TechOahu

Just got this via email from Manoa Geeks

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Aloha geeks!

Hope you’re all having a great Labor Day weekend. September is hours away, so it’s time to think ahead to the next Manoa Geeks! As before, I wanted to send you early notice so you can mark your calendars and start collecting cool links and projects to share. I’ll send another reminder a week or so before the meetup as well!

Date: Thursday, Sept. 25

Time: 5:30pm

Location: HONBLUE, 501 Sumner St.

Map: http://www.eventbrite.com/googlemap?eid=166177040

• General Overview:
  • Introductions: A quick zip around the room!
  • Presentations: Got something you’d like to show people? Something to announce? Get in touch!
  • Eat, Drink & Talk Story
  • Guided Discussion: What’s going on in the web world?
  • More Talk Story (and maybe go out for drinks)!

A big mahalo to Larry Heim and Lee Hopkins at HONBLUE for hosting and feeding us! You can find them on Twitter at @larryheim and @leehop.

Learn more about Honblue at http://www.honblue.com/ Feel free to invite a friend — we looking forward to seeing you there!

Please RSVP at Eventbrite — no account needed, see who’s coming and their links!

http://manoageeks.eventbrite.com/

You can also e-mail me at ryanozawa [at] gmail, and tell the world you’re coming via the below services:

- Facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=32674973178

- Upcoming: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1060794/

- TechHui: http://www.techhui.com/events/event/show?id=1702911:Event:20985

Just got this via email from Hawaii Science & Technology Council (HISciTech)

2nd Friday Tech Download A Monthly Networking Breakfast
Dr. Peter Crouch, Dean College of Engineering, University of Hawaii

“Insights for the Future of the College of Engineering”

Friday, September 12, 2008
7:30am-9:30am
The Pacific Club
1451 Queen Emma St.
$15 HISciTech Members, $20 non-members
RSVP:  robyn@hiscitech.org or 536-4670 or
REGISTER ONLINE
*Not for publication*

Just a few reminders…We are invited guests at the Pacific Club and would appreciate your assistance in following the guidelines below:

DRESS CODE No jeans, shorts, collarless shirts, gym shoes or rubber slippers permitted.  “Aloha Attire” is acceptable for both men and women.

CELL PHONE POLICY All incoming and outgoing cell phone conversations must be held outside the clubhouse.  Please turn cell phones off or to silent mode while in common areas of the Club

Just got this via email from Patrick Kelly

You’re Invited
Oracle Day Hawaii 2008
Register now for this FREE event!

Join us for the annual Oracle Day Hawaii event featuring Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Business Intelligence. Attendees will hear from Oracle experts while interacting with Oracle partners and industry peers. Network and exchange ideas with other users and learn how Oracle solutions are putting their IT investments to work!

Tuesday, September 16, 2008
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 pm

The Westin Moana Surfrider
2365 Kalakaua Avenue
Honolulu, HI 96815
808.922-3111
Area Map

The Eclipse Hawaii User’s Group, or eHug, is planning its first meeting at 5:30 PM on Tuesday, Sept. 16 at IBM’s Honolulu office (1240 Ala Moana Blvd, Map.).

eHug maintains an informational page on the Eclipsepedia wiki (including slides from the group’s organizational meetings), and a mailing list.  Thanks to Manoa Geeks for the tip.

The informational session of the meeting will cover:

Web Services Overview

• How to use Eclipse to -
  • Define web services.
  • Create a web service.
  • Create a web service client.
  • Consume the web service.

Please join us!

So, we haven’t actually announced Podcamp Hawaii on TechOahu (though it’s all over the place) since it’s so far away. Mark you calendars, it is October 24-25, though if you are subscribed here you probably already know that =)

I just came across this tweet about the Podcamp Hawaii Volunteer Meetup - August 30, 2008 from @podcamphawaii, reproduced in full:

Volunteer meetup this Sat (August 30) at 1 pm Kaka’ako Park. Everyone is invited. Please join our email list at Podcamp Hawaii

Updated:

Map and info now available - See the site for Agenda

Location: Kakaʻako Park (covered tables down by the water, main building) (Map)
Date: Saturday, August 30th
Time: 1:00 - 2:30 pm

All interested people are welcome to attend! This is an unconference, which means it is volunteer-driven and no one is paid. Our meetings and transactions are transparent and open to the public. We depend on the big hearts and generous support of a wide group of people and companies. This is your event to help shape and deliver!

Call me if you get lost! Roxanne 808-384-5554

See all the details and RSVP over on Tech Hui Launch a Startup in a Weekend Event September 19-21, 2008

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Location: Sid’s Apartment, 1296 Kapiolani Blvd Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 (Map)
Time: 6 pm September 19 to 6 pm September 21. (Export to Outlook or iCal as .ics)

Shawn Drost and I have been planning a weekend where we build and launch a start up.

