Welcome to the Florida Drupal Users Group! We have members from all over Florida and most meetups around the state are coordinated through this group. Whether you're from the panhandle, northeast Florida, the Gulf coast, central Florida, the Space Coast, or south Florida, you'll find other Drupal developers and themers here.
Currently, we have perodic meetups in the following areas:
- Brevard County (Cocoa Village)
- Broward County (Ft. Lauderdale): 2nd Wednesday of each month, 7pm - Meetup.com listing
- Orlando
- Gainesville
- Jacksonvill
- Miami Beach
- West Palm Beach (Jupiter-Boca Raton)
- Sarasota / SW Florida
- Tallahassee
- Tampa Bay: 1st Thursday of each month - Meetup.com listing
Keep an eye on this page for location and topic announcements for each meetup, as meeting days and times might change month-to-month.
Funds are available for local Florida meetup groups!
Keep connected with the Florida Drupal Users' Group:
- NEW! Slack: #florida Get your invite
- IRC: #drupal-florida on freenode
- @fldrupalcamp for updates about Florida Drupal camps, meetups, and other events.
- Florida DrupalCamp on Facebook
- Florida Drupal on Facebook
- Florida Drupal on LinkedIn
- We're looking for someone to create and maintain a Google+ home for Florida Drupal...
Drupal Meetup - Building your website with Drupal
Note that we have a new venue - UNF: Building 15, Room 2203.
This will be a another hands-on meetup. Please bring your laptops. We will learn all the usual tricks in building a site with Drupal - pathauto, content types, contact forms, webforms, views, and all the other exciting modules that make site building a breeze.
As shown last time, we have a free hosting environment (Virtual Private Server) in the cloud where anybody can setup a custom site with full control.
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Broward Drupal Meetup - Wed November 11th, 2015 - Topic: Getting Started with Drupal 8
Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Wednesday, November 11th, 2015 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Dunkin' Donuts - 9170 State Road 84 (south side of I-595 between Nob Hill and Pine Island) Davie, FL 33324 USA http://browarddrupal.org/gmaplocation
Hector Iribarne (@hectoriribarne (http://iribarne.com) will be presenting "Getting Started with Drupal 8". It will focus on installing and woking with Drupal 8 from the site builder/developer point of view. If there is time, the progress on the Drupal 8 version of the Contentin module will be discussed (port of D7 version).
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D8 Release party tasks and volunteers
Hey everybody - in case you haven't heard, we're having a D8 release party on Thursday, November 19 in Orlando. See https://groups.drupal.org/node/488813
We need some volunteers to help us get this organized - it should be pretty easy, so if you're planning on attending, please also consider lending a hand. Here's what we have in mind so far:
- Do a massive Google hangout with other release parties and have that projected on the wall. - Mike A will bring a projector and screen. If anyone else has an extra projector lying around please leave a comment below.
Florida Drupal 8 Release Party will be held at Fossetcon conference in Orlando FL
Join Drupal Users from all across the Southeast to celebrate the launch of Drupal 8!
When: The party starts at 8pm on Thursday November 19th and ends at midnight.
Where: We'll be in Downtown Disney at the Hilton Lake Buena Vista! We'll be in Salon 6.
Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista
Salon 6
1751 Hotel Plaza Boulevard,
Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830
What: We'll have tshirts, giveaways, trivia, food to give away, and there will be plenty of beer to drink, too!
Details: We're collaborating with a local free open source conference, Fossetcon, to provide the venue. Fossetcon will be Nov 19th-21st at the same venue, and topics include Linux, Docker, Drupal, and other free software. Tickets to Fossetcon start at $10. More details on Fossetcon at http://fossetcon.org. You do not need a ticket to Fossetcon to attend the party.
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Help out at 2015 FOSSETCON Booth
Seeking a Drupal ace for a little freelance help!
Greetings Drupalmeisters:
I'm seeking a bit of freelance help for something that might be easy for you but not so easy for this content guy!
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Orlando Florida - Drupal Coworking Friday, October 30th
If you are a Drupal Professional and would like to work with other Drupal Professionals come out and cowork with us. We'll be at Downtown Credo on October 30th, 2015 in the back room all day long (The Credo back room cost will be covered by Mediacurrent.)
Credo does serve coffee and pastries (food, coffee and meals are the responsibility of the attendees.) We'll most likely be eating lunch within walking distance of Credo but you are welcome to bring your lunch if you wish.
Read moreJacksonville Drupal Meetup #38 - Intro to Drupal
This is a beginner level meetup ...
Note that we have a new venue - UNF: Building 15, Room 2203.
This will be a another hands-on meetup. Please bring your laptops. We will be helping everyone setup their first Drupal site.
