The continuing growth of OpenBSD depends on attracting new users, developers, software suppliers, and consultants. One means of reaching new users is via users groups, where people can exchange experiences, ideas, free software, and find out that there are others with similar problems and solutions.
The following user groups are either specific to OpenBSD or at least to the BSD family of systems. However, the OpenBSD Project does not necessarily endorse any of these. Please contact the User's Group directly.
These entries are arranged geographically by country, so that you may more readily find a users' group near you.
Argentina Australia Austria Brazil Canada China Denmark Germany Ghana Greece Hungary India Iran Italy Japan Norway Pakistan Poland Sweden USA Ukraine United KingdomIf you want to see your group listed, the format is quite rigid; please use this template (do not just copy and paste plain text from your browser!). When you think it's ready, mail it to misc at openbsd.org, with a Subject: line containing the word "groups" and either the word "new" or "update".
Group Name/ Contact Person |
City/ Province |
When Meeting | Email URL |
Type of group | |
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Argentina | |||||
OpenBSDeros |
Ciudad de Buenos Aires |
irregular |
contacto@openbsderos.org http://www.openbsderos.org/ |
OpenBSD | |
Alejandro A. F. Japkin EnsamblE - Wireless |
Buenos Aires |
No establecida |
ArpateC@gmx.net |
OpenBSD | *BSD | |
Gastón Senac OpenBSD Rosario |
Rosario Santa Fé |
Irregular |
gaston_senac@hotmail.com |
OpenBSD | |
Australia | |||||
BSD Users Group of Sydney |
Sydney |
Irregular | http://www.bugs.au.freebsd.org/ | *BSD | |
Austria | |||||
Bernhard Froehlich BSD Stammtisch Graz |
Graz |
irregular |
decke@bluelife.at http://graz.bsdstammtisch.at |
*BSD | |
Brazil | |||||
Vagner Rodrigues Fernandes OpenBSD-BR |
Sao Paulo SP |
irregular |
vagner@openbsd-br.org http://www.openbsd-br.org/ |
OpenBSD | |
Canada | |||||
Greater Toronto BSD User's Group |
Toronto Ontario |
third Wednesday of each month at 19:00 (7:00 PM) | http://www.gtabug.ca/ | *BSD | |
China | |||||
stick BSD Users Group |
Wuhan Hubei |
irregular |
yli@wtwh.com.cn http://www.hust.edu.cn/ |
OpenBSD, *BSD | |
Denmark | |||||
Danish *BSD User Group, BSD-DK |
majordomo@bsd-dk.dk http://www.bsd-dk.dk/ |
*BSD | |||
Germany | |||||
Dirk Mader Ulmer BSD User Stammtisch |
Ulm Baden Wuertemberg |
last Thursday in the month |
sierrax@u-bus.de http://www.u-bus.de/ |
*BSD | |
Michael Moll BSE (BSD Social Event) |
Munich Bavaria |
every 28 days |
bse@42.org (list) http://bse.42.org/ |
*BSD | |
BSD-Crew BSD-Crew Dresden |
Dresden Saxony |
irregular |
bsd-crew@mail.skyhub.de (list) http://www.bsd-crew.de/ |
*BSD | |
BSD User Group Hamburg |
Hamburg |
First Wednesday of month, 7 PM | http://www.bsdhh.org/ | *BSD | |
Ghana | |||||
Archzilon Eshun-Davies(laudarch) OpenBSD Ghana |
Accra Accra |
Last Saturday of each month at 7 PM |
laudarch@qremiaevolution.org http://www.openbsdgh.org/ |
OpenBSD | |
Greece | |||||
Patroklos Argyroudis Greek BSD Users Group (BSD.GR) |
Thessaloniki |
irregular |
argp@bsd.gr http://www.bsd.gr/ |
*BSD | |
Hungary | |||||
Magyar BSD Egyesület |
Budapest |
irregular |
titkar@bsd.hu http://www.bsd.hu/egyesulet/ |
*BSD | |
India | |||||
Mungal Lal Shaw Jharkhand OpenBSD |
Ranchi Jharkhand |
3nd Friday of the month at 8 pm, "irregular" |
munga@arithme.net http://www.arithme.net/ |
