From:	 Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
To:	 lwn@lwn.net
Subject: LinuxTag: German Government Maintains their own Congress Track
Date:	 Tue, 7 May 2002 10:08:01 +0200

The German Ministery of Interior will maintain their own track of talks about "Free Software in governmental agencies" at the upcoming LinuxTag. This track will be part of the business congress, which aims at professionals in the IT business and governmental workers. The business congress is a one-day conference, hosted at LinuxTag, which will take place at June 6th, 2002.

At the business congress during LinuxTag, the police department of Lower Saxony will report about their introduction of GNU/Linux. Recently, Lower Saxony, a northern federal state of Germany, decided to install 11,000 desktop systems running GNU/Linux. They will replace old Unix terminals which were used since 1989.

LinuxTag is the largest and most important exhibition and conference in Europe, which covers Free Software and GNU/Linux. LinuxTag combines both a community event as well as a professional exhibition with large amounts of business booths and a high quality conference program.

Regards,

	Joey

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