AfricaGEO 2014

AfricaGEO 2014 OSGeo presence organising page

Purpose

Organise activities around the AfricaGEO 2014 event being held 1-3 July 2014 in Cape Town. See http://www.africageo.org/ for event details.

The Cape Town International Conference Center is a top notch international class venue.

Jul 1-3 2014 (possibly we could hold events before and after the conference center

We are planning to man a stall for each day of the conference. We need volunteers to man the stall, to

Participants
#	Participant	Home	Man Booth	Preparation of materials	Other contributions	contact	Notes
1	Tim Sutton	Swellendam, South Africa	yes	yes	Not sure what yet	tim@linfiniti.com	No notes yet
2	Tobi Sowole	Lagos, Nigeria	no	yes	Funding	tobi.sowole@spatialmatrix.com	No notes yet
3	Frank Sokolic	Cape Town, South Africa	yes	yes	Funding, workshops	sokolic@worldonline.co.za	No notes yet
4	Jeff McKenna	Canada	yes	(my experience with Nottingham is that it is easier for locals to print materials etc.)	workshop	jmckenna(at)osgeo.org	MapServer workshop?

**Do I need to be a FOSS GIS guru?** It will help if you know your way around the FOSS GIS stack, but nobody needs to be a guru.
**Will I earn money for doing this?** In the afterlife maybe, in this one you will probably need to part with some of your hard earned cash to cover conference fees and perhaps chip in for goodies for the stand.
**Who will pay for the stand.** We are looking for donors.

Lets get together for a OSGeo Africa Chapter meetup while we are there!

TBD