The conference  exhibition LinuxTag was launched in 1996 by a handful of protagonists of the Unix Working Group (Unix-AG) at the University of Kaiserslautern. Their aim was to inform about the then-new technology of Linux and Free Software. You can imagine that the LinuxTag initially consisted of only a small number of participants, both Issuing and lecturer. Now, 18 years later, there are over 10,000 visitors.

For the University of Kaiserslautern was a "LinuxTag" in 1999 with a huge number of visitors to much. The event changed in 2000 to Stuttgart, 2002 to Karlsruhe. Visitors, Speaker, free projects - - a profile of the LinuxTag is the meeting of community with companies which businesses in Free Software. The motto of LinuxTag e.V. is "Where. Com meets. Org", which still predominates today

The association "LinuxTag e.V." founded the protagonists in advance of the move from the University of Stuttgart. To date, he leads the LinuxTag event by volunteer and accompanied him ideologically. Of course you can become a member - see you for it to the club pages. LinuxTag is a pretty big event. There are a wide variety of interests for applications: from programming over the Web and system administration, to online editors, program planning, community relations, marketing and public relations.

LinuxTag eV works allermeistens via mailing lists, if necessary, by teleconference. Several times a year, but the LinuxTagler meet in person, in addition to the LinuxTag itself mostly to the General Assembly and at least one workshop in each of the upcoming LinuxTag (kickoff), sometimes more. The discussion and busy but very nice meetings often take place in Essen in the Linux Hotel.

Since 2007, the LinuxTag in Berlin a guest at the fairgrounds under the radio tower. LinuxTag eV a partnership with Messe Berlin GmbH has been received for this purpose. Messe Berlin leads the LinuxTag since then together with the club. It provides a project manager and infrastructure, participates in marketing and press relations and is responsible for the exhibiting companies.

Kaiserslautern

The first LinuxTag were held at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern.

LinuxTag 1996 - 1999
The first LinuxTag was a theme night on Linux. (1997/1, 1997/2, 1998, 1999) Until 1998, the LinuxTag had 3,000 visitors, after he was promoted for the first time nationally. 1999 LinuxTag was held with  7,000 visitors  for the first time in its own building and so far last time in Kaiserslautern. In the aftermath the LinuxTag e.V. was founded.

Stuttgart

In the years 2000 (15.000 visitors) and 2001 LinuxTag visited Stuttgart.

LinuxTag 2000
LinuxTag 2000 took place in Stuttgart exhibition center from 29 June 2000 to 2 July 2000. There are up to 17,000 visitors. It is the first time held a business conference. It covers topics such as IT security, legal aspects of free software, commercial applications are to come under Linux and support for language. IT decision makers can check by means of case studies on the application areas of free software.

LinuxTag 2001
LinuxTag 2001 will take place in Stuttgart exhibition center from 5th July 2001 to 8 July 2001 instead. There are up to 14 870 visitors. He is under the Patronage of the Federal Ministry of Economics.

Karlsruhe

From 2002 to 2005 he was held in Karlsruhe.

LinuxTag 2002
LinuxTag was in 2002 first time from 6 June 2002 to 9 June held at the Congress Centre in Karlsruhe in 2002. There were about 13,000 visitors. He stood under the motto "Open your mind, open your heart, open your source!"

LinuxTag 2003
LinuxTag 2003 was themed Open Horizons and was held from 10 to 13 July for the second time in Karlsruhe in 2003. Together with the admission ticket for 10 euros, visitors received the LinuxTag for the first time available Knoppix DVD and a Tux pin. Open from 9:00 bis 18:00 was clock, except Sundays (until 16:00 clock). With 19,500 visitors, the number of visitors increased by 40 percent over the previous year.
As an exhibitor, both businesses and non-profit groups were represented. Apple Mac OS showed in conjunction with open source. Around 150 exhibitors were there in 2003. 2002, there had still been about 100 exhibitors.
Other highlights included the release of OpenGroupware.org on the model of OpenOffice.org as open source and free conversion of several dozen Xboxes, some with hardware modification by two solder points, partly by importing the so-called MechInstallers on Linux.
There was also a programming competition and on Sunday a world record attempt took 13 to 14 clock instead: On a server should be brought with Gnome and KDE simultaneously running 100 Linux desktop sessions. Here, everyone could join in on the Internet. The result was not disclosed.
Besides the exhibition also congresses were held in which renowned experts spoke on a subject group. There was, for example, a Debian conference and on Sunday there was a lecture on TCPA, followed by discussion. The Business and Administration Congress has enlarged with 400 participants by about 60%. The free lecture program was opened on Friday by the Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour (BMWA), Rezzonico hose.
About Webcams you could also take a virtual visit to the fair. The Pingu-Cam (Tux the penguin is the Linux mascot) showed pictures from the zoo of Karlsruhe, which is located right next to the fairgrounds.

LinuxTag 2004
LinuxTag 2004 took place from 23 to 26 June for the third time in the congress center in Karlsruhe in 2004. Those who filed on the homepage, got in free. For 10 euro entry but you got a Tuxpin, a Knoppix DVD and a DVD with FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.
LinuxTag 2004 had the motto "Free source - free world". 16,175 visitors were counted. With the record number of about 170 exhibitors, among many freelance projects also numerous large and medium-sized enterprises were there. Hewlett-Packard was the third time Official Cornerstone Partner. Other major companies were the C & L Publishing, Intel, Novell, Oracle, SAP, and Sun Microsystems. For the first time Microsoft was represented with a booth.
The one-day Business and Administration Congress on 24 June were presented in business and government case studies and success stories about use of open source. Among other things, came also the problem with viruses and worms to language.
For the free conference, there was a record turnout with about 350 proposals from 20 countries. 130 thereof could be accommodated in the program. The issue of software patents was an important issue.
Contests on this LinuxTag were a coding marathon and Hacking Contest 2004.

LinuxTag 2005
LinuxTag 2005 took place in the period from 22 to 25 June held in the Congress Center Karlsruhe, 2005. LinuxTag 2005, a total of 11 LinuxTag and was titled "Linux everywhere". In addition to the exhibition of different companies that have to do with Linux, more or less, there was once again in 2005, a presentation program. Also, the Business and Administration Congress took place on 22 June 2005 place again. Before the official launch of the Linux day there was the possibility of 21 to 23 Form June 2005 in various tutorials on.
Jimmy Wales announced in his opening speech to the collaboration between Wikipedia and KDE. Via a Web interface to each program can directly access the Wikipedia. The KDE media player Amarok can access the Wikipedia article of artists starting with version 1.3.
The organizer spoke of 12,000 visitors, which was mainly attributed to the newly designed entrance fees and the hottest week of the year to date.

Wiesbaden

2006 Wiesbaden was the venue.

LinuxTag 2006
LinuxTag 2006 took place from 3 to 6 May 2006 in the Rhein-Main-Hallen in Wiesbaden under the theme "'" See, what's ahead. " According to organizers, over 9,000 people from over 30 nations LinuxTag 2006. There were many, often international lectures and various information booths; were present including IBM, Avira and Sun Microsystems, including some such as Hewlett-Packard and Red Hat were missing. On Hacking Contest participated three teams.
LinuxTag event was even stronger than in previous years as open source event and had the first time a BSD-day, with presentations of the major BSD FreeBSD (and its variant with KDE interface DesktopBSD), NetBSD, and OpenBSD, which is also a BSD Area were represented.
The most visited lecture of the year was the keynote speech by Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth, the case itself as the "chief dreamer of Ubuntu" referred to himself and talked about the good cooperation of users with the developers. He also stressed that Kubuntu and Ubuntu should be treated equally and that there is a good cooperation between the developers.
There was also the opportunity to pursue some of the presentations via video stream, which was used by an estimated 1,800 people.

Berlin

Since 2007, the LinuxTag takes place in the halls on the Berlin radio tower in Berlin. In 2014 LinuxTag e. V. started a new collaboration with droidcon.

LinuxTag 2007
LinuxTag 2007 took place from 30 May to 2 June 2007 with the slogan "Come in: We're open" instead. It was attended by about 9600 people.
The event was held under the patronage of the Federal Minister of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble. This sparked a result of the political attitude of the Minister of the Interior of a lively discussion shaft which to mushroom to Boykottierungsaufrufen LinuxTag. The uproar in the Linux community was so great that self-reported foreign pages about it.

LinuxTag 2008
LinuxTag 2008 took place from 28 to 31 Of May at the Berlin Exhibition Grounds with 11,612 visitors. The second LinuxTag in the German capital is under the patronage of German Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor Frank-Walter Steinmeier and is part of a six-day "IT Week in the Capital Region" instead, which includes the fourth time in Berlin held IT business trade fair IT Profits under the patronage of the Federal Minister of Transport, at the same time the Federal Government Commissioner for the New Federal States, the second German Asterisk tag, the user and developer conference to voice over IP, and the 8th @ Kit Congress to include legal issues of professional IT experience. Important topics were "Highlights of digital lifestyle" and the "Mobile + Embedded Area".

