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Check out www.hawaiigeek.com for more details.

The following information was taken from the Hawaii Geek About Page

What is the Hawaii Geek Meet?

The Hawaii Geek Meet is a casual, friendly, open potluck gathering of geeks. And we mean “geek” in a most inclusive, positive way. Do you like technology? Do you have a specialty? Among your friends or coworkers, are you the guru, the go-to person for things that blink or have moving parts? Whether you’re passionate about programming, photography, design, HAM radio, model rockets, painting, teaching… we want to meet you.

For specific and focused local groups, the Hawaii Geek Meet is a great excuse to see old friends and catch up on the latest tips and trends. But at the same time, the idea of Hawaii Geek Meet is to mix and mingle with other brilliant people, people you might never meet in your own circles, but people with whom we’d bet you’d get along smashingly.

The Hawaii Geek Meet is the brainchild of Burt Lum (of Bytemarks) and Aaron Dragushan (of Manoa Geeks), but truly belongs to all Hawaii geeks!

Who is invited?

Anyone who is remotely geeky about anything. Web developers, designers, programmers, photographers, videographers, podcasters, bloggers, even artists, teachers, thinkers… Are you knowledgeable and passionate about something? Are you naturally curious and interested in learning about something? Do you want to meet new people, share what you know, and learn a thing or two that you don’t? Then you’re invited. Bring your friends, your family, your kids… and if you’ve got geek toys and gadgets, bring them too!

The core of the Hawaii Geek Meet are several local groups that already get together to talkstory and share knowledge. Is your group interested in joining? Just add your name to the list!

When will it be held?

Sunday, April 20, 2008.

Where will it be held?

Unknown, but most likely an open park in Honolulu

FIRST is a program that helps kids make robots. Come watch their bots fight it out for glory… plus, support the kids!

Stan Sheriff Center, UH Manoa
March 27 - 29. See link for schedule:

http://www.roboticshawaii.com/Eventformdisplay.aspx?ID=51

Just saw this posted to the Bytemarks Mailing List

Hi all,
A nice little birdie reminded me that it is time for the next Bytemarks lunch. Same time, same place!

Time: 11:30am - 1:00pm
Place: YWCA Courtyard
Date: Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008

Bring your lunch, gadgets and your stories. I want to hear the latest LOST theories from Ryan. What is Kate doing with baby Aaron. Inquiring minds need to know. Also what is everyone doing with audio editing these days? What’s your favorite podcast editing software.

Hope to see you all on Thursday.

Burt

Just posted to the Honolulu Coder’s Mailing List

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This month’s Honolulu Coders meeting will take place on Wednesday
February 27th from 6pm to 8pm.

Honolulu-coders mailing list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/honolulu-coders/
Join the Honolulu coders community

Member’s web page: http://discourse.ics.hawaii.edu/workspace/5

********** LOCATION INFORMATION **********

This month’s meeting will be held in the POST building, room 302, at the
University of Hawaii Manoa campus (Map).
UoH parking information.

********** MEETING AGENDA **********

The meeting’s agenda is as follows:

6:00pm - 6:45pm “Building Sprout” Talk by Kevin Hughes
6:45pm - 7:00pm Discussion
7:00pm - 7:15pm Pizza Break sponsored by Ikayzo http://www.ikayzo.com/
7:15pm - 8.00pm “Hamcrest matchers in JUnit 4.4″ Talk by David Beutel

The talk abstracts and speaker biographies are as follows:

Talk Title: Building Sprout

Talk Abstract:

Sprout CTO Kevin Hughes shares the lessons his team has learned in
building a Flex-based, Powerpoint-type application. He’ll discuss
software architecture decisions, what makes a superior Flex developer,
and notes on working with combinations of Flash, Java, Ruby, and PHP in
a startup environment.

Talk Biography:

Kevin Hughes is an internationally-recognized pioneer in Web design and
software, having made imagemap, which allowed Web images to be
interactive, and contributions to the Cascading Style Sheets standard.
He has developed interfaces and software for CommerceNet, VeriFone,
Commerce One, Webify, and ChipIn and is a Distinguished Alumni of the
University of Hawai’i.