OpenBSD | |
Ashish Kumar Rai OpenBSD INDIA |
Varanasi Uttar Pradesh |
"irregular" |
raiashish20@gmail.com http://facebook.com/raiashishkumar |
OpenBSD | |
Sanjai Verma OpenBSD INDIA |
Allahabad Uttar Pradesh |
"irregular" |
verma.sanjai@gmail.com |
OpenBSD | |
Iran | |||||
Bahador Nazari Fard OpenBSD_Iran |
Isfahan Isfahan |
irregular |
bahador.nazarifard@gmail.com |
OpenBSD | |
Babak Farrokhi Iranian BSD Users Group |
Tehran Tehran |
Last thursday each month |
babak@farrokhi.net http://bsdusers.ir/ |
*BSD | |
Italy | |||||
Fabio Cazzin Beer OpenBSD User Group |
Venice |
irregular |
fabio@openbeer.it http://www.OpenBEER.it/ |
OpenBSD | |
Japan | |||||
Takahiro Kambe Kansai *BSD User's Group, K*BUG |
Kansai |
irregular |
kbug-admin@kbug.gr.jp http://www.kbug.gr.jp/ |
*BSD | |
Norway | |||||
Norwegian BSD User Group |
Irregular | http://www.nobug.no/ | *BSD | ||
Pakistan | |||||
S. Hussain OpenBSD Pakistan User's Group |
Lahore Punjab |
"irregular" |
shahrukh@oxtersolutions.com http://oxtersolutions.com/openbsd/ |
OpenBSD | |
Poland | |||||
Frederic Cambus SBUG |
Rzeszow Podkarpackie |
Irregular | http://www.sbug.org/ | OpenBSD, *BSD | |
Sweden | |||||
BSD Users Sweden (a.k.a BUS) |
Stockholm, Gothenburg, Luleĺ |
irregular, quarterly |
bus@stacken.kth.se |
*BSD | |
Peter Laur OpenBSD Sweden |
Ranas |
Irregular |
peter@openbsd.se http://www.openbsd.se/ |
OpenBSD | |
United States | |||||
Shawn Nock Tucson Free Unix Group (TFUG) |
Tucson Arizona |
Irregular |
nock@email.arizona.edu http://www.tfug.org/ |
*BSD | |
Zeke Krahlin Berkeley Unix User Group |
Berkeley California |
Every Thursday, 7pm | http://www.buug.org/ | *BSD | |
Ben Lovett San Diego BSD Users Group |
San Diego California |
1st Thursday of every month at 7PM | http://www.sdbug.org/ | *BSD | |
New Orleans *BSD User Group |
New Orleans Louisiana |
Third Thursday each month | http://www.nolug.org/ | *BSD | |
Mike Erdely CapBUG |
Maryland, Virginia, DC |
Last Tuesday or Wednesday of the month |
mike@erdelynet.com http://capbug.org/ |
*BSD | |
Michael W. Lucas semibug |
Detroit Michigan |
3rd Tuesday of each month |
semibug@lists.nycbug.org http://www.semibug.org |
*BSD | |
Jonathan Franks Capital District *BSD Users Group (CDBUG) |
Albany New York |
Last Sunday Each Month at 5pm |
jonathan.franks@gmail.com http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/cdbug-talk/ |
*BSD | |
NYC *BSD Users Group (NYCBUG) |
New York New York |
1st Wednesday each month at 6:00 PM | http://nycbug.org/ | *BSD | |
Ryan Younce Triangle Area BSD Users Group |
Research Triangle Park North Carolina |
3rd Thursday each month at 7:00 PM |
info@tribug.org http://www.tribug.org/ |
*BSD | |
James Rieve BSD User Group Oak Ridge |
Oak Ridge Tennessee |
Every Sunday 2 PM |
BUGORTN@gmail.com http://sites.google.com/site/bugortn/Home/ |
*BSD | |
Russ Ingram Laramie Wyoming Freenix Users Group(LWFUG) |
Laramie Wyoming |
irregular |
ringram@gargoylecc.com http://www.lwfug.org/ |
*BSD | |
Ukraine | |||||
Sergey Prysiazhnyi Ukrainian OpenBSD Users Group (UAOUG) |
Kyiv |
On OpenBSD Release days. |
s.prysiazhnyi@atmnis.com http://www.uaoug.org.ua/ |
OpenBSD | |
United Kingdom | |||||
Sam Smith Manchester BSD User Group |
Manchester |
Usually 2nd week of the month | http://www.bsdgroups.org.uk/manchester/ | *BSD | |
Mark Blackman London *BSD Meetup |
London Greater London |
It varies, see site for details | http://www.bsdgroups.org.uk/london/ | *BSD |