"Gentlemen don't read each others' messages... that often."
Ascension Island photo by Anonymous
SF Bay Area Cypherpunks (80th Chairborne Regiment)
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"Gentlemen don't read each others' messages... that often." Ascension Island photo by Anonymous |
General Info:
DATE: Saturday 13 January 2001
TIME: 1:00-6:00 PM (Pacific Time)
PLACE: San Francisco Law Enforcement Regional Training Center
(San Francisco Police Academy)
Room 102 (or follow the cribs)
This is the First Cypherpunks Meeting of the Millennium!
The January 2001 Physical Meeting of the San Francisco Bay Area
Cypherpunks will feature Steven Levy, author of the new
cypherpunk book "CRYPTO". If you haven't got your copy yet, buy one
and bring it to the meeting! We'll also spend some time catching up
with Cindy Cohn on the EFF's DVD/DeCSS case. At the end of
the meeting, we'll remember our departed friend Martin Minow
(who would have really enjoyed Steven's book).
As always, this is an Open Meeting on US Soil and members of the
Public are encouraged to attend, especially Martin's Friends and Family.
Meeting Agenda: (all timings are approximate)
"Our agenda is a widely-held secret."
12:00-1:00 — Informal milling about, food & beverages.
1:00-3:00 — General Meeting:
HAL2001 Planning
A Report from Burma!
CryptoRights Foundation News
MojoNation Update
(Possible Mystery Guest: Vna Tbyqoret with Doctoral Thesis)
3:00-4:30 — Special Guest: Steven Levy, author of "CRYPTO"
4:30-5:15 — Cindy Cohn, EFF: Update on the DVD/DeCSS Case
5:15-6:00 — "Remembering Martin Minow"
6:00-? — Dinner at a nearby restaurant usually follows the
meeting.
Location Info:
Meeting Area:
The meeting will be held in the main building of the San Francisco
Law Enforcement Regional Training Center (aka the SF Police
Academy), which is an old San Francisco public school building in
the Diamond Heights district (which is just south of the Twin Peaks
high point in the center of SF, and) not far from the "top" of the
Market Street grade's intersection with Portola and Burnett.
There is _ample_ parking available: once you pull into the Academy's
driveway, just park between any two lines that bracket your car's
width and don't have yellow stripes across them. If you want to buy
or bring munchies for yourself and/or others, the Safeway shopping
center (which includes a cafe or two with decent coffee) is a few
yards from the southeast corner of the Academy's parking lot (down a
flight of stairs).
Enter the main door under the large "San Francisco Law Enforcement
Regional Training Center" sign. You do NOT need to show ID, leave
money/blood or otherwise be Matrixed to park or attend the meeting
(this is an open meeting at an educational institution).
Meeting Room:
The meeting will be in Room 102, which is on the left just inside.
It holds a normal-sized group, but if lots of people show up, we'll
put up signs directing you to a larger room or into the Auditorium.
Location Maps:
SF Police Academy (annotated with red traces).
<http://cryptorights.org/cypherpunks/maps/sfpd-acad.gif>
Door-to-door directions (to 350 Amber Drive San Francisco CA 94131)
can be obtained from Mapquest.
Directions:
1. From the South Peninsula via 280 North:
EXIT San Jose Ave
STAY on San Jose Ave
RIGHT on Rousseau Street
RIGHT on Bosworth at stop-sign
STAY on Bosworth
RIGHT on Elk Street
(GOTO "3. From the South Peninsula via 101 North")
2. From the East Bay via Bay Bridge to SF:
80 West
101 South
EXIT 280 South
(GOTO "3. From the South Peninsula via 101 North")
3. From the South Peninsula via 101 North:
EXIT 280 South (toward Daly City)
EXIT Monterey Blvd
RIGHT at Stop LIGHT
GET (immediately) into Left LANE
LEFT at flashing amber light onto Diamond Street
LEFT at stop sign on Bosworth
RIGHT at second stop sign on Elk
(GOTO "4.")
4. The Last Mile or So:
Elk becomes Diamond (curve to right: see graphic map)
GO uphill on Diamond (curve to left)
PASS Safeway shopping center (N.B.:likely scene of post-mtg dinner)
LEFT on Duncan Street at stop sign
LEFT on Amber Drive (next left)
IMMEDIATE LEFT into Academy driveway
PARK in parking lot... enter under the Big Sign.
Additional Meeting Notes:
"Remembering Martin Minow"
At the end of the meeting, we'll take some time to remember our fallen friend,
the very special Martin Minow, who passed away suddenly --and too soon--
on Thursday 21 Dec 2000 of arteriosclerosis. Martin was a most welcome fixture
at many Cypherpunk meetings over the years. Known to some as "Apple's SCSI God,"
those who had the pleasure of encountering his broad smile, gentlemanly manners,
rapier wit, healthy skepticism and technical skill know we've lost a whale (not
a minnow) of a fellow. Martin was an Old School Code Hacker in the best sense.
On hearing the sad news, Peter Neumann, who runs the venerable "RISKS" list,
remembered Martin as "a long-standing, noble, insightful contributor to RISKS,
dating back to Volume 1, number 33, on 1 Jan 1986... a quick search shows ...
172 messages in RISKS over the past 15 years, including translations of some
otherwise inaccessible news items that appeared in Swedish sources. He was a
delightful person, and will be sorely missed by many of us..."
Martin was laid to rest close to other family members on Thursday 28 December
at Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary in Los Angeles. The family asks that
any donations be sent to an appropriate charity of your choice, such the
American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, Toys for Tots, or any
Hospice Foundation.
Email remembrances are be appreciated by Martin's brother Bob Minow <RobtMinow@aol.com>.
Some web pages by/about Martin:
http://www.vmeng.com/minow/
http://homepage.mac.com/k6mam/
http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~natres/faculty/homepage.html
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=minow
If you have questions, comments or agenda proposals/requests, please contact the
usual suspects:
Dave Del Torto <ddt@cryptorights.org>
Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>