FOSS4G 2008 Activities

Page owner: Alize

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

Outreach

!!!!!!Volunteers needed!!!!!!!!!!

Friday 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?