Linux-Kongress 2009 CFP

[Posted May 27, 2009 by corbet]

Linux-Kongress will return to Hamburg, Germany in 2009; the conference dates are September 22 through 25. The call for papers is out now, with submissions due by July 26. "Linux-Kongress is by far one of the most traditional Linux conferences with a focus on cutting edge development. In 2009 GUUG will organize the 16th edition of this event, first started 1994 in Heidelberg. Linux-Kongress made its trip through a variety of German cities, Netherlands and on the English isle (LinuxConf Europe). Since its start 15 years ago Linux-Kongress has been evolved into the most important meeting for Linux experts and developers in Europe." OSDevCon will be happening in Hamburg at the same time.

Linux-Kongress 2009 CFP

Posted May 27, 2009 15:38 UTC (Wed) by lmb (subscriber, #39048) [Link] (2 responses)

In parallel to LPC? Someone must be nuts. That's basically a guarantee one of the conferences will suffer.

Linux-Kongress 2009 CFP

Posted May 27, 2009 17:00 UTC (Wed) by wicky (guest, #28101) [Link] (1 responses)

I wouldn't see it that dramatically. They are on different continents and
the participants are in my experience not willing to travel. Speakers are
difficult to get, but that wouldn't have changed if they conferences would have been one week/month apart.

Linux-Kongress 2009 CFP

Posted May 27, 2009 18:03 UTC (Wed) by lmb (subscriber, #39048) [Link]

Dramatic? Possibly not, but not good for attendance, either.

Linux-Kongress 2009 CFP

Posted May 27, 2009 23:15 UTC (Wed) by niv (guest, #8656) [Link]

Speaking as an LPC organizer, I hope not to be impacted, but am sorry to hear of the conflict in schedule. I do hope we can avoid these in future between at least the major Linux conferences (and certainly, Linux-Kongress, LPC and LinuxCon consider themselves major Linux Conferences :)).

Note, however, that scheduling these big things is hard. You have to juggle venue availability and a whole host of other factors, and it's almost impossible to avoid every conflict. I know we pushed out by a week due to some RedHat event that we heard about, IIRC.

LinuxCon runs Mon/Tue/Wed and LPC runs Wed/Thu/Fri of the same week (Sept 21-25, Portland Waterfront Marriott).

That said, I'll remind folks that the LPC proposal deadline is 2 weeks away (June 15th), and we have a really great keynote and guest speaker line up so far - http://linuxplumbersconf.org/2009/ !

the English isle???

Posted May 28, 2009 9:52 UTC (Thu) by amw (subscriber, #29081) [Link] (2 responses)

The English isle? What _are_ they referring to? I can think of several English islands and/or isles, but AFAIK LinuxConf Europe was held in Cambridge but never on an exclusively English island.
Or are they deliberately trying to offend the Scots and the Welsh?

the English isle???

Posted May 29, 2009 21:10 UTC (Fri) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link] (1 responses)

I'm sure no one wanted to offend anyone. It's just an inaccuracy in the German language
where "England" is just much more commonly used than the more
correct "Großbritannien" for the island or "Vereinte Königreich" for the country. I'd guess
that most people don't even know the difference.

the English isle???

Posted May 29, 2009 23:37 UTC (Fri) by amw (subscriber, #29081) [Link]

I was only joking.