Well, another LinuxTag is over and done.  OK, I admit, this was only the second one I've attended, but I already felt kinda at home.  Oh man, I am such a nerd and those of you reading this who know me personally, you can stop nodding your heads in agreement... no stop it, I mean it...

I was only there at the convention for Friday.  I wish now I had arranged time to spend two days instead so I could have spent a little more time chatting and meeting with people - maybe next year.

A few highlights... 

• OpenMoko are almost ready to release their cool new open source phone/PDA/toy/kitchen sink.  http://openmoko.com/
  
• Linux4Afrika are still going strong - I really admire what these guys are doing and wish I could get involved... maybe one day soon I'll be in a position to pitch in.  They are really working hard, and are in the process of training a few people from Tanzania to be the network admins for the schools that are being fitted with the thin client and server hardware http://www.linux4afrika.de/
  
• YaCy (a web search engine) seems to be growing bigger and bigger every time I bump into them  http://yacy.de/
• KDE4.1 was on demo, and was looking a lot more usable than any of the previous releases.
• OpenSolaris and OpenOffice.org had large teams there, and there seemed to always be a small crowd gathered around - especially to check out the demos of OpenOffice.org 3.0.
• I didn't see a Google booth this year... I wonder why?
• The Open Graphics Project video card was looking like it could actually be used soon.  They are taking pre-orders   http://wiki.opengraphics.org/tiki-index.php
• The Linux Gamers had a nice booth set up with several games available for people to play.  Whoever says there are no games for Linux is simply not looking.  There are literally hundreds of games available and many (especially recent releases) are very very good.  http://www.linux-gamers.net   (hmmmm maybe I should do a blog entry on a few of the very cool native Linux games I have)

Correction:  As Thorsten pointed out, FlightGear.org shared a booth with Linux Gamers, and had a very impressive setup with a couple multi-monitor displays (3 monitors per system).  Now that I think about it, I do remember noting the sign thanking Sun for donating the hardware to run this flight sim.

There was loads more at the conference, but... well.. next year, you should go too...