AfricaEvents29November2008

What?

Our first OSGEO local chapter meet up! We will chew the cud, show you some cool stuff and start to get people familiar with the brilliant FOSS GeoSpatial products out there!

Where?

Gavin can you add travel details + lat/lon for the location? Embed an openlayers map here?

When?

• November 29th
• Presentation and workshop segment: 10am to 1pm
• QGIS Bug Party!

Who

Your friendly presenters for the day will be:

• Tim Sutton (tim at linfiniti.com) - QGIS hacker and FOSS GIS junkie extraordinaire. Tim eats Weetbix for breakfast because it sounds like Linux. He once rewrote Nkosi Sikileli in C++ because he was feeling patriotic.
• Graeme McFerren - (graeme.mcferren at gmail.com) - GIS researcher and FOSS4G user. Mmm, aspire to be like Tim then.
• Gavin Fleming - add your email and witty bio here
• Brendon Wolff-Piggott - (brendon at integratedgeodata.co.za) - Water resources consultant and FOSS GIS enthusiast. I wish there were more hours in the day to keep up with FOSS4G..

Presentation and workshop segment

Install postgis : Gavin

• create user account
• create a db
• load plpgsql, lwpostgis, spatial_ref_sys
• use shp2pgsql to load a shapefile
• perform some basic spatial queries
• show inserting geometries
• show extracting geometries

Install geoserver : Graeme

• install java 1.6 from apt
• grab standalone geoserver binary
• extract to opt
• export JAVA_HOME=/usr
• start geoserver
• create a datastore
• create a couple of feature types using pg backend
• create a WMS layergroup with a few layers
• demonstrate the result in geoserver browser

Install uDig : Gavin

• Connect to Geoserver wfs
• create nice sld for layer
• paste into geoserver and reload
• Install QGIS: Tim
• Pull in WMS layer from geoserver
• Pull up postgis layer
• Demonstrate editing and topological editing
• Demonstrate thematic mapping options
• Demonstrate attribute actions
• Demonstrate plugin manager

Install QGIS : Brendon

• Pull in WMS layer from geoserver
• Pull up postgis layer
• Demonstrate editing and topological editing
• Demonstrate thematic mapping options
• Demonstrate attribute actions
• Demonstrate plugin manager

QGIS Bug Party

Each person attending will get a free copy of QGIS 1.0.0 Preview 2 absolutely free of charge! Sorry no shrink wrap copies available. Preview 2 is the second in a series of preview releases we are making before we release the Stable QGIS 1.0.0 with long term support. We need your help to:

• file bugs (after first checking that no matching bug exists)
• verify open bugs are still valid
• mark bugs that seem to be fixed
• test on different machine configurations (bring your laptops!)

The idea is not to try to *fix* the bugs, but rather to do a QA session on the bugs in the bug tracker. In the process you will learn how to interact with an Open Source project the Right Way i.e. filing good quality bug reports.

I will start off with a simple show and tell covering:

• where to find the QGIS (and other OSGEO projects bug tracking sites)
• creating an account so you can file non-anonymous bugs and feedback on any OSGEO project bug tracker
• how the bug tracking system works - what the various input fields in the QGIS tracker mean

After that I will turn you lose on the queue and a shiny copy of QGIS preview 2 and let you have it. Party is over when the last man falls asleep at the keyboard! Ok probably we will finish at between 4:30pm and 5pm if my wife has anything to do with it!