[OSGeo Africa] FOSS activity at GISSA Ukubuzana

[Gavin Fleming]

What's happening re FOSS GIS at the GISSA Ukubuzana

Francois Venter presented yesterday about his FOSS GIS system for 
Gauteng Department of Health

Today (just finished):
Presentations:
Session 1: Stream 1:
Graeme McFerren 'Toward a wide area alerting and notification system' 
(uses FOSS and open standards)
Stream 2:
Gareth Nichols 'using augmented reality  as an extension to utility GIS' 
- using FOSS and open data.
Gavin Fleming 'Overview of FOSS GIS implementation in SA'

Workshop:
'Introduction to QGIS and PostGIS' (UP and OSGeo). 16h00 Training room 1 
(not 3 as per programme)

Thursday:
Workshops:
- Francois Venter's Gauteng Dept of Health FOSS GIS system demo. 09h00 
training room 3.
- Gavin Fleming 'Enterprise GIS with FOSS'. 09h00 training room 2.
   NB: Assistants welcome!
- Terence van Zyl 'Beyond GIS with EO4Vistrails: a geospatio-temporal 
scientific workflow environment'. 14h15 training room 2
- Arun Inamdar 'Cost benefit analysis of R over proprietary GIS and 
remote sensing software: A review'

Presentations:
Stream 1: Session 2:
Gavin Fleming, OSGeo 'Open Source GIS: An Overview'. This will be a 
run-through of the OSGeo Live DVD.

Panel discussion 14h00:
GIS business models (incl where FOSS fits in)

there might be others but it's not always obvious from the title.






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