Aloha SXSW!

Musicians, filmmakers, and geeks (and their many admirers and fans) from Hawaii will be among the 11,000 people converging on Austin, Texas this March for the South By Southwest festival. Let's use this wiki to connect and meet up with each other while there!  Add your name, links, interests, and any other notes you want to share.  As this page grows, we can reorganize and separate things out!

I'll Be There!

Greg Bueno

Blog: Musicwhore.org

Notes: I'm not attending SXSW this year, but I have in the past. I already live here in Austin, TX, and I would love to show Ryan and anyone else attending the festival this fine city during whatever free time you all might have.

Steven Caires (per my.SXSW)

Company: Engrish.com

Twitter: @Engrishdotcom

L.P. Neenz Faleafine

Company: Alltop

Blog: From the Mind of NEENZ

Twitter: @NEENZ

Stefanie Fontecha (per my.SXSW)

Company: Fontecha Designs LLC

Twitter: @stefanie

Seth Ladd

Company: HyperMegaGlobalCorp

Blog: Semergence

Twitter: sethladd

Hotel: Residence Inn Downtown

Dates: March 12 - March 18

Burt Lum (per my.SXSW)

Blog: Bytemarks

Twitter: @Bytemarks

Lori Lum (per my.SXSW)

Company: StarrTech Interactive

Twitter: @ChunLum

Noe Mendiola

Company: Alltop

Twitter: @Noe808

Ryan Ozawa

Company: Wondermill (Ask500People)

Blog: Hawaii Blog

Twitter: hawaii

Notes: First time SXSW attendee (SXSW Interactive), obsessive social geek, looking forward to meeting you there!

Joe Philipson

Company: Philipson Photography

Blog: Philipson Photography

Twitter: @JPhilipson

Notes: My first time as well. I'm staying with Carlos but not sure where he is living yet.

Lorenz Sell (per my.SXSW)

Company: Blue Lava Technologies

Twitter: @lorenzsell

Frank Tagatac (per my.SXSW)

Company: Armed Forces Entertainment

Twitter: @AFEPacific

Peter Thourson (per my.SXSW)

Company: New Hope Oahu

Twitter: @peterthourson

Kari Unebasami

Company: FTW R&D

Blog: Ooh Cupcakes

Twitter: kariume

Let's Meet Up!

Other regions and cities are staging their own SXSW Meetups during the festival. Perhaps we could find a date and time that works for most (if not all) of us to meet up with each other, and to specifically invite anyone else who wants to connect with artists and geeks from Hawaii?  Post your thoughts and suggestions (and travel dates?) below with your name, and let's see what we can work out.

• I arrive midday on the 13th and leave early on the 17th. Team Wondermill is at the Downtown Residence Inn. -Ryan O.
• I'll be there from 3/12-3/18 and I'm staying at the Doubletree. Tweetup! -Kari
• We're at the Double Tree from 3/13 - 18/2009 -- Noe & NEENZ.
• I'm arriving in the afternoon of 3/12 and will be networking til I drop and leave on 3/18. Come find me! - Ken Y.
• I'll be there from the afternoon of 3/12 to afternoon of 3/16. Staying at Hyatt Regency. - Steve C. (Engrish.com)

Weather

Rain is expected in Austin this Wednesday and Thursday, so if you're flying in on Thursday, you may run into delays at the airport. As I write this, the highs are in the upper 70s, lows in the 60s, but after a cold front comes through on Wednesday, that's going to drop to highs in the 50s and lows in the 40s. So Hawai`i folks not accustomed to cold weather should bring both a sweater and jacket and prepare to layer, at least in the evenings.

It usually warms up pretty quickly after a cold front comes through, so the weekend may see highs in the 60s and probably bound up back to the 70s by the end of the Interactive festival.

For Austin weather updates, head over to the websites for KVUE or KXAN.

http://www.kvue.com/

http://www.kxan.com/

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