“Yes, like the blossoms of the flowers, the swallows of
Capistrano, March Madness, and the first pitch of baseball, Spring
has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere. And with it comes the
not-quite-so-noble Season of the Open Source Events. In April, it
will be the Boston edition of the LinuxWorld Conference and
Exposition and the Desktop Linux Summit in San Diego. In May,
Nashville will host the 2006 Red Hat Summit.“This month? This month sees the first event of the season:
Novell Brainshare Global 2006–six days of one vendor trying to
inspire the entire IT world to think ‘Red Who…?'”