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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Try down in San Mateo… Adrian <span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ja, or Monterey. We have a low-budget engineering society that meets down there regularly. That’s where I gave my MBrain pitch last fall. It is low cost, scenic, out of the mainstream, access to some cool stuff such as the excellent Monterey Aquarium, Cannery Row for Steinbeck fans, 17 Mile Drive for those who for some incomprehensible reason like to gawk at rich people’s homes, golf courses and that kinda stuff. You can still get up to SF in a reasonable time if that is your thing, and you can go do the San Jose Tech Museum, that kinda thing, tour the Silicon Valley internet Fly-by-nights, stuff like that. Monterey is where the Silicon Valley should have been placed, but missed it by about 50 miles.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Monterey is about an hour drive south of the San Jose Airport.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adrian Tymes<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 25, 2012 1:09 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Question: Conference in San Francisco Venue Options<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Try down in San Mateo. That's as accessible from the local airport,<br>and most rates are cheaper. Plus, being out of SF's celebrity status,<br>you tend to look more like a conference that actually wants to get<br>stuff done - in this case, actually develop the future - rather than<br>just talk about it.<br><br>If you're willing to look a bit further south, the San Jose Convention<br>Center specifically markets to this type of conferences. I don't<br>know if it's too expensive, but I'm told it's cheaper than most<br>similar venues in SF (and I don't know what your budget is).<br><a href="http://www.sanjose.org/plan-a-meeting-event/venues/convention-center">http://www.sanjose.org/plan-a-meeting-event/venues/convention-center</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Natasha Vita-More <<a href="mailto:natasha@natasha.cc" target="_blank">natasha@natasha.cc</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hi Everyone!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Humanity+ hopes to hold a conference in San Francisco this fall/winter. We had a possible venue option, but that fell through. I have been hunting but am coming up short. Most venues are too expensive and I don’t have any contacts at universities to get info on auditoriums. I found a possibility in Berkeley at the International House at UC Berkeley in the Chevron Auditorium. Another possibility is directly in SF and it is Rally Pad but it is more like our Summit in Irvine venue (not an auditorium) and it only seats about 115 people.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Does anyone have a suggestion for us? It would be great to get this conference up and running!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Thank you!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Natasha<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/" target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext'>Natasha Vita-More, PhD</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><br><img border=0 width=77 height=31 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.png@01CD9B37.D5C4E650" alt="Description: esDESiGN_email"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i>University Lecturer</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i>Chairman, <a href="http://www.humanityplus.org/" target="_blank">Humanity+</a><br>Producer/Host, <a href="http://www.hplustv.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">H+TV</a></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" target="_blank">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>