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In the unlikely event you are interested in Hawaii Tech, subscribe to Tech Oahu and have not heard of Podcamp Hawaii - here’s your official Tech Oahu notice!

Visit http://2008.podcamphawaii.com/ for all the news, and you can follow the conversation on twitter with hashtag #pch08. You can also follow the official twitter account, @podcamphawaii.

Huge thank yous and congratulations due to @roxannedarling for putting it together, and @judico for her efforts on the Wordcamp track.

Not only will we have our very own Hawaii rockstars such as Roxanne Darline, Congressman Neil Abercrombie, Neenz Faleafine Ryan Ozawa and more, but they have lined up a spectacular group of speakers including Lorelle VanFossen, Holly Hagen, Matt Mullenweg and more.

Check out the Google Spreadsheet Podcamp Schedule, and be sure to register for Podcamp Hawaii 2008 as it’s free, but seats are limited (and down to something like 80 at my last check - over 500 people registered!)

Saw this posted to Bytemarks Email List - September 19 Lunch Announcement

I hope you are all having a fine September. The Bytemarks lunch is a
little early this month because the big Manoa Geeks meetup is on
Thursday Sept. 25th. I thought it might be a good idea to spread it
around. Here’s the details:

When: Friday, Sept 19, 2008
Where: Atherton Studio at Hawaii Public Radio. We can grab lunch from
Don Quijote across the street first or you can bring your own lunch.
Time: 11:30 -1:00pm

You can RSVP here: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1097374

Bring your web stories and your gadgets.

See you there,
Burt

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 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!

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.

Just saw this posted to Jelly Coworking Group - August 20, 2008 at TechHui. For those planning ahead, you may also want to put on your calendars Jelly Coworking Group - August 27, 2008 at TechHui. Don’t worry, we’ll post the second one as a reminder sometime next week.

Jelly Coworking Group

Time: August 20, 2008 from 8am to 12pm (Export to Outlook or iCal (.ics))
Location: Cafe Jupiter (Map)
Organized By: Truman Leung

It’s a bit hard to find Cafe Jupiter because there is no sign visible from the street. It’s just across the street from Shokudo on the Ewa side of the building fronting the side street. Easy to park in Ala Moana.