BeanSec! Wednesday, September 19th – 6PM to ?
Yo! BeanSec! is once again upon us. Wednesday, September 19th, 2007.
BeanSec! is an informal meetup of information security professionals, researchers and academics in the Greater Boston area that meets the third Wednesday of each month.
I say again, BeanSec! is hosted the third Wednesday of every month. Add it to your calendar.
Come get your grub on. Lots of good people show up. Really.
Unlike other meetings, you will not be expected to pay dues, “join up”, present a zero-day exploit, or defend your dissertation to attend. Map to the Enormous Room in Cambridge.
Enormous Room: 567 Mass Ave, Cambridge 02139. Look for the Elephant on the left door next to the Central Kitchen entrance. Come upstairs. We sit on the left hand side…
Don’t worry about being "late" because most people just show up when they can. 6:30 is a good time to aim for. We’ll try and save you a seat. There is a parking garage across the street and 1 block down or you can try the streets (or take the T)
In case you’re wondering, we’re getting about 30-40 people on average per BeanSec! Weld, 0Day and I have been at this for just over a year and without actually *doing* anything, it’s turned out swell.
We’ve had some really interesting people of note attend lately (I’m not going to tell you who…you’ll just have to come and find out.) At around 9:00pm or so, the DJ shows up…as do the rather nice looking people from the Cambridge area, so if that’s your scene, you can geek out first and then get your thang on.
The food selection is basically high-end finger-food appetizers and the drinks are really good; an attentive staff and eclectic clientèle make the joint fun for people watching. I’ll generally annoy you into participating somehow, even if it’s just fetching napkins. 😉
See you there.
/Hoff
Have you considered posting this to the NAISG Announce mailing list? With 30 -40 people already attending perhaps you don't want to, but I figured I'd throw it out there.
Hey Jim.
We have not as of yet, only because it's been a manageable turnout thus far; with the amount of folks showing up in the locale we have (which we very much like) we'll need to think a little differently in terms of event management if we announce it wider.
Short answer: we plan to. I just need to finish setting up the infrastructure to allow us to manage signups, etc. so we can make reservations for space appropriately. We don't do that now and we got screwed out of space last night and had to cram into the restaurant downstairs instead of the enormous room upstairs.
The more the merrier, as long as it doesn't suck because there's no space or poor service.
Thanks very much,
/Hoff