Swarthmore College Computer Society
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The Swarthmore College Computer Society, or SCCS, is a campus organization at Swarthmore College, a small liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. The SCCS is a student-run organization independent of the official ITS department of the college. There are very few organizations like it in the entire country.
In addition to operating a set of servers that provide e-mail accounts, Unix shell login accounts, server storage space, and webspace to students, professors, alumni, and other student-run organizations, the SCCS hosts over 100 mailing lists used by various student groups, and over 130 organizational websites, including the website of the student newspaper, The Phoenix. The SCCS also provides a number of spaces that are open to members of the student body, as well as to faculty and staff:
- A computer lab of Debian Linux and Mac OS X machines
- A meeting space
- A specialized library of computer books
- An 8-foot projection screen with DVD, VCR, PlayStation 2, NES, Atari, and other gaming systems
- A digital darkroom with color calibrated negative scanning, editing and archival printing
The SCCS is comprised of a select group of student volunteers, who spend many hours each week on keeping all of the services running.
