FUDCon Berlin is being organised in conjunction with LinuxTag, where Fedora has had a strong presence for several years. The FUDCon event will leverage the large audience at LinuxTag to ensure that Fedora can reach both users and developers equally well.

The conference will run from Friday through Sunday, and will include speeches in English and German that are both user and developer focussed, as well as a self-organising BarCamp and multiple hackfests. Discussion topics include Fedora 11, open source education, packaging RPMs and open source infrastructure tools for provisioning and managing systems.

"Momentum around FUDCon Berlin will mirror the major uptick in Fedora involvement that we've seen over the last six months. Since the release of Fedora 10, we've seen about one million new installations and approximately two million unique visitors to fedoraproject.org each month," said Paul Frields, Fedora Project Leader. "We are very pleased about the number of contributors and interest that we are seeing in the Fedora Project, and we intend to build on that enthusiasm at FUDCon Berlin."