The Linux Kongress was an annual conference of

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developers from around the world, that took place every year from 1994 to 2010. It started as a two-day conference in 1994, when Linux was in the early stages of development, and by 2003 had become a four-day event. It occurred every year in Germany except 2001 and 2007. During its lifespan, Linux-Kongress was one of the three major international grass-roots Linux and Open Source conferences in the world, along with

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and

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. The focus of Linux-Kongress was development topics, either in kernel or user space. The conference language was English. By the end, the event consisted of two days of conference preceded by two days of tutorials.

Notable speakers

The conference was a meeting place for many different types of developers. Speakers at the conference included

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developers like

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, Alan Cox,

Theodore Ts'o Theodore (Ted) Yue Tak Ts'o (曹子德) (born 1968) is an American software engineer mainly known for his contributions to the Linux kernel, in particular his contributions to file systems. He is the Secondary developer and maintainer of e2fspro ...

Rusty Russell Rusty Russell is an Australian free software programmer and advocate, known for his work on the Linux kernel's networking subsystem and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. Software development Russell wrote the packet filtering systems ip ...

, James Bottomley,

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developers like Kalle Dalheimer and

Miguel de Icaza Miguel de Icaza (born November 23, 1972) is a Mexican programmer, best known for starting the GNOME, Mono, and Xamarin projects. Biography Early years De Icaza was born in Mexico City and studied Mathematics at the National Autonomous Universit ...

, and

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advocates like

Eric S. Raymond Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, open-source software advocate, and author of the 1997 essay and 1999 book ''The Cathedral and the Bazaar''. He wrote a guidebook for the ...

and Jon Hall.

History

In 1999 the conference cooperated with the Storage Management Workshop. In 2000 and 2001 there were several multi-day workshops sponsored by the German Ministry of Science and Education that preceded the conference. Also there was collaboration with

NLUUG NLUUG (formerly known as The Netherlands Local Unix User Group) is an association of professional UNIX / Linux users in the Netherlands. The group aims to increase and extend the awareness and use of Open Standards (including UNIX) and similar op ...

. In 2009 it was co-located with the OpenSolaris Developer Conference OSDevCon. The conference was organized by the

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(GUUG). In 2011, GUUG decided not to hold a Linux Kongress, and instead focus its resources on

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, - , May 21–23 1995 , , , , Berlin , - , May 23–24 1996 , , , , Berlin , , Haus am Koellnischen Park in Berlin (Tagungszentrum Berlin Mitte) , - , May 21–23 1997 , , , ,

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, ,

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, , Cologne University , - , September 8–10 1999 , , , ,

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, , University of Augsburg , - , September 7–10 2000 , , , ,

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, , Technical Faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg , , Collaboration with NLUUG , - , November 28–30 2001 , , , ,

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, , University of Twente, , Collaboration with NLUUG , - , September 4–6 2002 , , , ,

, , Physics Institutes of the University of Cologne , , Collaboration with NLUUG , - , October 14–17 2003 , , , ,

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, , University of Saarland , - , September 7–10 2004 , , , ,

, , Technical Faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg , - , October 11–14 2005 , , , ,

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Nuremberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...

, , Georg Simon Ohm University Nuremberg , - , September 2–5 2007 , , , ,

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, , University of Hamburg , - , October 27–30 2009 , , , ,

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, , Georg Simon Ohm University Nuremberg

External links

Linux Kongress website
Linux conferences Free-software events Recurring events established in 1994