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Open Computing Facility

but sporting a scarf with the UC Berkeley colors of blue and gold. The Open Computing Facility is a student organization at the University of California, Berkeley, and a chartered program of the ASUC. Founded in 1989, the OCF is an all-volunteer, student-run organization dedicated to providing free and accessible computing resources to all members of the University community. 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, to appeal to all members of the Berkeley campus community with unmet computing needs, and to provide a place for those interested in computing to fully explore that interest." The OCF provides the following services, among others, to UC Berkeley students, staff, alumni, and affiliates: * A 30-seat computer lab with Linux workstations, 4K monitors, and mechanical keyboards * Webhosting for individuals and student groups * Linux shell access * Email forwarding * Free printing quotas for lab users * Access to a high-performance computing cluster featuring modern NVIDIA GPUs * Software mirrors of popular Linux distributions and open source projects, available over rsync, http, and https * A Linux systems administration DeCal To further the OCF's goal of promoting accessibility, the OCF publishes its board meeting minutes, tech talks, and Unix system administrat…

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but sporting a scarf with the UC Berkeley colors of blue and gold. The Open Computing Facility is a student organization at the University of California, Berkeley, and a chartered program of the ASUC. Founded in 1989, the OCF is an all-volunteer, student-run organization dedicated to providing free and accessible computing resources to all members of the University community. 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, to appeal to all members of the Berkeley campus community with unmet computing needs, and to provide a place for those interested in computing to fully explore that interest." The OCF provides the following services, among others, to UC Berkeley students, staff, alumni, and affiliates: * A 30-seat computer lab with Linux workstations, 4K monitors, and mechanical keyboards * Webhosting for individuals and student groups * Linux shell access * Email forwarding * Free printing quotas for lab users * Access to a high-performance computing cluster featuring modern NVIDIA GPUs * Software mirrors of popular Linux distributions and open source projects, available over rsync, http, and https * A Linux systems administration DeCal To further the OCF's goal of promoting accessibility, the OCF publishes its board meeting minutes, tech talks, and Unix system administrat…

Key claims

  1. date of foundation: 1989 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of foundation is "1989". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1270194371

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