November is here, and we are officially in the second year of our regular updates! Join the new events - participation is always welcome.

Debian & Stuff - Saturday November 2nd @ 10:00 - 17:00

It has happened - Debian & Stuff returns to FOULAB on the 2nd of November. An opportunity to chat Debian and the rare FOULAB open day - will you join it?

“Debian & Stuff” are informal gatherings of the local Debian community in Montreal to work on things related to Debian - or not. Come talk to us or work on an interesting project: everyone is welcome!

Wednesday Mesh Evening - Wednesday November 6th @ 19:00 - 22:00

The mesh networking struggle continues! Last month, we experimented with our first HaLow chips - this month, we’re looking to build links.

The Wednesday Mesh Evening is a Wednesday evening event dedicated to mesh networking in all its forms. From discussing it, researching and testing alternative network topologies, to practical exercises in deploying peer-to-peer infrastructure in FOULAB and around it.

As usual, kryma is hosting. Come build a new internet with us?

F0UL4B HACKERSPACE PROJECT NIGHT - Tuesday November 12th @ 20:00 - 22:00

Do you have four months’ worth of projects gestating on your shelf for too long? Are you craving a deadline to show your latest and greatest work in a big way? Good news for you, then - the project night is back.

The quarterly HACKERSPACE PROJECT NIGHT is an event dedicated to you - yes, you - and your projects. Bring your newest hobby in and show it off to an audience of hackers, or come in to watch what the rest of FOULAB has been cooking up. Either way, it’s going to be a creative blast.

Hosting the night is the legendary majir himself - folk tales say he wrote his own WASM compiler using a Lisp development environment and a can of beer.

Creative Recycling: Making Art with Scrap Material - Saturday November 16th & Sunday November 17th @ 19:00 - 22:00

Missed your chance in October? Creative Recycling returns for another round! Join the team and create some awesome sculptures with materials you got for free with food.

Creative Recycling is a semi-recurring workshop that shows how to creatively incorporate refuse plastic and aluminum into aesthetically pleasing sculpture. The workshop is entry level - students with no previous experience are welcome to attend.

Local artist stuntman (also known as @jonjonanimation) invites you to bring your creativity out. Turn your trash into treasure, today.

Warhammer Night 6 - Tuesday November 19th @ 20:00 - 22:00

Another Warhammer night! Join our lively mix of wargamers, sculptors, and 3D printers. Fight with your minifigures - or tune them up to be real fancy.

Warhammer Nights are a recurring event dedicated to the Warhammer series, and similar strategic tabletop wargames that we play over the course of an open night.

der_moderne_man invites you to fight once again - are you bad enough to take on the challenge?

FOULAB Monthly Meeting - Thursday November 21st @ 20:00 - 21:30

Last meeting was all about updates. An update on the museum and its wonderful new shelves, an update on the bathroom (being worked on). This time, let’s finish some infrastructure renovations.

This public night will have a special time slot for an organizational meeting. Join us to talk about FOULAB - make your voice heard on things that matter most.

Welding curious? - Saturday November 23rd @ 13:00 - 17:00

Always wanted to try arc welding, but the money and time commitment held you back? Worried about blinding yourself or burning the house down? Come on down and give it a try with us! We will thoroughly discuss welding safety, and explain the different arc welding processes. You’ll get to join weld some metal together and make a small project!

Required - wool, cotton or other fire resistant clothing that you don’t mind damaging. Long sleeves, long pants and closed footwear. Be ready to tie back long hair and remove dangling jewellery. Work boots not required but won’t hurt. We provide other PPE but you are welcome to bring your own. strawdog is hosting.

Please RSVP here.

Killed by Dice Presents: Three Sixteen IV - Sunday November 24th @ 16:00 - 19:00

We return to another session of Three Sixteen - an easy game about being a space marine, and a guaranteed afternoon of fun for everyone participating.

This is a regular collaboration between the NDG tabletop roleplaying group Killed by Dice and FOULAB. RSVP to join us for a monthly open game - slots are limited.

With der_moderne_man playing as a ton of deadly aliens, Earth’s ambitious colonization project cannot advance without you. Join the crew!

Open-source HVAC/PPE afternoon hangout - Saturday November 30th @ 15:00 - 18:00

The first HVAC/PPE afternoon is officially a thing! Join fellow enthusiasts and talk about your achievements. Have you installed solar to passively cool your house in an eco-conscious way? Are you heating your apartment with a Bitcoin rig in the winter? Do you consider chemical warfare protection when choosing your wardrobe for the day? We want to hear it.

This is an experimental gathering with the aims to bring together people interested in air quality control, temperature regulation, and other atmospheric safety measures - whether on a scale of one person or a whole building. HVAC and PPE enthusiasts welcome - as is anyone who is interested in the topic.

