In the geek world, there's no such thing as an uncool gadget. If it's accompanied by obsession, even better.

Ryan Ozawa can't remember when he first thought of himself as a geek — possibly in the 1980s when he began hanging out in the computer lab instead of the gym at Mo'ili'ili Boys Club.

"(Back then) I was programming in BASIC and saving my work to cassette tapes," he said.

Twenty years later, in the world of iPhones, cloud computing and Facebook, geekiness is not so weird. In fact, it's OK to be passionate about anything: programming, anime, photography, robots, ham radio, model rockets, insects, coding ... and think of those folks who get together weekends in Kailua for a spot of medieval jousting, otherwise known as The Society for Creative Anachronism.

Ozawa, whose obsessions veer toward new media, likes to get folks together in the real world instead of just online. He's the guru behind the second annual Hawaii Geek Meet, a friendly potluck that gathers geeks to chat about ideas and inspect each other's "toys."

"We geeks tend to stay indoors, and we tend to self-segregate," Ozawa said. "... design geeks here, coding geeks there. We hang out at coffee shops, we go to lunch, we crash a corporate conference room and show each other slides and demonstrate our wares, but the fundamental idea behind the Hawaii Geek Meet is to mix everyone up, get some chocolate in our respective peanut butter, and see what magic can happen. And, get some sun."

Who'll be there? Bytemarks, Manoa Geeks, the Emergency Amateur Radio Club, Hawaii Geocachers, Hawai'i podcasters and HawaiiThreads, to name a few, but Ozawa stresses the event is open to all groups and individuals, anyone who is remotely geeky about anything and interested in learning about something.

"And if you've got geek toys and gadgets, please bring them along," Ozawa said. "Everyone's a geek about something."