Sarasota Drupal Meetup

Posted by joemoraca on February 15, 2011 at 12:03am

Start:

2011-02-28 19:00 - 20:30 America/New_York

Organizers:

joemoraca

Event type:

User group meeting

OK can we get a few people to show up? I am willing to throw out this date. As soon as one or two of you fine drupal folks respond we can pick a spot to meet.

I will throw out the Starbucks on US41 and Bahia Vista in Sarasota - or there is a Panera in the same parking lot.

Comments

Unfortunately, I teach class

Posted by digitalfrontier... on February 15, 2011 at 11:57pm

Unfortunately, I teach class until 8:20pm at SCF on Monday evenings.

Per our brief discussions at Florida DrupalCamp, I am very much interested in getting something serious going on for the southwest Florida crowd. I have keys to the computer lab at SCF Bradenton campus and was going to investigate if that might be an option for us. As long as there are no rules against our using it, there are computers there, projector, etc. I just need to find out what the rules are regarding access to school property for non-college associated entities. Since it's not a commercial meeting, the rules might be lenient. It would be pretty sweet, though.

I'll also investigate the wireless situation there. I know it's there, but I've never used it. So I don't know if you need an SCF G00# (student id) to use it, if they have guest logins, or if it's wide open. I'll ask my students.

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Digital Frontiers Media

Is Tuesday better?

Posted by joemoraca on February 16, 2011 at 2:52am

I am flexible .... especially for the first meeting ...

Joe Moraca
WebDevGeeks.com

Another possibility - SRQ Libraries

Posted by cephalopodcast on February 16, 2011 at 12:24am

"Meeting rooms are available at all eight Sarasota County Libraries."
http://sclibs.net/meetingrooms.aspx

How about 7pm - 8:30pm first

Posted by digitalfrontier... on February 16, 2011 at 2:29pm

How about 7pm - 8:30pm first Thursday of every month? Would put it on Mar. 3, same week as proposed. Will give me time next week to see about using computer lab.

Jason, could you check library availability? I should know by Tue. Feb. 22 on the SCF computer lab so we can choose venue then?

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Digital Frontiers Media

I will be there if that works

Posted by joemoraca on February 18, 2011 at 7:57pm

only downside is that is same day as Tampa group meets (first Thursday) ...

Joe Moraca
WebDevGeeks.com

understood. 1st Tuesday of

Posted by digitalfrontier... on February 20, 2011 at 4:14pm

understood. 1st Tuesday of each month would be Mar 1. Better?

I'll find out by Feb 22 if we can access SCF Lab. Let's see what Jason finds out about Library availability and make final locale decision by 23rd?

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Digital Frontiers Media

+1 for First Tuesday

Posted by joemoraca on February 20, 2011 at 4:37pm

Keep us posted on the site

Joe Moraca
WebDevGeeks.com

Bummer. Looks like SCF is

Posted by digitalfrontier... on February 22, 2011 at 8:15am

Bummer. Looks like SCF is out unless we're collecting dues--SCF will only allow student clubs access. While I could initiate a "club", membership would be closed to SCF students as I understand it. I'm going to pursue some other avenues, but for time being, we should look to the library idea.

Jason, do you want to follow up on this or should I? I'm guessing that availability will be hard to come by and that our first meeting will be at Starbuck's. :-)

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Digital Frontiers Media

Lib location

Posted by cephalopodcast on February 25, 2011 at 2:48pm

You can look at the library meeting room schedule online by following this link: http://sclibs.net/meetingrooms.aspx

Most of the places are booked the evening of 3/1, but other evenings are available. SRQ libraries generally are open later on Mon-Wed, close early Thu-Sat.

Let me know your top three meeting location preferences from the following:

Elsie Quirk
Fruitville
Gulf Gate
Jacaranda
North Port
North Sarasota
Selby
Venice

FWIW, the Sarasota Macintosh User Group is meeting at Fruitville on 3/1 from 5:30-7:30.

Jason, I'm cool with

Posted by digitalfrontier... on March 1, 2011 at 1:36pm

Jason,

I'm cool with Fruitville, Gulf Gate, or Selby. Fruitville might be more convenient for those who have to travel a bit since it's close to the I75 exit?

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Digital Frontiers Media

Meeting Location

Posted by Brooklyn_Dodger on February 13, 2012 at 2:32pm

Another possible venue might be to partner with the Sarasota PC Users Group. The Sarasota PC Users Group (SPCUG) holds a regular monthly meeting 12 months in the year on the first Wednesday of the month at the Sarasota Middle School on Ashton Road. It also has break out sessions. http://www.spcug.org/index.html

Another possibility is to use the Community foundation of Sarasota on Fruitville.
https://www.cfsarasota.org/Default.aspx
http://www.sarasotageeks.net/

Brooklyn_Dodger