FreeSide Regulations
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User Accounts
- Only students of the University of Hull at the time of an account request will be allowed.
- Accounts will be maintained indefinitely after the student has left the University.
- Any user found breaching law or copyright through their FreeSide account will be immediately banned and their account and space deleted.
- The above also applies for anything FreeSide admins feel breaches any network regulations or behaves inappropriately.
Administrators
- All FreeSide administrators must abide by all regulations specified as being a FreeSide user.
- Admins must act without bias for or against any user.
- Previous Admins will remain as admins indefinitely, however, current active admins will retain the last word on decisions.
Services
- Online Storage:
- All users are given 300MB of storage by default. This may be upgraded at any time through server upgrades, or by requesting it from the admins.
- Storage may not be used to store any data that infringes on copyright law and or U.K. law.
- Website Hosting:
- All web data is included as part of the 300MB default quota.
- All data must be legal to be distributed/viewed by viewers of the site.
- Virtual Hosts can be added for domains by request.
- Instant Messaging (IM)
- IRC
- When using IRC please show courtesy to all users.
- IRC is not a Knowledge Base. Users will help out as they can, however, there is no requirement to.
- Jabber
- Same regulations as all other IMs.
- TeamSpeak
- See HullComSoc for TeamSpeak usage rules.
- IRC
- DataBases
- All databases are provided using MySQL.
- Every user get 1 database by default.
- Users may request additional databases given a valid reason.
- Remote Connections
- There are no restrictions to using SSH, FTP, S/FTP within U.K. Law
Network Regulations
Being Part of the University of Hull’s network we must abide by all regulations set down by computing services. In addition to this, the University’s network connection is linked to the JaNet educational network, this requires us to abide by the JaNet network regulations also.
The network regulations can be found at:
Data Protection
- All user areas, aside from web directories, are only accessible by the user and by the admins.
- The admins will never access or change user files without permission from the user or if a breach of these regulations is found.
- Only basic user details will be taken at registration. These details will be publically available.
"Staff" Hierarchy
The current FreeSide hierarchy is made up of a 5 tier tree.
Service Additions
FreeSide is based on service. This being the case, we encourage the addition of extra services that may enhance our user base and their experience. However, time and care must be taken as not to cause issues for an of the implemented services or the FreeSide users.
Below is an initial sequence of things to be done to add service.
- A request is made to the FreeSide admins via IRC and discussed.
- If accepted, a wiki page will be added describing the features of the service, how it will be implemented, requirements for implementation, time scale for implementation, security concerns and any other details determined to be related to the service.
- The wiki page will be advertised on the FreeSide website and will be given between 1 and 2 weeks (depending on the service requested). During this time, alterations may be made to the spec and comments made.
- After the time is up, the decision on whether to proceed with implementation will be based upon the writeup on the wiki.
- If accepted work will begin.
- If new hardware is required, a request will be made from any available sources.
- The service will be set up locally to the FreeSide network with no external access.
- Testing on the service will occur within the network.
- Once successfully tested, the service will be open to all FreeSide users.
- Documentation on implementation will be added to the wiki for future reference.
