Florida

The Florida Drupal User's Group met this past Saturday - about 17 people were in attendance. The group broke down as follows:

• new to Drupal: 6
• less than 1 year: 7
• more than one year: 4

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The second monthly meeting of the Florida Drupal group met on Saturday, May 17 at MindComent's offices in Altamonte Springs, Florida. Attendance was great, with 8 new people in addition to 10 who also attended the April meeting.

Joe Moraca gave a "getting started with Drupal" talk that covered everything from downloading the code from Drupal.org to transitioning from a development server to a production server. Some of the many topics touched on were:

• Downloading Drupal
• Resources on Drupal.org

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.

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.

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.

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