LinuxTag 2009
LinuxTag 2009 took place from 24 to 27 June on the Berlin Exhibition Grounds. He had more than 10,000 visitors. He is under the patronage of German Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The new president of the Free Software Foundation Europe Karsten Gerloff attended LinuxTag. A focal point is the "image of business processes using Linux" and "Open Source in the colors of the tricolor," for which 14 open source suppliers from France showing their product and service range.http://www.linuxtag.org/2010

LinuxTag 2010
The 16th LinuxTag took place from 9 to 12 June 2010 at the Berlin Exhibition Grounds. It was attended by about 11,600 people. He is under the patronage of Cornelia Rogall-Grothe, Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology. Keynote speakers included Microsoft's general manager James Utzschneider who stunned the audience with his open approach to open source, the CEO of SugarCRM, Larry Augustin underlined the economic impact of OSS and the connection with the upcoming trend cloud computing, the open source Chef Google, Chris DiBona, underlined the high professional level of the Congress, the kernel developer Jonathan Corbet gave an outlook on the next Linux kernel 2.6.35 and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth staked out the milestones for Ubuntu desktops.

LinuxTag 2011
The 17th LinuxTag was held from 11 to 14 "Shaping the future, initiate Renaissance" 2011 on the Berlin Exhibition Grounds with the slogan instead. He had 11,582 visitors and was under the patronage of Cornelia Rogall-Grothe of the Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology. Keynotes were given by Wim Coekaerts (Oracle), Bradley Kuhn (Software Freedom Conservancy) and Daniel Walsh (Red Hat).

LinuxTag 2012
The 18th LinuxTag was held from 23 to 26 May 2012 on the Berlin Exhibition Grounds with the motto "Open minds create effective solutions". He is under the patronage of Cornelia Rogall-Grothe of the Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology. At LinuxTag the premiere of "Open MindManager Morning" took place, discussed on the industry experts and educators across the IT and changes in society, and philosophizing.
In addition, also found the premiere of the new lecture series "Open Minds Economy", organized by the Open Source Business Alliance and Messe Berlin, instead, presents the successful model of open source software in the fields of economy and society.
Keynotes were given by Jimmy Schulz, chairman of the project group "Interoperability, standards and open source" the Commission of Inquiry to Internet and digital society in the German Bundestag, Ulrich Drepper, maintainer of the GNU C standard library Glibc and Lars Knoll, employees at Nokia and Chief maintainer of the QT library.

LinuxTag 2013
The 19 LinuxTag was held from 22 to 25 May 2013 embedded on the Berlin Exhibition Grounds with the motto "In the cloud," "- triumph of the free software stops" instead. He is under the patronage of Cornelia Rogall-Grothe of the Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology.
It was held the premiere of Open IT Summit, which was as a parallel conference on LinuxTag of the Open Source Business Alliance (OSBA) and Messe Berlin organized and the topic open-source illuminated more strongly in the business environment. Also the OpenStack Day took place in cooperation with the OpenStack Foundation as a first major subconference on the subject OpenStack in Europe. The Foundation has its headquarters in the U.S. and sees itself as a global reservoir of the same name, scalable cloud management platform.
Keynotes were given by kernel developer Matthew Garrett on the topic Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) and Secure Boot and Benjamin Mako Hill, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who called so-called anti Features unacceptable, in which manufacturers incorporate restrictions into devices.

LinuxTag 2014
In recent years, the number of visitors of LinuxTag stagnated despite more and more users of open-source programs. This decline in visitor numbers is probably due to the high market penetration of free software and Linux. In addition, for some years, there are many similar regional events, which have adapted the concept of LinuxTag.
In order to adapt to the changes, the Linuxtag directed by focus and diversification on the core issue of the professional use of open source software in 2014. These LinuxTag has entered into a strategic partnership with the droidcon and turned increasingly to the unveiling of specific techniques and products that arise in the context of open source. These include cloud technology such as Infrastructure as a Service, IT service management, scalable storage systems, enterprise web frameworks and content management systems and embedded Linux.

The 20th LinuxTag is taking place form 8th to 10th May 2014 in the STATION Berlin.
The Media Convention Berlin (6th to 7th May), re:publica (6th to 8th May) and droidcon (8th to 10th May 2014) taking place in spatial and temporal proximity.
All events are aiming for a close relationship in order to achieve a high level of appreciation for visitors and program on thematic bridges.