FOSS4G2008 Workshops and Technical Visits
(embargoed until announcement)If you have registered for one or more workshops at FOSS4G 2008, this is the page where you select which workshop or technical visit you wish to attend. Click on a workshop or visit title to see more information. You can select one item from Monday morning, one from Friday morning and one from Friday afternoon, wherever there are still seats available. Get back to Karryn at PeopleSA with the CODES of the items you wish to attend and she will confirm your seat.
NOTE Workshops and Technical Visits fall outside the main FOSS4G2008 Programme. If you wish to attend these events, you will have to register for a "conference + workshop" package here or you may purchase them separately.
While the Code Sprint on Saturday 4 October is a free part of the conference, we need to have an idea about who will attend. So when you send your workshop choices to Karryn please indicate if you wish to attend the code sprint. She will pass your name to the code sprint coordinator (Tim Sutton), or you can add it yourself to [[1]].
This is a 'close to final' list of available workshops, pending presenter agreement to time slots and days! Workshop abstracts will be available on the main conference website soon. (To be removed after announcement)
The following list is current as of July 24, 2008 14:00 SAST
| WORKSHOPS 'almost final' list | Presenters | Venue | DateTime | Places Remaining |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Getting Started with MapServer | Jeff McKenna, Pericles Nacionales, Tyler Mitchell | CTICC Roof Terrace | Monday 29 Sept - 9:00-12:30 | 100 |
| Setting up a geospatial catalog using GeoNetwork opensource and GeoServer | Jeroen Ticheler | CTICC Room 1.40 | Monday 29 Sept - 9:00-12:30 | 96 |
| OpenLayers - Building Web Mapping Applications with a Solid Foundation | Tim Schaub | CTICC Roof Terrace | Friday 3rd Oct - 9:00-12:30 | 100 |
| Practical Introduction to MapGuide Open Source | Robert Bray | CTICC Room 1.40 | Friday 3rd Oct - 9:00-12:30 | 96 |
| Practical Introduction to GRASS and related software for beginners | Marco Ciolli, Paolo Zatelli, Clara Tattoni | CTICC Roof Terrace | Friday 3rd Oct - 13:30-17:00 | 100 |
| The Open-Geo Stack: OpenLayers, GeoServer, PostGIS | Justin Deoliveira, Tim Schaub, Chris Holmes | CTICC Room 1.40 | Friday 3rd Oct - 13:30-17:00 | 96 |
| FOSS4G routing with pgRouting tools and OpenStreetMap road data | Claude Philipona, Daniel Kastl | UCT Geomatics Lab | Monday 29 Sept - 9:00-12:30 | 40 |
| A Hitchhiker's guide to Ruby On Rails stack for geoWeb | Krishna Sankar | UCT Geomatics Lab | Friday 3rd Oct - 9:00-12:30 | 40 |
| gvSIG / Sextante | Victor Olaya, Salvador Bayarri, José Vicente Higón, Laura Díaz | UCT Geomatics Lab | Friday 3rd Oct - 13:30-17:00 | 40 |
| Collaborative Mapmaking with GeoDjango | Josh Livni, Travis L Pinney | CTICC Main Auditorium | Monday 29 Sept - 8:30-12:00 | 50 |
| Standardized Geoprocessing with 52?North Open Source Software | Bastian Schaeffer | UCT EGS Lab | Monday 29 Sept - 9:00-12:30 | 40 |
| Mapserver OGC Web Services Workshop | Bart van den Eijnden, Assefa Yewondwossen, Jeff McKenna | UCT EGS Lab | Friday 3rd Oct - 9:00-12:30 | 40 |
| Hydrological and Geomorphological Terrain Analysis with JGrass | Silvia Franceschi, Andrea Antonello | UCT EGS Lab | Friday 3rd Oct - 13:30-17:00 | 40 |
| Introduction to Geoportal Management using Mapbender | Arnulf Benno Christl | CTICC Overflow | Monday 29 Sept - 8:30-12:00 | 40 |
| Web based GIS and domain model integration | Pieter De Graef | CTICC Overflow | Friday 3rd Oct - 8:30-12:00 | 40 |
| MapWindow GIS Workshop - Introduction to Custom GIS Application Development for Windows | Brian Marchionni, Ted Dunsford | CTICC Overflow | Friday 3rd Oct - 13:30-17:00 | 40 |
Technical Visits are lined up for the same time slots as workshops. You will have to choose between them.
| Technical Visits | Host | Venue | DateTime | Places Remaining | Overview |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chief Directorate: Surveys and Mapping | CDSM | CDSM, Mowbray, Cape Town | Monday 29 Sept - 9:00-11:00 | 22 | 'Ordnance Survey of SA'. Image Acquisition and Field Surveying , Trignet - permanent GPS base stations , Data Extraction and Manipulation , Geospatial Data Management & Cartographic Production |
| Houwteq Satellite Integration Facility in Grabouw | Institute for Satellite and Software Application (ISSA) | Houwteq, Grabouw | Friday 3rd Oct - 8:00-12:30 | 22 | Key site in South African Space Program |
| Wine Estate GIS | TBA | TBA - A lovely Cape Winery... | Friday 3rd Oct - 8:00-12:30 | 22 | Francois Knight from Agri Informatic will present an interesting presentation on how GIS is used in the wine industry |
The Labs are 'mini-workshops', also hands-on and are part of the core programme. So you will be able to choose them at will during the conference. They will run in parallel to presentation tracks and are 1h30 long. They are listed here but their abstracts and scheduling will be available on the main conference website soon: http://www.foss4g2008.