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

Found this via UH Business IP Forum on TechHui

Time: July 31, 2008 at 6pm
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, Daniel Leuck & Yuka Nagashima

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.

Note Regarding SocialSense
LILT has posted more information about SocialSense, the subject of last month’s meeting.

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

====================================

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.

——————————————————————————–

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 UH Business IP Forum Event on TechHui

Time: June 24, 2008 from 6pm to 8pm
Location: Manoa Innovation Center, 2nd Floor Large Conference Room (Manoa Innovation Website, Google Map)
Street: 2800 Woodlawn Drive
City/Town: Honolulu, HI
Contact Info: +1 (808) 429-6600
Event Type: Forum
Organized By: San Joseph & 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.

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

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!

Found via Cyber Pizza Post in the Tech Hui Linux Forum. Thanks to Roxanne.

“Cyberpizza” is an informal networking forum where people learn about various Internet and cyberspace-related topics. Use this opportunity to meet the people you know virtually and network with people involved in developing business opportunities in Hawaiian cyberspace.”

The just released Fedora 9: pesentation by: Warren Togami & David Cantrell

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software. It is built by people across the globe who work together as a community: the Fedora Project. The Fedora Project is open and anyone is welcome to join. The Fedora Project is out front for you, leading the advancement of free, open software and content

Warren Togami and David Cantrell present the fresh new Fedora 9 Linux released on May 13th. They will demonstrate or talk about several awesome new features like:

Live USB with data persistence
Linux Terminal Server integration
Encrypted file systems, ext4
Free IPA
Virtualization improvements and much more

Warren Togami, Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. Warren founded the Fedora Linux project as an undergraduate project at the University of Hawaii Computer Science department. Fedora has since become a global Open Source community and operating system development project sponsored by Linux industry leader Red Hat, Inc. Warren today works on Fedora in Westford, Massachusetts.

David Cantrell, Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. David works in Red Hat Engineering on the installer team. He participates in the IETF DHC Working Group on DHCPv6 standards and implementation, and leads the dhcpv6 project. David currently works from Red Hat’s one-person Waikiki office.

Sign up and receive free parking by sending an email with your name and phone number, before noon on Tuesday, to Courtney Brown < cyberpizza@ [google's email service] >

Doors open at 5:45pm; program begins at 6:00pm

Marine Science Auditorium Room114 — UH Manoa Campus

$8 per person for pizza & drinks.

Parking is free if you register by noon on Tuesday by sending an email with your name and phone number to Cyberpizza@ [google’s email service]

Web site: www.cyberpizzahawaii.com. List corrections to Cyberpizza@ [google’s email service]

Directions: on UH Campus take Dole turn north on East West Rd. – FIRST LEFT into unnamed access road to lot # 11 Your name will be on the list at the guard booth at the entrance to the parking lot.

See map: http://www.hawaii.edu/campusmap/ click on Marine Science [E4].

Please let me know if you’d like to attend.

Hope to see you there!

Warmest Aloha,

Eran

Eran Agmon CEO
www.comtest.com

Just saw this posted to Upcoming.org - 2008 Mac a’hiki TechFest

=======================================================
2008 Mac a’hiki TechFest Home Page
Saturday, April 26, 2008
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Krauss Hall, University of Hawaii at Manoa (Yahoo Map)
2500 Dole Street
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822

Hosted by the University of Hawaii, Pacific New Media and presented by the Hawaii Macintosh & Apple Users’ Society, Inc. and the Professional Photographers of Hawaii. This event is FREE to the public!

Swap Meet
10:00 am to 3:00 pm
Buy, sell or trade computer or camera gear.

Presentations
Yukiyoshi Room

9:00 to 10:00 — Digital Imaging: the Greatest Tool in Photography by Dwight Okumoto (president of the Professional Photographers of Hawaii)

Dwight will be showing examples of how true photographic technique can be confused with digital manipulation. Digital imaging has completely changed the industry, but we must maintain the same high standards and principles as shooting film.

10:30 to 11:30 — Everything You Always Wanted to Know About X by Rolf Nordahl

Rolf Nordahl from the MacMouse Club will give an overview of what’s new and great about Apple’s new operating system, Leopard, which is built upon the Unix environment. Rolf’s easy going, free-flow style of presentation will include many opportunities for questions and audience input.

12:00 to 1:00 — Keynote by Matt Mullenweg

In March 2007 PC World named Matt Mullenweg one of the 50 Most Important People on the Web. His company, based in San Francisco, recently received $29.5 million in funding from investors. Among them, the New York Times Co. In just three years Matt has taken the development of WordPress from obscurity to the top of the social networking universe. Matt will share his thoughts and hopes about the future of technology.

Exhibits and Clinics

Brown Bag Fixit Clinic hosted by Edward Slavish
10:00 am to Noon

Eddie and friends will help you free of charge with any problems you might be experiencing with your Macintosh or other Apple product. Bring whatever needs fixing and Ed’s mechanics will try to help you. Some times you learn a lot and other times you just pick up one tip that helps you enjoy your computer a little more. It is always worthwhile.

Manoa Photo Walkabout with Patrick Delos Santos
12:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Limited to only 10 students (to register call Eugene Villaluz at 808-735-0402)

Learn how to use and understand your digital camera. You’ll be able to take photos just like a professional in any camera setting. Now you won’t have to worry about missing that great shot!

Door Prizes
Throughout the day.

Hawaii Venture Capital Association (HVCA) Luncheon

Thursday, March 27, 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 (Direct link - http://www.hvca.org/display.aspx?base=Luncheons&ID=68

Will Turmoil in the Public Markets Hit the Venture Capital World?

New Challenges Face Entrepreneurs and Investors

Elliot Parks, CEO of Hawaii Biotech and former venture capitalist with Ventana Capital, a 24 year old venture capital firm with global reach, will address members and guests of the Hawaii Venture Capital Association at its March 27, 2008 monthly luncheon meeting at the Plaza Club. With every passing day, the turmoil in the public markets caused by the mortgage crisis and instability of the US dollar touches us in many ways. Venture capital is traditionally insulated from the twists and turns in the stock market, however, today that insulation may be wearing thin. Elliott Parks, whose career spans many years in the private equity market will talk about the about the current cash flow situation within venture capital firms and address some of the challenges for venture capital portfolio companies. He will also speculate the impact of the current financial climate on the flow of capital into venture firms planning to raise another fund in 2008.

One situation, according to a MarketWatch report by Scott Austin, is the failure of “auction-rate securities” which are debt instruments that corporations and wealthy individuals invest. This situation may severely impact venture investing and venture capital portfolio companies. These securities, which comprise a $330 billion market, bear floating interest rates that reset in auctions every week or so. An estimated $60 billion of such debt failed to generate enough demand from bidders at a recent auction and the interest rates soared. This unprecedented occurrence prevented many holders of auction-rate securities from getting their cash back, according to the report. In addition to tying up cash available to venture capital firms, many start-ups who have parked their cash in these instruments may face lengthy delays in accessing their cash that could hinder operations.

“Investors and entrepreneurs need to be sensitive to big picture issues such as these that could severely impact operations and future investment,” said Bill Spencer, HVCA President. “We are lucky to have experienced observers like Elliot Parks in our community who can educate us about these challenges.”

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.