We are proud to be able to help projects improve their visibility and demonstrate their work to the public. This has been a part of the LinuxTag show from its beginning. This will in turn help the community grow and become an accepted member of the larger picture.

If you want to help us in turn, we are always looking for competent and reliable people who help us organize this event. You will probably learn a lot if you pick one or another part of it and work on it on your own. However, you'll have to have some sort of masochistic and egomanic, otherwise you won't stand the stress, flames, lazyness, problems etc. Feel free to contact us by naming the part you would like to work on.

If I should be forced to provide guaranteed booth size at an earlier stage, I could only hand out only small booths with one open side, because that's the only thing I would be able to guarantee at that time.

Hence, it's working the other way around to get the most use of space for all projects. People are exchanging ideas and tell me what they plan to demonstrate, how they plan to use the booth etc. They normally have an idea of how much space they need for this, because that's implied by the ideas anyway. This will be the basis for booth reservations. The best and most helpful plans look like this one, which may as well be submitted in ASCII art (e.g. drawn with Emacs' picture-mode).

Ideas for your booth should be written as comments to the projects interface or sent to Joey via mail, including sketches.

To help him, you should dump your ideas with regard to the LinuxTag booth to him as soon as they are matured. The same goes for the people who will be staffing the booth. If there are enough people and machines that will maintain a well organized and well stuffed/staffed booth, it could be a good argument for adding some square meters to that booth.

For printing, many universities provide a possibility to print large posters (A0, A1) at cost price. If you need this, you should try to get in touch with the computing center or the physics department. The printers often understand PostScript which is generated quite easily by LaTeX with this class from Peter Ganten and documentation by me. Personally, I'd like you to use this possibility and make use of posters at your booth.

If you would like to use these rooms, it is recommended that you contact Joey before the show and give him the name of the speaker (or responsible person if it's not a talk or presentation), an abstract and the preferred time which will be placed online so people can decide where to go before LinuxTag starts. You can also reserve a room for your project during LinuxTag if it isn't used already, please meet Joey in the administrtion office for reservation.

You will also have to advertise your talk on your own, since it may not be easy to locate on the LinuxTag website. You can easily locate the workshop rooms on the schema of the Stadthalle building.

In the past, some workshops were well frequented but people were able to listen to the talk without having to wait outside of the room. However, to ensure that you will be able to hae a seat during the workhop, you'd be advised to be there in time for highly frequented workshops (like KDE workshops for example).

Questions or information that require more than two minutes of action from Joey, should only be asked via mail. This will provide you with the benefit of a detailed answer, written without too much chaos around.

If you notice that your mail to Joey isn't accepted on infodrom.org, this is most probably due to a bug in your mail setup (i.e.: non-existing hostname, non-existing HELO/EHLO host, non-matching hostname and HELO/EHLO host etc. pp.) and a paranoid mail setup at Infodrom in order to reduce incoming SPAM. In such a case, please fix your mail setup. Until it is fixed, you can still use the address @linuxtag.org.

There is, but the gym hall is filled up already. If you are still in need of a sleeping facility at LinuxTag, drop by at the Internet café and talk to the people from KaLUG. After the first night(s) they can estimate best whether more people can stay there or not.

Like last year KaLUG will maintain a gym hall and provide breakfast in the morning for you. There will be sleeping space for about 80 people in a gym hall. This space will be given out on a first-come-first-serve bases, and individuals who are not associated to a particular project will be able to reserve space for themselves from the beginning. Hence, if you would like to stay in the gymn hall, make sure you're registering early.

The gym hall will be managed like last year, which means that people need to leave the hall early since it it used by sport people during the day. KaLUG thankfully maintains this facility. Registrations are be made through the private LTP interface. Please write AKK as the location.

Please find details about this facility here. There will be a connection to the Internet so Late Night Hacking is possible. IP addresses will be provided through DHCP and outgoing ports need to be activated through a web interface.

This sleeping facility is limited to nn people and is mainly intended for project members that staff booths in the exhibition. If you are not a member of an attending project you are welcome to apply for a sleeping space (send mail to Martin Schulze), but only one month before LinuxTag (from June 10th). Project members should have a little preference.

This year, registration for the social event and for the sleeping space in the gym hall is done online, hence, you'll need to register at least those people who would like to participate in either of it.

Yes. You will need either an exhibitor pass or a normal ticket to pass the entrance of LinuxTag. You can get exhibitor passes for all registered booth staff in our office above the Gartenhalle. You should fetch the passes before the exhibition opens or you'll need a regular ticket, printed through the net or purchased at the counter, as well to get past the entrance.

