Open Computing Facility


The Open Computing Facility is an ASUC
chartered program at the University of California, Berkeley, first founded in
1989.
The OCF is an all-volunteer, student-run, student-initiated service group
dedicated to free computing for the greater academic community of the
University of California, Berkeley. Its stated mission is to
provide an environment where no member of Berkeley's campus community
is denied the computer resources he or she seeks, and to appeal to all
members of the Berkeley campus community with unsatisfied computing
needs and to provide a place for those interested in computing to
fully explore that interest. Here, the term
"campus community" does not include all area residents and excludes
those persons without official connection to either the university or
a university-sanctioned
organisation.
As part of the OCF's goal of being open and inclusive, the OCF publishes
its board meeting minutes,
tech talks,
and Unix system administration DeCal materials
online for all to see.
The OCF provides the following services to UC
Berkeley: