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<head>
<title>NetBSD Community</title>
</head>
<para>
Get in contact with other NetBSD users. Ask for help or share
your experience and technical knowledge. Explore the activities and
resources of the NetBSD community.
</para>
<sect1 role="toc">
<sect2 id="">
<sect3 id="mailnews">
<title>Mailing lists and usenet newsgroups</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="../mailinglists/">Mailing lists</ulink> and
<ulink url="http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/">archives</ulink>
(<ulink url="http://archive.NetBSD.se/?cn=NetBSD">alternative
archives</ulink>)
<!-- another alternative is http://marc.info/ -->
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Mailing list - News gateways:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<ulink url="http://news.vejas.lt/">news.vejas.lt</ulink>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Usenet newsgroups
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<ulink url="news:comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.announce">comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.announce</ulink>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<ulink url="news:comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc">comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc</ulink>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<ulink url="news:comp.unix.bsd.misc">comp.unix.bsd.misc</ulink>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="hackathons">
<title>Hackathons</title>
<para>
<ulink url="hackathon.html">NetBSD Hackathons</ulink> -
open events for users and developers to cooperate in
improving NetBSD. The focus changes for each Hackathon, ranging from
bugfixing over release preparation to pkgsrc and documentation.
</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="wikis">
<title>Wikis</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
The <ulink url="http://wiki.NetBSD.se">NetBSD Community Wiki</ulink>
- a collaborative writing project for NetBSD tutorials and other
useful documents. Contains also news, interviews and other resources.
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="chat">
<title>Online chats</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
IRC - NetBSD channels are available on the following IRC networks:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>Channel #NetBSD on <ulink url="http://www.ircnet.info">IRCnet</ulink> </listitem>
<listitem>Channel #NetBSD on <ulink url="http://www.efnet.org">EFnet</ulink></listitem>
<listitem>Channel #NetBSD on <ulink url="http://freenode.net">freenode</ulink></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
SILC - <ulink url="http://silcnet.org">SILCNet</ulink> has a netbsd channel for secure chats.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="forums">
<title>Internet forums, discussion groups, etc</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<ulink url="http://www.bsdforums.org">BSDForums.org</ulink>
- BSD news and discussions site
</listitem>
<listitem>
<ulink url="http://forums.bsdnexus.com/">BSDNexus.com</ulink> -
another BSD forums site
</listitem>
<listitem>
<ulink url="http://kerneltrap.org/forum/netbsd">KernelTrap</ulink> - a
NetBSD Forum
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="usergroups">
<title>User groups and regional resources</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<ulink url="groups.html">User groups and other regional resources</ulink>
of the NetBSD community
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="gallery">
<title>NetBSD Gallery</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
The <ulink url="../gallery/index.html">NetBSD Gallery</ulink>
provides more links about activities and resources of the NetBSD
community.
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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