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FreeBSD's widespread popularity has spawned a number of user groups
around the world. If you know of a FreeBSD user group not listed here,
let us know about it.
Australia
Europe
- Albania AlbaBUG
- Albanian BSD Users Group is a group that represents and
supports *BSD in Albanian language. More information is available at
www.AlbaBSD.org.
- Austria The
BSD User Group Austria (BUGAT) is a german-language oriented
user group. Visit our server
for more information.
- Denmark BSD-DK.
The Danish BSD user group. Promotion and support of BSD derived Operating
Systems in Denmark. Mailing lists, lectures and workshops.
Send mail subscription requests to
bsd-dk-request@bsd-dk.dk.
- Denmark, Aarhus AaUUG
is a general Unix group with most interest in Linux and BSD.
Mailinglists, lectures and meetings.
- France The
French FreeBSD UG. Please follow the link for details.
- Germany, Aachen The Aachener BSD Stammtisch is
meeting infrequently to discuss BSD and related matters over a
glass of beer. Meetings are coordinated through our mailing list.
- Germany, Augsburg The BSD User Group of
the Augsburger Computer Forum e.V. meets every second
Saturday at 17.00. Please visit our web site for more
information on dates and our address. We have all kinds of
BSD, but mainly FreeBSD and Mac OS® X.
- Germany, Berlin The BSD User Group Berlin meets
every 3rd friday of the month. For more information about meetings
and related issues, please subscribe to our mailing list.
- Germany, Dresden BSD-Crew Dresden is a
user group which has some projects related in bringing BSD
to the desktop and electronic communication.
- Germany, Duisburg The Cosmo-Project is a user
group with a difference. Instead of just meeting, they actively
develop projects such as robots. Most users use FreeBSD, but it is
not a specifically FreeBSD-related group.
- Germany, Hamburg The BSDHH (BSD User
Group Hamburg) meets on the first Wednesday of the month at 7.00pm in
the Chinese restaurant Lotosblüte, Löwenstraße 22 in
Hamburg-Eppendorf. Most members are FreeBSD users, although users of
all BSD flavors are welcome.
- Germany, Mannheim
The UUGRN eV (Unix Users
Group Rhein-Neckar eV) provides a regional forum for
users of all Unix flavors, with a stress on Linux and BSD.
Meetings
are held on the second Thursday of each month at the
"Hafenschenke" in Mannheim and the fourth Wednesday of
each month at the "Vater Rhein" in Heidelberg.
- Germany, Munich The BIM (Berkeley In Munich)
group caters for users of BSD-based systems in Oberbayern.
- Germany, Regensburg The Unix and Linux User
Group is a general Unix users group for anyone in
Regensburg (Bavaria, Germany). We meet on every first Monday
of the month in the Pub ``Filmbühne'' in Regensburg. Visit
the web site or send a message to m.suess@2use.org.
- Ireland The BUGI (BSD User Group
Ireland) is currently a rather grandiose term for a mailing list
and super-minimal web page. All BSD users and enthusiasts are
welcome.
- Italia The GUFI (Gruppo Utenti FreeBSD Italia)
is an "italian powered" FreeBSD User Group.
It is intended to help Italian
FreeBSD users to find support and articles on/about FreeBSD in
the Italian language.
Please follow this
link to know more about us.
- Latvia To learn more about the BSD user group
Latvia, please visit our site
and our forums.
- Netherlands The
Dutch FreeBSD User Group (NLFUG) has had its first meeting on
oct 2, 1999. On this day 30 years before that, the second IMP was
installed in Doug Englebart's lab at SRI. This, as you all know,
was the start of something that grew to be the Internet (thanks to
Edwin Kremer for bringing this under our attention).
- Norway The
Norwegian BSD User Group (NOBUG) is a usergroup for BSD
users and enthusiasts in Norway. Meetings are currently held
in Oslo and Bergen. Visit our website for more information.
