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The LinuxTag was Europe's largest trade fair for " free software " with the main focus on Linux . The event, which took place annually until 2014, gave a comprehensive overview of the Linux and free software market and contributed to establishing contacts between users and developers. Together with the worldwide OpenSource World, LinuxTag was the most important event of its kind worldwide for users and developers.

LinuxTag had the slogan "where .com meets .org", that is, the meeting of commercial and non-commercial groups from the IT sector. In addition, there was another annual motto every year.

Promotion of Free Software

LinuxTag saw itself as part of the free software movement and promoted this community to an exceptional degree by supporting the numerous open source projects. With its own booths, forums and lectures, LinuxTag offered these projects the opportunity to present their software, their concepts and thus the entire project to the public in an appropriate manner. Projects could and should benefit conceptually and in terms of content through lively exchange with other groups and companies. Progress and new technologies were discussed extensively and new avenues opened up.

History of LinuxTag

The LinuxTag conference fair was launched in 1996 by a handful of protagonists from the Unix working group (Unix AG) at the University of Kaiserslautern. They wanted to provide information about the then new technology Linux and Open Source. LinuxTag initially only consisted of a small number of participants, both exhibitors and speakers. In order to be able to keep up with the rapidly growing number of participants and exhibitors, the location has been relocated several times.

Kaiserslautern

The first LinuxTage took place at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern .

LinuxTage 1996–1999

The first LinuxTag was a theme evening about Linux. By 1998 LinuxTag had already 3,000 visitors after it had previously been made known nationwide for the first time. In 1999 LinuxTag took place for the first time in its own building with around 7,000 visitors, and for the last time in Kaiserslautern . In the period after that, LinuxTag e. V. formed.

Stuttgart

In 2000 (15,000 visitors) and 2001 the LinuxTag was held in Stuttgart .

LinuxTag 2000

LinuxTag 2000 took place in the Stuttgart Exhibition Center from June 29, 2000 to July 2, 2000. Up to 17,000 visitors came. A business congress was held for the first time. Topics such as IT security, legal aspects of free software, commercial applications under Linux and support were discussed. IT decision-makers were able to find out more about the areas of application for free software using case studies.

LinuxTag 2001

LinuxTag 2001 took place in the Stuttgart Exhibition Center from July 5, 2001 to July 8, 2001. Up to 14,870 visitors came. It was under the patronage of the Federal Ministry of Economics.

Karlsruhe

LinuxTag 2004 in the Karlsruhe Congress Center

The LinuxTag took place in Karlsruhe from 2002 to 2005 .

LinuxTag 2002

LinuxTag took place for the first time in 2002 from June 6, 2002 to June 9, 2002 in the Congress Center in Karlsruhe . About 13,000 visitors came. Its motto was “Open your mind, open your heart, open your source!” (German for example: open your mind, open your heart, open your source (text)! ).

LinuxTag 2003

Novell / SuSE at LinuxTag 2004

LinuxTag 2003 had the motto Open Horizons and took place from July 10th to 13th, 2003 for the second time in Karlsruhe. Together with the entrance ticket for 10 euros, the visitors also received the Knoppix DVD, which was available for the first time at LinuxTag, and a Tux pin . It was open from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., except on Sundays (until 4:00 p.m.). With 19,500 visitors, the number of visitors increased by 40 percent compared to the previous year.

Both companies and non-commercial groups were represented as exhibitors. Apple showed Mac OS X in conjunction with open source . Around 150 exhibitors were there in 2003. In 2002 there were around 100 exhibitors.

Further highlights were the release of OpenGroupware.org based on the OpenOffice.org model as open source and the free conversion of several dozen Xbox , partly with hardware modification through two soldering points, partly by installing the so-called MechInstaller on Linux.

There was also a programming competition and a world record attempt took place on Sunday between 1pm and 2pm: 100 Linux desktop sessions with Gnome and KDE were supposed to run simultaneously on a server . Anyone could take part via the Internet. The result was not announced.

In addition to the exhibition, there were also congresses at which renowned experts gave lectures on a specific topic. For example there was a Debian conference and on Sunday there was a talk about TCPA followed by a discussion. The business and government congress has grown by around 60% with 400 participants. The free lecture program was opened on Friday by the Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor (BMWA), Rezzo Schlauch .

You could also take a virtual visit to the fair via webcams . The pingu cam ( Tux the penguin is the Linux mascot) showed pictures from the zoo in Karlsruhe, which is right next to the exhibition grounds.

