We have something great to announce!
Together with a bunch of cool people, we developed www.prikbord.page: A collective web calendar for underground venues & creative spaces in Rotterdam.

Want to join with your venue? That's possible!!
The official launch is at Roodkapje West on May 29. Check www.roodkapje.org (or prikbord...) for more info.

Neocities is back next week on Tuesday night, May 19!
Join us at .zip (Rotterdam) or at @sickhouse (Enschede) to work on your personal site.

No more brainrot or SLOP, let's handcode websites again and join the community of the Indie Web!

May 19 - 6-10 pm
Free entrance. Come whenever you want, but if you need some introduction and help, please come at 6!
Bring your own laptop, food and drinks.

More info: zipspace.nl/agenda

Last Neocities Coding Night on Tuesday was a blast! Thank you all for joining irl and online.
And thank you @kajou for co-hosting.
From now on, @sickhouse will join through video portal in the upcoming coding nights!
See you at the next one? Again, making a website is not hard if you're doing it together! ✨

Next dates are:
May 19 - 6-10pm
June 16 - 6-10pm

Join us for a very special edition of Neocities Coding Night on Tuesday April 21!
We are teaming up with @sickhouse in Enschede to turn our web coding night into a hybrid event: Join us live at .zip or via video portal at Sickhouse! ✨

Next to that, special guest @kajou will talk about her ongoing research and the connection between magical thinking, web craft and rabbit holing — and how they can counter online fascism and homogenisation.

DATA WALK 🛰 (Testing) CameraSpotter
Hosted by Centre for BOLD Cities
@.zip

13 April 14:00 – 16:00
23 April 13:00 – 15:00

🌐 Sign up for one of the test moments via email to Arthur the Jaeger at [email protected]

We invite you to join us in mapping cameras in Rotterdam North. These mapping activities not only help us to identify CCTV cameras but also invite participants to reflect on the mapping app we developed for creating a public camera register for Rotterdam.

https://www.meetup.com/camera-spotting-tour/events/314036745/

Upcoming at .zip Tuesday night, March 17.
Neocities Coding Night!

Never have time for your personal website? You want to bring back the old web? Build one at .zip ✨
During the coding night, we'll help each other out with HTML and CSS issues and have a great time.

Free entrance.
More info: zipspace.nl/agenda

Let's make the web whimsical again by building our own personal sites!
In this monthly meet-up, we'll build "digital gardens" on Neocities. New to HTML or well-seasoned veteran? Everyone is welcome between 6 - 10pm on Tuesday Feb 17.
Roos tackles your craziest HTML/CSS problems. And she'll kiss your site on the forehead.

BYOF / BYOD and bring your laptop!
More info: https://zipspace.nl/neocities6

Unconference: Technology in Public Spaces

Join us for an event that brings together diverse perspectives on smart technologies and community needs in Rotterdam’s public spaces.

Jan 29, 2026 -- 18:45 - 21:25
@Auditorium, het Timmerhuis, Rotterdam
More info: https://zipspace.nl/agenda

Mod The Sims with Rosa Zangenberg

During Mod The Sims! you will learn how to make an object from scratch in blender and all the steps required to make it a functional, game ready item to add to your Sims game! In this workshop we will make a shift, from being gamers to creators, and reshape The Sims 4 into exactly what we want;

Practical information:

Date: 24/01/2025
Time: 11:00-21:00 (including a lunch and a dinner break)

Admission: Free

Sign up via hello(at)zipspace.nl

Right before the end of the year, we have some fantastic news to share 🌈
.zip received the Professionalisation and practice development Grant from Stimuleringsfonds, which means we can focus on structured programming in the next year!
Keep an eye out for updates while we get busy on reshaping the "Dirty Space". Jack Bardwell will coach us on the physical renovation, while Dorian Kingma will guide us on our inner renovation. <3

Read the report here: https://www.stimuleringsfonds.nl/en/news/professionalisering-en-praktijkontwikkeling-19-projecten-geselecteerd