There is also a UNIX User Group
(NUUG) with more regular
meetings, sometimes even with a BSD subject.
- Poland, Lublin The Lublin BSD Users Group.
Please follow the link for details.
- Portugal, Amadora The Portuguese *BSD Users
Group is a user group for Portuguese users of BSD operating
systems. Contact Rui Pereira
ptbsd@yahoo.com for more
information.
- Portugal
The NPF (Núcleo Português de FreeBSD) is a Portuguese FreeBSD
user group that is engaged in the production of documentation
in Portuguese language. Currently the activities are centred
on the translation of the FreeBSD Handbook and on the production
of CF's (aka HowTos) that try to answer questions or propose
solutions to problems that are experienced by Portuguese users.
See
http://npf.pt.freebsd.org/ for more information.
- Romania The ROFUG (Romanian FreeBSD Users
Group/Free Unix Group) is a user group for the Romanian users
of FreeBSD and open-source in general, promoting and
supporting FreeBSD and open source usage. To join the mailing
lists, send an email to listar@rofug.ro with
subscribe rofug and/or subscribe
rofug-announce in the body of the message.
- Romania, Iasi
The IFUG is a FreeBSD Users
Group which supports the Romanian FreeBSD community, promoting FreeBSD
and Open Source solutions. The contact address of the group is
ifug@unixware.ro.
- Sweden, Lund The Lund Linux User Group (LFUG)
has nearly 50 members and covers FreeBSD and Solaris in
addition to Linux. To join, contact Omar Dedovic
- Sweden The BSD Users
Sweden (BUS) maintains a mailing list. To join, send mail
to majordomo@stacken.kth.se
with subscribe bus in the message.
- Switzerland The Swiss BSD User Group
(SwissBUG) caters for users of BSD-based systems in
Switzerland.
- Ukraine The
Ukrainian FreeBSD User Group (UAFUG) is
Russian/Ukrainian languages oriented user group for the Ukrainian
users of BSD-derivatives, promoting and supporting BSD flavours
and open source usage. The UAFUG has had its first meeting on 2
June 2002 and meets every 2-3 weeks. We also provide an open
forum for all BSD-related things in the Russian and Ukrainian
languages (though we can read/write in English as well). To join
the mailing list send a message to
majordomo@FreeBSDDiary.org.ua with
subscribe freebsd
in the body of the message. Check the
link above for more
information.
- United Kingdom, Manchester The Manchester BSD
Users Group meets reasonably often in the Lass O'Gowrie,
on Charles Street, Manchester. Contact Sam Smith for more
information.
- United Kingdom The FreeBSD UKUG (FreeBSD UK
User's Group) exists for the benefit of FreeBSD users in the United
Kingdom. Please follow the link for details.
- Yugoslavia The Yugoslavia BSD Users Group
provides an open forum for all things BSD-related in the Serbian
language. To join the mailing list, send an email to majordomo@bsd.org.yu with
subscribe bsdyu in the body of the message.
North America
- Ames, Iowa The Ames Free-Unix Group
aims to promote the use of Free Unix. We meet on
the campus of Iowa State University once a month and hold a
presentation with an open question and answer session
afterwards. You can join our mailing list by sending a blank
email to aafugit-subscribe@aafugit.org.
-
Albany, NY. CDBUG, the Capital District *BSD
Users Group draws it's membership from New York's capital
district and the surrounding communities. CDBUG was founded in
December of 2004 and has a small but growing membership. We
currently meet on the last Sunday of every month in the Albany
area. Our Mailing list is graciously being hosted by NYCBUG at:
http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/cdbug-talk
- Berkeley, CA The Berkeley Unix User
Group is a general Unix users group for anyone in
the San Francisco Bay Area. We meet on a weekly basis in
downtown Berkeley. Visit the web site or send a message to buug-request@weak.org
with subscribe in the body.
- Chicago IL
The Users of Free Operating Systems (UFO Chicago)
is an open-source &unix; user group that meets twice a month
in Chicago. For directions and mailing list information,
please check our website
http://ufo.chicago.il.us/
- The Connecticut Free Unix user's Group
(CFUG) is devoted to free Unix, but has resources for almost all
Unixen. Their area of operation is Connecticut and Western
Massachusetts. More information can be found at http://www.cfug.org.
- The Houston TX
Houston FreeBSD Users Group was formed March 1999.
Our goal is to promote and educate Houston area computer users on
FreeBSD Unix.
We meet on the third Saturday of the month.
The group operates a mailing list at
http://www.houfug.org/mailman/listinfo/hou-freebsd
Visit our website at
http://www.houfug.org for more information.
- Indianapolis IN Free Unix for Indianapolis
is a non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the use
of Free Unix variants in and around Indianapolis.
Essentially, we are a bunch of geeks who share a common
passion: Unix. Visit the web site or send a message to info@fufin.org for additional
information.
- Kansas KULUA (Kansas Unix & Linux Users
Association) is a Free Unix user group based in Lawrence, Kansas, but
with users throughout eastern Kansas and western Missouri. We have
about 120 members and meet biweekly. Visit the web site or email kulua@kulua.org for more
information.
- Kansas Wichita Area FreeBSD Users
Group (WAFUG) is a free users group provided to anyone
in the Wichita area for support with FreeBSD and other Unix
and Unix-like operating systems. We meet twice a month,
usually in a restaraunt where you can smoke or drink if you
like. Please send us Email for more information
or to find out how to get free shell account, www or ftp
space on our system.
- Los Angeles CA The Yahoo
Club group is a foundation for a Los Angeles based BSD user
group.
- Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN TCBUG: The Twin Cities BSD
User Group meets once a month to discuss issues important
to the BSD community. The website carries our major
announcements, while you are encouraged to join the mailing
list tcbug@tcbug.org to
keep up with general group discussion. Look at the site,
join the mailing list, come to a meeting. We look forward
to learning from you and with you about BSD UNIX.
- New Mexico The NMLUG in Albuquerque meets
once a month and supports both BSD and Linux users. To join
the mailing list, send a message to majordomo@swcp.com with
subscribe nmlug in the body.
- New York NY NYCBUG (New York City *BSD
User Group) meet the first Wednesday of the month. Mailing
lists are available at http://lists.nycbug.org/.
- Northern Arizona Yavapai Free Unix Users
Group is now forming for *BSD/Linux, etc., users in Northern Arizona.
Please contact Russell Carter (
rcarter@consys.com) for details.
- Orlando, FL BUGO (BSD Users Group of
Orlando) is a group based in Orlando, FL that aims to bring a
friendly forum to all Unix users in the central Florida area,
and hopefully beyond. See the BUGO web
page for further details.
- Pennsylvania The Western Pennsylvania Linux Users
Group (WPLUG) has a strong and growing community of BSD users that
it supports. See our home page (http://www.wplug.org) for information
on regular meetings and join the mailing lists.
- Phoenix AZ The Phoenix BSD Users group is
fully open for business. Anyone from the Phoenix area please feel
free to join in http://bsd.phoenix.az.us.
- Portland, OR The Portland (Oregon) FreeBSD
Users group meets on the third Thursday of each month. Mail The Portland FreeBSD
Users group.
- Reno, NV The
RLUG (Reno Linux Users Group) meets
monthly in Reno Nevada and discusses the use of BSD and Linux.
Contact info@rlug.org for more
information. You may also want to join our mailing list at
http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug.
- Research Triangle, NC The
Triangle Area BSD Users
Group is a users group for BSD users in the
Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina, including the
surrounding metropolitan areas of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel
Hill. People interested in this group may subscribe to the
mailing list by sending a message to
majordomo@tribug.org
with subscribe tribug-members in the body.
