Greg Hester, CEO of Pacific Hi-Tech, invites anyone who uses Eclipse or is curious about it to attend the monthly Eclipse Hawaii User’s Group meeting tomorrow (Tues., Dec. 16). It’s being held at 11:30 a.m. at the Department of Justice (235 S. Beretania St.), in Rm. LAK204 on the second floor. IBM will be sponsoring lunch. Please RSVP!
To celebrate the spirit of photo lovers everywhere, iLovePhotos (sponsor of November’s Manoa Geeks meetup) has launched the “I Love iLovePhotos” video contest! Contestants have the chance to win a brand new 8GB iPod Nano.
To enter, simply share what you like or dislike most about the iLovePhotos desktop application in a 30-second YouTube video. Then just e-mail the link and your contact info to damian@bluelavatech.com. There are no restrictions, but please keep it clean, so your video can be shared with everybody. The most creative and entertaining video wins!
I can’t believe we’re halfway through October already! Obviously, it’s time to think ahead to the next Manoa Geeks! Hopefully it’s early enough to mark your calendars and start collecting cool links and projects to share.
When: 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 13
Where: Thirtyninehotel at 39 N. Hotel St. [Map]
Sponsored By: Blue Lava Technologies and iLovePhotos
General Overview:
About Our Sponsor
Blue Lava Technologies is a Hawaii based Internet venture co-founded by Henk Rogers and Lorenz Sell in 2006. “Our mission is to bring photos back into people’s lives using innovative technologies such as facial detection and artificial intelligence.” iLovePhotos.com, its flagship service, creates an entirely new photo sharing paradigm. You can watch an introductory video, or watch Lorenz Sell present iLovePhotos at DEMOfall 08.
About Our Venue
Thirtyninehotel is located in Honolulu’s historic Chinatown district at 39 North Hotel Street. It’s a second floor loft space that features a 1,700-square foot art and music space (with bar and sound system) and a 1,160-square foot private patio with assorted seating areas and an unparalleled view of downtown Honolulu.
Please RSVP via Eventbrite! And you can tell the world you’re coming via the below services:
We have a place and time… now we only need you. Feel free to invite a friend — we looking forward to seeing you there!
Yet another great turnout for another great Manoa Geeks gathering at HONBLUE. Our hosts Larry Heim and Lee Hopkins outdid themselves with food and beverages, and even designed a Manoa Geeks logo and printed up some fantastic signs. (Hey, it’s what they do!) In addition to the talkstory and networking, and a tour of the HONBLUE facility, attendees got to see demos by:
Stay tuned for news on the next Manoa Geeks (make sure you’re on the list). But I hope to see you all at Podcamp Hawaii later this month!
To have your photos included in the September Manoa Geeks slideshow above, just upload them to Flickr and tag them with “manoageeks092008.”
Sid Savara and Shawn Drost are putting out the call to web developers, programmers, designers, and entrepreneurs to imagine, plan, build, and launch an internet startup in one weekend. Participants will come together on Friday, Sept. 19, and by sundown on Sunday will have something special and functional online. The venue is Sid’s apartment at 1296 Kapiolani Blvd. The local event is inspired by, but emphatically not affiliated with, Andrew Hyde’s “Startup Weekend” series. Check in at TechHui for more information, or to sign up to participate. [Hawaii Blog]
Updated Sept. 4: September is here, so it’s time to think ahead to the next Manoa Geeks! This Web 2.0 meetup has become a fantastic place to see new things and meet new people in the local tech space. As before, I wanted to give you lots of 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]
General Overview:
The September 2008 meetup is hosted by HONBLUE, Honolulu’s premier reprographics imaging company. HONBLUE is a leader in technology via print, web based collaboration software, bid document distribution and consulting. 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.
Feel free to invite a friend — we looking forward to seeing you there. Please register below so everyone knows you’re coming!
Directions & Parking
From Downtown/East Honolulu: Heading Ewa (west) on Nimitz Highway, turn right at Sumner Street (just after the Salvation Army and before the K-Mart store). Cross Iwilei Road and proceed to the end of Sumner Street. Go through the parking guard gate (take a ticket, we will validate) and park. The public entrance to HONBLUE is on Sumner St.
From the Airport/West Honolulu: Heading Diamond Head (east) on Nimitz Highway, turn left onto Pacific Street (after Hilo Hatties and before Zippy’s). Proceed past City Mill and turn right on Iwilei Road. Turn left onto Sumner St., and proceed to the end and go through the parking guard gate (take a ticket, we will validate). The public entrance to HONBLUE is on Sumner St.
NOTE: Please do not park in the customer parking area at HONBLUE!
A local user group is forming for Eclipse, an open source, Java-centric Integrated Development Environment with an active and growing developer community. The Eclipse Hawaii User’s Group, or eHug, is one of several regional communities devoted to Eclipse, and it is planning its first meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 16 at IBM’s Honolulu office (1240 Ala Moana Blvd.).
eHug maintains an informational page on the Eclipsepedia wiki (including slides from the group’s organizational meetings), and a mailing list. The group’s coordinator is Greg Hester, CEO of Pacific Hi-Tech and a product manager at HMSA. [Hawaii Blog]
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]. Bytemarks lunches are casual, local, drop-in affairs that draw anywhere from two to twenty people. Lum has been experimenting with venues since relocating out of downtown Honolulu. “Last month we meet at Don Quijote on Kaheka Street and that seemed to work out pretty well — they got tables, lots of choices for lunch and parking,” he says. “Just bring your stories and your gadgets.”
Perhaps not coincidentally, Don Quijote is across the street from Hawaii Public Radio’s studios, from which Bytemarks Cafe is broadcast live every Wednesday afternoon. For more information on the Bytemarks group, join the mailing list.
Molly E. Holzschlag — well-known Web standards advocate, instructor, and author — is returning to Honolulu this week to lead workshops for Pacific New Media.
On Friday, she’ll give a free public lecture titled “Browsers, Web Standards, and IE8” in Krauss Hall at 7 p.m. Those looking for more intensive instruction can sign up for “Hot n` Spicy Style with CSS,” running 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday in Sakamaki Hall (the Manoa MultiMedia Lab). Registration is $270.
Holzschlag co-authored “The Zen of CSS Design” and has written over 30 other books related to web design and development. Named one of the 25 Most Influential Women on the Web, she is a steering committee member of the Web Standards Project.
