It says something that there's almost nothing in Wikipedia about Linux World Expo. Here's the world's most Linuxlike encyclopedia, and almost nobody has bothered to document the history of Linux' biggest trade show. Or what used to be.
IDG, which puts on the show, hardly makes documentation easy for Wikipedia writers. While the IDG World Expo site has a Sustainability Statement, it doesn't apply to show history. It's like radio. Once it's over, it's over. Gone like snow on the water.
Sure, you can dive through he Internet Archive if you like (it catches LWE pages from 2000 forward), but why bother if IDG doesn't?
Which brings me LinuxWorld Expo 2008, held in August at its customary Moscone Center setting in San Francisco (a few days ago as I write this). The difference between this last show and the first one in 1999 is akin to that between funeral and fireworks. There just wasn't much energy left -- at least not from vendors other than Canonical (representing the only major distro still bothering to show up) and FusionIO (which featured a mechanical bull tricked out to look like a hard drive and an announcer with enough amplification to fill a ball park).
There were some exceptions, however. Here they are.
Open Voting
Installfest
Vette LiquiCool
LinuxStamp's little thing
OpenMoko
gOS
OLPC
zareason
Access
Literacy Bridge
But there were still many worthy efforts.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/beagleboard-149-linux-system
from mich. get quote from Angel.
Some TI stuff.