Re: We would like to be an agent for FreeBSD in China

From: Ernie Luzar <luzar722_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2021 13:31:28 UTC
kaik haven wrote:
> Hello!
> We call ourselves the "FreeBSD Chinese Community", a team from China, and
> we have been working to get more people to use FreeBSD in China. Of course,
> we have encountered a lot of problems, such as: Chinese users always have
> trouble installing FreeBSD on their computers, because there is no official
> mirror site, and the closest one to mainland China is in Taiwan, and we
> have no way to connect to an official mirror site for policy reasons; there
> is no official documentation in Chinese for users to review, and the
> website for the official Chinese documentation translation project is There
> is no official Chinese documentation available to users, and the official
> Chinese documentation translation project website is inaccessible and
> unmanaged; there is no unified mainland China user group or foundation to
> help mainland FreeBSD users. We have contacted you and the University of
> Science and Technology of China LUG has offered to mirror FreeBSD and be
> one of the official mirror sites, but in the end, no one cared and it went
> away.
> Also, we would like to be an agent for FreeBSD in China and contribute to
> the FreeBSD open source community by providing mirror sites, Chinese
> documentation translations, etc. for Chinese FreeBSD users in China.
> 

All your problems are caused by the china government not allowing 
internet contact to the world internet. Remove that censorship and your 
welcome to the FreeBSD community.