- Rhode Island The Rhode Island Free Unix
Group supports every form of Unix that can be obtained freely. They
can be contacted at: http://users.tmok.com/~rifug
or by e-mail at: rifug@entropy.tmok.com
- Seattle, WA The Seattle BSD Users
Group (SeaBUG) meets occasionally. View our website
for more details and for information on how to join our
mailing list.
- St. Louis, MO The St. Louis BSD User Group (STLBSD)
has just formed on July 20, 2000 to promote BSD operating systems
in the St. Louis area. We have strong ties to the 10 year old St.
Louis Unix Users Group (SLUUG)
and expect to be a positive force within our community. Our
membership is open to anyone interested in learning more about BSD,
several mailing lists are available through our website.
- San Diego, California San Diego BSD Users Group for
users of FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. The meeting is first Thursday of
every month at Boll Weevil off Clairemont Mesa Blvd., near the
intersection with Ruffin Road. More information can be found here
- North San Francisco Bay Area The BABUG (Bay Area BSD Users
Group) has monthly meetings, alternating between San
Francisco and Berkeley. Those interested in attending
should visit the web site or send mail to the BABUG Web Master
- Silicon Valley, CA The SVBUG (Silicon Valley BSD User
Group), a forum for BSD and BSD embedded systems,
meets on the First Thursday of the month. Meetings are held
at the Carl's Jr. on First Street and Trimble Road in San
Jose, California. For details on event or what is going on
visit the website or send a message to webmaster@svbug.com.
- Southern Illinois *BSD Group The
Southern Illinois *BSD Group is a
meeting place for BSD users to experiment with networks and provide help
with installs. Emphasis is on FreeBSD and its KDE and Gnome desktops.
- East Texas The Unix Users of Deep East Texas is
dedicated to all things Unix. This group is open to users of
all flavors of Unix. We meet on the last Saturday of the month
at the Angelina County Court House. See the web page for
details, or send email to admin@uudet.org.
- The Tampa Florida users group is now being
formed. Interested parties can join the mailing list by
sending mail to bsd-tug-request@bangheadhere.org
with subscribe in the body.
- Greater Toronto Area, Ontario: The GTABUG
usergroup welcomes all BSD users.
Monthly meetings give attendees a chance
to share ideas, discussion, and information.
Installathons and other events help preach the good news
of BSD to the community.
Come drop by for a meeting!
- Tucson AZ TFUG: Tucson Free Unix Group,
Arizona.
- Utah The
Greater Utah BSD Users Group (GUBUG), formerly known as
SLLUG-BUG, and affiliated with the Salt Lake Linux Users
Group, is based in Salt Lake City, Utah. We welcome users
of FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or even Unix or Linux.
- Vancouver, BC The VanBUG (Vancouver BSD
Users Group) is a group of volunteers who are passionate
about FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. Their current goal is to
raise awareness and also provide local assistance as much as
we can.
- Washington DC (DC Metropolitan Area)
FreeBSD User Group. Please contact Richard Cramer,
Sytex Access Ltd. at 703-425-2515, or preferred, email at
rcramer@sytex.net
to be put on a member distribution list.
- Wichita, Kansas: A new FreeBSD users
group has been created in Wichita, Ks. We are fairly new and working
on our site, but we wanted to get it up as soon as we had it available.
We do not currently meet. Visit our site http://wafug.dynip.com or E-mail
the group organizer (ben177@yahoo.com) for more
information!
- Windsor, Ontario The Windsor Unix Users
Group (Windsor, Ontario, Canada) covers BSD, Solaris, SCO, and
others. This is not specifically a FreeBSD user group, but we
do already have members running FreeBSD. The group operates a
mailing list (wuug-list@unixpower.org). More information can
be found at http://www.wuug.org/.
