Finally, LinuxTag 2008 is over and I am proud to have played a key role in the organisation team.

With more than 11.600 visitors we have had about 2.000 more attendants at this year’s event. In my opinion this proves that our slight modifications on our concept work out well. Just to give you some facts: during the 4 day lasting show there were given in total more than 9,5 days of presentations and workshops and about 1.100m² exhibition space with more than 105 participating free projects and about 100 participating companies.

I would like to express my deepest thankfulness to all volunteers who contributed a lot to LinuxTag - without their help we would not be able to organize such a multifaceted event. First I would like to thank all volunteers from the free projects. We know that mainly all project booths are staffed by enthusiasts, who sacrifice a significant part of their holiday for our event. This year’s exhibition was very professional and you all did a great job presenting your project. Second I would like to thank tarent and univention for sponsoring and Elke Moritz for organizing the free projects’ lunch. They catered for more than 1.100 people during four days and I think it was tasty and satiably. In this connection I also would like thank Florian Auer and Guido Müller and their crew. Regardless which task had to be done - they did it extremely dependable in an unobstrusive way. I would also like to thank Melanie Schunk, Cornelia Schwobe and Nino Grüttke from Messe Berlin. Even if I see many small things to improve, you organized an amazing event. I enjoyed it quite much to work together with you and the LinuxTag core team, especially Wolfgang Drotschmann, to make LinuxTag happen. Concluding I would like to thank my colleagues at SUSE for their much patience and support. Last but not least my very special thanks go to Susanne for her understanding and encouragement during the last months.

As “Sepp” Herberger liked to say: “After the game is before the game.” Therefore I ask you to send me your feedback, criticism and praise on LinuxTag 2008. We need your comments to make next year’s event even better. If you have something on your mind I would really appreciate you dropping me some lines at lt08feedback@markojung.net. In case you have taken photos, created some videos or other cool stuff, please tag them with linuxtag2008 and let me know.

Save the date: LinuxTag 2009 will take place June 24-27, 2009 at Berlin fairgrounds. Hope to see you next year!

Interesting links for LinuxTag 2008: [UPDATED]

• 3sat neues on LinuxTag
• Hacking contest shows kernel security issue
• Moenks Podcast (Part 1, Part 2)
• Archived live streams (hopefully online soon…)