Linuxtag 2007: Day 1
Mittwoch, 30. Mai 2007Today started the first Linuxtag at its new location Messe Berlin. My first action was to give a talk about our project’s progress, as I told on monday. But then everything changed in comparison to last year. In 2006 there were only the exhibitors visiting themselves on the first day. This year our shared booth (together with Debian GNU/Linux and FAI) was crowded until afternoon. Great, I hope this will continue on the next days
There have been some television stations interviewing exhibitors, so I hope the media will broadcast some short info spots about Linuxtag and especially LiMux. A 5 minutes interview by the ZDF is online available: here
Additionally I attended an interesting public discussion between some IT leads from the city of Berlin about the future of open source software in Germany’s capital. They face similar organizational problems like we do in Munich and as far as I understand they’ll solve them in the mid-term, but want to try solutions for one example city district asap. The news coverage will show the details during the next weeks…
In general, my first impression of the “new” Linuxtag is mainly great, motivated organizers trying to do their best, a great location at Messe Berlin and a lot of interested visitors - go on this way!