Last Updated on July 17, 2023
Official Languages: German, French, Italian
Population: 8.6 million
Capital: Bern
Currency: Swiss franc (CHF)
Major Industries: Banking, tourism, manufacturing including precision engineering
Switzerland is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It’s bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east.
User Groups
| Location | Linux User Group |
|---|---|
| Basel | BLUG: Basler Linux User Group meets at the Froburg restaurant at Zürcherstrasse 111 in Basel every second Tuesday of the month. |
| Bern | LugBE: Linux User Group Berne meets once a month to chat shop, flame, project forge... and once a month there is an "off-event": installation events, lectures, and excursions. |
| Fribourg | Fribourg Linux Seminar offers a biennial exchange platform for all actors developing Embedded Systems under Linux. |
| Genève | Docker Geneva lets members meet other developers and ops engineers that are using and learning about Docker. |
| Genève | DevOps Genève is for lovers of DevOps culture and everything around it. |
| Zürich | Docker Switzerland lets members meet other developers and ops engineers that are using and learning about Docker. |
| Zürich | TechTalkThursday offers software developers, system engineers and other cloud users a platform to inspire themselves with lectures from the community. |
Switzerland has the highest mountains in Europe. 48 of the mountains are over 4,000 metres / 13,120 feet high.