What is OSCON, and how does it relate to Tcl? '''OSCON''' stands for '''O'''pen '''S'''ource '''Con'''ference, and they are hosted by the well-known publisher O'Reilly & Associates. In the year 2001 OSCON sported a Tcl track, this was dubbed the [Eighth Annual Tcl/Tk Conference] and held on July 23-27 in San Diego, California. Before OSCON / O'Reilly Tcl conferences were held by [Usenix], and the last one under its aegide was the [Seventh Annual Tcl/Tk Conference] held on Feb 14-18 2000 in Austin, Texas. Now, in 2002, the Tcl community is going its own way again, with a smaller conference hosted by itself, see the [Ninth Annual Tcl/Tk Conference], to be held on September 16-20 2002 in Vancouver, Canada.