There are more than one hundred mailing lists, dozens of web-based forums, and several newsgroups available. There are over 90 user groups in 39 unique countries around the world. There is also an active IRC community. Many developers also maintain blogs about their FreeBSD work. Developers and key contributors also maintain a wiki, which contains information about FreeBSD development and related projects.
Last year there were 9 FreeBSD events in 9 different countries around the world. A calendar and RSS feed of upcoming FreeBSD-related events are maintained on our events page. There are dozens of videos from past events on the BSD Conferences channel on YouTube.
Social Networking
FreeBSD is represented on a number of different social networks.
- There are thousands of photos from user group meetings, conferences, and hackathons tagged as 'freebsd' on flickr.
- There are hundreds of videos from conferences, screencasts, and demonstrations relating to FreeBSD on YouTube. In particular, there is a new BSD Conferences channel with full length 1 hour taped presentations from FreeBSD technical conferences.
- There is a FreeBSD Users Group on Facebook and a FreeBSD Group on LinkedIn.
- You can follow @freebsd, @freebsdhelp, @freebsdblogs, or @freebsdcore on Twitter.