Re: Need Oakland/Berkeley location for June SFPUG

Steve Crawford wrote:
> David Fetter wrote:
>> On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 06:36:18PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>> It's about time we visited the East Bay again.
>>>
>>> We can always use Casa Donde, but it would be great to find a
>>> location a bit more BARTable, and with a pub nearby.
>>>
>>> Could we use UCB in June? If so, what's the parking situation?
>>>
>>
>> The parking situation for UCB generalizes to the parking situation
>> throughout the BART system, given the extreme closeness of the
>> downtown Berkeley BART stop to UCB :)
>>
>>
> I think the critical reference is here: http://beerbybart.com/
>
> I looked for the Cal Linux Users Group but it seems to be
> inactive/defunct and the BSD group that I thought met in Berkeley now
> meets in the South Bay. I know that Beckett's
> (http://www.beckettsirishpub.com/) has private rooms of appropriate
> size. I don't know what they charge or if they would be happy to have
> the business (assuming enough participants would be willing to buy food
> or drink). At least the meeting would be close to a pub. :) And it is
> only a couple blocks from BART.
>
> -Steve
>

I can look into getting a room in a UCB building. I don't know if I'll
get permission or not. However, if parking around the NW part of campus
seems workable to people, I will ask.

Paul