, other ideas welcome:
*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
**High School teachers (Fri afternoon 3 Oct at UCT or UWC?)
**University students
**University lecturers / faculty (Friday morning 3 Oct at UCT or UWC?)
**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
*Sunspace in Technopark ( 1.5h visit) leaving 8h00. Back 12h30
Available for 22 people - still considering costs involved for visit.

Option 2
*Chief Directorate: Surveys and Mapping (1.5h visit)

'''Friday morning'''
Option 1
*Houwteq Satellite Integration Facility in Grabouw – Institute for satellite and software application
(1.5h visit) leaving 8h00. Back 12h30
Available for 22 people

Option 2
*Wine tasting on wine farm in Grabouw. (1.5h visit) leving 8h00. Back 12h30
Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry
Available for 22 people

or

*The Directorate Disaster Management and Fire Brigade Services
- Progress : in process
- Contact person : Schalk Carstens
*SANBI (South African National Biodiversity Institute) - with Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
*SAS Protea - Navy Survey Ship
*Dept of Agriculture in Stellenbosch
*Stellenbosch / Western Cape / Cape Town University GIS departments
*Cape Town Metro GIS department.
*We have also had offers from the Overberg and Saldanha municipalities.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-05-20T07:11:13Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Outreach */

Page owner: Alize

This page is for organising and documenting all non-workshop activities for the morning of 29 Sept and the morning and afternoon of 3 Oct and other times where available.
=Outreach=
'''!!!!!!Volunteers needed!!!!!!!!!!'''

We would like to organise the following, other ideas welcome:
*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
**High School teachers (Fri afternoon 3 Oct at UCT or UWC?)
**University students
**University lecturers / faculty (Friday morning 3 Oct at UCT or UWC?)
**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=

'''Other ideas welcome'''

'''Option 1'''
*Houwteq Satellite Integration Facility in Grabouw – Institute for satellite and software application
- Progress : secured

- Contact person : Fred Thomas

followed by wine tasting on a wine farm in Grabouw ( venue still to be secured ) where

Francois Knight : secured (from Agri Informatic) will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry

or

*Sunspace in Technopark ( 1.5h visit)
- Progress : secured

- Contact person : Helena Bosman

followed by wine tasting on a wine farm in Stellenbosch( venue still to be secured ) where

Francois Knight : secured (from Agri Informatic) will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry

'''Option 2'''
*Chief Directorate: Surveys and Mapping (1.5h visit)
-Progress : secured

-Contact person : Annelene du Toit-Hessell

*The Directorate Disaster Management and Fire Brigade Services
- Progress : in process

- Contact person : Schalk Carstens
*SANBI (South African National Biodiversity Institute) - with Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
*SAS Protea - Navy Survey Ship
*Dept of Agriculture in Stellenbosch
*Stellenbosch / Western Cape / Cape Town University GIS departments
*Cape Town Metro GIS department.
*We have also had offers from the Overberg and Saldanha municipalities.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-05-19T14:09:54Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Technical Visits */

Page owner: Alize

This page is for organising and documenting all non-workshop activities for the morning of 29 Sept and the morning and afternoon of 3 Oct and other times where available.
=Outreach=
'''Volunteers needed'''
We would like to organise the following, other ideas welcome:
*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
**High School teachers (Fri afternoon 3 Oct at UCT or UWC?)
**University students
**University lecturers / faculty (Friday morning 3 Oct at UCT or UWC?)
**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=

'''Other ideas welcome'''

'''Option 1'''
*Houwteq Satellite Integration Facility in Grabouw – Institute for satellite and software application
- Progress : secured

- Contact person : Fred Thomas

followed by wine tasting on a wine farm in Grabouw ( venue still to be secured ) where

Francois Knight : secured (from Agri Informatic) will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry

or

*Sunspace in Technopark ( 1.5h visit)
- Progress : secured

- Contact person : Helena Bosman

followed by wine tasting on a wine farm in Stellenbosch( venue still to be secured ) where

Francois Knight : secured (from Agri Informatic) will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry

'''Option 2'''
*Chief Directorate: Surveys and Mapping (1.5h visit)
-Progress : secured

