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(embargoed until announcement)If you have registered for one or more workshops at FOSS4G 2008, this is the page where you select which workshop or technical visit you wish to attend. You can select one item from Monday morning, one from Friday morning and one from Friday afternoon, wherever there are still seats available. Technical Visits are lined up for the same time slots as workshops. You will have to choose between them. Get back to Petro at peoplesa dot co.za with the CODES of the items you wish to attend and she will confirm your seat.   
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'''THIS PAGE IS NOW LIVE!''' If you have registered for one or more workshops at FOSS4G 2008, this is the page where you select which workshop or technical visit you wish to attend.  
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*You can select <span style="background-color: #FFFF99;">ONE item from Monday morning</span>, <span style="background-color: #FFCC33;">ONE from Friday morning</span> and <span style="background-color: #A7AC39;">ONE from Friday afternoon</span>, wherever there are still seats available.  
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*Click on the workshop title to view the abstract if you want to find out more.
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*Technical Visits are lined up for the same time slots as workshops. You will have to choose between them.  
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*You can choose activities at different venues, transport is arranged and is included.
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*Get back to Petro at peoplesa dot co.za with the CODES of the items you wish to attend and she will confirm your seat.   
  
 
'''NOTE''':Workshops and Technical Visits fall outside the main FOSS4G2008 Programme. If you wish to attend these events, you will have to register for a "conference + workshop" package [http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008/schedConf/registration here] or you may purchase them separately.
 
'''NOTE''':Workshops and Technical Visits fall outside the main FOSS4G2008 Programme. If you wish to attend these events, you will have to register for a "conference + workshop" package [http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008/schedConf/registration here] or you may purchase them separately.
  
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While the '''Code Sprint''' on Saturday 4 October is a free part of the conference, we need to have an idea about who will attend. So when you send your workshop choices to Karryn please indicate if you wish to attend the code sprint. She will pass your name to the code sprint coordinator (Tim Sutton), or you can add it yourself to [[FOSS4G2008_CodeSprint]].
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While the '''Code Sprint''' on Saturday 4 October is a free part of the conference, we need to have an idea about who will attend. So when you send your workshop choices to Petro please indicate if you wish to attend the code sprint. She will pass your name to the code sprint coordinator (Tim Sutton), or you can add it yourself to [[FOSS4G2008_CodeSprint]].
  
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This is a 'close to final' list of available workshops, pending presenter agreement to time slots and days! Workshop abstracts will be available on the main [http://www.foss4g2008.org conference website] soon. (To be removed after announcement)
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The following list is current as of [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2008&month=8&day=07&hour=15&min=0&sec=0 7th August, 2008 16:00 SAST]
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The following list is current as of [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2008&month=8&day=07&hour=16&min=0&sec=0 7th August, 2008 16:00 SAST]
 
 
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Revision as of 07:11, 7 August 2008

THIS PAGE IS NOW LIVE! If you have registered for one or more workshops at FOSS4G 2008, this is the page where you select which workshop or technical visit you wish to attend.

  • You can select ONE item from Monday morning, ONE from Friday morning and ONE from Friday afternoon, wherever there are still seats available.
  • Click on the workshop title to view the abstract if you want to find out more.
  • Technical Visits are lined up for the same time slots as workshops. You will have to choose between them.
  • You can choose activities at different venues, transport is arranged and is included.
  • Get back to Petro at peoplesa dot co.za with the CODES of the items you wish to attend and she will confirm your seat.

NOTE:Workshops and Technical Visits fall outside the main FOSS4G2008 Programme. If you wish to attend these events, you will have to register for a "conference + workshop" package here or you may purchase them separately.

While the Code Sprint on Saturday 4 October is a free part of the conference, we need to have an idea about who will attend. So when you send your workshop choices to Petro please indicate if you wish to attend the code sprint. She will pass your name to the code sprint coordinator (Tim Sutton), or you can add it yourself to FOSS4G2008_CodeSprint.

