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FreeBSD’s community is diverse and extensive, and can be found
everywhere great conversations and activity takes place. You’ll
find our community and spaces intelligent, welcoming and
approachable.
The project maintains several official community spaces where
developers, contributors and users can find help and support, stay
up to date, coordinate and collaborate or just kick back, relax and
socialise.
If you prefer asynchronous and long-lived communications
channels, FreeBSD offers over one hundred
mailing lists
covering a vast range
of topics, and provides web-based
forums
and several Usenet
newsgroups
For more real-time collaboration, we have a number of
FreeBSD IRC channels
where you
can find support, learn to contribute, and a whole lot more.
If you are interested in professional development and networking
opportunities then follow us on
and join
our official
FreeBSD LinkedIn
Group
For regularly run in-person and online meets, you might like to
look into our
FreeBSD
Events
where we maintain a feed and calendar of upcoming
events. Last year there were 7 events around the world.
Beyond officially run community spaces, there are many
User Groups
, along with
highly active FreeBSD communities on
Reddit
Discord
StackOverflow
ServerFault
and
MeetUp.com
, among many
other technology-related spaces.
The
FreeBSD wiki
contains information about development and related projects.
Video Content
On YouTube, we host two official channels. On the main
FreeBSD channel
you’ll
find technical content, and on the
FreeBSD Meetings
channel
you’ll find live presentations, conferences, and working group
meetings.
Feel you don’t belong here? FreeBSD is a system built piece by
piece by volunteers from all walks of life. If you see something
you think you can improve, we want to receive a patch, or a problem
report, or a mail from you. There is room for everyone to help, and
many of us have found enormous challenge and meaning in doing
so.
Last modified on
: November 2, 2025 by
Dag-Erling Smørgrav