After several years of slow improvements, we’ve met the crew at Infinity Labs and started collaborating together to further develop our hosting and digital services. We are proud to announce our merge with Infinity Labs to continue delivering top quality services!

We contributed numerous amount of development for Fair Coop and sysadmin for Bank of the Commons were we gained experience on operating cryptoservers and insights of internal banking an Fintech operations

We are proud of having developed a beautiful and exceptional frontend for Flyp.me

We’ve developed a social network based on Lorea/n-1.cc (Elgg) for the rural producers to share knowledge and information about their work on productive farms around the country. Unfortunately, the project was shut down with the change of government in 2015 and all the work was lost :-/

After offering an audiovisuals and media streaming workshop at the CAC during LabSurLab 2nd edition, we’ve driven into the deep Colombia to share with the Nasa indigenous community at Radio Pa’Yumat, in Santander de Quilichao, our knowledge on how to stream with Free Software.

We offered a workshop at the Wikipedia, for MAMM (Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín) in Colombia, teaching how to do streaming with free software. The workshop was in charge of our founder in collaboration with August Black

After acquiring knowledge on Django framework development, we decided to re-write our control panel on top of it, with the idea of onboarding more developers in the future. Unlike most existing control panels, by basing our code on Django, it would mean Django-skilled developers would find it easier to understand and therefore contribute.

A new residency for a month at the Net Culture Lab in Dornbirn, Austria, where we re-coded the Burn Station from scratch replacing Burn Station with PyGame framework

Xicnet collaborated on the setup of the first intercontinental civil WiFi link between Africa (Tanger) and Europe (Tarifa) as part of a pretty emblematic event about migration conflicts in Southern Europe called Fadaiat. There is a great documentary from Odisea -TVE (Televisión Española)- called En busca de hackers (Searching for hackers) which gives a great insight of what a hacker is, contrary to a criminal as massively advertised on the media, as well as showing us in action towards human rights. After Fadaiat, together with Platoniq, we’ve started developing the Burn Station; a free music copying station 1oo% Free Software, including the audio codec: OGG/Vorbis instead of proprietary MP3.

Since the 1st of January 2003, we did once a week through the whole year, the most spaced out gatherings called Optiq Syndicate putting VJs, DJs, musicians and producers together, streaming the sessions live, with many people connecting from around the world. We’ve also set up part of the temporary media centers together with Indymedia Europe, during the G8 and WSIS Summits in Geneva, Switzerland, expanding our streaming experience.

We met the crew at Riereta.net and started hosting their projects and created Riereta Radio, which later evolved into a network of online radios called R23.cc. Many hackers and artists passed through our hacklab in the heart of Barcelona’s Raval, and a lot of collaborations started with many people from across all Europe.

After settling the initial codebase of our control panel as a PHP backend to manage the LDAP-based authentication system and let users self-manage their accounts, we decided a name and registered Xicnet.com. Check the whois record. Since then, we started providing email and web hosting to small businesses and individuals.

Ramiro Cosentino and Germán Gutierrez, Xicnet co-founders, met while working in Buenos Aires at ‘Desarrollos Digitales S.A.’ in 1999, one of the the main ISP hosting companies in Argentina at that time. There they starting shaping the ideas of running their own hosting infrastructure, and begun developing their first steps.