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Official channels are registered and managed by the FreeBSD IRC Admin team, with consistent channel management and moderation guidelines.

#freebsd	General user/technical support and on-topic discussion (requires registered nickname/account to join)
#freebsd-advocacy	Advocacy, marketing and promotion
#freebsd-bugs	Issue/bug Tracking, Triage and Bugmeister
#freebsd-de	German language channel
#freebsd-dev	FreeBSD Development, Hacking and Contribution Discussion
#freebsd-embedded	ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, FreeScale + SoCs
#freebsd-erlang	Erlang and Elixir on FreeBSD
#freebsd-fr	French BSD channel
#freebsd-games	Games and gaming on FreeBSD
#freebsd-gecko	Gecko on FreeBSD
#freebsd-gnome	GNOME on FreeBSD
#freebsd-ports	Porting & Packaging. Contributors, Maintainers & Committers.
#freebsd-pulse	Keep your finger on the pulse of FreeBSD changes with real-time project updates & notifications
#freebsd-python	Python on FreeBSD
#freebsd-riscv	FreeBSD on RISC-V
#freebsd-security	Security / vulnerability related discussion
#freebsd-social	Off-topic / Socializing
#freebsd-stack	Webfoo: Apache, NGINX, PHP, Owncloud ....
#freebsd-vbox	VirtualBox on FreeBSD
#freebsd-wiki	Wiki management, content creation and editing

Unofficial channels are not managed by the FreeBSD Project

#ambug 🇦🇲	Armenian BSD Users Group
#BastilleBSD	Discussion & support channel for BastilleBSD container (jail) management system
#BSDchat	Taiwan BSD channel (Traditional Chinese)
#bhyve	bhyve channel
#bsdaustria	Austrian BSD user group
#bsd-sharp	Mono on FreeBSD support channel
#bsdgroup.de	German BSD channel
#bsdin	Indian language channel
#ggi	GGI development channels
#haskell-freebsd	Haskell on FreeBSD support channel
#kde-freebsd	KDE on FreeBSD
#netbsd-pl	Polish BSD channel
#nycbug	New York City BSD Users Group
#pkgng	pkgng development and support
#poudriere	poudriere development and support
#sbug	Subcarpathian BSD User Group
#unixfreunde	German BSD Channel
##bsdforen.de	German BSD channel
##freebsd-br	Brazilian BSD Channel
##freebsd-pl	Polish BSD channel

#freebsd	NOT BSD-related at all
#freebsd-bugbusters	Bug hunters and PR killers
#freebsd-ci	Continuous Integration
#freebsd-mobile	Discussion about FreeBSD on laptops and other mobile devices.
#freebsd-office	For porting all office related programs
#freebsd-soc	Summer of Code discussion channel
#freebsd-tcltk	TCL/TK porting discussion
#freebsd-wifi	WiFi in FreeBSD
#freebsd-xfce	Porting Xfce to FreeBSD
#freebsd-xorg	Discussion about X11
#freebsd.se	Swedish BSD channel
#bsd-pl	Polish BSD User Group channel
#bsd-dk	Danish BSD channel (danish)
#bsdbelfast	BSD in Belfast user group
#bsdcode	Src people
#bsddev	Public channel for committers and contributors to work
#bsddocs	Discussions about FreeBSD Documentation related topics
#bsdmips	General embedded FreeBSD discussion, and a good place to catch embedded platform maintainers (sometimes off-topic)
#bsdports	Ports general talk, a lot of committers but public
#bsdtinderbox	Marcuscom Tinderbox support channel
#bsdpkgbase	PkgBase
#bsdusb	USB related development (technical channel)
#devsummit	Devsummit related discussions
#freebsdhelp	Help and general FreeBSD discussion channel.
#rubyports	Ruby and rubygem ports

#freebsd	discussion channel
#freebsd.de	German FreeBSD channel
#bsd.cz	Czech BSD channel
#bsd.ee	Estonian BSD channel
#bsdfr	French BSD channel
#bsdgermany	German BSD channel
#unix.ru	Russian *NIX channel with FreeBSD specifics (koi8-r)

RusNet
#bsd-unix	Russian FreeBSD development channel (koi8-r)
#freebsd	Russian FreeBSD general discussion channel (koi8-r)
OzOrg
#bugs	BSD Users Group, Sydney
MagNET
#bsdperl	Perl on FreeBSD Talk Channel
OFTCnet
#freebsd-clang	LLVM/Clang porting channel