LinuxTag 2004

Red Hat at LinuxTag 2004

LinuxTag 2004 took place from June 23 to 26, 2004 for the third time in the congress center in Karlsruhe. Those who registered on the homepage got free entry. However, for 10 euros you got a Tuxpin, a Knoppix DVD and a DVD with FreeBSD , NetBSD and OpenBSD .

LinuxTag 2004 had the motto "Free source - free world" . 16,175 visitors were counted. With a record number of around 170 exhibitors, there were not only many free projects but also numerous large and medium-sized companies. Hewlett-Packard was an Official Cornerstone Partner for the third time . Other important companies were C&L Verlag , Intel , Novell , Oracle , SAP and Sun Microsystems . For the first time, Microsoft was also represented with a booth.

At the one-day business and government congress on June 24th, case studies and success stories about possible uses of open source in companies and government agencies were presented. Among other things, the problem with viruses and worms was discussed .

There was a record turnout for the free congress with around 350 proposals from over 20 countries. 130 of them could be accommodated in the program. The problem of software patents was an important issue.

Competitions on LinuxTag were a coding marathon and the 2004 Hacking Contest.

LinuxTag 2005

LinuxTag 2005 took place from June 22nd to 25th, 2005 in the Karlsruhe Congress Center. LinuxTag 2005 was the 11th LinuxTag and had the motto “Linux everywhere”. In addition to the exhibition of various companies that have more or less to do with Linux, there was again a lecture program in 2005. The business and government congress also took place on June 22, 2005. Before the official start of LinuxTag, there was an opportunity to further educate oneself in various tutorials from June 21 to 23, 2005.

In his opening speech, Jimmy Wales announced the collaboration between Wikipedia and KDE . A web - interface should be able to directly access the Wikipedia each program. The KDE media player Amarok can access Wikipedia articles from artists from version 1.3.

The organizer spoke of 12,000 visitors, which was mainly due to the redesigned entrance fees and the hottest week of the year to date.

Wiesbaden

In 2006 Wiesbaden was the venue.

LinuxTag 2006

Federal Minister of Justice Brigitte Zypries at the Wikipedia booth

LinuxTag 2006 took place from May 3rd to 6th, 2006 in the Rhein-Main-Hallen in Wiesbaden under the topic "See, what's ahead" . According to the organizers, over 9,000 people from over 30 nations attended LinuxTag 2006. There were many, often international, lectures and various information stands; were present u. a. IBM , Avira and Sun Microsystems , with some such as B. Hewlett-Packard or Red Hat were missing. At hacking contest three teams participated.

LinuxTag presented itself even more strongly than in previous years as an open source event and had a BSD day for the first time , with lectures from the major BSDs FreeBSD (and its variant with the KDE interface DesktopBSD ), NetBSD and OpenBSD , which also had a BSD area were represented.

The most popular lecture of the year was the keynote by Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth , who described himself as the “chief dreamer of Ubuntu” and spoke about the good cooperation between users and developers. He also emphasized that Kubuntu and Ubuntu should be treated equally and that there was good cooperation between the developers.

There was also the opportunity to watch some of the lectures via video stream , which was used by an estimated 1,800 people.

Berlin

From 2007 the LinuxTag took place in Berlin . Until 2013, the venue was the exhibition halls under the Berlin radio tower .

LinuxTag 2007

LinuxTag 2007 took place from May 30th to June 2nd, 2007 with the motto "Come in: We're open!" It was visited by about 9600 people.

The event was under the patronage of Federal Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble . Due to the political stance of the Federal Minister of the Interior, this triggered a lively wave of discussions, which went as far as to boycott calls for LinuxTag. The turmoil in the Linux community was so great that even foreign sites reported about it.

LinuxTag 2008

LinuxTag 2008 took place from May 28th to 31st at the Berlin Exhibition Center with 11,612 visitors. The second LinuxTag in the German capital is under the patronage of Federal Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor Frank-Walter Steinmeier and takes place as part of a six-day "IT week in the capital region", which also includes the IT Profits IT business fair, which is taking place in Berlin for the fourth time Under the patronage of Federal Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee, who is also the Federal Government Commissioner for the New Federal States, the 2nd German Asterisk Day, the user and developer conference on Voice over IP , and the 8th @ kit congress on legal issues in professional IT Counting usage. Important topics were "Highlights for the Digital Lifestyle" and the "Mobile + Embedded Area".

LinuxTag 2009

LinuxTag 2009 took place from June 24th to 27th at the Berlin Exhibition Center. It had more than 10,000 visitors. It is under the patronage of Federal Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The new President of the Free Software Foundation Europe Karsten Gerloff attended LinuxTag. One focus is the "mapping of business processes with Linux" as well as "Open Source in the colors of the tricolor", for which 14 Open Source providers from France show their range of products and services.