If you purchase a normal ticket at the entrance, you will get more than only printed information, which should be worth the price for the ticket. You will also sponsor LinuxTag and hence your own projects booth with this money. If you decide to purchase a LinuxTag ticket at the entrance, you will get the first Knoppix DVD, which contains material about most talks, a pin and more. This is called the LinuxTag Kit. The price for this kit is € 10.

You don't have to purchase a normal ticket, though. You are free to register prior to the show and use the gratis ticket. Please read the next question as well.

You will need special passes in order to be able to enter the exhibition area before LinuxTag has opened on Thursday to Sunday. With an exhibitor pass you don't need a normal entrance ticket, but you'll have to fetch the passes on Wednesday at latest in order to benefit from them. You are, however, invited to purchase the LinuxTag Kit which will also help LinuxTag e.V. keep their costs under control.

You can get exhibitor passes for free for yourself or, if you manage a project, for the entire project in the LinuxTag office upstairs of the exhibition area. Exhibitor passes are only available for those who are listed as staff of the particular project in the projects interface.

This depends on how long people need to build the basis of the booth. You can set up your booth as soon as it is built. Building it up will start on Monday and continue through Wednesday. Several booths should be usable on Tuesday, though. However, in general it should be sufficient to set it up on Wednesday. If you have any questions drop by at the LinuxTag office where Joey will probably be.

Furniture will arrive on Wednesday, but you can upload your stuff at the booth already, but please stay there to guard your worthy equipment. During setting up and dismantling people can walk into the exhibition wall and moving computers and the like won't look suspicious. Hence, please do look after your equipment.

The exhibition hall will be open from 6am to 10pm on Wednesday. When you arrive, drop by at our office and I'll show you the booth. On other days you can enter the exhibition hall from 8am if you have an exhibititors pass. It is open to visitors from 10am to 6pm or 4pm on Sunday respectively.

The booths can be cleared again right after LinuxTag closes on Sunday at 16 o'clock. The exhibition hall will probably open until the night sneaks in. However, please keep your things together since many people are running around removing stuff. You won't want your equipment to vanish accidently.

This includes descriptions, staff, registration for the social event and sleeping space as well as leaving notes for the organisation. This is much easier if information can be entered by members of the project.

For projects the main list is linuxtag-projects@lists.infodrom.org where discussions and inter-project communication is done. Several projects have joined. Additionally there is linuxtag-helfer@lists.infodrom.org which is dedicated to our volunteer supporters who help us break down the chaos during LinuxTag. Thirdly there is a general mailing list for discussions of LinuxTag related topics, mainly for general talk, which is lt2k@linuxtag.org.

Yes. Bandwidth and connections will be provided by Schlund + Partner who are our bandwidth sponsor for the projects pavillon. This year it will be distributed mainly via WLAN since laying copper cable properly will cost too much money. Those booths that can be reached via copper, will be connected via copper. Inside a compound booth you should connect all affiliated booths via copper.

On the booth or compound booth you will need at least one WLAN-aware machine that will act as router for the remaining booth. If this is not possible, and no neighbour booth can help, please get in touch with us immediately so we can allocate a router for you. Like last year, commercial and non-commercial internet will be separated on LinuxTag.

Fortunately, the exhibition hall is not filled up totally and some projects booths end up in the unused hall (with a wall and curtain as barrier, though). Hence, the unused part of the hall can be used for hacking and stuff. You should make use of this if you don't want your booth to be crowded by developers only.

However, we are unable to rent additional furniture for the hacking area. So if you don't want to sit on the floor, please check if you can take chairs and tables with you, camping tables and chairs are mostly sufficient. Network connectivity can be exported from boths in the near proximity.

Sure you can. We will be at the exhibition center from Monday to Monday. However, if you get your producers to send stuff to LinuxTag directly, please contact Joey and tell him who sends what, so that he can negotiate with the delivery companies and accept the packages. Please also ensure that nothing is delivered to LinuxTag before Monday since it may get lost otherwise.

The delivery address for LinuxTag is:
Messe- und Kongreßzentrum
Messeleitung LinuxTag
Projekt <your project>
Gartenhalle
Festplatz 9
76137 Karlsruhe

Yes, just as every year. And just like every year, details for it will be revealed very late. The social event is a gathering of people from businesses, community, speakers and organisers. This is usually a quite amazing mixture of suits and shirts, with talks ranging from development issues to business cooperations. This year, the social event will take place in the Stadthalle on Friday, July 11th, where all talks will take place. The social event will open at 7pm and close at about 0:00am.