June has come - and with it, the summer has started! Feeling the heat yet? That’s a fantastic new month the lab is cooking up.

Sunday Mesh Morning III - Sunday June 5th 9th @ 10:00 - 13:00

An ongoing exploration of mesh networking and decentralized infrastructure hosted by none other than kryma and the team.

Come join the crew - get mesh networking software on your laptop, and maybe even set a piece of lab infrastructure up!

Warhammer Night - Tuesday June 11th @ 19:00 - 21:00

A community of Warhammer enthusiasts is slowly assembling at Foulab. Seems those minis are just irresistible, huh?

Come join der_moderne_man’s charge to secure a little event for the tiny plastic soldier appreciators. 3D prints and plamods welcome!

FOULAB Monthly Meeting - Saturday June 15th @ 15:00 - 17:00

Meeting time! Let’s get some pizza going and discuss how the lab has been running so far. Make your voice heard - members, users, and the Foulab public is welcome and encouraged to attend!

Among topics to discuss are upcoming conferences and conventions, making the space all nice, and potential new projects to integrate into the lab.

Killed by Dice Presents: Three Sixteen - Sunday June 16th @ 16:00 - 19:00

der_moderne_man, Foulab’s resident game master and Killed by Dice operator, brings a Space Marine sort of adventure to the lab. Fight with honor and fulfil your duty as a citizen in a tabletop RPG heavily inspired by Starship Troopers. Enlist today on Eventbrite - spots are limited!

Wiki Night - Tuesday June 18th @ 20:00 - 20:30

The Wiki Night has been going great! Last time, we were connecting isolated pages to the main Foulab wiki graph. Want to do some documentation in a cool way? Join our documentation overlord eigma for the most fun 30 minutes you can have with a community-run encyclopedia.

Demonstration of Resilient Infrastructure Through Open Sessions (aka Infrastructure Night) - Tuesday June 25th @ 20:00 - 22:00

One system administrator is too little for a big thing like Foulab. You can be a system administrator, too! Join eigma and a few other interested parties as we train green rookies and pros alike to become hardened hackerspace maintainers.

Another event is to be announced later in the month.

May is upon us! Let’s start with a big announcement.

FOULAB Does Gamedev v1 - a month-long SMBX level design collab

With support of four generous sponsors, we are launching a month-long platformer game collab fest.

Your goal is simple. Make a level for a classic platformer game, the first work of the famous indie developer Redigit, Super Mario Bros. X.

You can download the game here. (A faithful Linux port with a lesser editor is available here, and a fan-made continuation lives on here )

Why make a level? Well, it has been agreed that for every unique Foulaber that makes a level*, each of the sponsors will pitch in $5 to the lab - a total of $20. Twenty dollars - and your mark on a grand piece of Foulab art. Want to support the space and flex your creative muscles in the meantime? Get making! Don’t want to do that? Get your friends making! We are situated in the ~UUDDLRLRBAStart channel in Mattermost.

(*donation extends up to a maximum of 20 participants involved)

The work will be released as a collab album later in the year.

Sunday Mesh Morning II - Sunday May 5th @ 10:00 - 13:00

kryma and the mesh team are up to their usual again. Join a team of ragtag enthusiasts and make computers talk to each other.

We will install Linux on new routers, and try to get a nice high-speed Foulab node for our local network project KULUPU. Join us?

Intro workshop for FOULAB Does Gamedev v1 - Tuesday May 7th @ 19:30 - 21:00

How do I join Foulab Does Gamedev? Can I make a level, too? What’s a mario?

Let’s answer those questions together - drop by our space with a laptop for a quick run-through of how to install the collab game, how to navigate the gameplay and the editor controls, and even how to make a small level yourself! Any OS welcome.

FOULAB Monthly Meeting - Saturday May 11th @ 15:00 - 17:00

An inside look at FOULAB’s kitchen awaits you at this meeting. Join as as we discuss administrative details and all sorts of nitty-gritty operation that keeps the lab running, and the nights open.

No need to be a member, or even register! Sit in and learn about the lab’s day-to-day - or make your opinions known!

Scrap Sculpture Workshop II - Tuesday May 14th @ 19:00 - 23:00

By popular demand, the sculpture workshop from February returns! stuntman, our local artist and part-time mech, presents another workshop on turning plastic scrap into art. Come and make something beautiful - walk-ins welcome!

Killed by Dice Presents: InSpectres - Sunday May 19th @ 16:00 - 19:00

Killed by Dice and der_moderne_man return with another banger. Have you ever seen Ghostbusters? Up for a light-hearted, hilarious tabletop RPG featuring a squad of paranormal exterminators out on a mission?

