Florida

Tampa Panera Meetup Saturday May 10

What we will discuss:

Open discussion; may include details about the Orlando beginner's class; how and why we use drupal, etc.

Time & Date:

Saturday May 10, 2008 @ 3:00 PM

Location:

Panera Bread
18011 Highwoods Preserve Pkwy
Tampa, FL 33647

May 17th at 1pm we will be having a "Getting Started with Drupal" class !!!

Please come and bring your web developer / designer friends ... drupal needs designers
If you can do cross browser CSS you can setup a drupal site!!!

Tools to run drupal:
Apache, MySQL, PHP
database admin, gzip & ftp

Navigate the drupal.org website

Download and install drupal / modules / themes

Basic Configuration of a site
http://drupal.org/getting-started/6

Join us at MindComet's Headquarters in Altamonte Springs for our monthly meetup on Saturday, May 17, 2008 from 1 to 3 PM.

all day now, i have been trying to get everything "server side" setup in ubuntu, and have had absolutely no luck at all. first, i installed xampp for linux, which used to be Lampp in a previous relaese; it was horrible. there was no way to actually reconfigure apache, or redirect the localhost with it actively running. so then it was onto lullabot for some assistance. ah-ha, i found a video which was great. i uninstalled xampp and was prepared to follow along on a fresh setup. so i opened synaptic, installed apache, php5, mysql, etc. and all went great, or so i thought.

Read the meeting notes from ultimike below. We are going to try to grow this group!!! Please help us -- even if you can't make a meeting help us by doing some PR for the group.... and just to show our smiling faces ... I caught most of the group in this picture.

Hi,

I'm looking for a Drupal developer in the South florida area between West Palm Beach and Miami.
Need develop new content on an existing website forexdistrict.com.

Anybody interested please contact Juan at forexdistrict@gmail.com

Thank you,

Juan P. Bejarano

About a dozen Drupal developers met at Orlando Public Library yesterday to discuss Drupalcon Boston and future meetups in Orlando.

I gave a presentation about Drupalcon Boston covering Dries' keynote, the future of Drupal, and a quick summary of some of the sessions I attended. The rest of the time was spent with discussion introducing ourselves to each other and planning for future meetings and what we need to do to for the Florida group to gain some momentum.

Since there's at least 6 of us that made it up to Boston's DrupalCon event, there's no better excuse to have a meetup to share the wealth with those that couldn't manage the trip.

The Knight Foundation played a very prominent role at DrupalCon, and Studio:Module started a Design Outreach program aimed at making Drupal more accessible to a broader user base, particularly in the creative field. Watch http://designfordrupal.org over the next few months for developments.

I propose a Thursday night at Novecento in Brickell or at Books and Books in the Gables.

Any takers?

Everyone is invited to the Florida Drupal Group Meeting in Orlando to get some training in Drupal, meet other Drupalers, and just have some fun.

Tampa Digital Studios is looking for full-time well-spirited PHP/Drupal developers.

This is to see what sort of interest there may be in the South Florida community for setting up training programs for Drupal in South Florida. Personally, I'd be interested in teaching a theming workshop and an introduction to Drupal for those of you just starting out.

If you're interested in setting up a workshop, please post to this thread. If you know someone that's interested that's just starting to explore Drupal, please forward this post or encourage them to join the Miami group.

Thanks!

modulist

Now that Drupal 6 has been released, I thought I would suggest another local Tampa Drupal Meeting for Saturday, 1 March, from 3-5 p.m. at the Panera Bread in New Tampa. This location has easy access from the I-4, I-75, and the I-275.

I thought we could discuss any issues or problems we're having with Drupal 6, and/or our other Drupal projects. If you're having trouble with anything, post it here and we can all discuss it when we meet.

Homepage/Blog
http://barcamporlando.org

Registration Info
http://barcamporlando.org/2008/2/28/registration-is-open

Video about the upcoming BarCamp Orlando
http://barcamporlando.org/2008/2/18/the-next-barcamporlando
http://barcamporlando.org/2008/1/14/presentation-how-you-can-help

The Orlando Fringe Festival is a non-profit theatre festival with some outstanding principles, and I really love these guys. I even helped them get their web site onto a CMS from static pages this year, but now I have run out of time.

We've gotten started setting up a system whereby people producing a show for the Fringe will be able to enter in their production's information themselves, saving the Festival staff hundreds of man-hours, and releasing them from some liability, because now 80 people can each make one mistake instead of one person making 80 mistakes. Hooray Drupal.

I guess the All Florida Drupal Meeting in Gainesville didn't get off the ground, so I thought I would suggest a local Tampa Drupal Meeting for Saturday, 1 December from 3-5 p.m. at the Panera Bread in New Tampa. This location has easy access from the I-4, I-75, and the I-275.

Everyone in the All Florida Drupal Group is invited, but I know it's a long drive for some. I'd really like to at least get out the local Drupalers in the Tampa area.

Need help tweaking LAMP server for multi site configuration and help with migrating from cPanel/WHM environment to this new server.

Must have several years experience: Linux, Apache, MySQL and Php, and minimum 1 year with Drupal environment.