Jitesh Doshi will show the fundamentals of getting started with Drupal, using it, content management, the community, the technology, the stack, hosting etc.
And please feel free to ask any questions on topics of your interest. Nothing is too basic. You can ask about HTML, CSS, JavaScript. PHP, Linux, MySQL ... anything.
Read moreBrevard Meetup - Titusville - Thursday, October 22, 2015
As discussed on https://groups.drupal.org/node/486538, we're going to have our October meetup in beautiful Titusville on Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 6:30pm at Bar IX (directions).
Read moreBrevard Meetup October 15?
Since we missed our normal meetup night, how about we do a Brevard Drupal meetup on Thursday, October 15 up in Titusville? I believe Linda Cook has a place in mind...
Thoughts?
-mike
Read moreBroward Drupal Meetup - Wed October 14th, 2015 - Topic: DCATL Preview - No Code Content Migration
Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Wednesday, October 14th, 2015 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Dunkin' Donuts - 9170 State Road 84 (south side of I-595 between Nob Hill and Pine Island) Davie, FL 33324 USA http://browarddrupal.org/gmaplocation
Hector Iribarne (@hectoriribarne (http://iribarne.com) will be talking about his upcoming DrupalCamp Atlanta session "No Code Content Migration": http://drupalcampatlanta.com/2015-drupalcamp-atlanta/sessions/no-code-co...
Sign-up:
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Drupal Camp Chattanooga 2015 (Nov 7th 2015) - site is live - buy tickets now
www.drupalcampchattanooga.com is live.
Nov 7th 2015 - Chattanooga State Community College
Buy registrations, submit sessions and sponsor now !
Read moreSave the Date! Drupal 8 Release Party in Orlando!
Join Drupal Users from all across the Southeast to celebrate the launch of Drupal 8!
Where: We'll be in the same spot as the FLDC afterparty - the Firkin & Kegler Entertainment Center in East Orlando
What: We'll have tshirts, giveaways, trivia, food to give away, and there will be plenty of beer to drink, too!
When: We'll have the party the night of the D8 release. We don't know when that is exactly, yet, but I would put my money around November 14th.
Read moreDrupal Web Developers Needed
The Orange County Library System (Orlando, Florida) is seeking candidates for our current Drupal Web Developer positions. To learn more about these Full-time opportunities, please see the job description at https://jobs.drupal.org/orange-county-library-system/job/10965.
Read moreFOSSETCON 2015
Fossetcon 2015 is a 3 day event in Orlando that focuses on a variety of free and open source training and speeches. It features speakers from a wide range of Free/Libre and Open Source disciplines new and old (including Drupal).
It also hosts an after party networking event for attendees, speakers and exhibitors.
website: http://fossetcon.org/
twitter: http://twitter.com/fossetcon
facebook: http://facebook.com/fossetcon
Training Details Released for Baltimore Drupal Camp
Training details for Baltimore Drupal Camp have been published here. (also included below)
We love Drupal and its community so we want to introduce it to as many new people as possible; therefore, we're offering a full day's, professionally taught course for Drupal beginners at no extra cost. I think this is rare for a camp.
I know many of you are already familiar with Drupal, but why not forward this to a friend who's new to Drupal or wants to get started in web development/design/site building?
Sessions due for Baltimore Drupal Camp
Hey folks, sessions for Baltimore Drupal Camp are due Wednesday. Please post your session proposals here. Thanks!
Read moreOrlando Florida - Drupal Coworking Friday, September 25th
If you are a Drupal Professional and would like to work with other Drupal Professionals come out and cowork with us. We'll be at Downtown Credo on September 25th, 2015 in the back room all day long (The Credo back room cost will be covered by Mediacurrent.)
Credo does serve coffee and pastries (food, coffee and meals are the responsibility of the attendees.) We'll most likely be eating lunch within walking distance of Credo but you are welcome to bring your lunch if you wish.
Read moreBuilding a Dev Environment at Home - Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - September 9, 2015
We held our Broward Drupal monthly meetup on Wednesday, September 9th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.
Remote participants from farthest to closest (via Skype and Join.me):
Jacksonville - Rick Esser
Tampa - Cynde Mercer @cyndemercer
Miami - Ron Norman @rnorman489
In Person (Greater Fort Lauderdale, Broward County Florida):
Allan Reed @radiantnexus, Jay Epstein @jeppy64 and me @hectoriribarne
Baltimore Drupal Camp will offer a full day's course for Drupal beginners
Baltimore Drupal Camp will offer a full day's course for Drupal beginners, NO extra charge! It will be taught by a professional Drupal instructor and offered as an additional track.
Mark your calendar OCT09. More details to follow soon.
