Varia's website https://varia.zone
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Title: about
Date: 2017-04-09
Category: about
Slug: about
lang: en
# initiative
*varia* is a Rotterdam based initiative focused on working with, on and through technology. At its core the initiative aims to be a social infrastructure from which to collaboratively facilitate critical understandings on the technologies that surround us. The initiative is a membership-based organisation striving to become a space for questions, opinions, modifications, help and action.
# <a id="offline">space</a>
Gouwstraat 3 <br>
3082 BA, Rotterdam
![floorplan of the space](/images/varia.jpg)
# <a id="contact">contact</a>
mail: info@varia.zone
subscribe to mailinglist: [varia@we.lurk.org](https://we.lurk.org/hyperkitty/list/varia@we.lurk.org/)
# resources
* [Rotterdam Electronica Depot](/red-en.html) - a communal depot for electronic parts and workbench
* Printing facilities
## <a id="online">online resources</a>
*varia* hosts [git repositories](https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/), [books](https://books.vvvvvvaria.org/)(accessible w/o login in Varia itself), [etherpad](https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/) and a [calender](https://cal.vvvvvvaria.org/).
###XMPP
In addition to the above web services *varia* hosts a server for the federated chat protocol XMPP, supporting all the latest features.
<a href='https://check.messaging.one/result.php?domain=vvvvvvaria.org&amp;type=client'>
<img src='https://check.messaging.one/badge.php?domain=vvvvvvaria.org' alt='IM observatory score' />
</a>
<a href='https://compliance.conversations.im/server/vvvvvvaria.org'><img src='https://compliance.conversations.im/badge/vvvvvvaria.org'></a>
###RSS
Subscribe to our RSS feeds, available in [Dutch](http://varia.zone/feeds/all-nl.rss.xml) and [English](http://varia.zone/en/feeds/all-en.rss.xml).
<a href="https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A//varia.zone/feeds/all-nl.rss.xml"><img src="/images/valid-rss-rogers.png" alt="[Valid RSS]" title="Validate my RSS feed" /></a>
# Random varia impressions: