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...
January Brevard Meetup
I won't be able to organize or attend Brevard's regularly scheduled meetup on this Thursday (the second Thursday of the month), January 13th.
If someone else wants to pick up the ball and run with it this month and get things organized for Thursday, that would be great. The other alternative would be to delay the meetup by a week until January 20th.
What do my fellow Brevardians think?
-mike
Read moreFlorida DrupalCamp 2011 Planning Call #10
The tenth planning conference call for Florida DrupalCamp 2011 will take place January 11th 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#
Broward Meetup (January)
Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Wednesday, January 12th, 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.
Read moreFlorida DrupalCamp 2011 Planning Call #9
The ninth planning conference call for Florida DrupalCamp 2011 will take place January 4th at 9pm EST. The agenda of the call is:
- IT - Andrew Riley
- Food - John Learned
- Web site - John Learned, Erik Baldwin, Gaelan Adams, John Studdard
- Sessions
- Sponsorships and budget - Mike Anello
To participate:
Conference Dial-in Number: (218) 862-1000
Participant Access Code: 960854#
FL Drupal Camp Mobile Help
Does anyone have experience with the Domain module and mobile sites? I can't seem to get the current site to understand which belongs to the regular site and what belongs to the mobile. And when the module creates a Mobile Home menu and it doesn't work, I'm baffled.
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Drupal Barnraising Event
There is a barnraising event that will be held for the Dwight Stevenson Foundation here in South Florida. The Foundation generates funding for a variety of charitable organizations including United Cerebral Palsy, The Urban League of Broward County, The Boys and Girls Clubs and The American Diabetes Association, to name a few.
We will be building a website for them, from scratch, in one day.
We could use as many drupal volunteers as possible.
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Florida DrupalCamp 2011 Planning Call #8
The sixth planning conference call for Florida DrupalCamp 2011 will take place December 28th at 9pm EST. The agenda of the call is:
- IT - Andrew Riley
- Food - John Learned
- Web site - John Learned, Erik Baldwin, Gaelan Adams, John Studdard
- Sessions
To participate:
Conference Dial-in Number: (218) 862-1000
Participant Access Code: 960854#
If you're interested in helping out, please hop on the call and make yourself heard - we have several tasks that need someone to pick up the ball and run with it!
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Florida Drupal Camp Planning
Sorry guys, I didn't get the email from Mike about the conference updates and I missed the conference call last night.
Here are the updates for the sessions so far:
Gil Creque is confirmed for messaging and notifications.
Ryan Price is also confirmed for quite a few sessions.
I have contacted everyone else listed on the planning doc, but haven't heard back from them. I am going to send another email to the presenters that I haven't heard from again.
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Florida High School Athletic Association goes Drupal!
The Florida High School Athletic Association is pleased to announce its new Drupal based website! Read below for details on how the theming and development was accomplished.
About the FHSAA
The Florida High School Athletic Association is the official governing body for interscholastic athletics in Florida. The FHSAA sponsors championship programs through which over 100 teams are crowned state champions in 30 sports each year. Through participation in these athletic programs, an estimated 798,500 students annually are extended opportunities to receive lessons in leadership, sportsmanship and citizenship.
FHSAA.org History
The official website of the Florida High School Athletic Association, FHSAA.org, has been in operation since 1998 (original version on archive.org), and has been flat HTML files for most of it's life. In the mid-2000's it was switched to server-side includes running under classic ASP. This presented serveral problems including different themes for different pages, many broken links, and inconsistent content. At Google's last count, the FHSAA.org website had over 14,700 individual pages and documents. Many of these documents are outdated and unused. The website currently receives between 5,000 and 25,000 visits per day depending on sports, championship events, etc.
Redevelopment Goals
- Integration into one common theme - Previous versions of FHSAA.org had several themes integrated into separate parts of the website. They did not have standard navigation, masthead, or page elements. One of the primary goals for the CMS integration is to integrate all the pages under one common theme.
- Easier ability to manage - Previous versions of the website were managed by editing the HTML through Adobe Dreamweaver, and then transferring the files via FTP. This presented several problems including all content editors needing copies of Dreamweaver whereever they need to edit the website.
- Set up different permission levels (roles) - We have several content editors who only need to edit certain types and categories of content.
- Consolidation of data - Within the previous website versions, if a change neededbe made, it would have to changde in many different places. Inevitibily, changes would get missed and outdated and invalid data would result.
- Increased Usability - The previous website was difficult to navigate due to inconsistent menu structures, multiple superfish fly-out menus, and broken links.
- Elimination of old/unused/invalid data - Throughout the 12 year history of FHSAA.org many html files and documents have been placed on the server, and then unlinked to. These files never see the light of the day, but may result in broken links if removed.
