Florida

Official Registration (spots are filling up fast!): http://drupalflorida.eventbrite.com
GDO event page: http://groups.drupal.org/node/18169
DrupalCamp Schedule: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pK5OnlfsP9Y1NUvxGDtTDMg

Yes, it's true! We are fast approaching the first DrupalCamp in Florida, and I couldn't be more excited.

The monthly meetup of the (central) Florida Drupal User's Group took place on Saturday, January 17 at the MindComet office in Altamonte Springs. Eight people attended the meetup and we covered 3 topics: Andrew Riley presented a case study of the Disney's Children's Hospital web site, Ryan Price talked about the menu system in Drupal 6, and then we all continued the planning of DrupalCamp Florida - to be held February 7.

More details after the break...

Hey everyone!

I'm starting a Drupal Users Group at UF. We'll replicate the success of GatorLUG, and also offer more workshops and panel discussions/Q&A. I'd like to have a meeting either the second or third week in this upcoming Spring 09. I'm looking for Drupal enthusiasts and participants who would like to get this group off the ground. We'll need to register the organization at the students' union (I'll take care of this) and get the word out (I'd like to make a flyer that can be posted on the school billboards).

We had a (central) Florida Drupal User's Group meetup at Mind Comet's offices in Altamonte Springs yesterday. Despite it being the weekend before Christmas, we had a good turnout - 12 people, including 5 new attendees (Daryl, Brenda, Damien, Kim, and Raheem).

The two main topics we covered were the "Do It With Drupal" conference and theming with Views 2.

The Florida Drupal User's Group met this past Saturday - about 17 people were in attendance. The group broke down as follows:

• new to Drupal: 6
• less than 1 year: 7
• more than one year: 4

Thanks to Jay and MindComet for letting us use their facilities! If you have a need for Interactive Marketing, please check them out.

The second monthly meeting of the Florida Drupal group met on Saturday, May 17 at MindComent's offices in Altamonte Springs, Florida. Attendance was great, with 8 new people in addition to 10 who also attended the April meeting.

Joe Moraca gave a "getting started with Drupal" talk that covered everything from downloading the code from Drupal.org to transitioning from a development server to a production server. Some of the many topics touched on were:

• Downloading Drupal
• Resources on Drupal.org

About a dozen Drupal developers met at Orlando Public Library yesterday to discuss Drupalcon Boston and future meetups in Orlando.

I gave a presentation about Drupalcon Boston covering Dries' keynote, the future of Drupal, and a quick summary of some of the sessions I attended. The rest of the time was spent with discussion introducing ourselves to each other and planning for future meetings and what we need to do to for the Florida group to gain some momentum.

Our 6th member .... ByteDreams has this web site ... http://poserforensicartists.com/

We need to get to 10 !!!! that is the magic number.

Joe Moraca
http://webdevgeeks.com

Join the drupalgators. Maybe our next contest / poll should be tocome up with a name!!

We are having exponential growth ... up to 5 now and growing .... please join up SW Florida geeks