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...
Brevard County February Meetup Reschedule
February's Brevard meetup has been re-scheduled for Saturday, February 12, 2011. This will be an extended meetup - it begins at 9am and ends around 5pm.
Also - we have a new location for this month's meetup - Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida (yes, I realize this is not in Brevard County).
On a completely unrelated note, it turns out that Florida DrupalCamp 2011 is being held at the exact same time at the exact same place! What a coincidence!
See you there!
-mike
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Manged VPS Drupal Hosting Experiences?
I’m looking for managed VPS hosting for SurfingNosara.com. We currently use Media Temple, but they’re slow- even after doing as much site optimization as I can.
The primary goals are
- Database and processor speed. We currently use the Boost module to handle most anonymous traffic, but when logged in, the site crawls.
- Disk space – We currently use around 30GB of disk space (mostly high res image uploads), but we may start having more automated uploads and videos.
- Multiple Sites - There are several other sites that will be hosted within the same VPS
I started doing a bit of research into different competitors. I’ve looked into Linode, and Webenabled but they seem only to offer unmanged VPS services (managing it via SSH unless you install CPanel/Plesk).
I see that many other companies have managed VPS, but when I search for reviews, I get mostly spammy/affiliate links from Google.
Does anyone have any positive experiences to share that could help out?
Florida DrupalCamp 2011 Planning Call #14
The fourteenth and final planning conference call for Florida DrupalCamp 2011 will take place February 8st at 9pm EST. The agenda of the call is:
- IT - Andrew Riley
- Food - John Learned
- Web site - John Learned, Erik Baldwin
- Ticket Sales - John Learned
- Sessions - Ryan Price, Don VanDemark
- Marketing - Ryan Price
- Sponsorships, swag and budget - Mike Anello
- Registration
To participate:
Conference Dial-in Number: (218) 862-1000
Participant Access Code: 960854#
Looking to share a room at Drupalcon Chicago
Hi, I am coming down from NY to do Views presentation at the Florida Drupal Camp. But I posting to see if anyone is looking for someone to share a hotel room in Drupalcon Chicago. Contact me if interested.
Thanks,
Ted
Broward Meetup (February)
Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Dunkin' Donuts - Small Conference Room (this site has two conference rooms - our conference room is on the left as you come in)
9170 State Road 84 (south side of I-595 between Nob Hill and Pine Island)
Davie, FL 33324 USA
If you want to participate virtually, send me a Skype connect request to hectoriribarne. I will initiate the Skype call with the people that signed up for the event but are not present at the meetup shortly after 7pm.
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FLDC Call for Speakers Beginners Track
Hi I'm in charge of the beginners track and we need to solidify our presenters!
Please comment, sign up and/or contact me to become a presenter for a session.
Does anyone want to sell a good old Mac?
I've been a PC for a long time. Now I want to try Mac, but I want to start cheap. If you want to upgrade, or you have an extra Mac sitting around, please contact me. It must be an Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X Snow Leopard version 10.6.4 or later. I'm hoping to spend less than $500. Is that enough to buy a usable laptop??
Read moreFlorida DrupalCamp 2011 Planning Call #13
The thirteenth planning conference call for Florida DrupalCamp 2011 will take place February 1st at 9pm EST. The agenda of the call is:
- IT - Andrew Riley
- Food - John Learned
- Web site - John Learned, Erik Baldwin
- Ticket Sales - John Learned
- Sessions - Ryan Price, Don VanDemark
- Marketing - Ryan Price
- Sponsorships, swag and budget - Mike Anello
To participate:
Conference Dial-in Number: (218) 862-1000
Participant Access Code: 960854#
February Tampa Bay Meetup (#6)
The 6th meetup for the Tampa Bay Drupal users group is this Thursday, February 3rd @ 6pm.
As of right now, we do NOT have a scheduled topic for discussion for this month's meetup. If anyone would like to volunteer, following our great introduction to Drupal 7 by Joe last month, that would be most appreciated!
If you are interested in presenting at this meeting, please post a comment below so that we can make sure we have a good agenda!
The meeting is scheduled for 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, and the location is at the Panera on Ulmerton Road:
2285 Ulmerton Rd.
Florida DrupalCamp 2011 Planning Call #12
The twelfth planning conference call for Florida DrupalCamp 2011 will take place January 25th at 9pm EST. The agenda of the call is:
- IT - Andrew Riley
- Food - John Learned
- Web site - John Learned, Erik Baldwin
- Ticket Sales - John Learned
- Sessions - Ryan Price, Don VanDemark
- Marketing - Ryan Price
- Sponsorships, swag and budget - Mike Anello
To participate:
Conference Dial-in Number: (218) 862-1000
Participant Access Code: 960854#
Florida DrupalCamp 2011 Web Site and Registration Now Open!
Registration for Florida DrupalCamp 2011 (February 12-13) is now open at FLDrupalCamp.org!
We're pleased to announced that the Florida DrupalCamp 2011 web site is now up-and-running and is the main source of information about the camp, including location (Rollins College in Winter Park), sessions, and attendees. We've added a user forum to help attendees arrange carpools from various parts of the state, and are working on finalizing the session program.
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Please Help Solve A Mystery
Can anyone out there recall who may have initially setup the domain name for FLDRUPALCAMP.ORG? None of this year's camp's organizers can recall and I've tried a few others. We would really like to document this and get control of it so we can easily change the name servers hopefully to Acquia in the future.
Read moreFlorida DrupalCamp 2011 Planning Call #11
The eleventh planning conference call for Florida DrupalCamp 2011 will take place January 18th at 9pm EST. The agenda of the call is:
- IT - Andrew Riley
- Food - John Learned
- Web site - John Learned, Erik Baldwin
- Sessions - Ryan Price
- Sponsorships, swag and budget - Mike Anello
To participate:
Conference Dial-in Number: (218) 862-1000
Participant Access Code: 960854#
Meeting Minutes for Broward Drupal Meetup held on Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
We held our Broward Drupal monthly meetup on Wednesday, January 12th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm (we just had the regulars this week). We continued to have remote users participate in our meetup via Skype and TeamViewer.
After catching up on what we had been doing the past month, Jason discussed his new accupuncture site: http://acupuncture2.polishyourimage.com/ (Zen-based theme). Chris mentioned that he uses Zen for sites with more complex themes and Fusion Starter Lite for simpler sites.
Read moreDay 2: Coding for a Cause
3rd Annual "Coding for a Cause".
This year, we will be selecting two local non-profit organizations who will be the beneficiaries of a brand new, state-of-the-art Drupal web site.
Day 1: 4-track Learning Experience
This year, more of what's been growing crowds of the past few years - now at a bigger, more comfortable venue
Beginner Track - Enthusiasts, first-timers, non-programmers, webmasters, and marketing people, as well as anyone tasked with updating sites will benefit from these sessions to provide a practical overview of Drupal. You’ll learn the basics, get practical tips, tap into great resources and gain insight as a real site is built before your eyes.
Multiple dedicated Drupal sessions for programmers, webmasters, themers and others seeking to get insight and best practices from the brightest Drupallers we know. These sessions are the heart of Florida DrupalCamp
Non-profit sessions
We've teamed up with the Rollins Philanthropy & Nonprofit Leadership Center to present sessions relevant specifically to non-profit organization decision-makers and staff.
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January Central Florida Meetup
Join us on Saturday, January 15th, 2010 from 1-3PM for a 2-hour meetup at MindComet's offices in Altamonte Springs.
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