ANNOUNCEMENT: BAD meeting at Henry's Hunan Restaurant, S.F. 2009-08-12

Thu Jul 9 02:59:36 PDT 2009

We are going to Henry's Hunan Restaurant, in San Francisco, for the
2009-08-12 BAD meeting, meeting will start at 7:00 P.M. US/Pacific.

Details, etc.:

What: Bay Area Debian (BAD) meeting (good people, good food,
keysignings, OpenSourceWorld (nee LinuxWorld) visitors, etc.) at
Henry's Hunan Restaurant, 110 Natoma St., San Francisco (excellent
Hunan/Chinese food, reasonably priced, in evening typically not too
crowded and more menu selections (usually exceedingly busy/crowded and
shorter menu for weekday lunches) - a very popular place in general).

When: starting at 7:00 P.M. US/Pacific, August 12th, 2009

Where:
Henry's Hunan Restaurant
110 Natoma St.
San Francisco, CA  94105-3704
1-415-546-4999
Reservation will be under "Bay Area Debian" (and also "BAD" and my name
"Michael Paoli")

Location/Directions:

Detailed quite local map to the meeting event, with routes from
OpenSourceWorld, BART, and Transbay Terminal:
http://www.rawbw.com/~mp/linux/bad/bad.2009-08-12.map.png

Henry's Hunan Restaurant (110 Natoma St.) is conveniently located in
San Francisco, a fairly short walk from the Montgomery St. BART and
MUNI underground station, is rather to quite close to several MUNI
lines, and is also a relatively short walk from the Transbay Terminal.
It's also rather conveniently close to the The Moscone Center, where
OpenSourceWorld will be including that day (OpenSourceWorld has events
scheduled to 6:30 P.M. that day - I haven't spotted any later events or
Birds-of-a-Feather meetings as part of OpenSourceWorld - but if such
does show up later on the OpenSourceWorld schedule, one could always
come to the BAD meeting "fashionably late" if need be - we'll likely be
there a fair while).  Henry's Hunan Restaurant, 110 Natoma St. is
between New Montgomery and 2nd streets (Natoma intersects those
streets) and between Mission and Howard streets (which run parallel to
Natoma St.).

(the following directions are probably approximately 40 degrees off
from their true geographic angular direction, if you want something
more accurate, subtract 40 degrees from the North/South/East/West/etc.
directions given below, and that probably is then accurate to within +-
15 degrees or better).

 From BART or MUNI underground:
A) Go to Montgomery St. station, escape to street level, that should
put you on or exceedingly close to Market St.  If you're not already on
the South side of Market St. (where New Montgomery, and the numbered
(2nd, 3rd, etc.) streets are), cross to the South side of Market St.
Align yourself with 2nd St. or New Montgomery St. (if you find yourself
by Sansome, Sutter, or 1st streets, go West on Market to 2nd St., if
you find yourself by 3rd, Annie or Geary streets, go East on Market to
New Montgomery St.).
B) If you're by 2nd Street, go to the SouthWest corner of 2nd and
Market streets if you're not already there.  If you're by New
Montgomery St., go to the SouthEast corner of New Montgomery and Market
streets if you're not already there.
C) Then proceed South on either New Montgomery St. or 2nd Street until
you reach Natoma St.
D) When you're at Natoma St. and either New Montgomery St. or 2nd St.
respectively turn and go East or West on Natoma St. and proceed to
Henry's Hunan Restaurant, 110 Natoma St. (the sign is probably visible
from either of those corners anyway).  (Henry's does also have a rear
entrance/exit on Minna St., but that entrance/exit may not be open in
the evenings).
E) Reservation will be under "Bay Area Debian" (and also "BAD" and my
name "Michael Paoli").  I, and BAD sign should be there not later than
7:00 P.M.  If you happen to get there a bit early and beat me and my
BAD sign in arrival, feel free to check in with restaurant host, seek
out BAD folk(s) (if any others have already arrived), and if table(s)
are ready for us, feel free to be seated and improvise a BAD sign
and/or swirl until I arrive with my more prepared sign.  (They do also
have, of course, various appetizers and beverages ... if I recall
correctly among their appetizers, the "onion cakes" are quite good,
among other possibilities).

 From Transbay Terminal:
Exit Transbay Terminal to Mission St.,
Proceed West on Mission St. to and just across 2nd St. then follow
directions starting at C) from "From BART or MUNI underground" above.

 From Moscone Center / OpenSourceWorld:
Escape to Howard St. (runs between the main entrances of Moscone North
and Moscone South, and is also at South side of Moscone West),
Proceed East along the North side of Howard St. until you go across to
the East side of New Montgomery St.,
Then proceed North on New Montgomery St. until you're just across to
the North side of Natoma St. then follow directions starting at D) from
"From BART or MUNI underground" above.

 From CalTrain:
Transfer to BART at Milbrae station, take any BART train that heads
through San Francisco, then follow directions starting at A) from
"From BART or MUNI underground" above.
Alternatively (about a 20 minute stroll), take CalTrain to San Francisco
CalTrain station, proceed North along the East side of 4th St. across to
the North side of Howard St. then follow directions starting at
"From Moscone Center / OpenSourceWorld" above.

And if you're, e.g. driving, remember to adjust the instructions
suitably to be legal (e.g. don't: make illegal turns, drive the wrong
way on a one-way street, drive on the sidewalk or take your motor
vehicle on BART, etc.).

http://www.511.org/
http://www.bart.gov/
http://maps.google.com/

Note also that OpenSourceWorld runs August 11th-13th 2009.
http://www.opensourceworld.com/
As far as I'm thus far aware, OpenSourceWorld scheduled events on
August 12, 2009 end at 6:30 P.M., and
Henry's Hunan Restaurant (110 Natoma St.)
is also a relatively short walk (a few longish blocks) from The
Moscone Center, where OpenSourceWorld will be.

Keysignings:
Yes.  "little strips of paper" (key type/size/fingerprint/keyID and
e-mail)" and suitable ID methods will probably suffice (I don't think
we'll be so huge a crowd or so pressed for time as to necessitate more
advanced keysigning protocols).  I'll also list it on biglumber.com and
on the Bay Area keysigning list.

I'll almost certainly send a reminder to the list closer to the meeting
date, and may include some additional information, but date, time, and
venue should all be well squared away at this point - so I expect no
changes in those regards.

Free "Exhibit Hall Pass" registration is still open for OpenSourceWorld,
and that does also entitle one to attend the Birds-of-a-Feather
Meetings for free also (along with a few other things).

references, etc.:

Bay Area Debian (BAD):
http://bad.debian.net/

Shotgun Rules:
http://bad.debian.net/shotgun_rules.txt

List:
http://bad.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bad
http://bad.debian.net/list/

Transportation:
http://www.511.org/
http://www.bart.gov/
http://www.caltrain.com/

Maps:
http://maps.google.com/

OpenSourceWorld:
http://www.opensourceworld.com/