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...
April Sarasota Drupal User Group Meeting - April 3rd
Yes we will be having our Sarasota Drupal User Group Meeting this month.
It will be at Square One on US 41 across from SMH at 6:30 we can meet in the bar area before the meeting time.
Several of us have DrupalCon experiences we can share.
Hope to see you there.
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Jacksonville April Meetup
Its already April so we're gearing up for our second Jacksonville Drupal Meetup.
This months' meeting will be April 17th at 6:00pm. Jitesh has graciously let us use the offices at Flostem.
9551 Baymeadows Rd, Suite 18
Jacksonville, FL 32256
We will have WIFI at this meeting so we can have a Google Hangout for anyone who can't be present.
Meeting Agenda:
-Welcomes to new members/introductions
-DrupalCon Wrapup from Jitesh
-Site overviews of Florida Blue and Jacksonville.com
-Meeting location for May meetup
Recruitment for Drupal online training project
We are preparing an English version of our Drupal training program and we are looking for people interested in reviewing and testing the materials, at the same time they get advanced Drupal training for free.
We are building a team of 5-10 people (english native speakers) to start on April 16th, 2012.
If you are interested or know somebody that could be, please fill in or share the form to contact us.
http://www.forcontu.com/training-recruitment
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Any Fort Myers Drupal peeps out there?
Hey,
I just joined the Florida group a few weeks ago. Got to meet some pretty cool folks at DrupalCon, but it seems most of the active people in the group are pretty far away. Looking to see if there are any Fort Myers or semi close people near by?
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Drupal Coworking Friday
Come hang out at Tampa Bay WaVE and get to know other folks in the field of web design / Drupal. It's free to attend but donations are always appreciated. You can also bring office supplies, or buy a Tampa Bay WaVE t-shirt.
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Drupal of Miami
Monthly Drupal of Miami Meeting
This Wednesday evening at 6 PM we will have our monthly Drupal Meeting. This week Hector Iribarne will be giving us an update on what went on in Denver this past week. He informed me that it was very, very good and he will bring us up-to-date.
I hope that you will come and join us for the fun.
March Dates
March 28, 2012
This is the Wednesday Night Monthly Meeting
March 31' 2012
Saturday Drupal Workshop starting at noon until 4pm
We hope that you will join us for the fun.
Location Address:
Telephone Number Needed: 786-286-0773
Drupal Coworking Friday, March (Orlando, FL)
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 February 24th 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.)
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Drupal For Miami Workshop
Tomorrow Drupal for Miami Workshop from 12:00 noon
For this month we will be working with Views and understanding the Views Module. The Views modules is the most important module when working with Drupal. You must understand the way Views work to get the most out building a Website using Drupal.
I hope that you will come and join us for the fun.
March Dates
March 24, 2012
Saturday Drupal Workshop starting at noon until 4pm
March 28, 2012
This is the Wednesday Night Monthly Meeting
March 31' 2012
Jacksonville Inaugural Wrap
Thanks to everyone who attended our inaugural Jacksonville Drupal Meetup tonight. We had 12 people in attendance and quite a few others who were unable to make it.
Items discussed:
Future Meeting Location
Options
-Florida Times-Union
-Jacksonville Southeast Library
-Jitesh's office on Baymeadows
-Modis conference room in Deerwood (Jamie)
Future Meetups
We scheduled the next four meetups for 2012. Each will occur on the third Tuesday of each month.
Florida DrupalCamp 2012 Wrapup Blog Post
Hey everybody,
Just a quick note to let everyone know that I just posted the Florida DrupalCamp 2012 Wrapup article at:
http://drupaleasy.com/blogs/ultimike/2012/03/florida-drupalcamp-2012-wrapup
I posted it on DrupalEasy.com so that it would get picked up by Drupal Planet.
Please utilize the comments to let me know of any mistakes I may have made!
Thanks,
-mike
Meeting Minutes for Broward Drupal Meetup held on Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
We held our Broward Drupal monthly meetup on Wednesday, March 14th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.
