TechOahu

Just got this via email from Ryan, facebook and upcoming.org links below:

Update: Now also on Manoa Geeks Manoa Geeks Meetup - July 31, 2008 On TechHui

Aloha geeks!

Happy to say the next Manoa Geeks meetup is a go! I wanted to send you an 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: July 31
Time: 5:30pm
Location: HMSA Center, 818 Keeaumoku St. Map

General Overview:
Introductions: A quick zip around the room!
Presentations: Got something you’d like to show people? A product demo? Something to teach? Get in touch!
Eat Pizza & 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 Fred Fortin, Burt Lum, and Tiffany Coke at HMSA for hosting and feeding us! You can find all of them on Twitter at @ajfortin, @bytemarks, and @fizzixprof. Learn more about HMSA at http://www.hmsa.com/ Feel free to invite a friend — we looking forward to seeing you there!

RSVPs:
- Email me at ryanozawa [ at google’s mail service ]. Got someone to add to the list? No problem!
- Facebook, Upcoming

Ryan

David Lassner tipped us to this event, direct link here: Hawaii Broadband Task Force with Cisco’s Ken Wirt on Event Calendar. It sounds like it is open to the public and doesn’t appear that RSVP is necessary.

Friday, July 18, 2008
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Hawaii State Capitol Rm 309
The Exabyte Era and Why Broadband is Essential, with
Ken Wirt, Cisco Vice President for Consumer Marketing

The Hawaii Broadband Task Force will be meeting with Ken Wirt, Cisco’s Vice President for Consumer Marketing, to discuss the imperative for advanced broadband services. Cisco’s research indicates that the dam is about to burst for Internet-based video and high-bandwidth requirements will be embedded in many applications for business, entertainment, education, health and government. Cisco’s analysis indicates that continuous growth in Internet capacity will be essential for individuals, communities and regions that want to ensure their ability to participate full in the digital societies of the 21st century. Legislators, policymakers and interested members of the public are invited to attend.

About Ken Wirt:
Ken is responsible for partnering with Cisco, Scientific Atlantic, and Linksys marketing teams in the creation and implementation of Cisco’s consumer marketing strategy. his includes developing an overall corporate brand architecture and keeping a pulse on the consumer to develop the most effective marketing and messaging strategies for Cisco overall. Ken has over twenty years of marketing experience with a strong background in developing new consumer electronic categories. He led marketing for one of the first home computers at Atari, introduced the first CD-ROM-based video game system at NEC, headed marketing for the first PDA (Newton) at Apple, launched the first portable MP3 player (Rio) at Diamond Multimedia, and was CEO of the first indie music recommendation web site (Riffage). Most recently, Ken was SVP Worldwide Marketing at Palm where he developed the first consumer PDA (Zire), the first hard-drive based multimedia PDA (LifeDrive), and launched the second generation of Treo smartphones with many of the world’s leading service providers. Ken received an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a BA in The Psychology of Kinetic Media from the University of Michigan.

Just saw this posted to Coworking Group July 8, 2008 on TechHui

Time: July 8, 2008 from 8am to 12pm
Location: Tropical Smoothie Cafe (Map)
Organized By: Truman Leung

Trying out a new place this time: Tropical Smoothie Cafe. I think its the perfect place for a coworking group:

1. It’s conveniently located in town: It’s just across Piikoi Street from Sears Ala Moana in the Hawaiki Tower.

2. Lots of padded seating (it’s not crowded).

3. Ample conveniently located electrical outlets to keep your laptops powered up.

4. Coffee/Food to keep yourself powered up. I think the Acai smoothie there tastes better than Jamba Juice. Plus the chipotle chicken sandwich rocks. We can stay there and have breakfast and/or lunch.

5. Internet. I’ve arranged for wifi access during the time of our weekly co-working meeting thanks to the owner, Teddy Wells.

6. Free parking. There are a bunch of stalls in the parking garage. Entrance to the parking garage is on Piikoi St. Just after you enter the garage, on the left hand side there are marked stalls reserved for customers of the Tropical Smoothie Cafe.

7. It’s spacious, air-conditioned and bathrooms are just down the hall.

Hope you can make it!

Benefits of coworking:

* get out of the house to focus on work
* network with other people in your field(s)
* cross-pollination of ideas and new tech
* collaborate

Post with more info on coworking (aka Jelly)

Short notice, but I just noticed I had this in my RSS Feeds from the Hawaii Kai Geeks Julyy 2 2008 Announcement on Bytemarks Mailing List

Hawaii Kai geek Meetup
Wed. July 2 2pm
Hawaii Kai Towne Center Starbucks (near Costco)
Ste 2B6 333 Keahole St, Honolulu, HI 96825 (Map)

Another last minute item I just noticed, Lunch with Dr Thomas Ho July 2 2008 Announcement on Bytemarks

I meant to mentioned, we are having an impromptu lunch with @drthomasho on Wed 7/2 that you are all welcome to join us. We’ll meet on the corner of Keeaumoku and Rycroft (Map) at 11:30am. We can start there and walk over to this Pho restaurant near La Pizza Rina. Call me if you have any questions: [phone number deleted, click through on yahoo groups to get it] or twitter me at @bytemarks.

Burt

Dr Thomas Ho: http://drthomasho.info/ redirects to http://claimid.com/drthomasho

Brief Bio stolen from his website:

THOMAS I. M. HO is Professor of Computer and Information Technology at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Previously, he was a Senior Fellow in Information Systems and Computer Science at the National University of Singapore from 1993-1994. From 1990-1992, he was Director of the Information Networking Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. From 1978 to 1988, he was Head of the Department of Computer Technology at Purdue University which has been recognized by the Data Processing Management Association for its Four-year Institution Award for undergraduate computer information systems programs. From 1986-1988, he was on loan from Purdue to serve as Executive Director of the INTELENET Commission which oversees INTELENET, INdiana TELEcommunications NETwork. He received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Purdue University.

