This weekend, I go to Berlin to the LinuxTag, a fair where geeks meet geeks and/or IT professionals 
It will be a great opportunity to meet the people of Ubuntu-de again and of other open-source communities, to discover new projects and to attend interesting conferences. Moreover, I will write there the second exam (LPI102) of the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) to obtain the first level of the Linux certification. Last but not least, I come right for the OpenSolaris love day!
I also have been in Wiesbaden last year for the LinuxTag 2006 and I hope this event will be at least as good as the previous one !
This meeting, which slogan is “where .org meets .com”, is traditionally put under the patronage of the… German minister of Interior Department, Wolfgang Schäuble ! (see my last article). I wonder how he will be accommodated by the open-source and Free software supporters, who do not seem to appreciate his will of supervising people’s computers…
May 30th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
We have been both to the LinuxTag 2005 in Wiesbaden and 2006 Cologne !
May 31st, 2007 at 12:14 pm
2006 in Köln was the LinuxWorldExpo
June 8th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Here is a short report of the fair, which has not been as good as expected, but I hope it will be better next year
- Berlin is a HUGE city and not as ugly as I thought. The German have done a pretty good job at making it pleasant (not in all districts, though)
- Beer and food are cheap
- I wrote my LPI-exam 102, results come in two to six weeks
- I attended a conference with Jono Baker, the responsible for all Ubuntu LoCos (communities) worldwide at Canonical. The questions after it were uninteresting and completely unrelated to the topic (”How do Canonical earn money ?” and so on…)
- another conference about Xul, the graphical tool for the Mozilla Suite.
- I had interesting speeches with several people who were on the stands (especially Sun)
- I would like to thank the people of Ubuntu Berlin who prepared us a barbecue on Saturday, it was great !