FOSS4G 2008 Programme

This is the main page for holding information for discussion on the programme of the FOSS4G 2008 conference at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) in Cape Town, Western Cape Province, South Africa, September 29 to October 3, 2008.

• Conference Web Site: http://www.foss4g2008.org
• Conference Mailing List: http://mailman.uwc.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/foss4g-newsletter or just add your e-mail at the bottom right of [1], ignoring the rest of the page.
• LOC mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2008loc
• Workshop/Lab Mailing List: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference-workshops
• Education initiatives mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/edu_discuss
• IRC Channel: irc://freenode.net/foss4g2008
• other FOSS4G2008 wiki pages

The conference schedule is being developed here, please also see the Program Overview page on the conference website. By <date> the programme will be set and the one on the conference website will be the Master version and will be a pretty, downloadable pdf.

Sunday, September 28

• 15:00-19:00 Early Registration Opens

Monday, September 29

• 07:30 Registration Opens

Workshops

• 08:00-12:00 Morning Workshops

== Technical Visits

• 08:00-12:00

Outreach Activities

• 08:00-12:00

== Lunch for 'conference + workshop' registrants

• 12:00-13:00

Opening Plenary

• 13:00-13:15 Welcome from Chair
  • Welcome
  • Thank Sponsors
  • Promote Evening Events
  • Housekeeping

• 13:15-14:00 Sponsor Talks
  • One 15 minute talk by
  • One 10 minute talk by
  • One 10 minute talk by

• 14:00-14:40 Lightning Talks
  • See the wiki page: FOSS4G2008_LightningTalks
  • Tim Sutton (tim@linfiniti.com) will be coordinating the lightning talks. Some possible topics are provided below. Please add a topic and your name if you are interested in presenting a lightning talk. We will be selecting no more than 8 lightning talks for the plenary session. You will have the whole conference watching, and using dual 30' projection screens, so being brisk and entertaining and providing lots of colourful pictures is a good idea.

• 15:40-16:00 Tea Break
  • Don't stray too far...

• 16:00-17:00 Keynote Address

Ice-breaker Reception

• 17:00-23:00 Welcome Reception @ CTICC incl food. Drinks are from a cash bar. Any sponsors for free drinks?.

Venue: FOSS4G 2008 exhibition hall - therefore it also serves as the Exhibition Grand Opening

Exhibition set-up

• 08h00-17h00 exhibitors set up stands, ready for Grand Opening conference Icebreaker.

Tuesday, September 30

• 07:30 Registration Opens

Presentations and Labs

• 08:30-10:00 Presentation Sessions and Labs
• 10:00-10:30 Coffee break
• 10:30-12:00 Presentation Sessions and Labs

Poster Session

• 12:00-13:00 Lunch Provided, and Poster Session

Presentations and Labs

• 13:00-14:30 Presentation Sessions and Labs
• 14:30-15:00 Coffee break
• 15:00-16:30 Presentation Sessions and Labs

BOF and Local Chapter sessions

• 17:00-18:30 Birds-of-a-Feather and Local OSGeo sessions

Self-organised at [FOSS4G2008_BOF_Sessions] and on noticeboards at the conference.

Tuesday night

Open (at the moment). Suggest a pub venue? Panama Jacks for supper? Possible code sprint time.

Wednesday, October 1

• 08:00 Registration opens

Presentations and Labs

• 08:30-10:00 Presentation Sessions and Labs
• 10:00-10:30 Coffee break
• 10:30-12:00 Presentation Sessions and Labs

Poster Session (tentative)

• 12:00-13:00 Lunch Provided, and Poster Session - poster authors to stand with their posters.

Presentations and Labs

• 13:00-14:30 Presentation Sessions and Labs
• 14:30-15:00 Coffee break
• 15:00-16:30 Presentation Sessions and Labs

Reception

• 18:00-20:00 Reception (Gala dinner) @ Moyo on Spier Wine Estate in Stellenbosch. Price includes transport. Buses will be leaving from xxx at xxhxx and returning every xxh from xxhxx.

Thursday, October 2

• 08:00 Registration opens

Presentations and Labs

• 08:30-10:00 Presentation Sessions and Labs
• 10:00-10:30 Coffee break
• 10:30-12:00 Presentation Sessions and Labs
• 12:00-13:00 Lunch Provided

Closing Plenary

• 13:00-13:05 Welcome from Chair
  • Housekeeping

• 13:05-13:15 FOSS4G 2009
  • 2009 hosts describe next year's event and venue

• 13:15-14:15 Panel Discussion
  • Moderated by

• 14:15-14:30 Sol Katz Award
  • Award explained, Sol Katz memorialized
  • Presented to...
  • Remarks from recipient

• 14:30-14:50 FOSS4G 2008 in Review
  • ... shares her off-the-cuff observations of the event and how what she has seen relates to the larger field of geospatial.

• 14:50-15:00 Adjourn ('official' close)
  • Draw for evaluation form sweepstakes
  • Thanks to volunteers and committee
  • Thanks to presenters and teachers
  • More thanks

15h00-17h00 OSGeo AGM for all who want to stay.

18h00-23h00 More code sprint time

Friday, October 3

Code Sprint - better on Tues and Thurs night or on Sat

• 9:00-17:00 @ venue?
  • FOSS4G2008_CodeSprint Note the code sprint may be moved to Saturday if 'sprinters' want to attend workshops too.

Workshops

• 08:00-12:00 Morning Workshops

== Technical Visits

• 08:00-12:00 (or whole day)

Outreach Activities

• 08:00-12:00 (or whole day)
  • 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.

== Lunch

• 12:00-13:00

Workshops

• 13:00-17:00 Afternoon Workshops

== Technical Visits

• 13:00-17:00 (or whole day)

Outreach Activities

• 13:00-17:00 (or whole day)
  • 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.