FOSS4G Conference - early bird rate ends 20 June

19 June 2008, 3:57pm

2008 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference incorporating GISSA 2008
September 29 - October 3
Cape Town, South Africa

Register here: www.foss4g2008.org

Book now to get the early bird rates: Conference registration before the deadline is just R2900 (ZAR) (~$365 USD); after June 20, registration is R3900 (~$491USD). This covers the core 3.5 day conference, featuring academic, presentation and poster tracks, live demo theatre, plenaries, exhibition hall, wall-to-wall hands-on mini-workshops ('labs') and more! A fantastic Gala dinner at Moyo in Stellenbosch is an extra item that will be worth every cent. The early bird really does get the worm!

WORKSHOPS, TECHNICAL VISITS and CODE SPRINT

For R4900 (ZAR) (~$618 USD) if you register before 20 June, you get a full five days featuring all of the above PLUS the extremely popular FOSS4G hands-on workshops. We have added some interesting technical visits too this year. So register now and as soon as the items listed below have been confirmed on the programme we will let you know so you can make your choices, first come-first served. If you wait till after June 20, full registration goes up to R5900 (ZAR) (~$744 USD).

Workshop summary:

Getting Started with MapServer; Setting up a geospatial catalog using GeoNetwork; Building Web Mapping Applications with OpenLayers; Practical Introduction to MapGuide Open Source; Practical Introduction to GRASS and related software for beginners; The Open-Geo Stack: OpenLayers, GeoServer, PostGIS; QGIS for beginners, with Python plugins and GRASS; FOSS4G routing with pgRouting tools and OpenStreetMap road data; A Hitchhiker's guide to Ruby On Rails stack for geoWeb; gvSIG and Sextante; Mapserver OGC Web Services; Collaborative Mapmaking with GeoDjango; Standardized Geoprocessing with FOSS; Hydrological and Geomorphological Terrain Analysis with JGrass; Introduction to Geoportal Management using Mapbender; Web based GIS and domain model integration; MapWindow GIS: Custom GIS Application Development for Windows.

(Remember there are an additional 20 hands-on labs that form part of the conference programme at NO EXTRA COST)

Technical visits:

*Sunspace in Stellenbosch - building South Africa's satellites

*Chief Directorate: Surveys and Mapping (~ ordnance survey, national mapping agency)

*Houwteq Satellite Integration Facility in Grabouw – Institute for Satellite and Software Application (very FOSS)

*GIS on a wine farm, with tasting! In Grabouw

Code Sprint:

An option on the Friday will be the Code Sprint, being coordinated by Tim Sutton from QGIS. For developers and hackers or interested onlookers.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Ed Parsons, chief of geospatial technology at Google and ex CTO of the UK Ordnance Survey will be our keynote speaker at the opening plenary.

James McFee whom many of you will know from his blog will feature in our closing plenary.

EXHIBITOR AND SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

Early bird rates apply to exhibitors too! If you are planning to exhibit, reserve your stand BEFORE 30 JUNE for big savings! For information on exhibitor and sponsorship opportunities, see http://tinyurl.com/555ade or contact Gavin Fleming, Conference Chair via email: gavinf at mintek dot co.za.

We hope to see you in Cape Town, South Africa in September, in just over three months!

For up-to-date information, registration and program details, please visit the conference website: http://www.foss4g2008.org/

www.foss4g2008.org

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