Editing LinuxTag (section)

=== Berlin ===
Since 2007 the LinuxTag took place in [[Berlin]], from 2007 to 2013 at the [[Messe Berlin]], located under the [[Funkturm Berlin]].

==== LinuxTag 2007 ====
LinuxTag 2007<ref>Website of LinuxTag 2007 https://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/home/welcome.html</ref> took place from 30 May to 2 June 2007 with the motto "Come in: We're open". It was attended by about 9,600 people and comprised more than 200 talks.

The event was held under the auspices of [[Interior Minister of Germany|Interior Minister]] Wolfgang Schäuble.<ref>''german'' LinuxTag Presseteam [https://web.archive.org/web/20070511235113/http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/de/home/willkommen/newsitem/article/bundesinnenminister-ubernimmt-schirmherrschaft-fur-linuxtag-in-der-hauptstadt.html „Bundesinnenminister übernimmt Schirmherrschaft für LinuxTag in der Hauptstadt“]</ref> This sparked a lively debate due to the [[Wolfgang Schäuble#Law and order politics|political attitude]] of [[Wolfgang Schäuble]] in his administrative role, which triggered calls to boycott LinuxTag.<ref>''german'' [[Heise online]] [https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/89896 „LinuxTag nimmt Stellung zur Schirmherrschaft Schäubles“]</ref><ref>LinuxTag Team [https://www.linuxtag.org/2007/de/home/news/newsitem/article/stellungnahme-zur-schirmherrschaft.html „Stellungnahme zur Schirmherrschaft“]</ref> This was even reported and discussed outside of Germany.<ref>slashdot https://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/19/2149231</ref>

==== LinuxTag 2008 ====
LinuxTag 2008<ref>Website of LinuxTag 2008 https://www.linuxtag.org/2008/en/home/welcome.html</ref> took place from 28 to 31 May at the Messe Berlin with 11,612 visitors from 31 countries and more than 200 exhibitors. The second LinuxTag in the German capital was under the patronage of (then) [[German foreign minister|German Foreign Minister]] and [[Vice-Chancellor of Germany|Vice Chancellor]] [[Frank-Walter Steinmeier]] and was labelled as a part of a six-day "IT Week in the Capital Region", which also included the IT business trade fair ''IT Profits'' under the patronage of the [[Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs (Germany)|Federal Minister of transport]] as a co-event to LinuxTag. LinuxTag 2008 hosted as sub-conferences the second German [[Asterisk (PBX)|Asterisk]] day, a user and developer conference for [[IP Telephony]] and the 8th @Kit Congress, on which legal issues of professional IT use are discussed. Core topics of LinuxTag 2008 were "Highlights of digital lifestyle" and the "Mobile + Embedded Area".

==== LinuxTag 2009 ====
LinuxTag 2009<ref>Website of LinuxTag 2009 https://www.linuxtag.org/2009/en.html</ref> took place from 24 to 27 June at the Messe Berlin, attracting over 10,000 visitors. As in 2008 it was placed under the patronage of German Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The new president of the [[Free Software Foundation Europe]] Karsten Gerloff attended LinuxTag. A focal point was "business processes using Linux" and "Open Source Software in the colours of the [[Tricolor]]" for which 14 Open Source Software suppliers from [[France]] displayed their product and service ranges.

==== LinuxTag 2010 ====
LinuxTag 2010 took place from 9 to 12 June 2010 at the Messe Berlin.<ref>Website of LinuxTag 2010 https://www.linuxtag.org/2010/en.html</ref> This 16th LinuxTag was attended by about 11,600 people and stood under the patronage of Cornelia Rogall-Grothe, Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology. Keynote speakers included Microsoft's general manager James Utzschneider who stunned the audience with his open approach to Open Source Software, the CEO of SugarCRM, [[Larry Augustin]], who underlined the economic impact of [[FLOSS]] and its leverage in [[cloud computing]], the "director of open source" at Google, Chris DiBona, who underlined the professional level of LinuxTag, the kernel developer [[Jonathan Corbet]] who gave an outlook on the next Linux kernel 2.6.35, and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth laid out the next milestones for the Ubuntu desktop distribution.

