Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group

-- San Francisco BAFUG --

April 1999 Meeting

• Bob Bruce, Owner of Walnut Creek CDROM, will give a talk on the relationship between Walnut Creek and FreeBSD. Walnut Creek CDROM has been our biggest booster over the years. Aside from pressing all our CDs since Rel. 1.0 and paying for all the computer and network infrastructure we use, they have under written a large part of the cost of development of FreeBSD including paying several key developers salary. He will share his vision of the future of FreeBSD and Walnut Creek.
• Josef Grosch will talk about BAFUGs plans for the upcoming Install-A-Thon to be held on April 10th at the Robert Austin Computer show at the Oakland Convention Center. This Install-a-thon will be held jointly with BALUG (Bay Area Linux Users Group) and CABAL (Consortium of All Bay Area Linux). We will also be holding our traditional Install-A-Thon at the Cow Place in Daly City. The date for this show is April 24th.
• Thanks for all the donations of hardware to build BAFUG display & demo machine for use at the Install-a-thons. A big thinks to Whistle Communications for providing us with a very long time loan of a Whistle Interjet for us to use as an FTP server at our Install-A-Thons.
• Pizza and Soda will be ordered and the tab will be picked up by Walnut Creek CDROM. Thanks guys!
• Of course, we will have the usually kvetchen about sundry topics

• Location:

  This months meeting will be held at the Silicon Reef in San Francisco. The Silicon Reef is located at 3057 17th St, between Folsom & Harrison Streets. There is plenty parking on the street.

• Time:

  The meeting starts at 7:30ish with pizza showing up around 7:15ish. We generally get kicked out around 11:00 pm.

• Directions:
  • By Muni:

    Routes 12 Folsom, 22 Fillmore, 33 Stanyan, and 53 Southern Heights stop nearby.

  • By BART:

    Exit at 16th Street Mission, walk south to 17th Street, turning left (east) and proceeding 4 1/2 short blocks to 3057 17th Street, on the right (south) side.

  • By Car:
    • From the South Bay and Peninsula

      Take 101 North to San Francisco, Get off at Vermont Ave. exit. Turn left twice on to Mariposa westbound under the freeway. Proceed eight blocks to a right (north) turn onto Harrison where Mariposa dead-ends. Go one block to a left (west) turn onto 17th Street. Proceed about one full block, and park where you can.

    • From the East Bay:

      Come across the Bay bridge (I-80 westbound) and get off at the 8th street exit, bearing half-left onto Harrison, proceeding nine blocks (curving half-left as Harrison turns southbound and goes under US-101) to a right (west) turn onto 17th Street. Proceed about one full block, and park where you can.

    • From the North Bay:

      Come across the Golden Gate bridge. Follow 101 which turns into Lombard Stree. At Van Ness Ave. turn right. Continue south on Van Ness until 17th st. Take a left on to 17th. Park where you can.

• WWW info:

  More info can be found at the following URLs

  The Reef

  BAFUG

• Contact:

  Please contact either Nicole Harrington, or Josef Grosch on or before April 8th so we can have a basic idea of how much pizza, soda, and coffee we will need.