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Conference Locations

• Cape Town International Convention Centre

  The main venue in downtown Cape Town for FOSS4G2008

  • Hluhluwe Room (Auditorium 1)
    Plenaries, AGM's and a workshop will be held here
  • Madikwe Room (Roof Terrace)
    Primary Workshops and Labs Venue - 100 seats
  • Addo Room (Room 1.40)
    Primary Workshops and Labs venue - 96 seats
  • Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
    Mostly for academic track presentations
  • Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
    Mostly for academic track presentations
  • Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
    Mostly for general track presentations
  • Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
    Mostly for general track presentations
  • Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
    Mostly for general track presentations
  • Mkuze Room (Ball Room)
    The exhibition, lunches, teas and Demo theatre can be found in this room.
  • D'Njala Room (Registration Foyer)
    The registration will take place here.

• UCT Labs

  Workshop venues supplied by UCT Main Campus in Rosebank - appx 20 minutes drive from CTICC. Buses will be provided to transport delegates to and from these venues.

  • Kruger Room (UCT Geomatics Lab)
    Workshops venue - 40 person capacity
  • Pilanesberg Room (UCT Environmental and Geographic Science Lab)
    Workshops venue - 40 person capacity

• Fountains Hotel

  Hotel based facility a short walk from the CTICC

  • Mapungubwe Room (Fountains Hotel Conference Venue)
    Specifics to be announced

Conference Schedule

2008-09-29

08:30 AM

• Setting up a geospatial catalog using GeoNetwork opensource and GeoServer
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Addo Room (Room 1.40)
• Getting Started with MapServer
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Madikwe Room (Roof Terrace)
• Standardized Geoprocessing with 52?North Open Source Software
  Building: UCT Labs
  Room: Pilanesberg Room (UCT Environmental and Geographic Science Lab)
• FOSS4G routing with pgRouting tools and OpenStreetMap road data
  Building: UCT Labs
  Room: Kruger Room (UCT Geomatics Lab)
• Introduction to Geoportal Management using Mapbender
  Building: Fountains Hotel
  Room: Mapungubwe Room (Fountains Hotel Conference Venue)
• Collaborative Mapmaking with GeoDjango
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Hluhluwe Room (Auditorium 1)

2008-09-30

08:30 AM

• Open-source Versus Proprietary GIS on Landscape Metrics Calculation: A Case Study
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
• Calculating NADCON grids using GeoTools
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• Urban Spatial Growth and Land Use Change in Riyadh: Comparing Spectral Angle Mapping and Band Ratioing Techniques
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
• Multi-environment general purpose applications built with Terralib
• An Extensible, Interface-Based, Open Source GIS Paradigm: MapWindow 6.0 Developer Tools for the Microsoft Windows Platform
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• Using airborne laser scanner data and Open Source Software for a glacier inventory
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
• PAL - Automated Placement of Labels
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• Proj4js - Coordinate System Transformations in the Browser
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• An Open Source model for the simulation of granular flows: First results with GRASS GIS and needs for further research
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• Integrating GIS into FOSS Disaster Management System
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• Publishing web maps with QGIS mapserver
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• Coordinate Systems: PROJ.4, EPSG and OGC WKT
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• MapFaces : a Rich Client Mapping Framework build on top of JSF
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• Google Earth Powered by MapGuide Open Source
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• From the Chart Table to the Browser: Deploying Historical Maps at Scale
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• Rebuilding a City through Community Participation, Neogeography and GIS
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• A few mouse clicks away: Configuration of deegree WCS, WFS and WMS with OpenJUMP
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• WFS Simple: the welterweight data access standard
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• Knowledge Management and Humanitarian Response to Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• Practical introduction to Spatial Data Integrator powered by Talend
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Madikwe Room (Roof Terrace)

10:30 AM

• Can the South African address standard (SANS 1883) work for small local municipalities?
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• The South African address standard and initiatives towards an international address standard
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• Editing XML metadata files with the aid of an open-source editor MEE
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• Multipurpose metadata management in gvSIG
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• Modus Operandi of a FOSS GIS project in India
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• Dapple Global Data Explorer
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• Using FOSS and Proprietory GIS in Assessing Water Use by Alien Vegetation
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• Open-source based market information systems - one option for Developing Nations
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• Tapping into OpenSource
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• WebGIS Platform - a commercial succesful OpenSource-based concept in Scandinavia
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• Reasons for the non-use of FOSS GIS during the reconstruction and rehabilitation process after the tsunami 2004 in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, Indonesia OR call for a stronger lobby for FOSS GIS in developing countries
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• Caribbean PestWatch: An agricultural pest monitoring system for the Caribbean utilizing open source software
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• Promoting Open Access to Environmental Data using Open Source Software
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• Transitioning to FOSS4G at North West Geomatics
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• Implementing Web Services for NASA's Terrestrial Observation and Prediction System
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• Promotion of access to spatial information using web-based Open Source GIS to Cape Town communities living at informal settlement.
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• Working with GeoServer
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Madikwe Room (Roof Terrace)
• Practical introduction to the MapFish web-mapping framework
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Addo Room (Room 1.40)

