As I am in charge of Publicity for DrupalCamp, I will be using this thread to track all of the places we have posted.
If you post to a website, please comment below and include the link to your posting.
If you post to a mailing list, please let us know in a comment below.
I have created a publicly editable Google Doc that we can use to paste snippets and copy-and-pasteable text.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AXlTmvFtjtReZGc3djRncDZfNGZnazYzaGZz&h...
Official Site:
http://2010.fldrupalcamp.org
<a href="http://2010.fldrupalcamp.org">Florida DrupalCamp - Feb 20-21, 2010</a>
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/fldrupalcamp
<a href="http://twitter.com/fldrupalcamp">@fldrupalcamp</a>
Image:
http://podcasts.drupaleasy.com/DrupalCamp2010-500x420.jpg
<a href="http://2010.fldrupalcamp.org"><img src="http://podcasts.drupaleasy.com/DrupalCamp2010-500x420.jpg" alt="Florida DrupalCamp - Feb 20-21, 2010" title="Florida DrupalCamp - Feb 20-21, 2010" width="500" height="420" /></a>
Sidebar Skyscraper:
http://podcasts.drupaleasy.com/DrupalCamp2010-sidebar.jpg
<a href="http://2010.fldrupalcamp.org"><img src="http://podcasts.drupaleasy.com/DrupalCamp2010-sidebar.jpg" alt="Florida DrupalCamp - Feb 20-21, 2010" title="Florida DrupalCamp - Feb 20-21, 2010" width="200" height="550" /></a>
MP3 File:
http://podcasts.drupaleasy.com/drupalcamp2010.mp3
<a href="http://podcasts.drupaleasmy.com/drupalcamp2010.mp3">Download a 10 minute podcast about the 2010 Florida DrupalCamp and our Coding for a Cause non-profit benefit</a>
MP3 with Flash Player:
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Press Release Draft Copy 1
Title: DrupalCamp Florida 2010
Graphic: DrupalCamp Fla Logo
Open Source software tools are a great resource for companies and organizations to cost-effectively connect, communicate, and organize members using the Internet. One of these free tools for website creation and management is Drupal, a content management system that uses a modular approach that allows organizations to easily customise their websites and use blogs, video and user content to build their communities.
Drupal has a very active community that will gather at DrupalCamp Florida on February 20 and 21st, where new and seasoned users learn about and share their knowledge of Drupal. The event is an opportunity to get an overview of Drupal and the developer and user community in Florida. Guest speaker Addison Berry of Lullabot will discuss how everyone can participate in the growing international community. Saturday will be a day-long educational conference with beginner, intermediate and advanced tracks. Addison Berry of Lullabot will Sunday will be a Site Development Sprint to build a Drupal web site for a non-profit organization.
Information and Registration - www.2010.fldrupalcamp.org
Date: Saturday February 20th and Sunday February 21st
Location: Mind Comet, 385 Pearl Lake Causeway
Altamonte Springs, Florida
Yelp Post
I posted the below to the Yelp Talk session. If you have Yelp, know others with Yelp, or just want to join Yelp to help promote this and get Yelp to give us freebies at our event Saturday night, please please please reply to this comment thread on their site. You can access this thread here: http://www.yelp.com/topic/altamonte-springs-food-drinking-and-drupalcamp...
I also put it on Twitter: please RT if you can http://twitter.com/happygolucky/status/7846296369
And I put it on Facebook!
"This is the 2nd annual DrupalCamp Florida held in Altamonte, FL. Open Source software tools are a great resource for companies and organizations to cost-effectively connect, communicate, and organize members using the Internet. One of these free tools for website creation and management is Drupal, a content management system that uses a modular approach that allows organizations to easily customize their websites and use blogs, video and user content to build their communities.
Drupal has a very active community that will gather at DrupalCamp Florida on February 20 and 21st, where new and seasoned users learn about and share their knowledge of Drupal. The event is an opportunity to get an overview of Drupal and the developer and user community in Florida.
