A trip to LinuxTag 2009

In June, me Anders and Johan went to LinuxTag in Berlin, Germany for some geek week fun.

At the booths, most people were either so shocked to hear the English language or simply incapable of speaking it. I did however have really nice conversations with one from Sidux, a guy from Astaro (makers of Strongswan) and some of the guys at the XBMC and Centos booths. My friends at the Drupal booth did not want to talk and kept ignoring me or simply talking back in German.

The best part of the conference was without a doubt the lectures we were able to find in English. In particular, the two QT lectures with Matthias Ettric from Qt Software were excellent. I also really enjoyed the lecture with OpenVZ's Kir Kolyshkin about containers and resource management in Linux which in my opinion makes a lot more sense than creating a bunch of virtual machines, wasting a bunch system resources.

I also attended a lecture about clustered CIFS with Michael Adam which was very interesting. Could be extremely cool to create a single samba share with multiple servers up to several terabytes.

In general a great trip and I think in these couple of days I saw about the same amount of interesting lectures as I did in the last semester at our University. I still think that the organizers of LinuxTag should either prepare their partners for English speaking guests or simply stop advertising it in English as the "Biggest Open Source Event in Europe".

Below are a few pictures from the trip.