Local experts

Are you helping your friends, community, employer or customers with Free Software such as Linux, OpenOffice, Firefox? Then you should add yourself to this page. NbptGnus can provide you with visibility, and allow you to expand your local network.

FOSS Consultants

• Greg Rundlett = MediaWiki, Drupal, CiviCRM, and other PHP applications; Git, Subversion, Vagrant, Jenkins, JIRA, and other DevOps, Release engineering as well as Database and (free) Software Development best practice technologies.
• Over time, I've come to know personally, or know of many developers. I should begin to put their names here. Guys like Aidan Lister http://www.aidanlister.com/consultant/

Groups or Professional Associations

For recruiters looking to post openings or otherwise source talent, check these websites for "JOBS" lists, or posting facilities, and please follow requested procedures.

Area Linux User Groups

• Boston Linux & Unix BLU
• Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group GHNLUG
• More

Area PHP Groups

• Boston PHP
• Boston Drupal

Global Organizations

• Free Software Foundation
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Linux Foundation
• Linux International
• Open Source Initiative

Free Open Source Software. An attempt to communicate the 'freedom' aspect of free software de-emphasizing the price connotation of 'free'.

Boston Linux & Unix = a Linux User Group in Boston, MA, USA with roots that go back into the days of Unix before Linux was a thing

PHP is the HyperText Preprocessor = the most popular programming language for the web