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🎬 Filmkväll under QN

Blums 2024

It's time for this year's big volleyball tournament, and this post is actually for the event itself (not the pub). More information and ticket links will be released in this event via blums.dkm.io which, at the time of writing, is not updated yet but will be by Wednesday.

Ticket release is at 8:00 PM on January 31st at the above link. The event will be held at Stockholm Beach Club in Häggvik.

There are 2 different types of entrance tickets, one for the tournament and one for general admission. These are priced around 200-250 SEK. If you want to participate in the tournament, you should buy a tournament ticket (which are limited!). More information will be available on blums.dkm.io and in the event!

Blums Release PARTY!!!

Tagg BLUMS!!! Now it's time for the world's best beach volleyball tournament 🏐and for that we need to host an adequate party to celebrate such a ticket release. You are welcome now on Wednesday (31/1) when we open META:s doors for the first time (for DKM) this year for a Wednesday pub!🥳

Special "På Spåret" Trivia Competition

Next Tuesday (30/Jan) during QN the International Committee will be hosting a special international-themed trivia competition inspired by the classic Swedish TV game show På Spåret! 🚂

There will be free fika 🍪 and pizza for sale 🍕, plus whoever is participating in the competition will get delicious toast 🍞 for free - and the winners will also receive a prize 🏅, of course. Regular QN board games 🎲 will also be taking place simultaneously, so you should come even if you're not sure if you want to participate in the comptition.

See you in META next Tuesday at 17:17!

Saturday Sports: Capture the Flag

Good afternoon Chapter!

Every Saturday from 2 pm to 3 pm we have booked KTH Hallen for the rest of the semester. The idea is that we do some activity/sport for an hour. Everyone is welcome! The primary goal is having fun, not to play super competitively.

This week (Saturday 27th) we will play Capture the Flag 🚩🤾‍♂️🤾‍♀️ for 1 hour. The more the merrier so bring all your friends!

I will try to vary the sports in the following weeks. And please come with suggestions for what we can do!!!

All events are published in our sports group on Facebook.

Hope to see you there! 😊👋

Paradise Motel-gasque

Are you freezing? Tired of the winter? Are you longing for a tropical paradise? Join SpexM at Paradise Motel! A gasque for you who wants to play the game, be entertained by the drama or just enjoy the sea breeze from a sun bed. Both computer science- and media students are welcome! The gasque will be held in Swedish. Tickets will be released in this event on Friday the 2nd of February at 19.00 🌴 Where? META 🌴 Beach? YEEEEEAH 🌴 When? Saturday 17th of February at 18.00 🌴 Dresscode? Ovve/frack or your nicest hawaii shirt 🌴 Price? Non-alcohol 90kr, Half-alcohol 120kr, Full-alcohol 140 kr (Preliminary)

Board Game Night With the International Reception

As usually Tuesday nights from 17:17 in META are board game nights! This Tuesday we are collaborating with the international committee to welcome all the new international students who are weary from their arduous journey here from far away lands. Come show them what we're made of and absolutely demolish them in Dominion, or maybe play a nice relaxing game of Wingspan, or any of QN:s other board games! Tag Monkeys will also be there with the classic melty beads! And of course there will be fika!

See you! /Qulturnämnden

Valhalla Gasque

The sun shines brightly in the sky, the days return to their normal length. Ragnarok is not yet upon us. Raise your jug, oh honorable Viking, and let us feast in the halls of Valhalla! The International Committee welcomes CS and Media to the Valhalla Gasque, on the 27th of January! 🌐 Take a seat in the Æsir’s homestead and fill Asgard with song and toasts together with the exchange students this spring! 🎶🍻

🕕 When? Saturday, 27/1, 18.00 ↖️ Where? META, Osquars backe 21 💰 Entrance fee? 100 kr no alcohol, 140 kr with alcohol (payment at the door) 🎫 Tickets? Here: https://dsekt.se/valhalla ⚔️ Gods? Yes!

