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[[!meta title="About us"]] | ||
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## The mission | ||
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The OCF is an all-volunteer, student-run, student-initiated service group | ||
dedicated to free computing for all [University of California at | ||
Berkeley][berkeley] students, faculty, and staff. The mission of the OCF 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. | ||
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## What do we do? | ||
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The Open Computing Facility provides free computing services to student, | ||
faculty, and staff, ranging from free printing to expiration-free web | ||
space to Unix shell accounts to email. Furthermore, the OCF operates a | ||
highly frequented long-hours computing lab with a generally high | ||
volunteer-staff-to-user ratio for accessible in-person support, as well | ||
as online support. In addition to these user services, the group also | ||
hosts numerous student group websites, and provides support to these and | ||
other organizations on campus. | ||
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To be able to do this, we are always aiming to secure more resources to | ||
fully meet the needs of everyone in the campus community. Our primary | ||
resources are our GNU/Linux workstations and servers, entirely | ||
administered by [[student volunteers|doc staff]]. | ||
These resources are located within our computing lab in the basement of | ||
Hearst Gym. | ||
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To help people explore the field of computing and educate them about the | ||
resources available, the OCF also provides a variety of educational services. | ||
We used to co-sponsor a series of Help Sessions, short classes taught | ||
throughout the semester on a wide range of computing topics, from beginner to | ||
advanced levels, and focusing on resources available to the Berkeley campus | ||
community. These now take the form of [DeCal | ||
courses][decal] offered by us. We also offer e-mail and | ||
in-person consulting with our volunteer staff members, as well as online | ||
sources of information about computing on the Berkeley campus and how to use | ||
the available resources. Additionally, the OCF has conducted career fairs in | ||
the past with its sister organization, the [Computer Science Undergraduate | ||
Association][csua] | ||
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Policies for this cluster and decisions for the OCF organization are made | ||
by the OCF Board of Directors, a group of students elected each semester | ||
by the OCF membership. The Board meetings, held at least once every two | ||
weeks when classes are in session, are open to the public and provide a | ||
chance for any user to express their concerns or opinions about the OCF. | ||
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## How to find us | ||
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The OCF is located in the basement of Hearst Gym (see [map][map]). Normal | ||
hours are Monday through Friday 9AM - 6PM, Saturday 11AM | ||
- 6PM, and Sunday 12PM - 5PM. | ||
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If you need to contact OCF staff members, you may [[send us an email|doc | ||
contact]] | ||
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The Open Computing Facility is a student group acting independently of | ||
the University of California. We take full responsibility for our | ||
organization and this website. | ||
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[berkeley]: http://berkeley.edu | ||
[decal]: http://decal.ocf.berkeley.edu | ||
[csua]: http://csua.berkeley.edu | ||
[map]: http://status.ocf.berkeley.edu/2012/06/moving-to-hearst-gym.html |
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[[!meta title="Previous staff"]] | ||
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## Where have OCF staffers gone after leaving the OCF? | ||
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Many OCF staffers have found the skills and experience they gained from being | ||
OCF staff have been useful after leaving us. While we obviously can't claim | ||
credit for everyone or being the sole source of experience for people, we'd | ||
like to think everyone who has donated time to help us has gained something in | ||
return, whether it be skills, experience, new friends, or just the satisfaction | ||
of making a difference helping your fellow students. | ||
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Some of the places OCF staffers have gone on to work at: | ||
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### On the Berkeley Campus | ||
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* [Berkeley Multimedia Research Center](http://www.bmrc.berkeley.edu/) | ||
* [Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics](http://www.cea.berkeley.edu/) | ||
* [EECS Department Technical & Computing Services (TCS)](http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~tcs/) | ||
