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!!!!!!!!!!

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

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 2008

• • 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

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?