Farset Labs
The following is a combined position paper and call-to-action for a project that many of us have been working on behind the scenes for a long time now, especially Andrew Mulholland who’s taken over the operation of the Raspberry Jam programme. Andrew and I collaborated on this document to put forward our plans for a […]
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On Saturday July 19th, we’re opening up the space from 1pm to 5pm to all kinds of hacking and making around the Raspberry Pi in the form of a Raspberry Jam Raspberry Jam is a rapidly growing global network of user groups that meet every month to support hobbyists, developers, teachers, students, children and families – in […]
At last month’s Town Hall, our proposal for the creation of a Non-Executive Manager (NEM) role within Farset was ratified unanimously by the community, and as such has been added to the Operations Manual (that link may break in the next few weeks, please let us know if we don’t notice it!). TL;DR NEMs are […]
We are excited to announce that Coderdojo will be starting up again on the Friday the 24th of January. All the dates for Coderdojo until Easter are now on the Eventbrite ready for you to book your place. As you maybe aware last year we did survey asking for your opinion on Coderdojo. The results […]
Our long running, Ignite / Petcha Kutcha -minus-the-presentations-plus-a-giant-blackboard-and-foam-projectiles speaker series is back, with a slightly festive feel! Normal rules apply; Speakers have 7 minutes to talk about something they’re passionate about, with audience heckling encouraged, and the opportunity for a few more minutes of Q&A after at the compères discretion. This time around, the wonderful […]
A few weeks ago we sent out survey requests to anyone who’d attended (and registered) to our CoderDojo programme since day one. This was so we could get a better handle on what we were doing well, and maybe not so well, and was also intended to answer one simple question; which day is better […]
Folks, we just got word that there’s been a slow leak from the unit above us and it’s blown some circuits and appliances within the infrastructure (CCTV/Network/etc). Nothing major was lost or damaged but as a precaution until we can clear the rest of the grid, we’ll be tearing away at the electrics to make […]
What’s on Offer? FREE “IT for Business” training sessions down at Farset Labs – Weavers Court. Who is eligible? Anyone who is self employed or working in a trading business with less than 50 employees Participants are required to commit to attending at least 6 of the sessions over the next few months. When are sessions […]
What’s on Offer? FREE “IT for Business” training sessions down at Farset Labs – Weavers Court. Who is eligible? Anyone who is self employed or working in a trading business with less than 50 employees Participants are required to commit to attending at least 6 of the sessions over the next few months. When are sessions […]