- Wisconsin FreeBSD-Milwaukee
Wisconsin meets occasionally and has a mailing list: freebsd-mke-l@ns.sol.net.
send mail to freebsd-mke-l-request@ns.sol.net
to subscribe.
Rest of the world
- China The China FreeBSD User Group (CNFUG) was formed May 2003.
It publishes the CNFUG Journal (A FreeBSD Technical Journal in
Simplified Chinese) monthly. In addition, we offer a BSD UNIX
Support Forum, IRC and several mailing lists in Chinese.
- Colombia Visit
http://www.bsdcolombia.org for
the FreeBSD User Group Colombia.
- Colombia www.cafebug.org is a
spanish language oriented user group intended to help users
to find support and promote BSD license, contact juanwalker@bsdmail.com.
- Ibaraki, Japan The Daibou East *BSD Users
Group (DEBUG) is now
forming for *BSD users in Tsukuba area.
- Indonesia The Jogja FreeBSD Users' Group
is based in Yogyakarta City, Indonesia. Send email to
22961476@students.ukdw.ac.id
for more information.
- Israel The Israeli *BSD Users Group has a mailing
list for general discussion of *BSD operating systems for Israeli
users, which includes topics such as setting up and working with
Hebrew in BSD and setting up Internet connections with ISPs.
The Israeli *BSD mailing list promotes the use of *BSD throughout
the country, and acts as an information center for all *BSD users.
Mailing list posts can be sent to bsd-il@libagent.org.
Visit http://www.libagent.org/mailman/listinfo/bsd-il
to subscribe.
- Kansai, Japan The Kansai *BSD User's Group,
K*BUG (in Japanese),
was established on November 13, 1999.
It is expected to promote communication of
any of the BSD variants' users. Some of its activities are to hold
friendly parties of the members, and to hold seminars covering wide
variety of topics. Please mail here (
kbug-admin@kbug.gr.jp ).
- Malaysia
The MyBSD Malaysia Project is a
Kuala Lumpur based usergroup for BSD users and open-source in general,
promoting and supporting FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and open source usage.
We meet once a month, usually at Universiti Malaya or Restaurant Bahadur
Shah. One of our projects is to develop a
Unix file
manager. Visit our website or contact
info@MyBSD.org.my for more
information.
- Malaysia/2
The BSD Malaysia web pages aim
to be a central site for users of *BSD UNIX variants (including
FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD). BSD support forums, technical
BSD-related articles, and recent news items are published online.
Both English and Malaysian can be used as the language on this site.
- Mexico
FreeBSD Mexico is a spanish oriented
user group not only for people in Mexico but also in other spanish
speaking countries. Please contact
Alejandro Acosta for more
information.
- New Zealand The New Zealand FreeBSD User's
group is located in Wellington. No meetings have been scheduled
yet.
- Niigata, Japan The Echigo BSD Users Group
(EBUG) is the users group for BSD
users around Echigo (aka Niigata). For more information on our events
and mailing lists, please check the EBUG web site.
- Peru The BSD Users Group Peru is a group of
people with the objective to promote the use of the different *BSD systems
in Peru. They provide information, documentation and forums for discussion.
For more information you can use their web site, http://www.bsdperu.org/, or write to
contacto@bsdperu.org.
- Brazil The FUG-BR
(Brazilian FreeBSD User Group) is a Portuguese language
oriented user group intended to help Brazilian FreeBSD users
to find support and articles on and about FreeBSD in the
Portuguese language. We keeps some projects such as the "FreeBSD
LiveCD". Currently the group has 600 members and our
maillist has an average traffic of 80 messages per day. To
join FUG-BR mailing list, visit
http://www2.fugspbr.org/mailman/listinfo/fugspbr.
- Brazil The
User Group BsdSul (Grupo de Usuarios de FreeBSD du Sul do
Brasil) is a South Brazilian User Group of FreeBSD. They
provide information, documentation and forums for discussion.
For more information you can use their web site:
http://bsdsul.gnx.com.br
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