* [Campus Information Systems & Technology (IS&T)](http://ist.berkeley.edu/) | ||
* [Haas School of Business](http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/) | ||
* [InfoPad Research Group, Electrical Engineering](http://infopad.eecs.berkeley.edu) | ||
* [Lawrence Berkeley National Labs](http://www.lbl.gov/) | ||
* [Letters & Science Computer Resources](http://ls.berkeley.edu/lscr/) | ||
* [Molecular & Cell Biology](http://mendel.berkeley.edu/homepage.html) | ||
* [Residential Computing Services, Housing and Dining](http://www.rescomp.berkeley.edu/staff/) | ||
* [School of Information Management and Systems](http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/) | ||
* [School of Law - Boalt Hall](http://www.law.berkeley.edu/) | ||
* [Statistical Computing Facility](http://stat-www.berkeley.edu/) | ||
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### Elsewhere | ||
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* [The Aerospace Corporation](http://www.aero.org/) | ||
* [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com) | ||
* [Americorps](http://www.americorps.org/) | ||
* [Anderson Consulting](http://www.ac.com/) | ||
* [Apple Computer](http://www.apple.com/) | ||
* [Arthur Andersen & Co.](http://www.arthurandersen.com/) (Information Services Group) | ||
* [Bank of America](http://www.bofa.com/) | ||
* [Bay Area BioFuel](http://www.bayareabiofuel.com/) | ||
* [Berkeley Systems](http://www.berksys.com/) | ||
* [BigBook](http://www.bigbook.com/) | ||
* [Carnegie Mellon Univeristy School of Computer Science](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/) | ||
* [Cisco Systems, Inc.](http://www.cisco.com/) | ||
* [Compaq](http://www.compaq.com/) | ||
* [CRL Network Services](http://www.crl.com/) | ||
* [Digital Equipment Corporation](http://www.dec.com/) (acquired by [Compaq](http://www.compaq.com/)) | ||
* [Drogin, Kakigi, & Assoc.](http://www.dkstat.com/) | ||
* [Forte Software](http://www.forte.com/) (now part of [Sun Microsystems](http://www.sun.com/ )) | ||
* [Fry's Electronics](http://www.outpost.com/) | ||
* [Global Network Navigator, Inc.](http://www.gnn.com/) | ||
* [HotWired](http://www.hotwired.com/) | ||
* [Howard Hughes Medical Institute](http://www.hhmi.org/) | ||
* [IBM](http://www.ibm.com/) | ||
* [Inktomi](http://www.inktomi.com/) | ||
* [Interactive Development Environments](http://www.ide.com/) | ||
* [Legato](http://www.legato.com/) | ||
* [Microsoft](http://www.microsoft.com/) | ||
* [Mindsource Software Engineers](http://www.mindsrc.com/) | ||
* [Netcom](http://www.netcom.com/) | ||
* [MetaReward/NetFlip](http://www.netflip.com/) | ||
* [Netblue](http://www.netblue.com/) | ||
* [Netscape](http://www.netscape.com/) | ||
* [Network Appliance](http://www.netapp.com/) | ||
* [Neuron Data](http://www.neurondata.com/) | ||
* [Newspager Corp. of America](http://www.nca.com/) | ||
* [Oracle](http://www.oracle.com/) | ||
* [7M Consulting](http://www.shimmer.com/~7m/7m-goals.html) | ||
* [SiByte, Inc](http://sibyte.broadcom.com) (acquired by [Broadcom](http://www.broadcom.com)] | ||
* [Silicon Graphics (SGI)](http://www.sgi.com/) | ||
* [Snapfish](http://www.snapfish.com/) | ||
* [StarNine Technologies](http://www.starnine.com/) | ||
* [Sun Microsystems](http://www.sun.com/) | ||
* [Taos Mountain Software](http://www.taos.com/gobears) | ||
* [TCSI Corp.](http://www.tcs.com/) | ||
* [Walmart.com](http://www.walmart.com/) | ||
* [Wells Fargo Bank](http://www.wellsfargo.com/) | ||
* [Yggdrasil Computing, Inc.](http://www.yggdrasil.com/) | ||
Z-Code Software (now part of [NetManage, Inc.](http://www.netmanage.com/)) | ||
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(Many of the above are places people have taken full-time jobs at. Some | ||
however, were co-ops or assignments done as a contractor for an agency such as | ||
Taos or MindSource.) | ||
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## Other groups | ||
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Other groups that OCF members have joined and helped using the skills they | ||
gained as OCF staff: | ||
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### On the Berkeley Campus | ||
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* ASUConline | ||
* [CalLUG - the UCB Linux User's Group](http://www-callug.cs.berkeley.edu/) | ||
* [Computer Science Undergrad Assoc.](http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/) | ||
* [Eta Kappa Nu](http://www-hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/) (EECS Honor Society) | ||
* [Experimental Computing Facility](http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/) | ||
* [Students Improving Campus Online Services](http://server.berkeley.edu/SICOS.html) | ||
* [U. C. Society of Electrical Engineers](http://www-ieee.eecs.berkeley.edu/) (IEEE Student Chapter) | ||
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### Elsewhere | ||
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* [The NetBSD Project](http://www.netbsd.org/) | ||
* [NetDay '96](http://www.netday96.com/) |
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