Major communities in our area include Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Sarasota, Bradenton,
Tarpon Springs, and Lakeland on the West coast, though to Orlando and Daytona Beach on the East coast.
Group for mutual assistance in installing configuring Drupal sites. Especially community and newspaper sites
Brevard Meetup - Thursday, November 8 - Cocoa Village
Join us on Thursday evening, November 8th at 6:30pm for a Brevard County (Space Coast) meetup. Topics for the evening will be:
- TouchPro theme (subtheme of Artica) demo - Wes Stansbury
- Open Outreach demo - Tom Kehoe
- Firebug/Inspect element demo - Mike Anello
Feel free to request topics in the comments below. As always, we'll also leave some time for some free-form discussion about any Drupal-related topic.
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Join us on Wednesday evening, October 17rd at 6:30pm for a Brevard County (Space Coast) meetup. Topics for the evening will be:
- Drush Make - Shaun Heath
- TouchPro theme (subtheme of Artica) demo - Wes Stansbury
- Firebug/Inspect element demo - Mike Anello
Feel free to request topics in the comments below. As always, we'll also leave some time for some free-form discussion about any Drupal-related topic.
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Orlando FL - Drupal Coworking Friday, September 28th
If you are a Drupal Professional and would like to work along side other Drupal Professionals come out and cowork with us. We'll be at UrbanReThink on September 28th, 2012 upstairs all day long (The UrbanReThink cost will be covered by Mediacurrent.)
There are plenty of good restaurants around Urban ReThink so we'll probably do lunch "out". (Meals will be the responsibility of the attendees.) If purchasing lunch isn't your thing, feel free to bring one and eat downstairs.
Read moreBrevard Meetup - Wednesday, October 3, 6:30pm
Join us on Wednesday evening, October 3rd at 6:30pm for a Brevard County (Space Coast) meetup. The main topic for the evening will (most likely) be "Blue Collar Git, part 2" - but that's subject to debate/change/demand. Feel free to request topics in the comments below. As always, we'll also leave some time for some free-form discussion about any Drupal-related topic.
Read moreBrevard Meetup - Wednesday, September 19, 6:30pm
Join us on Wednesday evening, September 19th at 6:30pm for a Brevard County (Space Coast) meetup. The main topic for the evening will be "Blue Collar Git" - I'll be using Tinkertoys to explain everyday usage of Git fundamentals. As always, we'll also leave some time for some free-form discussion about any Drupal-related topic.
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DrupalCamp South Florida
This year's DrupalCamp South Florida will be held on Saturday, October 20th, 2012 at Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale!
The event will feature multiple tracks of session - and you could be presenting! Session proposals are now open, so be sure to submit your session proposal now!
Registration is now open at http://www.drupalcampsfl.com/ - tickets are $20 and include lunch and a t-shirt.
Read moreOrlando FL - Drupal Coworking Friday, August 31st
If you are a Drupal Professional and would like to work along side other Drupal Professionals come out and cowork with us. We'll be at UrbanReThink on August 31st 2012 upstairs all day long (The UrbanReThink cost will be covered by Mediacurrent.)
There are plenty of good restaurants around Urban ReThink so we'll probably do lunch "out". (Meals will be the responsibility of the attendees.) If purchasing lunch isn't your thing, feel free to bring one and eat downstairs.
Read moreDrupalCamp South Florida 2012 meeting
An organizational meeting for the upcoming 2012 South Florida DrupalCamp is going to be August 9th, 2012 @ 4pm EST and every Thursday at 4pm EST thereafter until the day of the event.
DrupalCamp South Florida will be held in the same venue as last year - Nova Southeastern University - on October 20, 2012.
To be held on a join.me conference line.
Contact me if you'd like to be involved. Everyone is welcome.
We have a winner! Drupal Diver is the Florida Drupal User's Group official logo!
