Farset LabsHi Everyone, As a further update to our last post on the topic, we are pleased to announce that starting today, Enthusiast and Freelancer members of Farset Labs are able to obtain free Evorack Virtual Private Servers (VPSs)! Why are you doing this? In collaboration with Evorack, Farset Labs wish to offer our members the tools needed to develop, […]
We’ve been doing our research and we’re going to put in an order for custom embroidered clothing. We’re pretty sure we’ve covered the main items that people will want, but if you really want to get something else done, give me a shout at david (at) farsetlabs.org.uk and I’ll see what can be done. Currently […]
Farset Labs is opening two more Director positions, to bring the total number of Directors to five. Nominations are open from the timestamp of this post until midday on Wednesday 17th April. Nominees must: Nominate themselves. Have been a member for at least three months (not neccessarily in one block). Email david@farsetlabs.org.uk (and CC admin@farsetlabs.org.uk) with […]
A Year ago today, Farset Labs opened it’s doors for the first time. After having spent months in property hunting, and searching for commercial support, and years of community development, with a meagre equipment list, 12 paying members, three (also paying) directors, 2000sqft of dirty, dusty, derelict, (and occasionally, dangerous) workspace and a financial timebomb […]
This past month, we’ve been involved in DCAL’s Creativity Month, in association with Creativity NI. This allowed us to experiment with ways to bring the general maker and creative community together, through our Makers Meetup programme (which we’ll be continuing as a basic social event), the Bring and Buy sale (that was decimated by unprecedented weather), and […]
Monday March 25th @ 1900 in the Event Space It’s that time again, where democracy (otherwise known as “He who shows up, wins”) reigns supreme. We’ll be doing the usual financial reporting, strategic reporting, etc, but this time round, we really want to encourage the membership to raise any issues they’re having with the space, […]
This is going to sound old hat, but here at Farset, we’re all about cultivating an environment where the next generation of technologists can come into their own, but as the old saying goes, to teach is to learn twice. That’s why we are always encouraging not only peer-teaching within the space and at Farset […]
Farset Labs is proud to announce that we will be the first people to bring the amazing Club Mate caffineated soft-drink to the hallowed shores of Northern Ireland. This low-impact, all natural energy drink is renowned within hacker-culture across the globe (having powered the author through a 76 hour straight volunteer-fest at The Next HOPE without any […]
The entire Farset Labs membership were invited to the Town Hall meeting on Saturday the 16th of February, 2013, and a total of 7 active members turned up, with some additional people turning up out of interest. Among the matters of business was one vote and a discussion on all other issues, as detailed below. […]
Farset Labs would like to introduce our latest corporate member, Evorack! Owned and operated by Belfast firm ABPNI Computer Solutions Ltd, and run by our own member Jonny Tripathy (don’t worry, he’s still paying membership as well!), Evorack provides Linux and Windows virtual server hosting solutions based on the open source Xen Hypervisor platform. In […]