01:30 PM

• Using Keyhole Markup Language to create a spatial interface to South African water resource data through Google Earth
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
• How Open Source GIS and related tools can help in African project and projects can help to develop new tools: the case of Rwanda and the new GRASS-Epanet interface.
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
• Implementation of Distributed Service Oriented Framework for 3D Visualization in Web-GIS Clients
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• Factors Leading to Success or Abandonment of Open Source Commons: An Empirical Analysis of Sourceforge.net Projects
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• FOSS4G certification issues in the development of a large telecommunication application
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• Using supply chain management to enable GIS units to improve their response to their customers' needs.
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• Efficient Constrained Delaunay Triangulation implementation in Java for spatial hydrology analysis
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
• Open Source Software: Risk Management from an Intellectual Property Perspective
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• GeoLiberum: A collaborative approach to capacity building, FOSS GIS implementation and deployment in municipal administration in developing countries.
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• OpenGeocoding.org - a free, participatory, community oriented worldwide geocoding service
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• LOCATION BASED SERVICE FOR URBAN MANAGEMENT in the CITY OF JOHANNESBURG
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• SpatiaLite; an extesion enabling Spatial processing on SQLite
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• A new GRASS module for computing visibility on grids
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• POTIMART - an Open Source GIS platform for transportation
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• A deeper understanding of trade areas and target markets for growth and expansion opportunities
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• Using SLD definitions to display charts in a deegree WMS
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• SNIT-Chile, experience and innovation for the Society of Knowledge. Good Government, Interoperability and Social Web: a methodology in process.
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• FOSS Business Models in the Spatial Realm
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• Introduction to the 52North Web Processing Service
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Madikwe Room (Roof Terrace)
• MapWindow GIS Lab - Introduction to Custom GIS Application Development for Windows
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Addo Room (Room 1.40)

03:30 PM

• Natural Hazards and Risk Assessment: the FOSS4G capabilities
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• The Andean Information System for Disaster Prevention and Relief: a case study of multi-national open-source SDI
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• SahanaGIS: a Rapid Deployment GIS Framework for Disaster Management Humanitarian Relief Operations
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• GIS-BASED ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION MODELLING
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• Application of Open Source OGC Sensor Web Implementations for Disaster Management and Environmental Monitoring
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• FOREST CROWN CLOSURE ASSESSMENT & TREE SPECIES CLASSIFICATION USING MULTISPECTRAL & HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERIES
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• Publishing Imagery using WMS - How do the Open Source Products Fare?
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• WebGIS in times of the web at version 2.0 or: Buzzwords, anyone?
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• Integration of geo-spatial web services using Adobe Flex
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• A geostatistical analysis of water losses in an urban utility using the R and Tinn-R open-source statistical computing environments
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
• The use of open source GI software in teachings
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• J-Hydro, an implementation of the digital watershed concept
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
• WebServices application with Django and OpenLayers
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• Web Enabled Inter-operable Spatial Data System for Water Resources Applications in India using Open Source Geoserver
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
• GIS in the school curriculum - perceptions and challenges facing educators in the Western Cape, South Africa
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• The use of Open Source (an option for developing) technology in determining the beginning of the defined watercourse for determining floodlines in the Apies River Basin
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
• Introducing GIS into the South African Educational Market
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• A COMPARISON OF SOUTH AFRICAN UNIT STANDARD BASED QUALIFICATIONS IN GEO-SPATIAL INFORMATION SCIENCE AGAINST NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BENCHMARKS
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• About the ImageWiki Project
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• Introduction to ASPRS LAS data processing with libLAS
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• Practical Introduction into 52?North's Sensor Observation Service
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Madikwe Room (Roof Terrace)
• Generating end-to-end web mapping applications with geGIS
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Addo Room (Room 1.40)