Email your credentials and contact information.

A few things you should check out if you're in/near Orlando.

First, Central Florida PHP and second Florida Creatives.

I organize Florida Creatives, and we have a large number of web developers and designers attend each month. Our next Happy Hour will be at the Crooked Bayou, across the street from the Orlando Library. Our meetings are always 3rd Mondays of the month in the same place.

We need a place -- on campus somewhere? maybe a library meeting room? Is there anyone in Gainesville who can help set this up?

We need a date --- How about Oct 20th

We need an agenda -- we should have some folks fresh from DrupalCon in Spain!!!

We need lots of marketing / PR

We need people to signup so other people know we will have a "crowd"

Please add your name and what you can do to this page (just showing up is good!!!)

Joe Moraca will attend any Saturday in Oct

Hi, just in case anyone interested is near Jacksonville, the JaxPHP meetup group is hosting an introductory presentation about Drupal at their Sept 4 meeting.

link to meeting page

sanedog

I am looking for an Adobe Dreamweaver Developer to create an extension that will allow the creation of Drupal themes from novice to advanced designs for any Dreamweaver user on the Macintosh or Windows operating systems. This extension must export drupal themes that are XHTML 1.0 Strict, CSS 2.0, and Section 508 compliant. Please contact me if you think you are the person for the job. And your bid on this project. The main requirement is that this Extension must be always up to date with Drupal's theming methods.

Hello everyone. I'm currently visiting the parents in Tampa Florida and I'll be here for the next week. Curious if there is a meetup going on in the Tampa and/or Orlando area. I'd love to meetup with some Drupalers/Drupalistas/Drupalites in the area.

36 people on this list.. someone has to be in the area, right?

OK, here's where we separate the Drupalers from the wannabes... this is a friendly reminder for tomorrow night's meetup at Books and Books in the Gables

Here's the address:
Books and Books
265 Aragon Avenue
Coral Gables
305.442.4408 (if you need directions)

If you haven't yet, please RSVP to claudio@studiomodule.com, so we can get an idea of headcount.

We'll meet in the cafe in the back. Bring a laptop and business cards if you've got them.

See you then!

Claudio

I'm currently working on a site for a client. I do my work for him in trade for credit against what he sells so no money is exchanged.
I'm terrible with PHP (read, I know nothing about it). I could really use some help with a request he made of me and was hoping someone here might volunteer some time. I'd be glad to pass some credit along to you for your time if you like inverts of any sort.

Great discussion, interesting presentations and just good fellowship...
face to face beats online interaction...

Don't be sorry you couldn't make it. We are planning the next meeting already.

How about October in Gainesville??

Lets make the first Florida Drupal Users MeetUp a success!!!

Go to Group. Drupal.Florida for more info

Everyone is welcome. Come to the centrally located Orlando Public Library it's easy to get to see this map

* Agenda
      o Short presentations about what kind of Drupal work is going on in Florida and code we've contributed.

Lets figure this out. Please edit this wiki page with your ideas.

Everyone is welcome. Come to centrally located Orlando to discuss Drupal and have some fun

We are looking for an experienced Drupal developer to build as many as 10 or more high-quality Drupal sites. We're in Miami but there aren't many Drupal users down here. Telecommuting is OK.

Excellent opportunity for the right person. If interested, please reply ASAP.

• Experienced with Drupal (1.5+ years)
• Experienced with PHP/MySQL & CSS
• Experienced in Drupal module development
• Basic knowledge of SEO
• WordPress experience a plus
• We are in Miami, but telecommuting is OK

Please email the following information to brickell (at) fastmail.fm

• Resume
• Information about your background with Drupal and PHP/MySQL
• URLs of Drupal sites you have worked on
• Information about modules that you have created

Hello there, I'm one of the newer members of this group, but I've been developing Drupal sites for over a year now. I'm based in Merritt Island (near the Space Center) and I have some experience in writing custom modules, but I'm getting ready to start a new phase of a project where I think I need some help. Hopefully there is another Florida-based Drupal developer out there who can help.

I just finished joining up this group. Since I lurk in Gainesville, I thought it would make sense. I do not have anything up right now because I am trying to figure out how to do multiple sites using drupal. Yep, I am that much of a newbie. Be afraid!

Mauricio

... that encouraged me to sign up... ;-) Free beer works even better...

Jonathan invited me to this group, so you're now up to, .... let me use both hands ... 7 ... no 8 members. Florida isn't exactly the hot-bed of Drupal development, but here we are!

eIntroductions... I have been playing around with Drupal for almost 18 months, having first learned about it at Democracy Fest 2005. I attempted to start my own company using Drupal as a platform, and when that didn't work I went to work for CivicActions. Jonathan and I met in Amsterdam last month at a CivicActions company meeting.

Our 6th member .... ByteDreams has this web site ... http://poserforensicartists.com/

We need to get to 10 !!!! that is the magic number.

Joe Moraca
http://webdevgeeks.com

Join the drupalgators. Maybe our next contest / poll should be tocome up with a name!!

We are having exponential growth ... up to 5 now and growing .... please join up SW Florida geeks