-Contact person : Annelene du Toit-Hessell

*The Directorate Disaster Management and Fire Brigade Services
- Progress : in process

- Contact person : Schalk Carstens
*SANBI (South African National Biodiversity Institute) - with Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
*SAS Protea - Navy Survey Ship
*Dept of Agriculture in Stellenbosch
*Stellenbosch / Western Cape / Cape Town University GIS departments
*Cape Town Metro GIS department.
*We have also had offers from the Overberg and Saldanha municipalities.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-05-19T14:09:18Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Technical Visits */

Page owner: Alize

This page is for organising and documenting all non-workshop activities for the morning of 29 Sept and the morning and afternoon of 3 Oct and other times where available.
=Outreach=
'''Volunteers needed'''
We would like to organise the following, other ideas welcome:
*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
**High School teachers (Fri afternoon 3 Oct at UCT or UWC?)
**University students
**University lecturers / faculty (Friday morning 3 Oct at UCT or UWC?)
**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=
'''Volunteers needed'''
Other ideas welcome

'''Option 1'''
*Houwteq Satellite Integration Facility in Grabouw – Institute for satellite and software application
- Progress : secured

- Contact person : Fred Thomas

followed by wine tasting on a wine farm in Grabouw ( venue still to be secured ) where

Francois Knight : secured (from Agri Informatic) will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry

or

*Sunspace in Technopark ( 1.5h visit)
- Progress : secured

- Contact person : Helena Bosman

followed by wine tasting on a wine farm in Stellenbosch( venue still to be secured ) where

Francois Knight : secured (from Agri Informatic) will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry

'''Option 2'''
*Chief Directorate: Surveys and Mapping (1.5h visit)
-Progress : secured

-Contact person : Annelene du Toit-Hessell

*The Directorate Disaster Management and Fire Brigade Services
- Progress : in process

- Contact person : Schalk Carstens
*SANBI (South African National Biodiversity Institute) - with Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
*SAS Protea - Navy Survey Ship
*Dept of Agriculture in Stellenbosch
*Stellenbosch / Western Cape / Cape Town University GIS departments
*Cape Town Metro GIS department.
*We have also had offers from the Overberg and Saldanha municipalities.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]

FOSS4G 2008 Activities

2008-05-19T14:06:39Z

Wiki-ABotha1: /* Technical Visits */

Page owner: Alize

This page is for organising and documenting all non-workshop activities for the morning of 29 Sept and the morning and afternoon of 3 Oct and other times where available.
=Outreach=
'''Volunteers needed'''
We would like to organise the following, other ideas welcome:
*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
**High School teachers (Fri afternoon 3 Oct at UCT or UWC?)
**University students
**University lecturers / faculty (Friday morning 3 Oct at UCT or UWC?)
**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=
'''Volunteers needed'''
Other ideas welcome
'''Option 1'''
*Houwteq Satellite Integration Facility in Grabouw – Institute for satellite and software application
- Progress : secured
- Contact person : Fred Thomas
followed by wine tasting on a wine farm in Grabouw ( venue still to be secured ) where
Francois Knight : secured (from Agri Informatic) will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry

or

*Sunspace in Technopark ( 1.5h visit)
- Progress : secured
- Contact person : Helena Bosman
followed by wine tasting on a wine farm in Stellenbosch( venue still to be secured ) where
Francois Knight : secured (from Agri Informatic) will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry

'''Option 2'''
*Chief Directorate: Surveys and Mapping (1.5h visit)
-Progress : secured
-Contact person : Annelene du Toit-Hessell

*The Directorate Disaster Management and Fire Brigade Services
- Progress : in process
- Contact person : Schalk Carstens
*SANBI (South African National Biodiversity Institute) - with Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
*SAS Protea - Navy Survey Ship
*Dept of Agriculture in Stellenbosch
*Stellenbosch / Western Cape / Cape Town University GIS departments
*Cape Town Metro GIS department.
*We have also had offers from the Overberg and Saldanha municipalities.

=Other activities=
*student competition ''a la'' GeoWeb 2008?
*school competition?
[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2008]]