2008-10-01

08:30 AM

• Building an application framework based on OpenLayers and ExtJS
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• An Open Source model for the simulation of granular flows: First results with GRASS GIS and needs for further research
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
• A comparison of data file and storage configurations for efficient temporal access of satellite image data
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• Quality Management for 3D/4D Meteorologic Data with Paraview and GRASS GIS
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
• A data model for efficient address data representation - Lessons learnt from the Intiendo address matching tool
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• Optimal exploration target zones
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
• MonetDB, a novel spatial DBMS
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• Providing access to terabytes of Earth Observation data in an international organization - infrastructure and services
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• Analysis of Temporal Remote Sensing Data with Opticks
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• OpenLayers Vector Style
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• Shortest path search for real road networks and dynamic costs with pgRouting
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• SUAS MapServer - an Open Source Framework for extended Web Map Services
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• BeeGis: digital field mapping that just works
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• Comparing the Performance of Open Source Web Map Servers
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• Web 2.0 brings GIS to the World Wide Web
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• gvSIG Mobile: How to code for desktop and mobile GIS/SDI
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• A spatial DBMS buyer's guide
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• Welcome to OSGeo - Your FOSS Community
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• Information, a must for Development
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• Creating MapGuide Maps with Style
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Madikwe Room (Roof Terrace)
• Practical Introduction to OrbisGIS
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Addo Room (Room 1.40)

10:30 AM

• NAMGIS - A Context-Aware Mobile Web GIS
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
• Development of Real-time Tracking and Log Management Prototype System using Free and Open Source Software
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• Participatory Free and Open Source GIS in the Web 2.0 - Exploring trends in GIS in times of Collaborative Creation.
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• Assessment of Location Sensitivity of Voronoi-based Sensor Deployment and Reconfiguration using GIS
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
• GEM-PP: a GIS EMissions Pre-Processor to ingest European emission inventory (EMEP/CORINAIR) into photochemical transport models
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
• GIS in the Geography Curriculum: Teacher Training
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• On-line Air Quality Monitoring and Warning Support System for Bucharest Urban Area
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
• Easing Transition to Open Source Geo-Spatial Data Manipulation in GML
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• Opticks: Transitioning a Proprietary Remote Sensing Analysys Tool into Open Source
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• A free GIS book
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• A year of full-speed FOSS- winning the hearts, minds, and business case
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• JGrass: The Horton machine
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• Mapping the Sanitary Sewers of a South African City - First Experiences with FOSS GIS
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• MapFish: a web-mapping development framework
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• Mining Spatial Data from GPS traces for Automated Map Generation
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• Development and Implementation of an Open-Source Based Internet Accessible Water Quality Management System for Improving the Quality of Water Services in South Africa
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• Raster Processing and Preparation with GDAL
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Madikwe Room (Roof Terrace)
• Configuration of deegree Web Services with an OpenJUMP based ConfigurationTool
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Addo Room (Room 1.40)

01:30 PM

• Phoenix: A Web-Based Collaboration Tool
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• Analyzing walkable communities, and publishing interactive results on the web
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• Senegalese land register modernization through OpenSource softwares.
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• Integrating FOSS web-GIS tools with Web2.0 capabilities to produce scalable city information toolkit, supporting participatory GIS
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• Location-based activity reporting of forest operations using components of open source GIS
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• The use of OpenLayers for the demonstration and visualisation of environmental research applications
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
• Into the wild: Tapping the potential of FOSS GIS for Geoparks and Nature Interpretation
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• Bringing data and metadata closer together
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
• TerraLib as an Open Source Plataform for Public Health Applications
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• A case study of GIS analysis for the determination of service delivery
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• Development of a malaria decision support system based on open source technologies
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• GeoServer: Past, Present and Future
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
• Expanding the Role of Open Source GIS in Government
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• OpenStreetMap in India, Free Data in the Developing World
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• Harvest Choice - An Open Source System to Deliver Agricultural Data
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• Ride the lightning - Mapping lightnings with geotools and openlayers
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• Web processing and spatial analysis with the ILWIS open source GIS software and GEOSS data
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
• CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS (CSF'S) FOR SUSTAINABILITY OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) IN GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• Extending the functionality of QGIS with Python plugins
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Madikwe Room (Roof Terrace)
• Practical Introduction to Fusion
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Addo Room (Room 1.40)

03:30 PM

• A Practical Introduction to BirdEye: a GeoVisualization ToolKit
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Madikwe Room (Roof Terrace)
• Integration of access controlled OGC web services in identity federation systems based on 52?North Security Solutions and OpenSSO
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Addo Room (Room 1.40)

