LinuxTag sees itself as part of the free software movement, and promotes this community in an extraordinary degree by the support of numerous open-source projects. These projects provides the LinuxTag a way to show their software, its concepts, and thus present the whole project to the public in an appropriate manner - on their own stands, forums and lectures. It can and should encourage projects by sharing with other groups and companies. Advances and new technologies are extensively discussed and developed in new directions.

Our motto is: Where .com meets .org.

In the year the LinuxTag changed to the University of Stuttgart, the club "LinuxTag e.V." was founded. Since then the club leads the LinuxTag event with volunteers. LinuxTag e.V. is  registered at county court Kaiserslautern  (register VR 2239). The club manages, among others, the word mark and logo LinuxTag. club objective is according to the statute, "the promotion of Free Software", this is achieved through the organization of LinuxTag.

The club is represented by a three-member board, supplemented by several speakers with board-like powers. All members of the LinuxTag e.V. are volunteers and receive no payment (except 2005: 1st Chairman and CFO were from 1 April 2005 until 31 July 2005 employed by the club). Generated surpluses from the organization of the fair or from sponsorship will be reinvested solely in support of projects and lecturers.