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.

New England FOSS Consultants

• Benjamin Melan�on Agaric helps people create and use powerful web sites.
• Bill McGonigle BFC Computing provides consulting on open source software, Internet architectures, digital security, and network infrastructure as well as providing software development services, system administration, on-call and as-needed support services and dynamic website development.
• Dave Tufts Imarc, a full-service digital agency with a strong focus on custom web and mobile solutions. Their 'handbook' is an excellent resource and exemplifies their leadership.
• Greg Rundlett eQuality Technology = 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.
• Tom Metro The Perl Shop predictable on-demand perl consulting.

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