LinuxTag 2010

The 16th LinuxTag took place from June 9th to 12th, 2010 at the Berlin exhibition center. It was visited by around 11,600 people. It is under the patronage of Cornelia Rogall-Grothe, Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology. The keynote speakers were Microsoft's General Manager James Utzschneider, who amazed the audience with his open approach to open source, the CEO of SugarCRM Larry Augustin underlined the economic importance of OSS and the connection with the coming cloud computing trend, the head of open source Google, Chris DiBona, underlined the high technical level of the congress, the kernel developer Jonathan Corbet gave an outlook on the next Linux kernel 2.6.35 and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth marked the milestones for Ubuntu's desktops.

LinuxTag 2011

The 17th LinuxTag took place from May 11th to 14th, 2011 at the Berlin Exhibition Center with the motto "Shaping the future, initiating the renaissance". It had 11,582 visitors and was under the patronage of Cornelia Rogall-Grothe, the Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology. Keynotes were given by Wim Coekaerts (Oracle), Bradley Kuhn (Software Freedom Conservancy) and Daniel Walsh (Red Hat).

LinuxTag 2012

The 18th LinuxTag took place from May 23 to 26, 2012 at the Berlin Exhibition Center with the motto “Open minds create effective solutions!”. It is under the patronage of Cornelia Rogall-Grothe, the Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology. The premiere of “OpenMind ManagerMorning” took place at LinuxTag, where industry experts and teachers discussed and philosophized about IT and changes in society.

In addition, the premiere of the new lecture series “Open Minds Economy”, organized by the Open Source Business Alliance and Messe Berlin, took place, which presents the successful model of open source in the fields of business and society.

Keynotes were given by Jimmy Schulz, chairman of the project group "Interoperability, Standards and Open Source" of the Enquete Commission on Internet and Digital Society in the German Bundestag, Ulrich Drepper, maintainer of the GNU C Standard Library Glibc and Lars Knoll, employee at Nokia and Chief QT library maintainer.

LinuxTag 2013

The 19th LinuxTag took place from May 22nd to 25th, 2013 at the Berlin Exhibition Center with the motto "In the cloud and" embedded "- the triumphant advance of free software continues" It is under the patronage of Cornelia Rogall-Grothe, the Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology.

The premiere of the Open-IT Summit took place, which was organized as a parallel conference to LinuxTag by the Open Source Business Alliance (OSBA) and Messe Berlin and which shed more light on the topic of open source in the business environment. OpenStack Day also took place as the first major sub-conference on the topic of OpenStack in Europe in cooperation with the OpenStack Foundation. The foundation is based in the USA and sees itself as a globally active reservoir for the scalable cloud management platform of the same name.

Keynotes were given by kernel developer Matthew Garrett on the topic of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) and Secure Boot and by Benjamin Mako Hill, researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who called for so-called antifeatures not to be accepted, in which manufacturers build restrictions into devices.

LinuxTag 2014

The number of visitors to LinuxTag fell despite the increasing number of users of open source programs.

In order to adapt to the changes, the Linuxtag in 2014 focused and diversified on the core topic of the professional use of open source software. To this end, LinuxTag entered into a strategic partnership with droidcon and increasingly turned to the presentation of specific technologies and products that were created in the open source environment. These included cloud technology such as infrastructure as a service, IT service management, scalable storage systems, enterprise web frameworks as well as content management systems and embedded Linux.

The 20th LinuxTag took place from May 8th to 10th 2014 at STATION Berlin , in close proximity to the Media Convention Berlin (May 6th to 7th), the re: publica (May 6th to 8th) and the droidcon (May 8-10 , 2014). All events aimed for a close link in order to achieve an enhancement for visitors and program via thematic bridges. The entry price, which rose sharply from 50 to 150 euros, met with criticism.

Despite the changes, the event was subsequently discontinued. The reason for this was the high amount of work that the association members would have had to do on a part-time basis.

Reactions to the attitude

When it became known that LinuxTag 2015 would not be in the trade fair format, other people took this as an opportunity to establish Linux Presentation Day ( LPD ). However, the LPD is not intended as a replacement for LinuxTag. Instead, the LPD has made it its mission to make Linux more successful on the desktop. In addition, the event grew from a purely Berlin phenomenon within a year to a Europe-wide event.

LinuxTag Association

The LinuxTag e. V. founded. He organized the LinuxTag on a voluntary basis. In 2005 there was an attempt to carry out the organization with two full-time support staff for four months, but this could not be repeated in the following years. After the last LinuxTag was held in 2014, the association merged with the German Unix User Group (GUUG) in 2017 .

Web links

Individual evidence

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