We usually hold a dinner meeting the first Monday of each month. However, due to pressing business, we are holding our June meeting on on Wednesday, 30 May 2012. Our dinner meeting at 5:30PM at Zippy's, 59 North Vineyard Boulevard Honolulu, HI 96817. Map: http://zippys.com/live/locations/vineyard/.
The first and most pressing issue is to finalize our bid to have the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) held here in October, 2013. We want to invite anyone how wants to help us make this happen. We need sponsors, volunteers from humanitarian organizations, people to serve on the technical committee, and people experienced in putting on conferences. There are many issues or which we a soliciting input. These are detailed in a previous post. The agenda for the meeting is also in a previous post. Please read these and help out. Thanks.
Brief Description of GHTC: GHTC is the IEEE flagship annual conference designed to gather together scientists, engineers, technology professionals, academics, foundations, government and non-government organizations, and individuals engaged in humanitarian work to discuss and develop solutions for present and future humanitarian needs. An international conference, we anticipate participants from all over the world to attend a program of invited talks, technical sessions, tutorials, exhibits, networking, and social activities.
Participation in GHTC is open to all technologists or organizations interested in applying technology to humanitarian goals and to non-technical individuals and organizations interested in learning about the application of technology to humanitarian challenges. Link to last year's event: http://www.ieeeghtc.org/event/
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