Dear Projects,

We would like to inform you about:

Exhibitor Passes

The exhibitor passes for project booth members will continue to be free of cost for a reasonable amount of booth personnel. However, they are not meant as a means for regular visitors to save the entrance-fee. Hence, please don't abuse this, and don't add random visitors as booth staff if they don't belong to your booth. For this matter you will receive a decent amount of eTickets.

You can order the exhibitor passes for each accepted project using the vCC. Please login at the virtual Conference Center and click in the Main menu on "Project" and then in submenu on "Projects". Each accepted project will find a button "Order exhibitor passes". After you ordered the passes, we will have a look at the list and approve them. Otherwise you will get an email from us. The deadline for ordering exhibitor passes is Sunday May, 11th.

You'll need either normal entrance tickets or exhibitor passes for entering LinuxTag.

You can get exhibitor passes only during booth setup on Tuesday, May 27th 2008, at the LinuxTag project office for the registered and accepted project staff. You can only fetch the whole bunch for the entire project, so please make sure that the other project members know this and know a way to get to the passes after the show has opened.

Since our office is located behind the regular entrance, this won't work the same way when the show is going on. If you arrive after LinuxTag has already started, you'll have to either get a normal entrance ticket or ask your colleagues to provide you with an exhibitor pass from the inside. Project Workshops

We are open for your suggestions for project workshops! We'll reserve a number of rooms for this. It was well received by visitors in 2007, and most probably, because it will be on display for visitors again, will have a good number in audience this year, too.

We'll use this workshop rooms to jointly organise a "projects to projects programme" or "developer to developer programme". Main purpose for these rooms is to provide attending projects an opportunity to talk to other developers (not necessarily from the same project) and to go into detail for a larger group than what would be possible at the booth. Please note: all workshops will be open to the public and will be announced so. In special cases we can make an exception, but we would like to discuss this in detail with you, if you think a session should be non-public.

LinuxTag provides presentation equipment and probably Internet connectivity for all rooms. Normally a slot is 60 Minutes (don't forget to reserve some minutes at the end so the next workshop can be prepared!), if your workshop takes longer leave us a note within your abstract. Also do so, if you have a preference for a certain day.

Submissions are to be placed -guess what!- in our vCC, please use your vCC account, and please choose category "Project Workshop" for your proposal here.

You can neglect the licence because it is not planned to distribute your submission (like a paper for the conference programme). But please do not forget to choose the language for your workshop submission. English may be your language of choice, but it is a valuable information for an interested visitor.

Deadline is Sunday May, 4th. Tickets for the Social Event

LinuxNight will take place in the "Umspannwerk" again. Join speakers, exhibitors and the LinuxTag team in the evening of Thursday May, 29th, 2008. Have some good food and drinks while socialising and chatting with visitors and project fellows.

We'll spread the ticktes fair in a first come first serve manner, because we have only a limited quota of sponsored tickets. Each ticket is 20,- €. You'll get vouchers which can be exchanged for the tickets at the box-office. We take orders via projects (don't forget about a meaningful subject including Social Event Tickets), the deadline is Sunday May, 11th. Public Wiki

LinuxTag has a public wiki. An important part of this wiki is the section meant for "Visitor Information". Collect and share information about

to support especially project members for their trip to and work and fun at LinuxTag!

Everybody is welcomed to contribute to the wiki, but we ask to create an account prior to editing pages. Summary of Deadlines

In the meantime the first round of planning for the booths has begun. We expect to get the first floor layouts from Messe Berlin in the beginning of May. As soon as everything is set, we will get back to you. Thank you for your support and please stay tuned.

Regards, Susanne Pfeifer, Wolfgang Drotschmann & Marko Jung Project Committee LinuxTag 2008

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