Florida

Vote for the only Florida city in contention for DrupalCon 2012 North America: Miami

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/drupalconstrawpoll

Here's a reminder to PLEASE RSVP for our Drupal meeting on Wednesday evening by visiting http://groups.drupal.org/miami-florida and confirming your attendance 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm.

We'll plan for DrupalCon SF, discuss the Knight Drupal Initiative, the Knight News Challenge and try to help Green Mobility Network get its geo tagged maps started. (greenmobilitynetwork.org is a blog that could and will be more!)

Our February meetup was attended by 9 Drupallers and we discussed Open Publish, gallery modules and

At our Feb. 24th meeting we brought up some ideas for future meetings.

How to set up a development server
Fonts and typography; SIFR vs. Cufon etc.
Open Atrium
Openpublish (Adam Sohn)
Semantic Web / Open Calais project (Vince)
Importing a Wordpress site to Drupal
Using Drush (Vince)
Image Galleries (Claudio)
Choosing a dynamic menus method

Knight News Challenge
Knight Drupal Initiative

I'm a veteran Drupal developer of 5 years now and unfortunately the company I worked for has gone under and am looking for employment developing Drupal sites. I have a great deal of experience installing and administering Drupal as well as creating themes for Drupal (via scratch or from a template). I've also begun working on module creation.

Some examples of my professional and personal Drupal work can be found here:
http://www.studioscentral.com
http://www.pokershark.com

Hi all.

I'm working to cultivate a Miami area Drupal scene. Let's put Miami on the Drupal map.

I believe it's valuable to have a simple email list to bring us together, as complementary to this space.

I've registered www.drupalmiami.com, which now points to a new Google Group called Drupal in Miami.

I encourage anyone who's interested in Drupal and local to the greater Miami area to subscribe.

I'll work on other avenues as necessary and stay focused on what works in connecting us.

I posted this elsewhere in comments, but thought I'd create a new topic.

Best,

--D

This past Saturday's meetup was relocated to the nearby Panera Bread due to the Mindcomet offices being closed. Only two attendees made the trek - caelon@drupal.org/Don and myself. We spent about an hour generally hacking on our individual projects - Don was working on a site which had some permissions issues with his custom module, and I added a feature to the WP2Drupal module I'm maintaining. While a pitifully small turnout, it still at least meant that FLDrupal has made its past its first year anniversary and is now onto Year 2.0!

Since BarCampOrlando is Saturday, April 18th (the day of our next schedule Florida Drupal meetup), how about we delay the meetup until Saturday, April 25th at 1PM?

I didn't want to just go ahead and make the call by myself, so please chime in and share your thoughts about this shift.

If you're not aware of BarCampOrlando - you should be. Check it out. You'll want to be there. DrupalEasy is a sponsor, so you know it's gonna be cool.

-mike

The (central) Florida Drupal Users Group has a meetup yesterday at MindComet in Altamonte Springs. About 10 people were present, including several new faces that attended DrupalCamp 2 weeks ago.

1. Comments/Lessons Learned from DrupalCamp - see Andrew's post for a summary of what we discussed.

2. We had a brief discussion about having remote speakers at future meetups as well as live streaming of future meetups. Nothing concrete was decided on, but everyone seemed interested in pursuing both ideas.