Dr. Ho has been actively involved in distance education experiments with real-time streaming to add instructional value to Web-based training. He is one of the founders of IUPUI’s CyberLab. Until recently, he was also involved in electronic commerce with particular emphasis on commercial activities on the Internet. He is also engaged in efforts to motivate primary and secondary students to study information technology. While in Pittsburgh, he served as External Liaison for Common Knowledge: Pittsburgh, a project to provide Internet access to the Pittsburgh Public Schools. In Singapore, he was a consultant to the IT2000 Education Sector Programme of the National Computer Board. Currently, he is engaged in experiments to apply “Web 2.0” tools to improve teaching and learning through information technology.

He is a charter member of the Indianapolis chapter of the Society for Information Management (SIM) International. In April 1996, he was named by the Indianapolis Business Journal to its “Who’s Who in Information Technology.”

This was just posted to Bytemarks June 27, 2008 Lunch on Yahoo Groups

Hey there everybody. Hope you are enjoying your first day of Summer. People are asking me about the next Bytemarks lunch and I was struggling with the best place to have it. Well, the YWCA seems to still be the favorite. I like the outdoors and the courtyard area is so conducive to conversation. But remember, buy a lunch nearby or bring your lunch. Here’s the details.

Date: Friday, June 27, 2008
Place: YWCA, Courtyard (our favorite place) (Map)
1040 Richards St
Honolulu, Hawaii 96813
Time: 11:30am

Bring your web stories and gadgets.

Aloha,
Burt

Homepage
http://www.bytemarks.org

Just received this via email, also on the web at Hawaii Science and Technology Council Event - Increasing STEM Internship & COOP Opportunities for UH Students

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Attention STEM Employers

Increasing STEM Internship & COOP Opportunities for UH Students

**Please join the University of Hawaii, DBEDT, HISciTech, and Enterprise Honolulu on June 26th for an in-depth program discussing STEM internships and the opportunities and challenges faced by employers, UH coordinators, and students.

June 26, 2008
10:00am - 3:00pm
Honolulu Community College, Building 2, Rm 201

Register Now: Free Admission

Panel discussion moderated by Mike Rota, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs
University of Hawaii Community Colleges

9:30-10:00am Registration
10:00-12:00 Panel (panel to be named)
12:00-1:15pm Networking Lunch
1:30-3:00pm Panel Q&A
Intended Audience: STEM Employers, UH Internship & COOP Coordinators, UH Students

*RSVP to Dori Baba at Enterprise Honolulu dbaba [at] enterprisehonolulu [dot] com or call (808) 521-3611 ext.10

Be sure to check our Events Calendar for upcoming events.

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Hawaii Science & Technology Council
733 Bishop Street, Suite 2900, Makai Tower
Honolulu, HI 96813
Phone: 808.536.4670
Fax: 808.536.4680
www.hiscitech.org

Found via .NET Users Group: Web User Controls vs. Web Control Libraries on TechHui

Time: June 18, 2008 at 6pm
Location: OceanIT Conference Room
Street: 828 Fort Street Mall, Suite 600 Honolulu, HI (Map/Directions)

This session will explore the ups and downs, and the ins and outs of using Web User Controls and Web Control Libraries, as well as programming for re-usability and making the control do the tedious things for you.

See “Meeting Location” on our web site: http://www.hawaiidotnet.org

Any Questions please call: Mike Fors (mike at platinumc dot net)- 528-5858 or Tina Sprague (tsprague at oceanit dot com) – 754-2929

Just saw this posted over at Coworking at Glazers on TechHui

Time: June 17, 2008from 8am to 12pm
Location:Glazers
Address: 2700 South King St Honolulu (Map)
Organized By: Truman Leung

Anyone up for meeting for work and lunch afterwards? This Tuesday 8am-noon @ Glazers.

Benefits of coworking:

* get out of the house to focus on work
* network with other people in your field(s)
* cross-pollination of ideas and new tech
* collaborate

Dinner and a Movie with Tech Oahu - June 17th, 2008
Tuesday June 17th, 2008
6:00 PM

Oceanit (Map - Parking is $2 after 4 p.m.)
828 Fort Street Mall
Honolulu, Hawaii 96813-4321

Come hang out for Dinner & a Movie with Tech Oahu at 6 p.m. on Tuesday June 17, 2008 at Oceanit.

We’ll be watching two great presentations discussing usability and user feedback and have time after them to eat and discuss.

A great big thanks to Ian Kitajima (@ikitajima) and Oceanit for hosting us. Please RSVP to ssavara [at] hotmail [dot] com to help us plan.

Our tech-centric presentation for this instance is by Paul Buchheit, founder of FriendFeed and creator of GMail, discussing how to listen to your users (video from Startup School 08). In his talk, Paul talks about some of the challenges in getting accurate user feedback, how to parse user feedback, and how to build a successful web application by focusing on features users want.

We’ll pair this with a non tech video from TED, where Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry’s pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce. It’s a fascinating story about parsing user feedback from surveys and the story of Ragu versus Prego, and the different way they approached targeting customers.

There will be plenty of time following the presentations to eat, hang out, and discuss the presentations or other tech subjects and/or usability concerns. Feel free to invite a friend and we looking forward to seeing you there!

Bring $5 if you want pizza; drinks are free!