Thanks to all those who participated! Hopefully you’ll check out some of the wonderful resources and groups around town — including Leeward Community College, Hawaii MacIntosh & Apple User Society, Techhui, or others.

And, of course a HUGE thanks to all those people who put this together — extra special thanks to Joan Matsukawa (HMAUS) and Christian Ganne (LCC)!

If you have any photos, stories, or tips, be sure to let us know so we can make next year’s even better! Contact here, HMAUS, Twitter, or Techhui. And don’t forget to join HMAUS as a member so you’ll be able to help make 2010’s Hawaii Geek Week as exciting and diverse as this years!

Hawaii Macintosh & Apple Users’ Society (HMAUS) and Leeward Community College are teaming up to make HGW 2009 the best yet! All events are FREE and open to the public!

Fire your Twitter, Facebook, and Techhui accounts; share with others, meet some new friends, and get out of the house!

Learn more:
http://hmaus.org/mactoberfest09 and http://www.leeward.hawaii.edu/geekday

Here’s a one-page flyer: Hawaii Geek Week and Mactoberfest 2009 Flyer.

If you plan to attend Geek Day/Mactoberfest on 24th, you should consider pre-ordering your food now: HMAUS Lunch Orders (or try to find something on the LCC campus).

See you there!

Here are things happening during Geek Week.

Star Gazing Party October 17 and October 24

Have you ever  wanted to look through a telescope with someone who knew what they were looking at?  The Hawaiian Astronomical Society of amateur astronomers invites you to do just that at Dillingham Field on 10/17 and at Kahala Park on 10/24.   Check their website for more information.  No telescope needed, just curiosity!  Everyone welcome!   http://www.hawastsoc.org/

HMAUS presents three diverse and interesting evening sessions!
Location and Parking:  ING Direct Cafe 1958 Kalakaua Avenue.
Coffee drinks are very reasonably priced sandwiches and a hot dish are offered each day so come, get something to eat and enjoy the session!

TechHui Community
Tuesday, Oct. 20 • 6:30 p.m.– 8 p.m.

Daniel Leuck, CEO of Ikayzo, the company that created and sponsors TechHui.com, will talk about this science and technology focused online community.  Apple and PC enthusiasts ranging from programmers and web designers, to people just getting started with blogging participate in the TechHui community. Social media brings together scientists and technologists in Hawaii and abroad in an exciting way!

Do you REALLY need a webmaster?
Wednesday, Oct. 21 • 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m.

Mark Johnson is the founder of logicspin, a Hawaii based software development and consulting company.  Launching a website is the just the first step – keeping a website updated and fresh will help your search engine rankings and keep your customers coming back.  Modern content management systems enable you to easily create and update a website without technical knowledge, resulting in lower initial and ongoing costs.  This interactive talk will provide real world examples with Menumill.com, a Hawaii based startup.

Mark’s experience ranges from his own online auction start-up way back in 1996, the search engine AltaVista, Oracle, and most recently co-founding Menumill and ecoBorrow, a very unique kind of social network.  http://www.logicspin.com

Mac OS X vis a vis Windows 7
Thursday, Oct. 22 • 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m.

Rolf Nordahl, owner of Macmouse Club compares features of Mac OS X with the soon to be released Windows 7.  Mac OS X has 10 built-in apps for pictures, movies, music, calendar, address book and mail, and they are all superbly integrated.  Snow Leopard. the latest OS’s big sell is it’s speed.  BUT on the other side of the table is Jeff Litvinoss, owner or Personal Touch Computers and Windows 7 with it’s new bells in whistles, faster processing, greater stability, all the things you’ve been waiting to hear.   This you need to come for!

October 24, 2009  9:30 a.m. – 3 p.m.

This year the annual HMAUS Mactoberfest is a joint venture with Geek Day at Leeward Community  College. There will be hands-on workshops in LCC’s Digital Media Program computer labs on iPhoto, iTunes, iMovie, Mac 101 for new Mac owners, Adobe Flash, Illustrator, Wireless Home Security, Photo Editing with Picnik and more.

In a special lunch hour presentation famed body-border/filmmaker Tom Boyle,will talk about  artistic expression,filmmaking and technology.  All workshops are free.  Click here to visit LCC’s Geek Day site for session details.

Doors open at 9:30 a.m. for registration, coffee and the PPH flea market. Workshops begin at 10 a.m.. There will also be on-going demonstrations of Voice Thread, Anime and Making Tattoos with Photoshop and Illustrator presented by LCC’s staff and Digital Media students in the Student Lounge.  And stick around —  there will be lucky number drawings  sponsored by HMAUS during the day.   The big prize is the newest 8 GB Nano with video!

Coffee, pastries and water will be available.  But VERY IMPORTANT – for lunch pre-order a big, ono bento or a vegetarian option (including drink) for only $7.50 to be sure you get one. Deadline for ordering online is October 21, 2009.  Order HERE now!. http://hmaus.org/lunchorder

The Hot Dog Hawai’i cart will also be on campus with hot dogs and sandwiches if you don’t want a bento but there will be no other food.

Mahalo to our speakers for sharing their expertise and to  O’Reilly Books, Peachpit Press and Macmouse Club for help with our lucky number prizes.  A special mahalo to ING Direct Cafe for providing space and hospitality for our HMAUS workshops!

Hawaii Macintosh & Apple Users’ Society, Inc. (HMAUS) Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary

[Via HMAUS]

Things to look forward to include events at Leeward Community College on the 24th (Saturday). More announcements coming, so stay tuned!