We will be having an event after all the learning to get some grub, drinks, relax, and get to know each other better.
If you're interested in this event, please comment below and let me know!
Information and Registration - www.2010.fldrupalcamp.org"
I have sent emails to Refresh
I have sent emails to Refresh Orlando, Jacksonville, and Miami.
I will let you know if I hear anything back from them.
To promote in the Tampa area,
To promote in the Tampa area, I posted an the DrupalCamp as Event in the following places:
http://www2.tbo.com/events/submit/ (under review)
http://www.baynews9.com/E-mail-staff.html?neighborhood (Bay News)
http://tampahappenings.creativeloafing.com/gbase/Events (Creative Loafing)
Press Release Copy
My wife (who does this sort of thing for a living) put this press release together. Feel free to use it anywhere and/or modify it as necessary.
-mike
DrupalCamp Brings Florida IT Community Together
A dedicated community of Open Source content management software developers from throughout the Sunshine State are convening February 20th and 21st at the annual Florida DrupalCamp in Altamonte Springs.
This year, new and seasoned users of Drupal (Drupal.org) will spend Saturday participating in beginner, intermediate and advanced education tracks, and Sunday working together in a "Coding for a Cause" sprint to create a Drupal web site for a selected non-profit organization.
Open Source tools like Drupal are a great resource for companies and organizations to cost-effectively connect, communicate, and organize people and information using the Internet. Drupal is a completely free modular content management system that can be used to easily build and customize websites and use blogs, video and user content to build communities.
The event is an opportunity to get an overview of Drupal and what it can do. Attendees can also get to know the developers and user community in Florida, and hear guest speaker Addison Berry of Lullabot discuss how everyone can participate in the growing international community.
The event will be held at the offices of Mind Comet in Altamonte Springs. For more information and to register, visit http://2010.fldrupalcamp.org/
Sounds good to me
This looks good to me and is well written.
www.rightsprocket.com
Posts that I have made
So far I have done the following:
1. Twittered the Coding for a Cause
2. Sent the info about DrupalCamp to the webmistress at http://www.cfcs.org and she has posted it with a link.
3. Mailed a release to all of the members of the board of directors of FACUG (Florida Association of Computer User groups.
4. Included info in my weekly e-blast for the Central Florida Computer Society that goes to 697 people in the Orlando area. I included DrupalCamp 2010 & Coding for a Cause
See http://www.cfcs.org/events/meetings.php
5. Mailed the release to about 50 IT people that I know and asked them to pass it on to anyone who develops websites or wants to.
Yelp Event
http://www.yelp.com/events/altamonte-springs-florida-drupalcamp
I posted this a few places...
http://www.garysguide.org/events/2204763
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=272280989052
http://www.doterati.com/events/2010-florida-drupalcamp
http://floridacreatives.com/florida-creatives/event/2010-florida-drupalcamp
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/5319062/FL/Altamonte-Springs/2010-Florid...
http://ideafield.ning.com/events/event/show?id=2842316%3AEvent%3A1762
Emailed Gregg Pollack about BarCamp list.
Emailed Digital Media Alliance Florida.
Peter Rad from BarCamp Tampa.
Emailed David from Orlando PHP.
Emailed NFi Studios - to post on their blog.
Ryan Price
DrupalEasy Podcast
DrupalCamp FL Promoted to front page of GDO
I edited the "2010 FloridaDrupalCamp" post :http://groups.drupal.org/node/47894 and promoted to front page.
Now its the first thing you see when you go to http://groups.drupal.org/
- DV
sweet!
Great - thanks Doug!
-mike
My blog and slashdot
I posted about it in my journal at slashdot: http://slashdot.org/~stoolpigeon/journal/243720
at my personal blog: http://geeksinaction.org/2010/01/08/florida-drupalcamp/
And I've posted about it at twitter a few times.