ANNOUNCEMENT ============ The Third Physical Cypherpunks Meeting: Project Planning It has become clear that lots of code needs to be written, and that we will be writing it. Therefore the Third Meeting will be devoted to project planning and design review. Date: November 21 Time: 12 noon Where: Cygnus Support offices Who: you, and anybody you know who wants to come, and so on. (Please do not post this announcements to public places, but do encourage private circulation.) Positive-Confimation: Please tell me if you are coming. Replies to hughes@soda.berkeley.edu. Please, I urge all of you on the list that can make to attend this time. This will be a pivotal meeting, since we are deciding priorities here. If you want to affect the course of development, you ought to show up. If you can't attend, corner someone on the list who will be there and convince them to represent your position. Eric Hughes AGENDA ====== 1. Key exchange. Bring a diskette with your PGP public key on it. Bring a machine which can read this diskette. Bring extra diskettes to collect keys on and to give out. Let us not be hypocrites and let us all know each other's public keys. 2. Project planning. We need a list of crypto projects and who is working on them. This will help coordination and avoid duplication of effort. We need to prioritize the projects to avoid premature development. We need to create strategies and design criteria. 3. Project logistics. We need to talk about the best ways to do widely distributed software development in this fairly anarchic environment. 4. Design review. Hal Finney and I have been duking it out behind the scenes working on a design schema for the next generation remailer. I'd like to present the design and have people critique it. (would be 5.) We won't be playing the crypto-anarchy game this time. It's not a dead duck, but this time we've got more urgent things to do. DIRECTIONS ========== Here is a reposting of the directions to the meeting place. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Better directions to the meeting on Saturday at noon From: gnu@cygnus.com Someone asked for better directions, and the original ones were pretty skimpy anyway. Here's a better try. Cygnus Support 1937 Landings Drive Mt. View, CA 94043 There's no phone service there yet. Take US 101 toward Mt. View. From San Francisco, it's about a 40-minute drive. Get off at the Rengstorff Ave/Amphitheatre Parkway exit. If you were heading south on 101, you curve around to the right, cross over the freeway, and get to a stoplight. If you were heading north on 101, you just come right off the exit to the stoplight. The light is the intersection of Amphitheatre and Charleston Rd. Take a right on Charleston; there's a right-turn-only lane. Follow Charleston for a short distance. You'll pass the Metaphor/Kaleida buildings on the right. At a clump of palm trees and a "Landmark Deli" sign, you can take a right into Landings Drive; this gets you into the complex from the north. Or you can go slightly further along Charleston and take the next right, into a driveway with a big "Landmark" sign in the middle. No matter which way you got into the complex, follow around it until you are on the side that faces the freeway. There's a clock tower that rises out of one of the buildings, to the right (south) of the deli. Enter through the doors immediately under the clock tower. They'll be open between noon and 1PM at least. (See below if you're late.) Once inside, take the stairs up, immediately to your right. At the top of the stairs, turn right past the treetops, and we'll be in 1937 on your left. If you are late and the door under the clock tower is locked, you can go to the deli (which will be around a building and left, as you face the door), cut between the buildings to the right of the deli, and into the back lawns between the complex and the farm behind it. Walk around the buildings until you see a satellite dish in the lawn. Go up the stairs next to the dish, which are the back stairs into the Cygnus office space. We'll prop the door (or you can bang on it if we forget). Or, you can find the guard who's wandering around the complex, who knows there's a meeting happening and will let you in. They can be beeped at 965 5250, though you'll have trouble finding a phone. Don't forget to eat first, or bring food at noon! I recommend hitting the burrito place on Rengstorff (La Costen~a) at about 11:45. To get there, when you get off 101, take Rengstorff (toward the hills) rather than Amphitheatre (toward the bay). Follow it about ten blocks until the major intersection at Middlefield Road. La Costen~a is the store on your left at the corner. You can turn left into the narrow lane behind the store, which leads to a parking lot, and enter by the front door, which faces the intersection. To get to the meeting from there, just retrace your route on Rengstorff, go straight over the freeway, and turn right at the stoplight onto Charleston; see above. See you there! John Gilmore