OCF
Activities & Projects
    The OCF is a student organization with a limited mandate, but individual staff members have taken the initiative, giving back to the campus community. These are just a few of our accomplishments!

  • Spring 2002
    System Administration for the Web de-cal class, CS 98/198
    by Chan, Callahan, and Jones, et. al.
    Course website: click here

  • Fall 2001
    System Administration de-cal class, EECS 98/198
    Taught by Steven Callahan and others
    Course website: click here

  • Spring 2001
    System Administration de-cal class, EECS 98/198
    Started by Devin Jones, with help from many OCF staff & friends: Steve Callahan, Gabe Gonzalez, Stephen McCamant, Michael Constant, to name a few.
    Due to popular demand, course was taught again in Fall 2001.
    Course website: click here
    de-cal website: click here

  • 1999, 2000
    High-tech Career Fairs
    With our job fairs, we raised capital to pay for the costs of construction of our new lab in Heller Lounge, and a job hunting opportunity for Cal students. These were chiefly architected by Devin Jones, with help from other staff.

      2/2/2000
      Startups Fair (official pages: here and there)
      Held in Pauley Ballroom during the dotcom bubble. Much pizza and almost enough drinks. (FatSlice)
      Fair Photos
      Digital photography by Eugene Chan; mostly from the start and finish of the event.

      10/1999
      CSUA/OCF Startup Career Fair
      Held in Wozniak Lounge, Soda Hall. Not enough pizza or drinks. (Little Chicago)

  • August 2000
    Welcome Week Orientation
    An orientation for new freshmen about campus computing resources.
    Official website: click here

  • Software Projects - Installations and Implementations (like at csua)
    Completed
       by smcc/kenao - installation of acmemail (mysql, perl)
       by eek - Solaris newbie window manager setup - fist - web popmail - poserchat - sod (perl)
       by akopps/tee/smcc - Windows2000 printing via Solaris authentication (nis+)
       by dsrogers - Solaris Gnome
       by bac - blogger-like web doodad (python)
    Planned
       by smcc - faster account creation (perl)
    Projects page: click here

  • September 1999 - present
    Mega lab upgrade
    Pricetag to date: over 150,000 USD (incl capital/labor, operations)
    Official lab page: click here

  • 1999 - 2001
    Acquiring donations.
    Corporate: Gateway, Sun, Cisco.
    On-campus: EECS (hardware) and CS (funding).
    Personal: alumni & others.
    Official donations page: click here

  • Staff social events
    Good luck finding online proof, but we assure you, we've done a lot of fun stuff together!
    :::a partial list:::
    Cheesecake Factory, KrispyKreme/Fry's runs, DDR, icecream eating contest, Pizza till you barf, Claimjumper ore cart/orc heart, I.B. Hoagies, Gypsy's, Thai Basil, BBQ at the Marina, Korean BBQ, attending each other's graduations, late nights in Barrows, late nights in Eshleman, late nights in Heller, etc...




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