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 Germany Ghana Hungary India Iran Italy Japan Norway 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina | |||||
|
Alejandro A. F. Japkin EnsamblE - Wireless |
Buenos Aires |
Irregular |
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 | |||||
|
Vinícius Zavam Brazilian OpenBSD Users Group (OpenBSD-BR) |
Irregular |
egypcio@bsd.com.br http://www.openbsd-br.org |
OpenBSD | ||
| Canada | |||||
|
Greater Toronto BSD User's Group |
Toronto Ontario |
Third Wednesday of each month at 7:00PM | http://www.gtabug.ca | *BSD | |
| Germany | |||||
|
Michael Moll BSE (BSD Social Event) |
Munich Bavaria |
Every 28 days |
bse@42.org (list) http://bse.42.org |
*BSD | |
|
BSD User Group Hamburg |
Hamburg |
First Wednesday of each month at 7:00PM | http://www.bsdhh.org | *BSD | |
| Ghana | |||||
|
Archzilon Eshun-Davies OpenBSD Ghana |
Accra Accra |
Last Saturday of each month at 7:00PM |
laudarch@qremiaevolution.org |
OpenBSD | |
| Hungary | |||||
|
Magyar BSD Egyesület |
Budapest |
Irregular |
titkar@bsd.hu http://www.bsd.hu/egyesulet |
*BSD | |
| India | |||||
|
Mungal Lal Shaw Jharkhand OpenBSD |
Ranchi Jharkhand |
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 of 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 | ||
| Poland | |||||
|
Frederic Cambus SBUG |
Rzeszow Podkarpackie |
Irregular | https://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 at 7:00PM | http://www.buug.org | *BSD | |
|
Ben Lovett San Diego BSD Users Group |
San Diego California |
First Thursday of each month at 7:00PM | http://www.sdbug.org | *BSD | |
|
Aaron Bieber Colorado BSD Users Group |
Pueblo Colorado |
Irregular |
admin@cobug.org https://cobug.org |
*BSD | |
|
Chicago Area BSD Users Group |
Chicago Illinois |
Irregular | http://chibug.org | *BSD | |
|
New Orleans *BSD User Group |
New Orleans Louisiana |
Third Thursday of each month | http://www.nolug.org | *BSD | |
|
Mike Erdely CapBUG |
Maryland, Virginia, DC |
Last Tuesday or Wednesday of each month |
mike@erdelynet.com http://capbug.org |
*BSD | |
|
Michael W. Lucas semibug |
Detroit Michigan |
Third Tuesday of each month |
semibug@lists.nycbug.org http://www.semibug.org |
*BSD | |
|
Jonathan Franks Capital District *BSD Users Group (CDBUG) |
Albany New York |
Third Tuesday of each month at 6:45PM |
jonathan.franks@gmail.com http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/cdbug-talk |
*BSD | |
|
NYC *BSD Users Group (NYC*BUG) |
New York New York |
First Wednesday of each month at 6:00PM | http://nycbug.org | *BSD | |
|
James Rieve BSD User Group Oak Ridge |
Oak Ridge Tennessee |
Every Sunday at 2:00PM |
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 the second week of each month | http://www.bsdgroups.org.uk/manchester | *BSD | |
|
Mark Blackman London *BSD Meetup |
London Greater London |
Irregular | http://www.bsdgroups.org.uk/london | *BSD | |