The basic premise is just you and your geekiest friends, making something for the internet in a weekend. You can read more about the sort of event we’re thinking of here, but please note that this event is not affiliated with the official “Startup Weekend” company. This is a small scale event we’re planning, independent of them.

If you’d be interested, post here, and if you know someone else that might be, forward this to them.

The current venue is my apartment - located near Ala Moana (hopefully reasonably central), and with my roommates on board we can use the whole 3 bedroom place.

I unfortunately do lack some basic necessities (a coffee maker - someone can bring one), but we will absolutely Wifi and a water cooler!

Just saw this posted to the HMAUS Mailing List. Apologies for the late notice. Sid and Shawn only scale so far.

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Just a last minute reminder that the Aug. Brown Bag Party is tonite at 6:30 to 8:30 in the Kapahulu Safeway Store in their WIFI area. It is the front left section of the store near the Starbucks and Salad Bar and Deli sections. If you don’t like Starbucks they have a Seattle Coffee Shoppe in the parking lot.

Bring your laptop, desktop, iPod, iPhone whatever and we’ll try to answer your questions and/or fix the hardware at no cost, FREE.

It is also a great place to meet up with friends, new and old.

Ed

Ryan from Manoa Geeks pinged me with this event. I have shamelessly copied and pasted the details directly from his post Bytemarks Lunch on Thursday via Manoa Geeks since his write up is superb, and I encourage you to go read it if you are unfamiliar with Burt and/or Bytemarks Lunch

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Local ubergeek Burt Lum’s monthly “Bytemarks” geek lunch has been scheduled for 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 28, at Don Quijote (a.k.a. Holiday Mart) on Kaheka Street near Ala Moana [Map]. “Just bring your stories and your gadgets.”

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I recently also noticed it was updated via this post regarding location of August 28, 2008 Lunch on Bytemarks Mailing List

Here’s an update. I talked to the folks at Hawaii Public Radio and we
can use the Atherton Studio for our lunch gathering. We can still pick
up our lunch at Don Quijote and head over to Atherton Studio. It’s air
conditioned, great setting and free wifi! Let’s meet at Don Quijote
and head over together. Let me know if you can make it by signing up
on Yahoo Upcoming Bytemarks Lunch August 28, 2008

Just saw this posted to Jelly Coworking Group - August 27, 2008 at TechHui.

Jelly Coworking Group

Time: August 27, 2008 from 12 pm to 4 pm (Export to Outlook or iCal (.ics))
Location: Jupiter Cafe. 1601 Kapiolani Blvd Honolulu, HI 96814 (Map)
Organized By: Truman Leung

To see if we can coax late risers to come to our group, we’ll be trying a new time this week: Lunch at noon and then coworking until 4pm or whenever.

Cafe Jupiter has no sign visible from the street. It’s halfway between Kapiolani and Kona on Mahukona on the Diamond Head side of the street, just across the street from Shokudo.

Found this via UH Business IP Forum August 26, 2008 on TechHui

Time: August 26, 2008 at 12 - 2pm
Location: Manoa Innovation Center (Website), 2nd Floor Large Conference Room
Street: 2800 Woodlawn Drive Honolulu, HI (Map
Contact Info: +1 (808) 429-6600
Event Type: Forum
Organized By: Sam Joseph and Daniel Leuck

The UH Business IP Forum is intended as an opportunity for University of Hawaii researchers to present their latest ideas to the local business community. University of Hawaii researchers regularly generate intellectual property in the form of patents. The University of Hawaii can provide exclusive rights to these patents, licensing them to individual business or consortia for the purpose of generating revenue. In the first instance the forum will start with presentations from UH researchers from the Ubiquitous Wireless Computing research group from the department of Information and Computer Sciences. The presentations will generally be short in order to allow plenty of time for discussion. As well as getting feedback on the potential licensability of existing patents, UH researchers will be looking for input from the business community on what technologies and techniques could be developed for the mutual benefit of both academia and business.

The UH Business IP Forum is lead by Sam Joseph. Sam is the project lead for the Ubiquitous and Wireless Computing project in the Laboratory for Interactive Learning Technologies in the University of Hawaii Department of Information and Computer Sciences. He has brought in over $3,000,000 in industry grants over the last year and now runs a team of 10 researchers developing new IP in the fields of Ubiquitous and Wireless Computing.

Sam’s academic qualifications include a B.Sc. (Hons) in astrophysics from the University of Leicester, UK, a M.Sc. in cognitive science and natural language and a Ph.D. in neural networks from the University of Edinburgh, UK. He was also recipient of the Raymond-Hide prize for Astrophysics and a Toshiba Fellowship.

Sam spent six years in Japan, first working on intelligent agents at the Toshiba Research & Development Center, then freelancing for startup companies, and finally on peer-to-peer systems at the University of Tokyo.