Debian @ LinuxTag 2000

LinuxTag is Europe's largest Open Source and Free Software Convention. In 2000 the exhibition and congress attracted about 17,000 people from both the community and business.

Debian Involvement

1. Booth
   The Debian Project was present with a booth in the exhibition area.
2. Talks
   Stefan Gybas gave a talk on distribution and general packaging. Joey ought to give a talk about the Debian project and the distribution, which was cancelled in favour of a talk by Illiad.
3. Giveaways
   Thanks to ID-PRO and Lehmanns who gave us the possibility of spending 5,000 free Debian Potato CDs to the visitors.
4. Developers
   Developers from several countries visited and staffed our booth. Among the countries were
   • .us (Christoph Lameter)
   • .it (Federico Di Gregorio)
   • .fi (Teemu Hukkanen and Jaakko Niemi)
   • .at (Othmar Pasteka)
   • .uk (Edward Betts)
   • .de with local developers