What's this LinuxTag thing? The largest German Linux user show. In fact, it is probably the largest Linux event in Europe. (If there is a larger one, we haven't heard of it.) Last year there were an estimated 1500 visitors. <URL:http://www.linuxtag.org/>.
When and where? June 26/27, 1999. University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. Why is this idiot spamming the debian-devel list? Because we, the organizers of LinuxTag '99, would like to invite the Debian project to set up a booth at this year's event. Several major Linux distributions will be there: SuSE, DLD, representatives for Red Hat, etc. Last year quite a few visitors expressed their disap- pointment about Debian's absence. What will it cost? LinuxTag is a non-profit event. There will be no charge for non-profit exhibitors such as Debian or KDE. Yes, the KDE crew will appear in strength and have a booth just like last year. You will have to pay your travel and hotel expenses yourselves, though. Who'll be there? LinuxTag is geared towards users. Students. Private folk. Small companies. People who actually want to get work done with a computer, many of whom have never seen a Linux box before. It's not a developer's event. Nevertheless, if last year's turnout is any indication, most well-known names of the German Linux scene will show up. I already mentioned KDE and the various commercial distributions. The Trolls will come down all the way from Norway. We would dearly love to have official Debian participation. Please drop me a note. Can I give a talk/submit a paper? Alas, all talks and accompanying papers will have to be in German. Actually, something on Debian (how to become a Debian developer, how to build a Debian package) would be very welcome. If you are interested and managed to miss our earlier CfPs, contact me ASAP. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED] See another pointless homepage at <URL:http://home.pages.de/~naddy/>.
