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 Belgium Brazil Bulgaria Canada Chile China Denmark France Germany Greece Hungary Indonesia Ireland Israel Italy Japan Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Malaysia Mexico Norway Portugal Russia Sweden Switzerland USA United Kingdom Yemen YugoslaviaIf 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 me, ian 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 | |||||
Alejandro A. F. Japkin EnsamblE - Wireless |
Buenos Aires |
No establecida |
ArpateC@gmx.net |
OpenBSD | *BSD | |
Australia | |||||
BSD Users Group of Sydney |
Sydney |
Irregular | http://www.bugs.au.freebsd.org/ | *BSD | |
Austria | |||||
Philipp Huber bugat |
irregular |
uebs@gmx.at http://www.bugat.at/ |
*BSD | ||
Belgium | |||||
Nick Nauwelaerts bsdaemon.be |
Gent |
irregular |
inphobia@bsdaemon.be http://www.bsdaemon.be/ |
*BSD | |
Brazil | |||||
Gustavo Henrique Maultasch de Oliveira OpenBSD Brasil |
gustavoh@sysadmin.com.br http://www.thewheel.com.br/openbsd/ |
OpenBSD | |||
Christiano Anderson Grupo dos Usuarios de *BSD de Sao Paulo - GUB-SP |
Sao Paulo SP |
Irregular |
neptune@terra.com.br |
*BSD | |
Bulgaria | |||||
Andrey Rousseff Bulgarian BSD Users Group (BBSDUG) |
Sofia Bulgaria |
irregular |
zethix@sofiaonline.com http://www.daemon.online.bg/ |
*BSD | |
Stanislav Grozev BSD Users Group, Sofia (BUGS) |
Sofia Sofia |
irregular |
tacho@daemonz.org http://daemonz.org/bugs/ |
*BSD | |
Canada | |||||
Ashesh Patel Edmonton OpenBSD User's Group |
Edmonton Alberta |
2nd Monday, 8:00 PM |
ashesh@gmx.net http://www.gmx.ca/ |
OpenBSD | |
Greater Toronto BSD User's Group |
Toronto Ontario |
2nd Tuesday | http://www.gtabug.ca/ | *BSD | |
Alan P. Laudicina Windsor Unix Users Group |
Windsor Ontario |
Irregular |
alanp@wuug.org http://www.wuug.org/ |
*BSD | |
Chile | |||||
Pablo Aravena Martinez OpenBSD Chile |
Santiago Region Metropolitana |
Cada sabado o domingo a las 3pm |
bjunk@openbsd.cl http://www.openbsd.cl/ |
OpenBSD, FreeBSD | |
Alex M. Alvarez A. Sistemas BSD Chile |
Santiago Region Metropolitana |
Viernes 20:00 Hrs |
kuarzo@freebsd.cl/ http://www.freebsd.cl |
FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, PicoBSD | |
Owner Respectivo (Freddy,Jorge, Ricardo) todoBSD |
Chile Chile |
Todos los dias |
bsd@inf.utfsm.cl http://www.todobsd.cl/ |
*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 | |||
France | |||||
BSDFR |
Paris |
irregular |
bureau@bsdfr.org http://www.bsdfr.org/ |
*BSD | |
Germany | |||||
CBUG: Cologne BSD User Group |
Cologne |
Fourth Friday of each month | *BSD | ||
BSD User Group Hamburg |
Hamburg |
First Wednesday of month, 7 PM | http://www.bsdhh.org/ | *BSD | |
Munich BSD group |
Munich |
jhs@jhs.muc.de http://bsd.bsn.com/ |
*BSD | ||
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 | |
Indonesia | |||||
Bayu Krisna OpenBSD Indonesia User Group |
Surabaya East-Java |
Every 1st. Each month |
krisna@palapa.org http://openbsd.rtfm.or.id/ |
OpenBSD | |
Abdullah A. Koro Great Indonesia OpenBSD User Group (Kelompok Pengguna OpenBSD Indonesia) |
