&os; is well supported by its active community.

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. Many developers also maintain blogs about their &os; work. Developers and key contributors also maintain a wiki, which contains information about &os; development and related projects. You can also find &os; represented on a variety of different social networking sites.

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.