If you are on one of those huge cruising ships and,instead of middle-aged ladies sipping cocktails,you spot a bunch of T-shirt touting,nerdy looking guys hacking on their notebooks in the lounges,chances are you are witnessing a “Geek Cruise”.

The IT 360° Conference and Expo 2007, May 1-2 in Toronto, Canada, was smaller than normal, which wasn’t necessarily a bad thing.

Novell’s new integration emphasis was on display at their annual Brainshare conference in Salt Lake Ciy, Utah.

On February 24 and 25, around 4,000 geeks gathered in Brussels, Belgium, for the Free and Open source Software Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM).

The 23rd annual Chaos Computer Club Congress offered a fresh perspective on topics such as RFID technology and cyber-crime laws.

This year’s UK LinuxWorld brought out the usual blend of speeches, products, conference sessions, and aisle antics.

Some 200 members of the KDE project met at Trinity College in Dublin at the end of September for the week-long aKademy conference.