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:
 * A Linux computer lab
 * Webhosting for individuals and student groups
 * Linux shell access
 * Email forwarding
 * Limited free printing per day and per semester
 * Software mirrors of popular Linux distributions and open source projects, available over rsync, http, and https
 * A Unix system administration DeCal