Information about Chalmers Computer Society
Chalmers Computer Society (in Swedish: Chalmers Datorförening), in short CD, is a students' society at the Chalmers University of Technology, founded in September 1974. Björn Ahlén, Jan Nordén and Olle Wikström were founders and members of the first board. They were offered a mainframe computer from IBM, on the condition that they formed a society to receive that computer.
The purpose of CD is to support the members´ technical interest in computers.
CD is probably the first computer club in the world that owned and operated mainframe computers. In 1974 CD set up the first computing center. Members of CD also designed a number of computers, before it was possible to buy your own personal computer. These have been produced as kits by computer enthusiasts all over Sweden.
On October, 30, 1986, Richard Stallman was awarded honorary life time membership of the Chalmers Computer Society for his inspiring work on free software, especially EMACS and the GNU project. The award was presented to him by the former president Olle Wikström at the by now famous lecture by Stallman at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
It is a member of Nordic University Computer Club. CD was one of the leading players when founding NUCC in 1987, together with the clubs Stacken and Lysator.
The members have frequent meetings where every aspect on computing is discussed. CD is still after more than 30 years a very active society.
The purpose of CD is to support the members´ technical interest in computers.
CD is probably the first computer club in the world that owned and operated mainframe computers. In 1974 CD set up the first computing center. Members of CD also designed a number of computers, before it was possible to buy your own personal computer. These have been produced as kits by computer enthusiasts all over Sweden.
On October, 30, 1986, Richard Stallman was awarded honorary life time membership of the Chalmers Computer Society for his inspiring work on free software, especially EMACS and the GNU project. The award was presented to him by the former president Olle Wikström at the by now famous lecture by Stallman at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
It is a member of Nordic University Computer Club. CD was one of the leading players when founding NUCC in 1987, together with the clubs Stacken and Lysator.
The members have frequent meetings where every aspect on computing is discussed. CD is still after more than 30 years a very active society.
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Motto
(Royal) "För Sverige - I tiden" 1
"For Sweden – With the Times" ²
Anthem
Du gamla, Du fria
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(Royal) "För Sverige - I tiden" 1
"For Sweden – With the Times" ²
Anthem
Du gamla, Du fria
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Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated "rms",[1] is a software freedom activist, hacker,[2] and software developer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project[3]
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Free software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things.
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Maintainer: GNU Project
OS: Cross-platform
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License: GNU General Public License
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OS: Cross-platform
Available language(s): English only
Use: Text editor
License: GNU General Public License
Website: www.gnu.
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The GNU Project is a free software, mass collaboration project, announced in 1983 by Richard Stallman. It initiated the GNU operating system, software development for which began in January 1984. GNU is a recursive acronym that stands for "GNU's Not Unix".
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Royal Institute of Technology or Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (KTH) is a university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH was founded in 1827 and is with TKK in Helsinki, depending on definition, Scandinavia's largest institution of higher education in technology and one of the leading
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The Nordic University Computer Club (NUCC) is a loose umbrella organization consisting of the computer clubs at the different Nordic universities. NUCC's main activity is the Nordic University Computer Clubs Conference (NUCCC), held annually since 1987.
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Stacken is an extracurricular computer society at KTH in Stockholm, Sweden. The society was founded in 1978, and uses an ex-terminal room as its place of residence. The society is open to both students and personell at KTH, and has regular meetings on Thursday evenings.
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Lysator is an academic computer club at Linköping University, Sweden with roughly 500 members. Lysator put up the first web server in Sweden in February 1993, among the first 10–15 in the world.
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