Remote participant(via Skype and Join.me):
Fort Lauderdale - Susana Kaiser
In Person (Greater Fort Lauderdale, Broward County Florida):
Jay Epstein @jeppy64
Rob de Koter @Robdekoter
Seth Snyder
John Everett @Agile_dot_TV
Sean Novak @snovakcom
Tracy Novak
John Dennison @JohnDennison
Me @hectoriribarne
Drupal for Miami Workshop
Drupal for Miami Free Workshops
I am back up and walking after my knee operation last week. Come and join us this Saturday.
We will be setting up a Website for "Drupal for Miami" and installing the modules that are need to run this website. After we set "Drupal for Miami" website up will be adding
modules such as Views, Pathauto, a calendar and more. we will be explaining how and why these modules work.
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Some Teleworking Resources
Hi there,
I've recently found some resources for finding some contract work for those of us who may be opting for it.
http://www.virtualvocations.com/ - nice listings but requires a subscription to apply
http://www.crunchboard.com/jobs/
http://www.85broads.com/ - Geared towards women
http://www.simplyhired.com/
Broward Meetup - March 2012
Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012 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
We will be talking about kicking the tires of Drupal Commerce Kickstart. It will start off with showing how to install Drupal Commerce Kickstart using Aegir, and then move on to discussing the backend of Drupal Commerce Kickstart. This is a follow up to last two months of discussions of Drupal Commerce:
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Orlando Drupal Meetup (Apache Solr), March 17th 1pm
This month I'll be talking about Apache Solr and Drupal. I'll walk through basic configuration of Solr using the apachesolr module. We'll also cover general termanology and if there is enough interest I'll go over creating a module to manipulate Solr indexes as well as results.
Please remember that there is a suggested donation of $5 or more at Urban Rethink. Its not required but it is appreciated :)
Read moreMiami Drupal Workshop Schedule for March 10, 2012 is Cancelled
Hi Everyone
Miami Drupal Workshops
I am sorry but I have to cancel this week workshop due to a knee operation I had on Monday. We will be back on track next week, Saturday, March 17, 2012.
I am sorry about the inconvenience.
Miami Drupal Workshops
For this month we will be working with Views and understanding the Views Module. The Views modules is the most important module when working with Drupal. You must understand the way Views work to get the most out building a Website using Drupal.
I hope that you will come and join us for the fun.
March Dates
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Gainesville Drupal Meetup - This Thursday @ Alachua County Downtown Library!
The Gainesville Drupal Users Group (GatorDUG) will be meeting this Thursday (3/8/12) at the downtown Alachua County Library (in the Foundation Room). The meetup starts at 6 and ends at 8pm.
This week, Mike will be giving a presentation on Search Engine Optimization and Drupal. This presentation was given recently at the 2012 Florida Drupal Camp.
Also this week, Brandon will be putting together a presentation demo on core blocks vs boxes and how they work with spaces.
If you're interested, join the meetup! We're open to everyone from newbies to ninjas. Join us on www.GatorDUG.org.
See you this Thursday!
-Mike
Loading finder in a colorbox
I've been struggling with this problem for quite a while now. What I'm attempting to do is load the block created by the finder module-
http://drupal.org/project/finder
via colorbox. I've managed to load the form properly with this bit of code I've written-
Read moreBrevard County Meetup - March 8
Join us on Thursday evening, March 8th at 6:30pm for the latest installment of the Brevard Drupal Meetup Series, 2nd Edition. The main topic for this meetup will be the second half of the "Top 25 modules" discussion we started at the February 16 meetup:
- Discussion of "Jay's Top 50 Drupal 7 Modules" (http://www.mediacurrent.com/blog/jays-top-50-drupal-7-modules)
As always, we'll also leave some time for some free-form discussion about any Drupal-related topic.
Read moreDrupalCon Denver Florida Roll Call!
Its officially the end of February, which means that Drupalcon Denver is less than three weeks out!
So, this brings up a couple (fun) questions:
- Who is making the trip out west?
- Do we want to do a Denver Steakhouse for the Florida people like we did last year in Chicago?
- Is anyone going on the official Drupalcon Ski & Board Trip?
- Is this anyone's first time to a Drupalcon?
- Anyone familiar with the Denver area and is willing to give tips?
Here’s a couple links
- Drupalcon Parties
- Proof that Denver Airport is one of the most evilplaces on earth
- Must See Denver (from their Visitors Bureau)
- Man vs. Food Denver (Travel Channel Show)
