ANNOUNCEMENT: BAD meeting at Henry's Hunan Restaurant, S.F. 2007-12-12 7:00 P.M.

[Michael Paoli]

ANNOUNCEMENT: BAD meeting at Henry's Hunan Restaurant, S.F. 2007-12-12 7:00 P.M.

We are going to Henry's Hunan Restaurant, in San Francisco, for the
2007-12-12 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, Debian / American Geophysical Union (AGU) 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, December 12th, 2007

Where:
Henry's Hunan Restaurant
110 Natoma St.
San Francisco, CA  94105-3704
1-415-546-4999
(I didn't make a reservation, but I did call and they'll be able to
accomodate us fine; look for the BAD (/swirl) sign per
shotgun rules)

Location/Directions (there's also handy map URL (from a prior
meeting at a different time and date) towards the tail end
of this e-mail):
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
the Fall AGU meeting is taking place at Moscone West.  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) I called the restaurant to be sure they'd be able to accomodate us,
but I didn't make a reservation.  I should be there by 7:00 P.M.  Look
for the BAD sign.

>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 / AGU Fall meeting:
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.

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/

Keysignings:
Sure, for those interested.  "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 may also list it on
biglumber.com and/or also list it on
the Bay Area keysigning list.

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/

We've done this kind of thing before :-)
http://tinyurl.com/ywryhv

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

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

Some Debian visitor(s):
http://bad.debian.net/list/2007-December/003200.html
http://bad.debian.net/list/2007-December/date.html

Here's "outdated" map I did earlier (note that meeting starts at
7:00 P.M. US/Pacific 2007-12-12; Moscone West is at bottom edge of
that earlier map, left of center - otherwise the map should still
be fairly useful):
http://www.rawbw.com/~mp/linux/bad/bad.2007-08-08.map.png