Jakarta DKI |
irregular |
koro@alliance.globalnetlink.com http://www.openbsd.or.id/ |
*BSD. | |
Reynaldo Parulian |
Jogjakarta DIY |
Every Thursday 13.00 WIB |
root@bumbustudio.com http://www.bumbustudio.com/ |
OpenBSD | |
Fery Wibowo BSD YK |
Solo/Jogja Central Java/Jogja Municipal |
"irregular" |
ferywu@artdico.or.id http://ferywu.sysadmin.or.id/ |
*BSD | |
Ireland | |||||
Mark Reardon Irish *BSD users group |
Dublin Dublin |
irregular |
mcr@gofree.indigo.ie http://gofree.indigo.ie/~mcr/ |
*BSD | |
Israel | |||||
Yaron Zabary Israeli BSD Users group |
yaron@aristo.tau.ac.il http://il-bsd@post.tau.ac.il/ |
*BSD. | |||
Italy | |||||
Matteo Cantoni Beer OpenBSD User Group |
Milan Lombardy |
irregular |
goony@openbeer.it http://www.OpenBEER.it/ |
OpenBSD | |
Japan | |||||
Shozo Takeoka Kansai *BSD User's Group, K*BUG |
Kansai |
irregular |
kbug-admin@kbug.gr.jp http://www.kbug.gr.jp/ |
*BSD | |
Wakakusa OpenBSD Users Group |
Kyoto |
wakakusa-clt@openbsd.ics.nara-wu.ac.jp http://www.openbsd.ics.nara-wu.ac.jp/ |
OpenBSD | ||
Kuwait | |||||
Sulaiman Alhasawi Kuwaity Unix Group |
Salmiya Kuwait |
selmux@bigfoot.com http://selmux.tripod.com/ |
OpenBSD | ||
Kyrgyzstan | |||||
Kuzmin Artem (Erta Slash) Kyrgyzstan Active BSD User's Group |
Bishkek KG |
2nd Sunday |
slash@kabug.org.kg http://www.kabug.org.kg/ |
*BSD | |
Malaysia | |||||
Ariff bin Abdullah MyBSD Malaysia Project |
Kuala Lumpur Wilayah Persekutuan |
Every Sunday, 9 p.m. |
skywizard@MyBSD.org.my http://www.MyBSD.org.my/ |
*BSD | |
Mexico | |||||
Gerardo Santana Gomez Garrido OpenBSD Mexico |
Tuxtla Gutierrez Chiapas |
irregular |
santana@openbsd.org.mx http://www.openbsd.org.mx/ |
OpenBSD | |
daemon Dos grupos: Adiora, y Malexa. |
Sonora. Hermosillo |
Irregulares. |
pelon@antionline.org |
*BSD | |
Norway | |||||
Norwegian BSD User Group |
Irregular | http://www.nobug.no/ | *BSD | ||
Portugal | |||||
Nuno Morgadinho OpenBSD Portuguese Users Group |
Lisboa Centro |
irregular |
l13591@alunos.uevora.pt http://openbsd-pt.ath.cx/ |
OpenBSD | |
Vitor Mendes OpenBSD Portuguese User Group |
Setubal |
irregular |
Abyss@sysfuck.com http://Abyss.homeunix.org |
*BSD | |
Russia | |||||
Michael Marackaew Penza UNIX Users Group |
Penza Mid Volga |
irregular |
mm@puug.org.ru http://www.puug.org.ru/ |
*BSD | |
Sweden | |||||
BSD Users Sweden (a.k.a BUS) |
Stockholm, Gothenburg, Luleĺ |
irregular, quarterly |
bus@stacken.kth.se |
*BSD | |
Switzerland | |||||
SwissBUG (Swiss BSD User Group) |
irregular | http://www.swissbug.org/ | *BSD. | ||
United Kingdom | |||||
Shriman Gurung LONBUG: London BSD User Group |
London Greater London |
Last week in each month, day decided by the membership |
shriman@venus.co.uk http://www.juiceco.com/html/lonbug.html |
*BSD | |
Sam Smith Manchester BSD User Group |
Manchester |
Usually 2nd week of the month | http://www.bsdgroups.org.uk/manchester/ | *BSD | |
United States | |||||
Phoenix BSD Users Group |
Phoenix Arizona |
http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ | *BSD | ||
Jason Antelope Valley BSD User's Group |
Antelope Valley California |
