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<font size="3" face="Lucida Sans">Hi Alize</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Sans">For technical tours, it may be worth thinking through the kinds of places potentially available. Not all delegates will be intrigued by the same stuff.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Sans">ICT visits:</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Sans">The Centre for High Performance Computing at UCT/CSIR might be interesting, especially if someone can discuss some of the applications that are being run there</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Sans">Space Science visits:</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Sans">SunSpace in Stellenbosch</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Sans">Hermanus Magnetic Observatory (HMO)</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Sans">Institute for Satellite and Software Applications (ISSA)</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Sans">Bear in mind, ISSA and HMO are a fair drive from Cape Town.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Sans">Through UCT, access Astronomical science - SALT telescope work, Square Kilometre Array Telescope work</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Sans">Environmental Science visits:</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Sans">Cape Point Atmospheric Observatory ( a bit limited, but what a drive to get there!)</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Sans">For the botanically inclined, the Cape hosts one of the 7 Floral Kingdoms, and I reckon the SANBI crowd will be only too happy to show visitors around some of this magnificence, possibly out of Kirstenbosch</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Sans">Oceanography/ Marine Biology - The Cape is obviously very interesting from this point of view, perhaps something through UCT or SAEON.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Sans">Cultural/Political/Historical visits:</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Sans">Possibly easier for visitors to do under their own steam, but important in that the more 'social science' angle is thematically woven into FOSS4G2008. The museums crowd from Cape Town (I forget their name) would be great to get into contact with on this point - they look after some interesting places.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Sans">Also, places like the Modelling Hall at CSIR Stellenbosch and Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping in Mowbray could be worth looking into.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Sans">As to the question of wine tours and the like, my 2 cents is that you should not concern yourself too much with them. Focus on the technical offerings and let PeopleSA handle the more touristy visits.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Sans">Graeme</font> </p>
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>>> "Ravi Pillay" <Ravi.Pillay@sita.co.za> 04/20/08 8:22 PM >>><br>Hi Alize<br><br>The Magnetic Observatory offices (HMO) in Hermanus might also be good<br>tour.<br><br>Regards<br>Ravi Pillay<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: foss4g2008loc-bounces@lists.osgeo.org<br>[mailto:foss4g2008loc-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Alize Botha<br>Sent: 18 April 2008 05:37 PM<br>To: foss4g2008loc@lists.osgeo.org<br>Subject: [Foss4g2008loc] Technical visits<br><br>Hi All<br><br>I'm organising the technical tours for the conference.<br>I need to start contacting the relevant organisations in Cape Town to<br>organise the visits.<br><br>A couple of question for your input please:<br><br>1.Is there a budget allocated for the technical visits or are the<br>delegates to carry the full amount of the visits?<br>2.Do you think the visits should be more "technically<br>inclined" like visiting for e.g.    "SA astronomical observatory,<br>Institute for Satellite and software applications, A laboratory or<br>department at UCT, The Disaster management centre or  a laboratory at<br>CSIR in Stellenbosch" ?<br>3.Or should we incorporate a more scenic trip e.g "city tour, wine<br>tour"?<br>4.Or Both? With an option for the delegates to choose between<br>different tours?<br><br>I need ideas and inputs from you all to start formulating an idea<br>around the ideas :)<br><br>Enjoy the weekend<br><br>Alize Botha<br>CSIR : Built Environment<br><br><br>--<br>This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions,<br>e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF)<br>standard.<br>The full disclaimer details can be found at<br><a href="http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html.">http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html.</a><br><br>This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by<br>MailScanner,<br>and is believed to be clean.  MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for<br>their support.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>FOSS4G2008LOC mailing list<br>FOSS4G2008LOC@lists.osgeo.org<br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2008loc">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2008loc</a><br>
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