Events: July 18 - September 12, 2002
| July 18 - 20, 2002 | Boston GNOME Summit | Boston, Mass. |
| July 20, 2002 | Fourth Australian Open Source Symposium(AOSS4) | (UNSW, Sydney)Sydney, Australia |
| July 22 - 26, 2002 | O'Reilly Open Source Convention | (Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina)San Diego, California |
| July 23, 2002 August 27, 2002 | Seattle Ruby Brigade Meeting | Seattle, Washington |
| August 1 - 2, 2002 | 3rd annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference(BOSC 2002) | Edmonton, Canada |
| August 12 - 15, 2002 | Linux World Conference & Expo | (Moscone Center)San Francisco, California |
| September 11 - 13, 2002 | Open source GIS - GRASS users conference 2002(GRASS) | (Centro Servizi Culturali S. Chiara)Trento, Italy |