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SF Bay Area Cypherpunks (80th Chairborne Regiment)

June 1999 Physical Meeting Announcement


General Info:

DATE:   Saturday 12 June 1999
TIME:   12:00-4:00 PM (Pacific Time)
PLACE:  Oakland Convention Center

  Securing the Internet with Linux FreeS/WAN

  "Linux is user-friendly ...it's just particular about it's friends."

  The June 1999 Physical Meeting of the San Francisco Bay Area Cypherpunks
  will be a Linux-IPSEC Intallfest held at the CABAL / BALUG Linux installfest
  at the Austin Computer Show at the Oakland Convention Center.
  
  (The show normally costs $5, but there's a get-in-free email attached at the
  bottom of this message.)
  
  The CABAL/BALUG show runs from 10-4pm.
  The Cypherpunks meeting will be 12-4pm (usually followed by dinner).

  So bring your poor, your tired, your huddled PCs, yearning to be
  Free-Softwared, Linuxized, and IPSECed.  (Also, bringing a power cord,
  Ethernet card, and keyboard will speed things up, but this is a
  computer swapfest so you _can_ get stuff there.)

  Less poetically, the sturdy bunch of foreigners developing Linux
  FreeS/WAN have released 1.0 with support mods for Linux 2.0 and 2.2
  kernels, and it's known to work with Red Hat 6.0 (using 2.2.9+) and
  5.x, and some others, Hugh Daniel has run a beta installfest and
  therefore passed the usual set of "learning experiences" so this
  should be pretty clean, and CABAL / BALUG will be providing us with
  tables and talking space.

  CO-CONSPIRATORS
  CABAL (Consortium of All Bay Area Linux)
  BALUG (Bay Area Linux Users Group)
  FreeS/WAN Home Page
  Cypherpunks Meeting Announcement Page

  As always, this is an Open Meeting on US Soil and members of the
  Public are encouraged to attend.


Meeting Agenda:

      "Our agenda is a widely-held secret."

  12:00-12:30 — Mill about and make friends with Linux.

  12:30-4:00  — Linux FreeS/WAN Installfest
                  Chaos Communications Camp Cypherpunks Campout in Germany
                  CIPHR Crypto & Human Rights meeting planning for CCCamp
                  Solipse solar eclipse rave
                  New PGP command line vs. pgpgpg command line fixer
                  HushMail
                  ZipLip
                  
   4:30-?     — Dinner?


Location Info:
  
  The Oakland Convention Center is at 1001 Broadway,
  near Oakland's "City Center/12th Street" BART station.

  Driving: Take 880 North to Broadway exit OR 980 to 11th/12th St. Exit.
  
  Paid parking garage is on 11th near Clay.
  Free parking is the usual vicious downtown melee.


Location Maps:

Trade show directions
  http://www.robertaustin.com/direct.htm
Map:
  http://www.mapblast.com/mblast/map.mb?loc=us&CMD=GEO&AD2=1001+Broadway&AD3=Oakland%2C+CA


Additional Meeting Notes:

Print this out and bring it with you to get into the show free!

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GET-IN-FREE TICKET — thanks to Mike Higashi for this.

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Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 19:23:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: dsim57@earthlink.net
To: mhigashi@hooked.net
Subject: Computer Show Ticket Oakland 1338

**************************************** 1338 E   **********
OAKLAND CONVENTION CENTER
10th and Broadway, Down Town Oakland In The Beautiful Marriott Hotel
June 12, 1999  $5 Admission Free with this ticket 
July 3, 1999  $5 Admission Free with this ticket 

COW PALACE
Geneva and Santos in Daly City
June 19, 1999  Lower Level enter Gate 5 $5 Admission Free with this ticket
July 17, 1999  Lower Level enter Gate 5 $5 Admission Free with this ticket

**********************  1338 E ************************
This is your PRE REGISTERED VIP ADMISSION TICKET and 
SHOW PROGRAM for the June 12, 1999 OAKLAND CONVENTION CENTER Computer
Show. Bring this ticket to the show and present it at the 
turnstile for free admission. No further registration 
is required. No Standing in line! Thank you for pre-registering
The show hours are from 10:00 am to 4:00 PM

THE ONLY PORTION OF THIS TICKET NEEDED FOR ADMISSION ARE THE EMAIL
HEADERS SHOWING YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS.

*** Now FREE !! *** Seminars  Seminars   Now FREE !! *********
11:00-11:25  What is Linux?
    An introduction to what Linux is, and what it can do
    Presented by David Mandala

11:30-11:55  What is FreeBSD?
    An introduction to another popular free operating system 
    Presented by Josef Grosch

12:00-12:25  An introduction to the Linux command line
    A dozen basic Unix command all Linux users should know
    Presented by David Mandala

12:30-12:25  Finding answers to your Linux questions
    How to find solutions to your Linux problems and questions
    Presented by Rick Moen

 1:00-1:25   Linux for the PowerPC platform
    An overview of Linux support for this platform
    Presented by Deirdre Saoirse

 1:30-1:55   Linux Hardware Compatibility
    How to find if your hardware is compatible
    Presented by Duncan MacKinnon

 2:00-3:30   Installation Demonstration
    See how Debian GNU/Linux can be installed
    Presented by Rick Moen

********************************* 1338 E **********
Please make as many copies of this form as needed and 
BRING YOUR FRIENDS to the show with copies of this form


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