irregular |
root@intheav.com http://bsd.avlug.org/ |
*BSD | |
Zeke Krahlin Berkeley Unix User Group |
Berkeley California |
Every Thursday, 7pm |
buug-admin@weak.org http://www.weak.org/buug/ |
*BSD | |
Ron Rosson San Diego BSD Users Group |
San Diego California |
1st Thursday of every month at 7PM |
insane@sdbug.org http://www.sdbug.org/ |
*BSD | |
Mike Ray San Francisco OpenBSD Users Group |
San Francisco California |
1st Tuesday 7pm AND 2nd Saturday Noon |
info@sfobug.org http://www.sfobug.org/ |
OpenBSD | |
Jesse Monroy SVBUG Silicon Valley BSD User Group |
San Jose California |
1st Thursday each month at 7PM |
jessemonroy@email.com http://www.svbug.com/ |
*BSD; including OS X | |
OpenBSD Users Group of Silicon Valley |
Silicon Valley California |
Third Monday of the month at 7PM in Mtn View |
obug@ungeek.com http://www.ungeek.com/obug/ |
OpenBSD | |
Joe Phillips Southern Connecticut OpenSource User Group |
New Haven Connecticut |
Monthly |
info@scosug.org http://www.scosug.org/ |
*BSD, Linux, other UNIX | |
BSD Users Group of Orlando |
Orlando Florida |
http://bugo.zepa.net/ | *BSD | ||
Brian Ring Eastern Iowa Free Unix Society |
Cedar Rapids Iowa |
1st Thursday every month, 7:00 p.m. |
drzharko@eifus.org http://www.eifus.org/ |
*BSD | |
Patrick Klee WLABUG - Wichita Linux And BSD User Group |
Wichita Kansas |
Every Friday and Saturday on irc.slashnet.org #wlabug |
drwho@futureks.net http://www.geocities.com/mykros78/wlabug.html |
*BSD, some Linux and occasional OS X | |
New Orleans *BSD User Group |
New Orleans Louisiana |
krzeszut@cs.uno.edu |
*BSD | ||
Pat Lynch New England Area BSD Users Group |
Boston Massachusetts |
irregular |
bsdpat@neabug.org http://neabug.org/ |
*BSD. | |
SouthEast Michigan BSD User Group |
Detroit-area Michigan |
2nd Wednesday each month at 8PM |
semibug@mail.msen.com http://www.semibug.mi.org/ |
*BSD | |
Brian Hershey Princeton Area OpenBSD Users |
Princeton Minnesota |
irregular/virtual |
brian@lanwatchsecurity.com |
OpenBSD | |
Buck Pyland St. Louis BSD Users Group |
Saint Louis Missouri |
irregular |
buck@stlbsd.org http://www.stlbsd.org/ |
*BSD | |
Cheryl Jones Ozarks Linux Users Group (OzLUG) |
Springfield Missouri |
1st Monday each month |
moo@bluecows.com http://www.ozlug.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 | |
Tim Howe Bend Unix Users Group |
Bend Oregon |
To be determined |
thowe@empnet.com http://www.bendug.org/ |
*BSD | |
Wes Peters SLLUG-BUG |
Salt Lake City Utah |
3rd Wednesday of the month at 7:10 pm |
sllug-bug@bsdconspiracy.net http://bsdconspiracy.net/sllug-bug/ |
BSD | |
Bruce Dang Tacoma BSD/Unix User Group |
Tacoma Washington |
irregular |
bd@alpha.slogin.org http://www.tbug.org/ |
*BSD | |
Russ Ingram Laramie Wyoming Freenix Users Group(LWFUG) |
Laramie Wyoming |
irregular |
ringram@gargoylecc.com http://www.lwfug.org/ |
*BSD | |
Yemen | |||||
Snorky YFOSA |
Sana'a Sana'a |
Irregular |
snorky@linuxarabia.org http://www.linuxarabia.org/ |
*BSD | |
Yugoslavia | |||||
BSD Users of Yugoslavia |
bsdyu@bsd.org.yu http://www.bsd.org.yu/ |
*BSD |