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title: Digital Chalet Schwanden
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subtitle: The start of Digital Glarus!
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## Introduction
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In 2014 ungleich relocated from the city of Zurich to the canton of
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Glarus. After moving we were so impressed by the landscape and the
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ability to finally work fully concentrated that we wanted to share
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this experience with others.
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The idea of a "Digital Glarus was born.
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From 2014 to 2015 we looked at various locations and settled for an
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19th century house in the pretty village of
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[Schwanden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwanden,_Glarus).
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## The Digital Chalet
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Just two days after opening, the first group came for an offsite
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work-weekend. Just soon after the first students moved into the
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Digital Chalet. Something that many people we talked to doubted.
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Something that many locals did not see is that the canton of Glarus is
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really, really, pretty. Compared to a lot of places in the world. And
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it is also very stable. And it can easily be reached by train, even
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without ever changing from Zurich.
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The longer the Digital Chalet was open, the more we heard from people
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who really love staying here and how they can relax much better than
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in a city.
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## ...leads to Digital Glarus
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After getting so much positive feedback, we decided to grow the
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project, to make the location more known. For that reason we created
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the project "[Digital Glarus](/u/projects/digital-glarus)" with the
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objective to allow people from outside of Glarus to enjoy this place.
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## The first...
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The Digital Chalet is the first of many things. It is
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the first coworking space of Glarus - every! It is also the first
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location of [Digital Glarus](/u/projects/digital-glarus).
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It is probably also the first 19th century
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house in the canton with a 10Gbit/s+ network connection (fiber can do
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more, but we have "only" 10 Gbit/s transceivers installed).
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It is also the place in which we first started with the
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[Data Center Light](/u/projects/data-center-light) prototype.
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It is probably also the first house in the canton to feature
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a LoRaWAN gateway.
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We are not sure if it is the first house that can be
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opened via mobile phone, but it certainly isn't the last.
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## Innovating in Digital Glarus
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As you can see, we are doing quite a lot of new things here in Digital
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Glarus. If you want to relax, hack or work somewhere else or if you
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are a student in Zurich, feel free to join us!
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