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==== 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]].