NOTE: The gasque will be held in English, but we warmly welcome both Swedish and international guests!

Skating event with the International Committee ⛸️🧊

🌐 The International Reception has kicked off and this Sunday it's time for the new students to take on ice skating (talk about an icebreaker!). Everyone in the section is welcome, so feel free to join and show off your skills on the ice!

❗Skates, helmets and fika will be provided❗

📍 Where? Kungsträdgården ice rink. Walking distance from T-Centralen or Kungsträdgården metro station. ⏱️ When? January 21(this Sunday) 13:00 - 15:00 💸 Costs? Free 🤑 🛄** Packing list**: -Warm clothes (important): Hat, gloves, jacket and -other clothing you might need -Sitting pad -Skates and helmet (if you want to bring your own)

Please don’t bring any clubs or balls/pucks as they’re not allowed on the ice

Saturday Sports: Dodgeball

happy New Year!

Every Saturday from 2 pm to 3 pm we have booked KTH Hallen for the rest of the semester. The idea is that we do some activity/sport for an hour. Everyone is welcome! The primary goal is having fun, not to play super competitively.

This week (Saturday 20th) we will play dodgeball 🤾‍♂️🤾‍♀️ for 1 hour. This Saturday will be extra special because we will be joined by the new international students from the international reception!!! 😍. The more the merrier so bring your friends too! 🎉👫

I will try to vary the sports in the following weeks. And please come with suggestions for what we can do!!!

All events are published in our sports group on Facebook.

Hope to see you there! 😊👋

High School Musical Gasque!!!

Time moves fast and its time for a gasque! Sometimes you just need to take a step back, relish in some nostaliga and break the status quo! This gasque theme isssssss: High School Musical ✨🏀 We're all in this together 💃🏀 📅 When? Saturday, 3rd of February, kl 18:00 📍 Where? META 💸 Price? ~150 kr 🎟️ Tickets? Now: https://forms.gle/uY4RbXZKmqwee5T36 💖 Why? Cause it will be awsome, you can bet on it!

⚠️ This event is aimed at women and non-binary people! The afterparty is open for everyone, the boys are back as soon as the gasque is over⚠️

A Last-Last-DM

The summons, agenda, complementary agenda, and discussion protocol can be found here

Metacraft is back in 10 days! 🤯🥳🚀

Welcome back, METAcrafters! 🥳

TL;DR: METAcraft launches Tuesday 26 of December, 19:00 at mc.datasektionen.se with a massive launch event. Join our Discord and read about the project to stay up to date.

It's been an arduous two years (irl) without any mining and crafting in the chapter, and our crazy events have only made us long for the classic vanilla experience once more. But the wait is finally over: METAcraft will soon make its spectacular return! 🎉

On Tuesday 26 of December, 19:00, METAcraft will open its gates to new and exciting adventures. It will begin with a launch event where you can receive a proper introduction on everything the server has to offer, plus some top secret activities we cannot reveal. Don't miss it!

Read about the server: https://mc.datasektionen.se/ Join our Discord server to not miss a thing: https://discord.gg/MttUbkmeyD Server IP (Java 1.20.2): mc.datasektionen.se

Saturday Sports: Stress (Basketball game)

Hello hello!

Every Saturday from 2 pm to 3 pm we have booked KTH Hallen for the rest of the semester. The idea is that we do some activity/sport for an hour. Everyone is welcome! The primary goal is having fun, not to play super competitively.

This week (Saturday 16th) we will play stress (a type of basketball game🏀) for 1 hour.

This isn't to bribe you to come but there will be some Christmas-themed fika this time 🍪🎅

I will try to vary the sports in the following weeks. And please come with suggestions for what we can do!!!

All events are published in our sports group on Facebook.

Hope to see you there 🙂

Christmas crafts and gingerbread baking with Baking Comittee and Tag Monkeys!

