San Francisco reader meetup details, note: location has changed!

Last week in Tokyo was pretty amazing, but this Wednesday's reader event in San Francisco promises to be possibly our most amazing yet. Here's a bit about what you can expect:

• We're giving away literally tens of thousands of dollars in gear, including...
• A free Sandisk Sansa Connect (4GB with WiFi) to the first 200 people! (And free Flickr Pro accounts for the next 250 people.)
• We'll also have free food and drinks!
  
• Live Q&A session with Engadget
• The event is ALL AGES and FREE ADMISSION
• As well as giveaways from: Drobo, Motorola, Nokia, OQO, Plantronics, Samsung, SanDisk, Sling, and others!

When: Wednesday, October 10th, 7:00PM - 10:00PM [Listing on Upcoming]
Please note, however, that we have changed our event location! We are no longer holding the event at Mighty, the event is now at the Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF.

1675 Owens Street
San Francisco, CA 94158
866.431.UCSF

Also, a note to the local hackers in the audience! We'd like to try out the "lightning talks" round here in the US -- let us know if you have something interesting and electronic that you might want to show off!

We'd also like to thank the premium event sponsor of our San Francisco event, the Bluetooth SIG, who've been instrumental in getting this thing off the ground!

Oh, and please leave us a comment if you're thinking of attending so we can at least try to estimate how many to expect. See you there! (Map, directions, and full list of companies at the event after the break.)

Map of the area

View Larger Map

Directions
Free shuttles from 16th Street BART station or the 4th Street Caltrain station on the UCSF Red line (approximately every 15 minutes).

Muni trains are available every 10-minutes from the Market Street corridor. Take the T-line to 3rd and 16th streets and walk one block across the UCSF Mission Bay campus to the community center.

Paid parking is available directly behind the community center. Enter the garage behind the dark orange building from Owens Street.

Thanks Niall!

Companies demoing at the event (and giving away prizes)

• Bluetooth SIG
• Data Robotics
• DeviceVM
• Motorola
• Microsoft / Ford Sync
• Nokia
• OQO
• Plantronics
• SanDisk
• Samsung
• Sling Media
• Accessories: BlueAnt, FoneGear, SoundID
  

[tnkgrl Posted Oct 10th 2007 1:22AM]

Damn, I just moved from SF to Seattle (for work). When are you having a meetup up here? I can show you my OQO Model 02 HSDPA hack :) http://tnkgrl.wordpress.com/2007/05/07/oqo-model-02-hsdpa-mod-part-1/

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 10th 2007 2:39AM]

I'll be there tomorrow!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 10th 2007 6:49AM]

Woot! Been busy for the past few weeks finally got a breather to catch up on my news sites, I'm sure glad I came here!

I JUST moved into the SF Bay area, so I'm defiantly coming. =)

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 10th 2007 11:45AM]

I will be there with 3 friends.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 10th 2007 12:03PM]

I'll be there + one more...

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 10th 2007 7:35PM]

planning on coming by.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 10th 2007 12:52PM]

I definitely will be there, save me a flash drive please! - John

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 10th 2007 1:18PM]

Gilroy represent with guest!

[QDogg Posted Oct 10th 2007 3:00PM]

I'll be there. First timer for me. Should be fun!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 10th 2007 3:21PM]

going to the event!

[mrsayao Posted Oct 10th 2007 4:14PM]

I'm going!! Woot!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 10th 2007 6:04PM]

I'm coming

[cynic821 Posted Oct 10th 2007 4:41PM]

how many people do you expect to be there Ryan?

[hugoguzman Posted Oct 10th 2007 6:12PM]

i will be there for sure! hopefully i leave there with a new iphone!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 10th 2007 5:44PM]

I'm In I work just down the street.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 10th 2007 6:11PM]

I will be there. Yay free stuff!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 10th 2007 6:47PM]

Coming

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 11th 2007 3:24AM]

On my way! Well, soon anyways.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 10th 2007 7:39PM]

I'll be there +1, but I should mention that I'm planning on going over to Shine for the Creative Commons Salon at some point before 10pm.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 11th 2007 3:20AM]

I'm in.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 12th 2007 8:19PM]

Oh engadget, if you come to Chicago, we Chicagoans will make it the best gathering engadget has ever seen! =)