Information about the FreeBSD community.

• IRC, Discord, Matrix

• Forums, mailing lists

• Mastodon via bsd.cafe

• bsdnow.tv podcasts

• Conferences and developer summits

• A list of all Community pages

An introduction to this wiki.

• About this Wiki

  • Includes How To Create an Account

• Wiki Editing Guidelines

Some information about contributing to FreeBSD.

• Contribution Ideas

• Google Summer of Code (GSoC)

• BecomingACommitter

• JuniorJobs for new Base Contributors

• Maintain a FreeBSD Port

• Update a FreeBSD Port

• A list of all CategoryContributing pages.

Other than the most commonly found architecture (amd64), FreeBSD also supports these other architectures:

• ARM / arm64

• PowerPC / PowerPC64

• RISC-V

Specific Platforms

Wiki pages related to FreeBSD development.

• Git Primer in the Committer's Guide.

• Git for Development

• Issue Management with Bugzilla & Bugathons

• Code Review with Phabricator

• Testing & Continuous Integration with Jenkins

• Writing tests

• Coverity Source Code Analysis

• Developer Tools

• MentorMatch

• Debugging

• ContribSoftware

• BuildSystems

• Stabilization Weeks

Projects documented here on the wiki.

Current items:

• the LaptopDesktopWorkingGroup

• the Transport Protocols Working Group

• Improving the Installer

• a list of all Active Projects

Older items:

• weekly Network Status reports. On break as of 20250715.

• 2021 Foundation Call for Ideas

• a list of all Inactive Projects

Wiki pages about the FreeBSD base system.

• bhyve

• DTrace

• Jails

• Linuxulator

• A list of all base system components pages.

Wiki pages about Ports and Packages.

• Contributing to Ports: Quickstart

• Ports Teams

• Wanted Ports

• Package Manager: Rosetta Stone

• All Ports and Packages pages

Wiki pages about Documentation.

• Doc/IdeaList

• Doc/MissingManpages

• Doc/Translation

• Doc/Translation/Weblate

• A list of all FreeBSD HowTo Articles

• A list of all Documentation pages