Events: September 12 - November 7, 2002
| September 12 - 13, 2002 | Open source GIS - GRASS users conference 2002(GRASS) | (Centro Servizi Culturali S. Chiara)Trento, Italy |
| September 12 - 13, 2002 | Perl 6 Mini::Conference | (ETF, E1, ETH Zurich)Zurich, Switzerland |
| September 16 - 20, 2002 | 9th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| September 18 - 20, 2002 | Yet Another Perl Conference Europe 2002(YAPC::Europe 2002) | Munich, Germany |
| September 25 - 27, 2002 | The Second Open Source Content Management Conference(OSCOM) | (Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California)Berkeley, CA |
| September 27 - 29, 2002 | Lulu Tech Circus | (State Fairgrounds Complex)Raleigh, North Carolina, USA |
| October 11 - 13, 2002 | V Congreso Hispalinux | San Sebastian-Donostia, Spain |
| October 14 - 16, 2002 | The Singapore Linux Conference 2002 | (Le Meridien Singapore)Singapore |
| October 14 - 15, 2002 | The Open Group Conference | (Hotel Martinez Palace)Cannes, France |
| October 17 - 18, 2002 | Open Source for E-Government | Washington, DC |
| October 24 - 25, 2002 | PHPCon 2002 | (The Clarion Hotel SFO)Millbrae, California |
| October 28 - 31, 2002 | International Lisp Conference 2002 - The Art of Lisp | San Francisco, CA |
| October 30 - 31, 2002 | Think-Linux, The Solutions Show | (The Pinnacle)Toledo OH |
| November 1 - 3, 2002 | 2nd Annual Ruby Conference(RubyConf 2002) | (Washington State Trade and Convention Center)Seattle, Washington |
| November 3 - 6, 2002 | International PHP 2002 conference | Frankfurt, Germany |
| November 3 - 8, 2002 | 16th System Administration Conference(Lisa '02) | Philadelphia, PA |