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Mr. Eduard Elias (right) receiving the 2004 Honour Member
The Mr. Eduard Elias (right), dean of the
"Col.legi Official d'Enginyeria en
Informàtica de Catalunya", was elected
"2004 Honour Member". Promoter and
instigator of the Catalan Association of
Engineers in Computer Science (ACEI), he
was some of the craftsmen of the creation of
the Official School of Engineering in
Computer Science of Catalonia.
This Honour Member recognizes years of
dedication of the technology association and
the effort to attain a regularization of the
profession.
His forces and dedication has allowed the
creation of the "Col.legi Official
d'Enginyeria en Informàtica de Catalunya ".
Arrange of this, Aujac want to give him this honour member, in 16 of April 2004, in the UNICA University.
2005 Honour Member
Associació per a Joves TEB, receives on 15 April 2005, during the closing ceremony of "III Jornades Java
Catalanes", the "2005 Honour Member".
With this distinction it is wants to recognize the effort and dedication carried out, for this entity, that have
demonstrated its contribution to the growth and development of information society in zones where the youngsters
live in situations of exclusion, and where the new technologies could not be another barrier.
It is from this project, and other important project like Xarxa-Òmnia, RavalNet and a long list of projects that they
have acted how authentic dynamic social agents and of bridges of cohesion there where bags of social exclusion
could be produced.
Dissolution
According to the agreements taken in the last General Assembly of Members, on Tuesday, 24 October 2006 at 20:00
hours, was approved by over ot the two third parts of the votes, the dissolution of the association.
The reasons that brought to the dissolution were mainly two, as they were explained at the meeting:
• The little support on the part of the implied companies, and especially of the matrix company, Sun
MicroSystems, which finally cut the capital funding of the entity.
• On the other hand, the problem of the technological voluntarism, in Catalonia, a concept that has just not been
understood by the society.
• The people associate the technology with affairs of materialist look, where always to take out a benefit and this
entails that there are few people willing to collaborate if there is not an economic incentive a lot.
• And on "collaborating", we understand in an active and constant contribution way.
• The technological voluntarism must be to grow and to be something more than to participate in the
development of a software or to participate in the net without going out from home.
This close a cycle where AUJAC was the most important non-enterprise entity that promotes the diffusion of Java.