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FreeBSD Discord Server

FreeBSD has a Discord server to socialize, get support, support others, learn, contribute, collaborate, and stay up to date on all things FreeBSD and Open Source.

Everyone is welcome to Join our FreeBSD Discord Server. This invitation will take you to our #lobby channel.

Our Vision

Not a mere tech-talk server, but a community empowering individuals to change the shape of our shared future.

Why Discord?

Discord:

• is broadly accessible
• is popular with non-technical people
• broadens the appeal of FreeBSD beyond traditional spaces and audiences
• is commonly used by gaming communities, also used by many others
• has unique features that do not require a steep learning curve.

How do I use/access Discord?

You can read about how to access Discord on FreeBSD in the DiscordClient article.

Channel Overview

Channels are organized into five high-level user-goal oriented categories, to help you find what you're looking for:

• SOCIALIZE - Connecting and enjoying time with other people in the community.

• LIVE - Real-time events, streams and other live content.

• HELP & SUPPORT - Getting help, helping and supporting others.

• LEARN & CONTRIBUTE - Leveling up knowledge, participating and contributing.

• PULSE - Staying informed and up-to-date.

Guidelines & Rules

Our FreeBSD Discord server rules and guidelines are additional, and complementary, to the FreeBSD Code of Conduct.

While we don't have strict 'on-topic' rules, the following types of content are never acceptable, and are grounds for immediate removal without notice:

• NSFW or obscene content (including text, images, or links featuring nudity, sex, violence and other disturbing content)

• Links to, or sharing of, copyright or pirated material
• Content that is, or could be considered, discriminatory.

Note: It is challenging to describe crystal clear boundaries for including and excluding particular content, which means the above guidelines are not exhaustive.

We expect community members to always exercise their best judgement, with the primary consideration and priority being the health and well-being of the FreeBSD community.

Trolling and Troll-like Behavior

Please also note the following definitions of trolling or troll-like behavior:

• Behavior that is designed to cause an argument, flame war, heated debate, or anything along these lines;
• Making unsubstantiated statements or claims without providing evidence, especially when you attempt to claim others should provide the evidence or "Google it";
• Making a statement that is obviously false or highly subjective, without providing evidence;
• Being obnoxious and attempting to get a "rise" out of another community member with clearly provocative language, statements, reactions, GIFs, etc.

Trolling behavior will be treated accordingly by Community Helpers, and may result in being timed out, kicked from the community, or even banned. (If warnings are not followed and behavior isn't adjusted accordingly)

We want this server to be a welcoming space, so if you see something against the rules or that makes you feel unsafe, let us know.

You can reach out to Community Helpers by sending a ping by addressing your message to the @moderator role or by attempting to DM a @moderator.

Organization

Principles

Principles and guidelines that inform our behaviors, decision-making and evolution:

• Casual, relaxed, fun and authentic is the flavor here. ¹

• Prioritize, leverage and focus on Discord's unique features. ²

• Encourage, promote and reward innovative and unique or activity, content and creativity.

• Do things the community does little of or hasn't done before. Blaze a new trail.

• Default to and lean toward less-is-more as much as possible.

• Default to and lean toward the power of personal ownership as a catalyst for collaboration.

• Default to and lean toward as open, transparent and public as possible. ³

• Default to and lean toward continuous progress, change and improvement. Nothing is set in stone. ⁴

• Respect the user, their time and attention. Provide real value. ⁵

• No engagement for engagement's sake. ⁶

• Focus on outcomes, not (only) methods. ⁷

• Build stairs behind you, rather than risk the ladder falling over before more can climb it.

• Balance dedicated spaces with/versus fragmented activity/groups. ⁸

• Bridge silos, connect isolated islands, and place the server at the center of the ecosystem web.
• Remove class distinctions (ideally to zero). Eg: "user", "dev", "committer", "moderator", etc.

Community Helpers & Guidelines

Community Helpers ensure the healthy function of our server and community. Their efforts take the form of three distinct teams working together.

• @moderators on our community-helper team assist with maintaining the social and cultural health of our server and are tasked with assisting in conflict resolution and facilitating collaboration.

• @mentors on our newcomer-helper team are charged with helping passionate members of our community build those passions into strength and connect them with the pathways to contribution within the FreeBSD project.

• @organizers on our events-helper team develop workshops, coordinate collaboration events, arrange AMAs, and more!

Can I Help?

Absolutely! We are keen for members to reach out and talk about how we can best leverage and improve the Discord experience. Some ideas we'd love people to get involved with include:

• Brainstorm/Suggest unique and creative ideas or features.
• Provide bug reports and user experience feedback and suggestions.
• Actively promote Discord in other social media spaces, particularly those that may be new or curious to learn more about FreeBSD.
• Contribute to the Wiki page and its content[1].
• Participate and support other members on Discord.
• Run a live stream on a FreeBSD-related topic.
• Hang out in our live audio and video channels if you're comfortable doing so.

Even the smallest of ideas can go a long way, so get in touch on our Discord:#community channel.

Roles

You may be assigned various roles upon request. Just click on the #role-requests channel and mention the helper team (using @helpers) with the roles you want. None of these roles grant additional server permissions.

Available roles:

Examples:

• "Hey @helpers. Please give me the yellow role."
• "Hey @helpers. Please give me the yellow and vc-ping roles."
• "Hey @helpers. Please give me the vc-ping role."

A new bot is being created which will take over the manual role request system. This section will be updated once the bot has been deployed.

Bots

We run a number of automated bots on our Discord server, currently:

• Beastie Bot. For:

  • color roles. Ability for people to join a "color" role with the /role <color> trigger.

• Pulsar (Retired). For:

  • freebsd doc, ports and src commits in the PULSE: #commits channel.

  • Reaction roles. Ability for people to join a "color" role with the !role <color> trigger.

• Dyno. For:

  • Server change audit logging in PULSE: #discord channel.

See Also

IRC

FreeBSD Matrix-Room

OpenBSD Discord Server

Invite Sources

• https://discord.gg/rnH8EfjnSz (Lobby Text Channel)

• https://discord.gg/n2wshsy (Lobby Text Channel)

• https://discord.gg/kAUfqQekcx (Office Hours Voice Channel)

• https://discord.gg/JMJdurE2mK (Collabathons Voice Channel)

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