Voting on one's own comments (but not the comments of others) when posting the comment
Are there any modules that add voting widgets to new comment forms in Drupal 6? Everything I've seen (including the Rate module) adds widgets to published comments.
Fivestar and Rate can prevent users from voting on their own content but my use case is the opposite: people can vote on their own comments but not on the comments posted by others.
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Orlando Drupal 7 Launch Party
Drupalers all over the world are celebrating the release of Drupal 7 on January 7. The list is growing every day over at http://www.drupal7releaseparty.org/
We'd like to arrange a party in Orlando. While planning for DrupalCamp Florida, I volunteered to head up the effort but later realized I'll be in New York on that night. I'll be glad to organize everything ahead of time but need people to be in charge that night. Additionally, this isn't a one-man job anyway so anyone who wants to jump in is welcome to pick a topic. We can use this thread to plan.
Topics
- Venue
-- UrbanRethink
December Central Florida Meetup - CHANGE OF LOCATION
In place of our normal meet-up routine, we will having a code sprint for the 2011 Florida Drupal Camp website.
Date: Saturday, December 20, 2010.
Time: 1-4pm
Place: John & Erik's house in downtown Orlando.
We have room for about 10 people and very fast internet/WiFi. I do not want to publicly post our address so please use my contact form to get directions, etc.
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Developer's computer
Hi all,
Quick question for Drupal developers out there. I pretty much know the answer to this question, but I'd like to hear others opinion as well.
As a Drupal / PHP developer, if given the choice by your employer, what would you choose?
1- Mac Laptop
2- Mac Desktop
3- Windows Laptop
4- Windows Desktop
This is not a "which is better" contest, is more or less to get a feel from a developer's standpoint, what would the person be more comfortable with while doing programming.
Thanks in advance guys.
J.
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No Central Florida Meetup this month -- Monday?
Andrew can't make this month's meetup, and I know everyone must be busy with holiday plans. This is very sad, and we might be able to get a venue, but we are so spoiled on MindComet.
I have a few recommendations:
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Meeting Minutes for Broward Drupal Meetup held on Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
We held our Broward Drupal monthly meetup on Wednesday, December 8th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.
Participants:
Remote (from furthest to closest) via Skype and Team Viewer:
Seattle - Chris Parsons
Coral Springs - Jason Graham
Pompano Beach - Carlos Kosloff
In Person (Fort Lauderdale, Broward County - half way between Miami and Boca Raton):
Jay Epstein
Phil Smith
Aaron Jay (first time participant)
Me
We continued to have remote users participate in our meetup via Skype and TeamViewer.
Read moreGainesville Meetup in January December Wrapup
Thanks to everyone who made it to the drupal meetup last Thursday. Ben gave us a great presentation on Ubercart module. He has posted the slides on the groups.drupal.org website in the Gainesville group http://groups.drupal.org/node/113054 . If you haven’t done so already you should join the gainesville group(http://groups.drupal.org/gainesville) and the florida group (http://groups.drupal.org/florida) to get local information about events.
We tried out different video and desktop sharing products and will continue testing them for future meetings.
Read moreDrupal barnraising event
There is a barnraising event that will be held for the Dwight Stevenson Foundation here in South Florida. The Foundation generates funding for a variety of charitable organizations including United Cerebral Palsy, The Urban League of Broward County, The Boys and Girls Clubs and The American Diabetes Association, to name a few.
We will be building a website for them, from scratch, in one day.
We could use as many drupal volunteers as possible.
Read moreFlorida DrupalCamp 2011 Planning Call #6
The sixth planning conference call for Florida DrupalCamp 2011 will take place December 14 at 9pm EST. The agenda of the call is:
- Sponsorship update - Mike Anello
- IT - Andrew Riley
- Food - John Learned
- Web site - John Learned, Erik Baldwin, Gaelan Adams, John Studdard
- Sessions
To participate:
Conference Dial-in Number: (218) 862-1000
Participant Access Code: 960854#
If you're interested in helping out, please hop on the call and make yourself heard - we have several tasks that need someone to pick up the ball and run with it!
Thanks,
-mike
Registration is open for SW Drupal Summit
Registration is now OPEN!
We're expecting an incredible lineup of speakers here in Houston, and you do not want to miss this event. Please help spread the word to anyone you know in our area and beyond who is interested in web design and development, as this will be a fantastic opportunity to learn not only about Drupal, but web technology in general.
Join us in welcoming speakers like:
Angela Byron - Drupal 7 maintainer and Lullabot rockstar
Narayan Newton - noted scalability expert and Drupal.org system administrator
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