Well, LinuxTag 2008 has started.  I am traveling to Berlin tomorrow (Friday) morning.. . an early start, and a packed day.  I have to be at the central train station in Hamburg before 08:00.  I arrive in Berlin at the conference at 10:00 (you have to love the super fast trains in Germany).  I am scheduled to give a presentation from 12:00 to 13:00, and then I have to make the rounds of all the booths, meet with someone from the German language doc community, and still make it on time to my return train which leaves at 17:00.

Phew.... I'm getting tired just thinking about it.

I attended LinuxTag last May (2007) in Berlin, and it was brilliant.  Well... brilliant if you're as big of a nerd as I am.    I'm glad I am going again this year.  There was loads to see last year, and there is supposed to be even more this year.  Even if you're still in the Dark Ages of computers and stuck using that horribly broken OS that comes on every PC you buy these days, you can still learn a lot from an event like LinuxTag.... it's not all just about Linux.... it also is a chance for loads of other open source projects to showcase their products.  There is a lot of cool stuff happening... and so much is missed by people who are locked into expensive proprietary OSes and proprietary applications.