James Burgett from ACCRC @ SoCoSA Apr1

Fri Mar 28 10:38:29 PDT 2008

Greetings fellow sysadmins,

The Sonoma County SysAdmins meeting is coming up soon; thought maybe some of
you more towards the north end of the bay might be interested in our
meeting.

Yes, I know our meeting is on April 1st.  It's not a joke, it's just the
first Tuesday of the month.  Don't worry, there won't be any Sardine and
Mango pizzas ordered!

Meeting Details:
  Day: Tuesday, April 1st
  Time: 7pm for speaker starting, doors open at 6 for social hour
  Pizza: show up by 6:10 to get in on order; or bring your own food
  Topic: Free Software, The Environment, Social Welfare, and the Digital Divide
  Who: James Burgett, Alameda County Computer Resource Center (ACCRC)
  Where: The usual spot; Tarsier Conference Room at O'Reilly (there's a sign!)
         in Sebastopol (west of Santa Rosa).
  URL: http://socosa.org/node/736
  Map URL: http://xrl.us/u6vz

  James will recount the path ACCRC has taken as it’s grown in the last five
  years to reclaim and reuse computers, peripherals, and other electronic
  devices people donate. In general, ACCRC gives computers to individuals and
  worthy organizations without charge or strings. ACCRC uses Linux on the
  systems it gives away and has developed quite a bit of expertise in
  installing various Linux distros on various (old) hardware.

About SoCoSA:
  SoCoSA.org is a group of SysAdmins in Sonoma County and the surrounding
  areas. (Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, Petaluma, Novato, Windsor, etc.)

  We meet the First Tuesday of each month. Meetings are at O'Reilly Media's
  offices in Sebastopol. Social hour and food at 6pm, speaker at 7pm,
  finished by 8:30pm. Meetings are open to all (you don't have to be a
  sysadmin to show up!) and free except for the pizza.  Feel free to bring
  your own food.

Directions to get to the meeting location:
  URL to map: http://xrl.us/u6vz

  Directions from the south (petaluma, marin county, other parts of the bay
  area): Take 101N up to 116W at Cotati/Rohnert Park and turn right (ignore
  116E several miles back!).  O'Reilly is three white three-story buildings
  on the right as you're about to leave the town of Sebastopol.

  Directions from Santa Rosa, Sonoma, etc: Take 12W to Sebastopol, turn
  right on 116W (Gravenstein Hwy), continue until you're about to leave
  Sebastopol; O'Reilly is three white three-story buildings on the right.

  From the north (windsor, healdsburg): probably easiest is to head to Santa
  Rosa and follow the earlier directions.  Or if you're in Forestville, 116E
  towards Sebastopol and on your left just as you're about to enter town.

  From the west: it's on the north side of sebastopol on Gravenstein Hwy. 
  I'm betting anybody west of O'Reilly knows how to get to Sebastopol.  :)

  Public transit: Sonoma County Transit route 20 runs right past; from
  either direction you can arrive almost in time to get in on a pizza order
  (you can email ahead to be sure); getting back means leaving the meeting
  by 8:35 to get back to Santa Rosa or waiting until 9:30 to get further
  west/north, so you probably want to ask if somebody can give you a ride
  home or back to Santa Rosa.  It's under a mile and a half from where the
  Sonoma County Transit express routes 22 and 26 drop off.

  Bicycle: The Joe Rodota trail runs right behind O'Reilly and even has a
  small connecting path onto O'Reilly between Hurlbut and 116.

  Directions from the parking lot to the room: Look for the giant metal
  tarsier (like a lemur with big eyes) between the two rightmost buildings,
  and follow the sidewalk back; look on the right and you should see us
  waiting for you.
-- 
Eric Eisenhart <freiheit at SoCoSA.org>
SoCoSA Founder and President
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