FOSS4G 2008 Activities

Page owner: Alize

This page is for organising and documenting all non-workshop activities for the morning of 29 Sept and the morning and afternoon of 3 Oct and other times where available.

Outreach

!!!!!!Volunteers needed!!!!!!!!!!

Friday morning 3 October 2008

• UCT workshop for University students and staff. 22 PC's available.
  • UCT Geomatics department.
  • 3rd , 4th year students, postgraduate and UCT staff will attend.
  • GIS delegates to present workshop on :
  • Spatial data infrastructure development and web-based GIS. - OPEN SOURCE
• 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.

Friday afternoon 3 October 2008

• High school geography teachers workshop. 22 PC's available.
  • UCT Geomatics department
  • 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.

We would like to organise the following as well.

• 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

These activities would be held at schools, universities or other public facilities in and around Cape Town.

Technical Visits

Monday morning

Option 1

• Houwteq Satellite Integration Facility in Grabouw – Institute for satellite and software application

(1.5h visit) leaving 8h00. Back 12h30

Option 2

• Chief Directorate: Surveys and Mapping (1.5h visit)

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 Available for 22 people

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

or

• The Directorate Disaster Management and Fire Brigade Services

- Progress : in process - Contact person : Schalk Carstens

• SANBI (South African National Biodiversity Institute) - with Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
• SAS Protea - Navy Survey Ship
• Dept of Agriculture in Stellenbosch
• Stellenbosch / Western Cape / Cape Town University GIS departments
• Cape Town Metro GIS department.
• We have also had offers from the Overberg and Saldanha municipalities.

Other activities

• student competition a la GeoWeb 2008?
• school competition?