Talk Title: Hamcrest matchers in JUnit 4.4

Talk Abstract:

David will briefly show a nice new feature of JUnit 4.4, Hamcrest
matchers, in the hope of provoking some interesting discussions. It
provides useful error messages in the test report, and enables more
refactoring of duplicate code. It’s like a lambda, objectifying test
logic, but in Java. It’s also a fluent builder API.

Talk Biography:

David Beutel builds Java web apps at UH, and is always looking for ways
to do it better.

This was just posted to the Hawaii Venture Capital Association (HVCA) Mailing List:

HVCA Luncheon on How Entrepreneurship Is Changing In The 21st Century

Thursday, February 28, 2008
The Plaza Club 20th Floor
11:30am-1:30pm
$29 for HVCA, Hawaii Angels, DualUse Council, Bytemarks and HSTC Members, $39 non-members, $25 students.

Aloha attire is required by the Plaza Club.
Register at www.hvca.org or contact Gail at (808) 262-7329

How Entrepreneurship Is Changing In The 21st Century

The Hawaii Venture Capital Association (HVCA) presents a high-level panel on how doing business in the 21st century is changing the way entrepreneurs need to look at starting a world class business. It is all different now. Manufacturing is done off shore, markets are global, telecommunications and the devices we use to get and disseminate information and a host of other issues are changing business practice and creating new challenges for entrepreneurs. They are also creating challenges affecting how venture capitalists do business, what lawyers, landlords and other service providers need to offer to keep up. HVCA has assembled a panel of experts, all of whom run entrepreneurship programs at our local universities and are helping to create the next generation of 21st century entrepreneurs for its February 28, 2008 luncheon program at the Plaza Club.

Together to discuss these important issues are, Bee Leng Chua, Executive Director of the Entrepreneurship Program at Hawaii Pacific University, John Webster, Director of the Hogan Entrepreneurial Program at Chaminade University and Rob Robinson, Director of the Pacific Asia Ce nter for Entrepreneurship and e-Business.

Dr. Bee-Leng Chua is the Executive Director of HPU’s new Entrepreneurship Center at the College of Business Administration. She comes to HPU with a great deal of experience in entrepreneurship education and research having founded the Center for Entrepreneurship (CfE) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). She looks forward to building community links in Hawaii as she did in Hong Kong as Director of the CfE.

Dr. John Webster is Director of the Hogan Entrepreneurial Program at Chaminade University of Honolulu. He held executive positions at IBM in Washington, Brussels and Hong Kong. New programs to bridge the worlds of business, government and academia were among the highlights of his tenure as Director of Government Affairs for KPMG in Washington, DC. Before coming to Hawaii, he started and ran the Nanyang Fellows MBA Program, a special initiative of the Singapore government to help train Asia’s future lead ers.

Dr. Robert J. Robinson spent ten years on the faculty of Harvard Business School, and was recruited in 2002 to the University of Hawai`i, where he serves as the Barry and Virginia Weinman Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship and E-Business as well as the executive director of the Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship and E-Business (PACE2). Dr. Robinson is the founder of Hawaii’s angel investor network, the Hawai`i Angels. He is also one of the founders of Kolohala Ventures, one of Hawaii’s leading venture funds.

The Hawaii Venture Capital Association, founded in 1988, is one of Hawaii’s oldest private non-profit economic development organizations devoted to entrepreneurship and capital formation.

GUI Meetup

WHAT: A monthly gathering to discuss GUI design and other related topics

WHEN: Wed, Feb 13th at 6:30pm

WHERE:
Manoa Innovation Center Conference Room
2800 Woodlawn Drive
Honolulu, HI

(Its across the stream from the Manoa Marketplace)

Thanks to Dan from Ikayzo for the space!

Date: Tuesday, February 26th
Time: 5:30 - 8pm
Location: Oceanit, 828 Fort Street Mall
Map: http://tinyurl.com/3bwufx

Web programmers, designers, entrepreneurs, and other interesting geeks. RSVP to Kara Baker: kzbaker at google’s mail service. Parking entrance is from Queen St on your right. Look for a steep upramp into the garage. $2 after 4pm. Come to the 6th floor. (Thanks, Ian!)