==== LinuxTag 2011 ====
The 17th LinuxTag was held from 11 to 14 May 2011 at the Messe Berlin under the motto "Where .com meets .org".<ref>Website of LinuxTag 2011 https://www.linuxtag.org/2011/en.html</ref> It was attended by 11,578 visitors and was placed under the patronage of Cornelia Rogall-Grothe of the Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology, again. Keynotes were given by Wim Coekaerts (Oracle), Bradley Kuhn (Software Freedom Conservancy) and Daniel Walsh (Red Hat).

==== LinuxTag 2012 ====
The 18th LinuxTag happened from 23 to 26 May 2012 at the Messe Berlin with the motto "Open minds create effective solutions",<ref>Website of LinuxTag 2012 https://www.linuxtag.org/2012/en.html</ref> another time under the patronage of Cornelia Rogall-Grothe of the German Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology. At LinuxTag, the "Open MindManager Morning" premiere took place, on which industry experts and educators across the IT discussed changes in society and Open Source philosophy.

In addition, there was the premiere of the new lecture series "Open Minds Economy", organized by the [[Open Source Business Alliance|Open Source Business Alliance (OSBA)]] and [[Messe Berlin]], which presented successful [[Business models for open-source software|business models]] and applications of open source software in the fields of economy and society.

Keynotes were given by [[Jimmy Schulz]], chairman of the project group "Interoperability, Standards and Open Source" of the commission for research on internet and digital society of the German Bundestag, Ulrich Drepper, maintainer of the [[Glibc|GNU C standard library Glibc]] and Lars Knoll, employee at [[Nokia]] and chief maintainer of the [[Qt library|QT library]].

==== LinuxTag 2013 ====
The 19th LinuxTag was held from 22 to 25 May 2013 on the Berlin Exhibition Grounds with the motto "In the cloud - triumph of the free software goes on".<ref>Website of LinuxTag 2013 https://www.linuxtag.org/2013/en.html</ref> Again it stood under the patronage of Cornelia Rogall-Grothe, the Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology.

It was also the premiere of the ''Open IT Summit'', which was organized as a parallel conference at LinuxTag of the [[Open Source Business Alliance]] (OSBA) and Messe Berlin with the goal to discuss the topic open source in the business environment. Additionally the OpenStack Day took place in cooperation with the OpenStack Foundation as a first major sub-conference on the subject [[OpenStack]] in Europe. The Foundation has its headquarters in the U.S. and sees itself as a global reservoir of the same name, scalable cloud management platform.

Keynotes were given by kernel developer Matthew Garrett on the subject of [[UEFI|Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)]] and Secure Boot, and Benjamin Mako Hill, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who marked so-called anti-features as unacceptable, where manufacturers build usage restrictions into devices.

==== LinuxTag 2014 ====
Since about 2012, the number of visitors of LinuxTag declined despite the ever increasing use of Open Source Software. This decline in visitor numbers was interpreted as a side effect of the ubiquity of Free Software and Linux, hence not being of extraordinary interest any longer. In addition, for some years, there were many similar regional events, in Germany and other European nations, which have drawn from the concept of LinuxTag.

In order to adapt to the changes, the LinuxTag focused on the core issue of the professional use of Open Source Software, as in 2014. Therefore, LinuxTag started a strategic partnership with the droidcon.<ref>LinuxTag und droidcon: {{cite web|url=http://de.droidcon.com/2014/ |title=Droidcon 2014 |accessdate=2023-09-08 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131206093136/http://de.droidcon.com/2014/ |archivedate=2013-12-06 }}</ref>

The 20th LinuxTag took place on 8 and 10 May 2014<ref>Website of LinuxTag 2014 https://www.linuxtag.org/2014/en.1.html</ref> at the STATION Berlin.<ref>Berlin STATION http://www.station-berlin.de/de/home.html</ref>
In spatial and temporal proximity were the Media Convention Berlin (6 to 7 May),<ref>Media Convention Berlin https://media-convention-berlin.de/</ref> the [[re:publica]] (6 to 8 May) and the [[droidcon]] (8 to 10 May 2014). All events aimed towards a close relationship in order to achieve a high level of appreciation of the combined effort.<ref>Cooperation between LinuxTag und droidcon {{cite web|url=https://de.droidcon.com/2014/droidcon-2014-8-10-may-2014 |title=Droidcon 2014: 8 - 10 May, 2014 |accessdate=2023-09-08 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207022330/http://de.droidcon.com/2014/droidcon-2014-8-10-may-2014 |archivedate=2013-12-07 }}</ref>