Meet up with old friends, connect with new ones. This is the perfect event for someone new to Foulab - or even to Montreal! Tickets are limited - register here if you’d like to attend!

Edited to amend: the correct date is May 19th, not 26th as mistakenly published before.

Wiki Night - Tuesday May 21st @ 20:00 - 20:30

FOULAB’s infrastructure operator and archivist eigma invites you for another wiki night - where we read the articles of the wiki of old, and write new ones as we see fit. Join our thirty-minute flow of information - let’s document the lab!

We’ll also be visiting OSHWA - a summit for open hardware artists and hobbyists taking place this month in Montreal. Swing by our booth!

Hi, all.

The more involved of you may remember that insuring the lab, and keeping it insured, is no easy task. This time, to keep rates manageable, our partner organization has required us to re-evaluate our public image. From now on, we have been asked to refrain from using a certain term that describes illegal cybersecurity bypassing. This term is banned from our Mattermost starting now; we are working on updating the site content.

The rest of the Fablab experience is not expected to change much. It’s still a makerspace, so you’ll be able to build projects, hang out, and socialize with your peers just like before.

Have a nice spring, everyone!

Another month of Foulab is upon us! Come take a look at what is brewing around the space. Join it perhaps?

Museum Development Session - Tuesday February 6th @ 19:00 - 23:00

A big proposal has been brewing in our community for a while now.

The plan? Double the museum’s size, and let the public have a sitting spot where they can enjoy retro computers at their leisure.

This February, join us for a joint workshop and public feedback session where you can give some input to the new ambitious project’s future. Hosted by the talented computerbomb, it’s sure to be a blast.

Creative Recycling: Making Art with Scrap Material - Tuesday February 20th & Thursday February 22nd @ 19:00 - 22:00

stuntman, a local cyberpunk artist, is looking to share his expertise in unconventional sculpture and recycling as an artform. Join us for a two-part workshop during our open nights, and learn a thing or two about sculpting from a professional.

After all, why buy materials when you get them for free with almost every purchase?

Killed by Diodes Presents: Remember Tomorrow - Sunday February 25th @ 16:00 - 19:00

Our ongoing collaboration with Killed by Dice’s der_moderne_man continues. This month, we are enjoying an exciting session of Remember Tomorrow - an unusual cyberpunk storytelling game set in the slightly different near future.

As usual, click here to RSVP. Slots are limited.

KDE 6th Megarelease Launch Party - Friday March 8th @ 18:00-22:00

Have you heard? A new major release of KDE Plasma is coming out! Swing by for an extra open night in its honour - we will discuss new features, demo some KDE apps, and try to get as many people as we can onto the Path of the Gear.

Pizza? We got that.

Customizability? We got that.

Join our cool technomancer cult software community.

FOULAB Monthly Meeting - Saturday March 16th @ 15:00 - 17:00

Another monthly organizational meeting comes. Points of discussion - moving forward, financial transparency, museum. Possibly even reviving our community file storage?

These meetings are open to everyone - drop by even if you’re not a hardcore Foulaber! We like the company.

HACKY HOLIDAYS

Saturday December 23rd @ 18:00 - 21:00

Do you love the GREEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHZZZZZZZZZZHHHHHHHHHH noise of the dot-matrix printer? Do you want to make cool lo-fi pixelated greeting cards for your loved ones?

Come to COOP Recyborg on the night of Saturday, December 23rd starting at 6PM and we will show you how to print these cards on a real Apple IIe computer and Apple ImageWriter II printer from the mid-80s!

This is a mask-mandatory event (N95 or better).

Held in conjunction with Recyborg. Special thanks to @computerbomb, Curator of the Foulab museum, without whom this would not have been possible! He will be co-presenting the workshop with me, Kastora, The Witch of the Wires.

COOP Recyborg is located at Bâtiment 7, rue 1900 le Ber, Suite C, on the 57 and 71 bus lines.

Accessibility information:

• Masking is required (N95 or better), however, unmasked customers will have been in the space earlier in the day during business hours.
• N95 masks in three sizes are available at the door.
• The space is on the ground floor and wheelchair accessible. A shallow-grade ramp leads up from the street near wheelchair-accessible bus stop to a walkway along the side of the building to our south door.
• The 71N and 57E stop a few meters away north of the ramp at stop 53029.
• The 71S and 57O stop one block south of the ramp and across the street at stop 53030.
• The 71S and 57O leave from Charlevoix metro. The 71N leaves from Lasalle metro. The 71S also leaves from Lionel-Groulx metro.
• Not all buses on the route have front ramps. Please check the linked STM schedules linked above the day of the event to see which buses do.
• You can also arrive to the north side of the building by car, where there is a curb, unfortunately with no curb cut. It is accessed through the parking lot at 1830 le Ber. We will try to get a ramp for this side before the event, and this page will be updated if we get one.
• There is a wheelchair-accessible bathroom, but access to all bathrooms requires exiting the space and going back along the walkway to another entry about 70m.

• CO₂ levels are quite low in the space, because it’s a drafty old warehouse. That’s good!
• It’s cold in the space, because it’s a drafty old warehouse. The temperature will be around 16ºC. That’s bad! Expect to keep your coat on.

If time and ink permit, we may even get to make BANNERS

This event is FREE, no registration required

Saturday December 23rd @ 18:00 - 21:00

Est-ce que vous aimez les sons ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZHHHHHHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGG des imprimantes dot-matrix des années 80? Est-ce que vous aimeriez fair les cartes de souhaite genre lo-fi pixel rétro pour vos proches?

Venez chez le COOP Recyborg le samedi 23 décembre dès 18h le soir et nous vous montrons comment faire ces cartes aven un vrai ordinateur Apple IIe et une imprimante Apple ImageWriter II qui date dès années mi-80!

Les masques N95 ou mieux sont requises pour toutes les participantes.

Faite en conjunction avec Recyborg grace à l’aide du conservateur de la musée de Foulab, dit @computerbomb, sans lesquelles cette événement n’aurait être pas possible! Il présentera cette événement avec moi, Kastora, la so(u)rcière des fils.

Le COOP Recyborg est situé à Bâtiment 7, rue 1900 le Ber, suite C, sur les lignes d’autobus 57 et 71.

Consignes sur l’accessibilité:

• Les masques (N95 ou mieux) sont obligatoire, mais avant l’événement, il y a des clients non-masqué(e)s dans l’espace pendent la journée de travail.
• Les masques N95 en trois grandeurs sont disponible à la porte.
• L’espace est sur la rez-de-chaussée et accessible en fauteuil roulant. Une rampe avec pente peu profond vient du trottoir proche des arrêts d’autobus à une passage plat et ensuite à notre porte.
• L’arrêt 53029 pour les autobuses 71N et 57E est quelques metres au nord de la rampe.
• L’arrêt 53030 pour les autobuses 71S et 57O est un coin de rue au sud à l’autre barre.
• Les autobuses 71S et 57O départ de la station Charlevoix. Le 71N départ de la station Lasalle. Le 71S départ aussi de la station Lionel-Groulx.
• Pas touts les autobuses ont une rampe d’avant, veuillez checker sur les liens en haut pour vérifier avant que vous partez.
• Vous pouvez aussi arriver en voiture au côté nord du bâtiment. Il y a un trottoirs sans rampe de hauteur d’environ 12cm ou 15cm. C’est accessible par le 1830 le Ber. J’essai de trouver une rampe avant l’événement, si j’en retrouverai un je fais un mise à jour ici.
• Il y a une salle de bain accessible mais l’accès aux toutes les salles de bain sont à l’extérieur de l’espace, il faut sortir et reculer vers la façade de l’edifice environ 70m.

• Le niveau de dioxyde de carbone dans l’espace est faible parce ce que c’est un ancien entrepôt avec beaucoup des courants de l’air dedans. C’est bon!
• La temperature est basse parce que c’est un ancien entrepôt avec beaucoup des courants de l’air dedans. Ça fait mal! Il faut prévoir garder son manteau.

S’il nous rester assez de temps et de l’encre, nous pouvons faire aussi des BANNIÈRES

Cette événement est GRATUIT, aucune inscription requise

Exciting news this month! Members and friends of Foulab are planning some November events - and the more days pass, the closer we get.

Saturday November 18th @ 19:00 - 21:00

A Trivia night? True Foulabers remember - our very own kida used to host a recurring get-together of trivia-inclined minds to keep us together during COVID.

It returns the third Saturday of November, in person at Foulab. Come join us for a treat of an evening!

Sunday November 19th @ 10:30 - 17:00

Another partnership with a friendly organization, an open Sunday full of Debian & Stuff is happening on the 19th. An all-day gathering of Linux enthusiasts and whatever friends would like to come by? Definitely worth it to check it out, if you have a Sunday free.

Saturday November 25th @ 15:00 - 17:00

We are going have an organizational meeting. It’s a great way to get yourself involved in the local community - and get a peek at the near future of Foulab while you’re at it! Swing by, if you’re interested.

Sunday November 26th @ 15:00 - 19:00

Killed by Dice, a tabletop roleplaying community hosted by Foulab’s der_moderne_man, humbly invites you to join a public session of Mothership - a nail-biting sci-fi RPG centered around a horror from outer space. …Gulp. The situation needs urgent player help - please RSVP here, slots are limited!