Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 01:17:30 -0700 From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@ontario.mooseriver.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Cc: announce@bafug.org Subject: May BAFUG meeting in San Francisco Message-ID: <19990510011730.A1461@ontario.mooseriver.com>
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Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group
-- San Francisco BAFUG --
The San Francisco chapter of the Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group (BAFUG) will
be holding it's monthly meeting on Thursday, May 13th. This months meeting
will be held at The Reef in the Mission district of San Francisco. The
meeting will start at 7:30 pm.
Agenda:
==> Nicole Harrington with give a brief talk on the new FreeBSD port of
Inktomi (www.inktomi.com) web caching software. Nicole and the
company she works for ISP Channel (www.ispchannel.com) were
instrumental for getting it ported and will soon be using it
extensively.
Nicole Harrington will also give a talk outline of her upcoming
article on setting up a high performance web server. This talk will
cover a number of issues including hardware selection, software
tuning and tricks.
==> Josef Grosch will talk about BAFUGs plans for the upcoming
Install-A-Thon to be held on May 8th at the Robert Austin
Computer show at the Cow Place in Daly City. 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 have an
Install-A-Thon at the Oakland Convention Center on May 15th. See
http://www.bafug.org/Install.html
for more details including directions on how to get to the Cow
Palace.
==> Due to a schedule conflict with the Usenix Technical Conference in
Monterey, there will not be a June BAFUG meeting in San Francisco.
Our next meeting will be July 8th.
==> Pizza and Soda will be ordered and the hat passed `round.
==> Of course, we will have the usually kvetchen about sundry topics
Location:
This months meeting will be held at The Reef in San Francisco. The 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. The
meeting will end at around 10:00pm which will allow for an hour or so
to shmooz. 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
http://www.reef.com
http://www.bafug.org
Contact:
Please contact either Nicole Harrington, or Josef Grosch on or before
May 13th so we can have a basic idea of how much pizza, soda, and
coffee we will need.
Nicole Harrington can be reached at nicole@mediacity.com
Josef Grosch can be reached at jgrosch@MooseRiver.com
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