Linux Kongress


The Linux Kongress was an annual conference of Linux 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 linux.conf.au and Ottawa Linux Symposium.
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 kernel developers like Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, Theodore Ts'o, Rusty Russell, James Bottomley, user space developers like Kalle Dalheimer and Miguel de Icaza, and open source advocates like Eric S. Raymond 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. In 2009 it was co-located with the OpenSolaris Developer Conference OSDevCon.
The conference was organized by the German Unix User Group. In 2011, GUUG decided not to hold a Linux Kongress, and instead focus its resources on LinuxCon Europe. There has not been a Linux Kongress since.
DateCountryTownLocationRemark
June 30-July 1, 1994DEHeidelberg--
May 21-23 1995DEBerlin--
May 23-24 1996DEBerlinHaus am Koellnischen Park in Berlin -
May 21-23 1997DEWürzburgFortress Marienberg-
June 3-6 1998DECologneCologne University-
September 8-10 1999DEAugsburgUniversity of Augsburg-
September 7-10 2000DEErlangenTechnical Faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-NurembergCollaboration with NLUUG
November 28-30 2001NLDTwenteUniversity of TwenteCollaboration with NLUUG
September 4-6 2002DEColognePhysics Institutes of the University of CologneCollaboration with NLUUG
October 14-17 2003DESaarbrückenUniversity of Saarland-
September 7-10 2004DEErlangenTechnical Faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg-
October 11-14 2005DEHamburgUniversity of Hamburg-
September 5-8 2006DENurembergGeorg Simon Ohm University Nuremberg-
September 2-5 2007UKCambridgeUniversity Arms HotelMerged with LinuxConf.eu
October 7-10 2008DEHamburgUniversity of Hamburg-
October 27-30 2009DEDresdenDorinth HotelCo-located with OSDevCon
September 21-24 2010DENurembergGeorg Simon Ohm University Nuremberg-