WhereGroup

The 2008 FOSS4G Conference will be held in the city of Cape Town , South Africa from the Monday 29th September to Friday 3rd October at the Cape Town International Convention Centre.

Arnulf Christl from the WhereGroup will give two presentations and a workshop on Geoportal technology and concepts using the software Mapbender. One talk will be on
Open Source Business Models in the business session, the other Highlights Openness of the diverging and complementing missions and goals of OGC, OpenStreetMap and OSGeo. Find more details and the abstracts of the talks on the FOSS4G Conference Website.

There is less than one month to go to FOSS4G 2008. You can still register but space is limited, so take your chance now! http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008/schedConf/registration

Choose hands-on WORKSHOPS at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2008_Workshops_and_Technical_Visits

...and if you've got lots of time on your hands and a passion for conservation, the great outdoors and Wild Africa, why not extend your trip after FOSS4G 2008 with a free vehicle for six weeks mapping protected areas? See the post below about the MAPA project. I don't know why they haven't followed the OpenStreetMap model, but nevertheless it's an exciting project: