Communications

IMAP and POP3 with support SSL and TLS for using with your favourite email client or on-line using the elegantly excellent Roundcube. Mailing lists and discussion groups using the popular GNU Mailman mailing list manager. Syncing and sharing of files, calendars and contacts with Owncloud.

Content Management

Web site hosting and blogs running on Drupal, CiviCRM and Wordpress, Django, Magento, or other Perl, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Java, Kotlin, Go or Python based systems. Streaming and podcasting for Internet radio and TV using Icecast, Red5, Flash Media Server, or Quick Time Streaming Server.

Computing

You can host on our own managed metal, or we can look after your servers for you. Managed scalable Cloud services for distributed computing, dockerised containers, and IoT networks, on a range of providers. We can provide the deployment and DevOps expertise to migrate or manage your bare-metal or cloud systems for you.

Software Development

Software development in PHP, Java, Python, and Go. Distributed cloud application development in AWS (see example). Software engineering and management and coaching in Agile, XP and Lean.

What is Xtreamlab?

XtreamLab provides managed traditional and cloud Internet services running on purely Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) to a range of organisations in the UK with particular emphasis on small to medium sized ethical businesses, community groups, co-operatives, and social projects.

We don't have a social contract per se, but we'll host you if we like you, and we reserve the right not to provide you with services if we don't feel we can, or we don't agree with what it is that you do. No offence, it's just the way it is.

In a previous incarnation, XtreamLab focussed on providing Internet streaming services and received funding from the (now defunct) South-West Regional Development Agency for two ground-breaking events, VENN 2007 and D.R.O.I.D. Prior to this XtreamLab was also involved in streaming for events in London, Bristol and Barcelona. This site is not directly linked to the old versions of XtreamLab, but some of our experience is drawn from them; if you're looking for streaming, we can still do it. Peruse the microsite for D.R.O.I.D: Reality isn't everything.

Client portfolio

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The Bristol Cable

The Bristol Cable is a pioneering media co-operative. We produce a free quarterly magazine, regularly publishing website, and run media training and local events which are free or cheap for members. Our aim is to redefine media ownership, bringing it back from corporate control into the hands of ordinary people.

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Shoal Collective

Shoal is a radical research and writers’ collective which produces news articles, investigative research, opinion, analysis and theoretical writing in support of social movements that aim to bring about social change.

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Star and Shadow Cinema

Star and Shadow Cinema is a volunteer-run DIY space for Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, and the north east UK. It is set up as an open-to-join co-operative housed in a building it owns, dedicated to culture coming from and/or programmed by the grass roots - particularly cinema and music

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Bristol Palestine Film Festival

The Bristol Palestine Film Festival (BristolPFF) began in 2011. Our ambition is to bring Palestine-related cinema, arts and culture to audiences across the UK.

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Bristol Radical History Group

Since 2006 BRHG have organised over 250 events; staging walks, talks, gigs, recreations, films, exhibitions, trips through the archives and fireside story telling. We have several active research projects, publish a range of books and pamphlets and host an archive on our website.

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People's Republic of Stokes Croft

The People’s Republic of Stokes Croft started in 2006, to provide benefit to The Community by promoting the interests of the area, which include creativity, culture and the local economy. The mission of the PRSC is to help Stokes Croft to recognise its special qualities, by improving the streetscape through direct action, and creating a sense of identity.

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HacktionLab

Europe-wide tech-activist collective hosting semi-regular convergences and supporting educational initiatives around tech and its use for community groups, individuals, social movements, and agitators.

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Scalarama

Scalarama is a celebration of cinema, for everyone, by everyone, everywhere, taking place every September.

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Sunseed Desert Technology

A community-led educational centre for transition towards sustainability in Andalusia, Spain. In the beautiful off-grid eco-village of Los Molinos del Río Aguas, our lively international community works and learns together to develop, demonstrate, research and communicate accessible ways to reduce our environmental impact.

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ACORN The Union

ACORN is a Community Union. From housing to public transport, they're bringing people together to fight and win on the issues affecting our communities!

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The Fantasy Orchestra

The Fantasy Orchestra is a community project led by Jesse D Vernon, based in Bristol and also in Paris. The Orchestra (motto: ‘more is more’) brings together 40+ musicians, professional and amateur, to create a kaleidoscopic symphonic brigade.

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Bristol Hackspace

Bristol Hackspace is a place to make things; a community of like-minded individuals centred around our space in Bedminster, Bristol.

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Easton Cowfolk

The Bristol-based Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls aim to oppose discrimination and repression through sport and social activities locally and internationally. Beginning in 1992, the Cowboys and Cowgirls have grown into a large sports and social club with tentacles that have spread throughout the world.

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Leeds Palestinian Film Festival

LeedsPFF's stated ambition is to show outstanding films that shine a light on Palestine, thought-provoking films that challenge one-dimensional views of Palestinians, and compelling films that reach out to wide and diverse audiences about Palestine.

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Fataka

Fataka is dedicated to releasing recordings of small group and solo improvisations with a particular interest in situations where a common musical language has not yet fully emerged.

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Bristol Multi-Faith Forum

Bristol Multi-Faith Forum believes that it is in building understanding, friendship, and cooperation that people of different faiths come to recognize that, while there are differences, we hold a lot of values and hopes in common as well as a conviction that life is a sacred gift.

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Michelle Rice Psychotherapy

Psychodynamic individual and group psychotherapy from central Bristol based practice.

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Lucid Language

ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) courses, training and communication support from Zoey Exley.

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The Diesel and Electric Preservation Group

The Diesel and Electric Preservation Group was formed with the aim of preserving diesel locomotives for the purpose of educating the public about the history of diesel locomotive development, particularly as it relates to the West Country.

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Lady Lucy

Lucy Woollett also known as Lady Lucy – makes paintings, drawings and moving image. Her work is strongly informed by her interest in the social function and value of her activities as an artist and more specifically as a painter. She seeks to find meaning and political application in the process of painting and draws on the art historical lineages of collaborative art practice and portraiture.

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GrrrlGames

Grrrl Games is a supportive peer network for all women working in games. We run a friendly meetup in Bristol and online to show our work and encourage each other in our various roles in the games industry. We aim to meet monthly to share news and keep up with everyone’s professional and personal game projects, as well as having some social time!

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Cinema Nation

Cinema Nation is a queer-led Merseyside based research and innovation Community Interest Company that explores, supports, champions and encourages all forms of film exhibition, especially within community settings.

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Moulin de Latreille

Moulin de Latreille is a restored 13th century water mill built by cistercian monks. Nestled in the silent and timeless valley of the Ouysse river, surrounded by cliffs and wild flower meadows, Latreille offers you the chance to revitalise and lift your spirits.

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Ed Pope History

Oxford historian Ed Pope extensively maps the forgotten from the diary of English journalist, novelist and political philosopher William Godwin. One of the first exponents of utilitarianism and anarchism, Godwin was married to Mary Wollstonecraft, with whom she bore Mary Shelly, the author of Frankenstein. This is an extensive resource and invaluable companion to the Bodleian Library's archive. Wollstonecraft