[Baylisa] BayLISA in San Francisco this week - important notes in case you're going

Mon Aug 13 09:08:54 PDT 2012

Hi all,

Just a reminder of our first meeting outside Silicon Valley in quite a
while. BayLISA is hosted by Joyent this month, at their offices in One
Embarcadero Center in San Francisco.

Details are available at http://www.meetup.com/BayLISA/events/42780152/.

There are some things this month that are different from our usual meeting,
so I wanted to give you some quick notes on those differences.

1. The meeting is in San Francisco. Might seem obvious, but... yeah.

You can take public transportation (see
http://tripplanner.transit.511.org/) from
the South Bay or East Bay fairly easily, although it will cost you a few
bucks if you don't already have a transit pass.

I'll probably be taking Caltrain from Palo Alto to Millbrae, and then BART
to the Embarcadero station in SF, but you can also take Caltrain to 4th and
King and then take MUNI in to downtown/Market Street.

Parking at One Embarcadero Center is $3/hr. You can drive up, and you may
wish to carpool.

2. You'll need a real name to get in

Our hosts are in a shared commercial office facility,  and building
security at Embarcadero Center requires first and last names for all
attendees to ensure admission to the facility. Anyone not on the list may
not be allowed in.

If you have a fake or partial name on Meetup, or if you have +1s RSVPed,
please go back to the site and put your first and last name (and those of
your guests, if applicable) into your RSVP comments or your actual name on
Meetup. (Note that Bill vs William is close enough, but Unixgod
Thundertrousers vs Brian Wilson is not. )

The RSVP list will close at 4pm this Wednesday in order for us to get the
list to security in time.

3. There's limited space.

We have the list set at 75 people, which is about the capacity of our
meeting room. Note that there is a waiting list on Meetup and as people
change their plans there may be more seats opened up. People may cancel at
any time so keep your eyes open for spaces to open up. over the next couple
of days.

Don't worry, we'll be back on Silicon Valley turf next month, and most
likely for the rest of the year. We're just trying this out as a way to
expand our reach and our speaker pool. Depending on the reception we might
aim for 2-3 San Francisco or Peninsula meetups a year to accommodate the
growing north-of-Stanford sysadmin community. And of course we welcome your
suggestions for locations, speakers, topics, sponsors, and so forth as we
go forward and continue to grow BayLISA.

Thanks,
Robert Novak
BayLISA President