SIG-BEER-WEST: Saturday 10/16 at 6:00pm in San Francisco

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SIG-beer-west
http://extasia.org/sig-beer-west/

Saturday, October 16, 2004 at 6:00 pm
San Francisco Bay area, CA

Beer. Mental stimulation.

This event:
Saturday, 10/16/2004, 6:00 pm, at [1]Zeitgeist Bar and Guest Haus,
San Francisco

[1] http://www.sonic.net/~wwpints/zeitgeist/

Coming events (third Saturdays):
Saturday, 11/20/2004, 6:00 pm, location to be determined
Saturday, 12/18/2004, 6:00 pm, location to be determined
Saturday, 01/15/2005, 6:00 pm, location to be determined
Saturday, 02/19/2005, 6:00 pm, location to be determined

The San Francisco Bay area's next social event for techies and their
friends, sig-beer-west, will take place at 6:00 pm on Saturday,
October 16, 2004 at [2]Zeitgeist Bar and Guest Haus located at [3]199
Valencia at Duboce in San Francisco, CA.

[2] http://www.sonic.net/~wwpints/zeitgeist/
[3] http://tinyurl.com/2hacx

According to their website, Zeitgeist has:

[4]plenty of drafts, mostly micro-brewed beers, a good selection of
call liquors, a beer garden, and hotel accomodation

[4] http://www.sonic.net/~wwpints/zeitgeist/#Beers

Concerning food, they say:

the grill opens around 6.00 p.m. each day and closes when
everyone's fed (or Aundre's fed up)

Zeitgeist is on the [5]corner of Valencia and Duboce and [6]looks like
this. It's [7]three blocks from the 16th St BART station (16th St and
Mission).

[5] http://tinyurl.com/2hacx
[6] http://www.sonic.net/~wwpints/zeitgeist/exterior.html
[7] http://tinyurl.com/3f8mp

Festivities will start at 6:00pm and continue until we've all left.

When you show up, you should look for some kind of home made
sig-beer-west sign. We will try to make it obvious who we are. :-)
Note: Please look for the sig-beer-west sign, not for a particular
person. sig-beer-west may have different hosts from month to month.

Everyone is welcome at this event. We mean it! Please feel free to
forward this information and to invite friends, co-workers, and others
(all of legal drinking age) who might enjoy lifting a glass with
interesting folks from all over the place.

Can't come this month? Mark your calendar for next month. (Do it now
before you forget!) sig-beer-west occurs on the third Saturday of
each month.

Want to suggest a venue? Suggestions for new places to sip and gab
are always welcome. Have questions, comments, or other ideas
concerning sig-beer-west? Send all correspondence to the current
sig-beer-west Instigator. The Instigator's handle is extasia. The
Instigator's email address is <*the handle*> at <*the handle*> dot
<*org*>. A subject beginning with "sbw: " will increase the chances
that the Instigator's spam filters don't molest your message.

sig-beer-west FAQ

1. Q: Your announcement says "techies and their friends". How do I
know if I'm a techie, or a friend of one?

A: Well, actually, you don't have to be a techie to attend. You
just have to be able to find the sig-beer-west sign at this
month's event. That's it. Simple, huh?

2. Q: I'm not really a beer person. In fact I'm interested in hanging
out, but not in drinking. Would I be welcome?

A: Absolutely! The point is to hang out with fun, interesting
folks. Please do join us.

3. Q: Is parking difficult, like maybe I should factor this into my
travel time?

A: Absolutely. The earlier you arrive, the better your chances of
finding a spot.

Note for June 2004: Zeitgeist is [8]three blocks from 16th St
BART. You may want to consider [9]BARTing
and not worrying at all about parking.

[8] http://tinyurl.com/3f8mp
[9] http://www.bart.gov/

4. Q: I've been thinking about attending sig-beer-west for some time
now. Maybe I should start with this event?

A: Yes!!
______________________________________________________________________

sig-beer-west was started in February 2002 when a couple Washington,
D.C. based systems administrators who moved to the San Francisco Bay
area wanted to continue a [10]dc-sage tradition, sig-beer, which is
described in dc-sage web space as:

SIG-beer, as in "Special Interest Group - Beer" ala ACM, or as in
"send the BEER signal to that process".

The original SIG-beer gathering takes place in Washington DC,
usually on the first Saturday night of the month.

[10] http://www.dc-sage.org/
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