The following list is current as of 7th August, 2008 16:00 SAST

Venue MONDAY 29th September - 08:30-12:00 FRIDAY 3rd October - 08:30-12:00 FRIDAY 3rd October - 08:30-12:00
CTICC Roof Terrrace Getting Started with MapServer - Jeff McKenna, Pericles Nacionales, Tyler Mitchell [100 seats: 100 left] CODE: WS-M-1 OpenLayers - Building Web Mapping Applications with a Solid Foundation- Tim Schaub [100 seats: 100 left] CODE: WS-F-1 Practical Introduction to GRASS and related software for beginners - Marco Ciolli, Paolo Zatelli, Clara Tattoni [100 seats: 100 left] CODE: WS-F-6
CTICC Room 1.40 Setting up a geospatial catalog using GeoNetwork opensource and GeoServer - Jeroen Ticheler [96 seats: 96 left] CODE: WS-M-2 Practical Introduction to MapGuide Open Source - Robert Bray [96 seats: 96 left] CODE: WS-F-2 The Open-Geo Stack: OpenLayers, GeoServer, PostGIS - Justin Deoliveira, Tim Schaub, Chris Holmes [96 seats: 96 left] CODE: WS-F-7
CTICC Auditorium Collaborative Mapmaking with GeoDjango - Josh Livni, Travis L Pinney [50 seats: 50 left] CODE: WS-M-3 --- ---
UCT Geomatics Lab FOSS4G routing with pgRouting tools and OpenStreetMap road data - Claude Philipona, Daniel Kastl [40 seats: 40 left] CODE: WS-M-4 A Hitchhiker's guide to Ruby On Rails stack for geoWeb - Krishna Sankar [40 seats: 40 left] CODE: WS-F-3 Introduction to gvSIG/SEXTANTE as desktop GIS with advanced spatial analysis and SDI publishing tools - Victor Olaya, Salvador Bayarri, Jose Vicente Higon, Laura Diaz [40 seats: 40 left] CODE: WS-F-8
UCT Environmental and Geographical Sciences Lab Standardized Geoprocessing with 52North Open Source Software - Bastian Schaeffer [40 seats: 40 left] CODE: WS-M-5 Mapserver OGC Web Services Workshop - Bart van den Eijnden, Assefa Yewondwossen, Jeff McKenna [40 seats: 40 left] CODE: WS-F-4 Hydrological and Geomorphological Terrain Analysis with JGrass - Silvia Franceschi, Andrea Antonello [40 seats: 40 left] CODE: WS-F-9
UCT/CTICC Overflow Lab Introduction to Geoportal Management using Mapbender - Arnulf Benno Christl [40 seats: 40 left] CODE: WS-M-6 Web based GIS and domain model integration - Pieter de Graef [40 seats: 40 left] CODE: WS-F-5 MapWindow GIS Workshop - Introduction to Custom GIS Application Development for Windows - Brian Marchionni, Ted Dunsford [40 seats: 40 left] CODE: WS-F-10
Technical Visit Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping, Mowbray, Cape Town - 'Ordnance Survey of SA'. Image Acquisition and Field Surveying , Trignet - permanent GPS base stations , Data Extraction and Manipulation , Geospatial Data Management and Cartographic Production [22 seats: 22 left] CODE: TV-M-1 Houwteq Satellite Integration Facility in Grabouw - Key site in South African Space Program [22 seats: 22 left] CODE: TV-F-1 Wine Estate GIS - Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present on how GIS is used in the wine industry. On a lovely Cape wine estate... [22 seats: 22 left] CODE: TV-F-2

Labs are 'mini-workshops', also hands-on and are part of the core conference programme so you don't book them now. You will be able to choose them at will during the conference. They will run in parallel to presentation tracks and are 1h30 long. They are listed here but their abstracts and scheduling will be available on the main conference website soon: http://www.foss4g2008.org

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