Happy 2nd advent, chapter! Are you itching to do Christmas crafting? Is the exam studying piling up? Do you want more cozy Christmas in your school week? Did you miss out on building gingerbread houses at the previous two events - or can you just not get enough? The Baking Comittee and Tag Monkeys welcome you in from the cold and snow to the warmth of Meta this friday, the 15th of December, from 17.15 for Christmas crafts and gingerbread baking! There'll be all kinds of crafts and decorations, cozy vibes and hot chocolate! No signup required, just Christmas vibes, Welcome! //Baked and DAD

JML Lunch Lecture!

Welcome to a lunch lecture about working with diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace!

An introduction and case study together with Gunnar Risting from Purple Pill, a project developed by Gunnar, John Leijonmarck, and their colleagues, with the purpose of encouraging more men in the workplace to actively work with questions and issues regarding gender.

With its name being a reference to the Matrix metaphor of having the courage to see the truth and taking a stand, the Purple Pill initiative aims to include everyone in the fight against gender inequality.

This event is a collaboration between the Computer Science and Engineering Physics Chapters! Organized by Physics' Equality Committee JämN and Computer Science groups Jämlikhetsnämnden (Equality Committe) and Näringslivsgruppen (Business Relations Group)!

See you there!

The OG pub

This time a year the former students will show current students how it used to go down, aka they will show how to party, old school. 😎😎

It will be a fantastic night tall all the OGs will be welcomed to have great time and talk about how time moves so fast.

There will be great food, great hang and the occasional classic so even if you are not an OG, you're all welcome!

Saturday Sports: The Great Wall of China (tag game)

Hello hello!

Every Saturday from 2 pm to 3 pm we have booked KTH Hallen for the rest of the semester. The idea is that we do some activity/sport for an hour. Everyone is welcome! The primary goal is having fun, not to play super competitively.

This week (Saturday 9th) we will play The Great Wall of China (a type of tag game) for 1 hour.

I will try to vary the sports in the following weeks. And please come with suggestions for what we can do!!!

All events are published in our sports group on Facebook.

Hope to see you there 🙂

A What-A-Year-DM

A What-A-Year-DM will be held at 17:30 on the 14th of December in D35. At the DM, the board will discuss the cohabitation agreement for 2024 and the closing of several projects.

The summons, agenda, and the complementary agenda can be found here

Lynx Hackathon!

Welcome to the Lynx Hackathon! 💻

At the Lynx Hackathon, you will work in teams to create a fully systematic trading strategy based on real market data. Your algorithm will be evaluated in a virtual environment at the end of the event, allowing you to see how your idea would have worked in the real financial market. There will be investment professionals from our research and trading department at your disposal to answer questions and guide you through the process. After the event, there will be dinner and mingle at the office!

For more information and how to apply, go to our website www.lynxhedge.se/hackathon. The website will open for application 1st of December.

Saturday Sports: Tag games (Tail tag etc.)

Hello hello!

Every Saturday from 2 pm to 3 pm we have booked KTH Hallen for the rest of the semester. The idea is that we do some activity/sport for an hour. Everyone is welcome! The primary goal is having fun, not to play super competitively.

This week (Saturday 2nd) we will play tail tag and other types of tag games for 1 hour.

I will try to vary the sports in the following weeks. And please come with suggestions for what we can do!!!

All events are published in our sports group on Facebook.

Hope to see you there 🙂

Mediator 2023

Monday 11th of December 17:30 will be a pub 🍻 and gingerbread house building competition in both META and Tolvan???! 🙀 😵‍💫 🫣.

This is a chance to visit an unfamiliar chapter hall and meet Electro ⚡ MedTek 🩻 Media 🎥 and Data 🤓 students!

The gingerbread house building competition (17:30-18:30) requires cooperation, creativity, and speed and includes relay-race-like elements (why??- ✋Trust us). Everyone who enters the contest gets a free custom ✨ extremely swag 😎 one of a kind 💎 premium patch. Register in dsekt.se/mt23 to get a team (limited places!)