I've been slacking on this for a few weeks, but I think it is safe to say that the results of our poll make it clear that the new Florida Drupal User's Group logo is the Drupal Diver, designed by Dustin J. Cooper!
Orlando FL - Drupal Coworking Friday, July 27th
If you are a Drupal Professional and would like to work along side other Drupal Professionals come out and cowork with us. We'll be at UrbanReThink on July 27th 2012 upstairs all day long (The UrbanReThink cost will be covered by Mediacurrent.)
There are plenty of good restaurants around Urban ReThink so we'll probably do lunch "out". (Meals will be the responsibility of the attendees.) If purchasing lunch isn't your thing, feel free to bring one and eat downstairs.
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Brevard July Meeting Recap
We had seven attendees last night when Caroline generously opened her house up for our Brevard Drupal meetup. We enjoyed pizza and beer and good company.
Dorothy did a great job explaining Microformats and how they can be integrated right now in your Drupal site using the Microdata Module.
We also learned how the schema.org site can be used as a standard reference for these microformats. Thanks Dorothy!
I also started a Google Plus hangout, but no one attended remotely.
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Orlando FL - Drupal Coworking Friday, June
If you are a Drupal Professional and would like to work along side other Drupal Professionals come out and cowork with us. We'll be at UrbanReThink on June 29th 2012 upstairs all day long (The UrbanReThink cost will be covered by Mediacurrent.)
There are plenty of good restaurants around Urban ReThink so we'll probably do lunch "out". (Meals will be the responsibility of the attendees.) If purchasing lunch isn't your thing, feel free to bring one and eat downstairs.
Read moreFlorida Drupal Empire - Branding Poll, Round 2
Florida Drupal Empire - Branding Poll, runoff proposal
In the interest of keeping everything as democratic as possible, now that round 1 of the Florida Drupal Empire Branding poll is closed I wanted to propose that we use a standard two-round system to decide the winner:
The two-round system (also known as the second ballot,
runoff voting or ballotage) is a voting system used to elect
a single winner where the voter casts a single vote for their
chosen candidate. However, if no candidate receives the
Bilingual English/Spanish Volunteers for Drupal online training project
We are preparing an English version of our Drupal training program and we are looking for bilingual English/Spanish people interested in translating (from Spanish to English) part of the materials, at the same time they get advanced Drupal training for free.
If you are interested or know somebody that could be, please fill in or share the form to contact us. More information at this URL:
http://www.forcontu.com/bilingual-volunteers
Read moreNode.js, MongoDB, Symfony Testers Needed
I've been working with Marc and Salim with Webenabled and they have offered to provide us a free-of-charge VPS for Node, Mongo and Symfony testing.
We get to help out a great company that has been a sponsor of our past Drupalcamps and they get real-world testing of some new services they are trying to implement.
If anyone would like to join in, contact me. We would like to get at least twenty or so people together to work on it.
(They might even pitch in some free hosting for our efforts!)
Read moreBrevard County Meetup - Tuesday, May 22
Join us on Tuesday evening, May 22th at 6:30pm for the latest installment of the Brevard Drupal Meetup Series, 2nd Edition. Topics for this meetup may include (but not be limited to):
- Drupal Ladder (http://learndrupal.org/) - the goal for this meetup is to make sure everyone has completed at least the first 2 rungs of the ladder (http://learndrupal.org/ladder/ee503327-50be-1904-8d04-9499098cad64)
- Tinkertoy Git, part 2 (working with remote repositories)
Florida Drupal Empire - Branding Poll
Orlando FL - Drupal Coworking Friday, May
If you are a Drupal Professional and would like to work along side other Drupal Professionals come out and cowork with us. We'll be at UrbanReThink on May 25th 2012 in the "Garage" all day long (The UrbanReThink cost will be covered by Mediacurrent.)
There are plenty of good restaurants around Urban ReThink so we'll probably do lunch "out". (Meals will be the responsibility of the attendees.) I will most likely be bringing baked goods for the morning.
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