2008-10-02

08:30 AM

• Application of open source and proprietary software to optimise meadow bird management schemes in the Netherlands
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• Spatial Analysis and Visualization of Genetic Biodiversity
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• Free GIS Software meets zoonotic diseases: From raw data to ecological indicators
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• Implementation of the Elements of the Polish National Spatial Data Infrastructure Based on Open Source Software
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
• A review of Spatial Data Infrastructure implementation in Africa
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
• urbSAT: from spatial SQL to urban indicator definition and production
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
• Beyond FOSS 3D GIS technologies: a chance for developing countries
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
• GFOSS.it: the Italian OSGeo Chapter
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• Web Processing Services in the context of the 52?North Geoprocessing community
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• MDweb 2.0 : A Java/JEE Metadata Catalog
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• Constellation --- An infrastructure for Geospatial Data Services for Scientific and Environmental Use
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• Improve metadata creation process using OpenSource
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• Apache vs LightHttpd benchmark and optimization for serving huge tilesets
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• Anisotropic cost surfaces for Grass
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• Sensor Observation Service from UMN MapServer meets OpenLayer
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• Migrating from a commercial internet map server to a Free and Open Source solution
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• CAD-GIS Integration: Achieving Commercial Reality with Open Source Solutions
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• The definition of Open in OGC, OSGeo and OSM
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• ESRI's Open Standards and IT Interoperability
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• Using and extending ILWIS open source GIS software together with GEONETCast services for web-based satellite image analysis
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Madikwe Room (Roof Terrace)
• Mapping of Information, a must for Development
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Addo Room (Room 1.40)

10:30 AM

• Challenges in GIS Education and Training (GIS use by municipal urban and regional planning)
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• World Wide Access to Amazon Forest Inventories
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
• Corporative Applications built with TeCOM, a TerraLib Microsoft Visual component
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• Integration of GRASS functionality in web based SDI service chains
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
• Challenges and factors influencing the adoption rate of OSS in the SA government
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• Semantically Enabled SOS with Topic Maps
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
• Open Service Network for data processing
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Marakele Room (Room 2.6b)
• Student recruitment for transformation at the University of Cape Town: a spatial analysis of the Alternative Admissions Research Project, 2000 - 2005
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Langjan Room (Room 2.6a)
• A free graphical modeling tool for geospatial analysis.
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• Improving open source GIS-SDI integration: the web service publishing extension for gvSIG
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• Developing Open Source Tools for Regional Land Use Planning
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• The use of FOSS GIS in Integrated Geographical Systems in Local Government in South Africa
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• EVALUATION OF SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS FOR COASTAL MUNICIPALITIES OF THE STATE OF RIO DE JANEIRO (BRAZIL) USING FREE SOFTWARE
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• Open source Web-GIS of the UN High Commissioner for the Refugees (UNHCR): a model for the UN
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• gvSIG Status Report. Towards an open organization
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• GeoServer and the GeoWeb
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)
• The use of FOSS in urban modelling and simulation
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• Risk Model for OSS: Valuing hidden costs
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Kgalagadi Room (Room 2.4b)
• Integrating Commercial and OpenSource software for an Environmental Health Information System for the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Golden Gate Room (Room 2.4a)
• There and back again. Using uDig to perform real-world tasks.
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Madikwe Room (Roof Terrace)
• Supporting sustainable development: the GRASS opportunity.
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Addo Room (Room 1.40)

2008-10-03

08:30 AM

• Mapserver OGC Web Services Workshop
  Building: UCT Labs
  Room: Pilanesberg Room (UCT Environmental and Geographic Science Lab)
• Web based GIS and domain model integration
  Building: Fountains Hotel
  Room: Mapungubwe Room (Fountains Hotel Conference Venue)
• OpenLayers - Building Web Mapping Applications with a Solid Foundation
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Madikwe Room (Roof Terrace)
• Practical Introduction to MapGuide Open Source
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Addo Room (Room 1.40)
• MapWindow GIS Workshop - Introduction to Custom GIS Application Development for Windows
  Building: UCT Labs
  Room: Kruger Room (UCT Geomatics Lab)

01:30 PM

• Introduction to gvSIG/SEXTANTE as desktop GIS with advanced spatial analysis and SDI publishing tools
  Building: UCT Labs
  Room: Kruger Room (UCT Geomatics Lab)
• The Open-Geo Stack: OpenLayers, GeoServer, PostGIS
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Addo Room (Room 1.40)
• Hydrological and Geomorphological Terrain Analysis with JGrass
  Building: UCT Labs
  Room: Pilanesberg Room (UCT Environmental and Geographic Science Lab)
• Practical Introduction to GRASS and related software for beginners
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Madikwe Room (Roof Terrace)

2008-10-29

10:30 AM

• GDAL/OGR Project Status Report
  Building: Cape Town International Convention Centre
  Room: Makuya Room (Room 1.6)