For those who can't make it to the competition, fear not. The pub 🍻 🪩 in META (and maybe Tolvan) is open from 17:30. There you will also be able to buy 💵 patches left over from the competition. You get into the pub for the chapter you do not belong to through our (patent pending) 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 drinking-buddy-system™.

Further details will come closer to the event 👍 👍 👍

METAplace 2023: Dec 4th ~ 11th

During week 49, a blank 128x128 canvas will be open, and anyone can build their masterpiece with a cooldown between each block. Bring all your friends and work together to create and defend your place in this historical moment! Everyone from the Data and Media chapters are welcome to participate at any time during the week, no matter if you are active in the student body or not.

After the week has elapsed, we will be printing out the final result and hang it up in META. It will also be available as a map item in the main server once it opens!

Server IP: event.mc.datasektionen.se (Java 1.20.2) The event begins on December 4th at 5 PM, and ends on December 11th at 5 PM.

Join the Discord server here: https://dsekt.se/metacraft

We'll see you in META (in Minecraft)!

Data's Dance Evening

Welcome to Datas Danskväll (DDK)! On Monday the 27th of October we will continue with the dance evenings and we will focus on Bugg. The goal is for us data scientists to gracefully glide across the dance floor at balls. This will be the last opportunity to practice before the dJubileet, so join us!

On future occasions, we will also have the opportunity to learn salsa, chacha, rumba, foxtrot, jive, lindy hop, tango, slow foxtrot, and quickstep.

(𝐎𝐁𝐒: We couldn't book a room so Joakim will occupy one in the Q-building)

Join us on Monday with or without a partner! Hope to see you then.

/Trang and Joakim

dJulkalendern 2023

dChristmasy greetings D chapter!

It is once again time for Konglig Datasektionen’s yearly CTF competition dJulkalendern! Do you have too much time to study? Exams to procrastinate for? Chapter-work to do some other time? Wonderful! Come and compete for the title Bäst på att DATA™!

A challenge is released every weekday in December (starting this friday!!!) before christmas eve at 12:15 CET. The challenges are cryptic puzzles, hacking and other computer science related things and your task is to solve as many of them, and as fast, as possible! The calendar has an intriguing story that unfolds as you solve each window.

The competition is individual, but a little while after a window has been released it is both allowed and encouraged to cooperate!

The winner receives the title Bäst på att DATA™. There is also an achievement patch for those who solve all windows and those who do it the quickest will receive dJulkalendern-themed T-shirts!

You can now already go to https://djulkalendern.se and solve the introductory window, -1, as well as make sure you understand the system and read the rules!

You should also join our discord server: https://dsekt.se/djul, where you can ask us questions, discuss the windows you have solved and be notified about any possible hints!

Regards, Tomtefar Mathias Magnusson and the rest of the dJul team!

dJulmiddagen 2023

Ho Ho Ho. It’s time for the year’s coziest sitting - dJulmiddagen 2023🤶🤶❄️ Hope everybody’s been good this year because we’ll also have a christmas gift giving!! 🎁🎁All who wants to participate brings a gift of about 50kr value to give to the Santa Clause and through their super secret algorithm will decide what gift you’ll receive. So come and have a super nice evening together with the rest of the chapter.🎄🎄

The christmas dinner will consist of swedish classics such as meatballs, sausages, potatoes (omnom), pickled herring and christmas cheese etc. There’ll of course be vegan and vegetarian alternatives!

Cool information 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞? META 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧? 8th December at 19.00 𝐇𝐨𝐰? In your finest (non-tailcoat or long dress) clothes. No overall! 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐰? Bring a christmas gift to receive another’s christmas gift! 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬? 180kr for alcohol, 150kr for alcohol free

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝟏𝟗:𝟎𝟎 𝐨𝐧 𝟐𝟐𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫. Tickets will be reserved for newly cliffed, Titel24 and Drek. It is released as a Google Forms link in the Facebook event. We will raffle off the tickets to those who sign up within the first 5 minutes, provided that more than the seating capacity sign up within that timeframe.