OK, the San Francisco Bay area GIMPS get-together will take place this coming Friday, 7. December, in the south bay area (precise venue to be decided soon - see below.) Any GIMPS participant or Mersenne prime fan is welcome to join us, along with anyone else you'd like to bring - this is not a formal party.For those not coming from the San Jose area, the venue will be close to a Caltrain station, and hence should be reachable from e.g. SFO airport or other outlying areas. I'm also going to try to arrange what ridesharing I can, so if you can provide a ride or need a ride, please let me know. I looks like several folks from far-flung places will be attending, so should be a quite interesting company. Alas, Luke Welsh can't attend, but he suggested several venues, two of which form my short list.
1) Tied House, Mountain View 2) Faultline Brewery, Sunnyvale 1) is very close to a Caltrain station; 2) supposedly has very good food. Luke also mentioned the Tied House in downtown San Jose, but I've heard it's often very crowded and not as easy in terms of public transit access as the one in Mountain View. So, if you plan to attend and have been to both places (I've not been to (2)), your preference would be most valuable. I hope to finalize the location this afternoon, so out-of-towners will have a reasonable amount of time to make their plans. Since the proverbial M#39 cat is out of the proverbial bag, the guess-the-new-Mersenne-prime-exponent contest is officially cancelled. I was hoping to have a prime poster signed by all the attendees to give to the winner, but I don't think they'll be ready by then, anyway. Cheers, -Ernst _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
