There are more than one hundred mailing lists, dozens of web-based forums, and several newsgroups available. There are over user groups in unique countries around the world. There is also an active IRC community. Developers and key contributors also maintain a wiki, which contains information about &os; development and related projects.

Last year there were &os; events in different countries around the world. A calendar and RSS feed of upcoming &os;-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

&os; 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 &os; 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, or @freebsdcore on Twitter.