Florida DrupalCamp 2011 Wrapup

Wow. What a weekend. Florida DrupalCamp 2011 is in the books and by all accounts it was a huge success. With almost 250 attendees and 6 tracks of sessions, this was the largest Drupal event ever held in the state of Florida. Attendees traveled from all corners of Florida, as well as a growing number from out-of-state (Illinois, New Jersey, Georgia, North Carolina, to name a few) to participate.

If you took any pictures at the event, please tag them with #FLDC when you post them on your social media site of choice. If you have any feedback from the event, feel free to post it publicly in the comments below or privately via the Florida DrupalCamp web site contact form. If you'd like to help out, sponsor, or present at next year's camp, please let us know as well.

Thank you to all the volunteers who helped make the weekend a great success. Special thanks go out to:

• Erik Baldwin and John Learned of Cloud Nyne Design for their tireless work on the web site, t-shirts, food planning, and everything else they did.
• Andrew Riley of MindComet for his work in making sure we had everything we needed at Rollins as well as working with the Orlando Social Media Club's sessions.
• Ryan Price of DrupalEasy for his work with session planning and marketing, and (most importantly) finding the location for the excellent post-camp party at Shipyard Brewery.
• Don VanDemark for his work on session planning.
• Gaelan Adams for his work on the beginner session track.
• Hewie Poplock and Carlton Jacobs and their amazing group of volunteers at the Central Florida Computer Society.
• Stephen Matheny for his work in identifying and securing Rollins as a partner and venue.
• Brian Henties at the Rollins College Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Center for providing such an outstanding venue.
• All of our presenters who took the time to travel to Winter Park, prepare a presentation, and volunteer to share their knowledge with the community.
• All of our sponsors for making it possible to have such an outstanding event for just $10/person!
• Ben, Angie, Maggie, Rene, Nadia, Jen, John, Hector, John, Adam, Elizabeth, Chip, and anyone else that I most likely forgot to mention (please rectify any omissions I made in the comments below so that I can apologize appropriately).

Presenters - if you haven't already done so, please update your session on fldrupalcamp.org with any slides and/or notes you used during your presentation. If you don't have access to the site, please request access here.

Coding for a Cause was a great success thanks to the 30+ people that participated. While we didn't complete CFCS's site, we did make some great progress. We'll be formulating a plan in the next few weeks for finishing things up - stay tuned.

This month's Orlando meetup (scheduled for next Saturday, February 19) isn't happening. If this past weekend wasn't enough for you, please re-evaluate your priorities (go outside and play!)

What's next? Florida is too big for just one major Drupal event per year. I talked to some people from south Florida about a potential event in the fall. Let's get some discussion going and make it happen.

SW Florida Drupalers (Sarasota - Naples) made a strong showing over the weekend - let's get a regularly scheduled monthly meetup going!