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If you're planning on attending Florida DrupalCamp on February 15-17, please register ASAP so that we can start planning number for catering and swag.

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https://www.fldrupal.camp/

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Florida Drupalcamp 2018 is our 10th anniversary and we're going to make it extra special this year! We have three days (spread out over President's Day weekend):

This year we have three amazing featured speakers lined up:

	Angie "Webchick" Byron is a Drupal core committer, co-author of the O'Reilly book Using Drupal, Drupal Association Board Member, Acquian, and general Drupal community cat herder.
	Sally "Justafish" Young is a Senior Technical Architect at Lullabot, and a Drupal 8 JavaScript Core Maintainer.
	Adam "Nerdstein" Bergstein is the Associate Director of Engineering at Civic Actions. He has a masters in application security, and experience in higher education and consulting sectors.

Session submissions are still open!

We need more sessions! We have tons of rooms to fill! The deadline to submit sessions is January 22nd. We love session submissions on topics other than Drupal including

• JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue, Angular, et al)
• Other CMS’s differences with Drupal (WP, Craft, etc)
• Integrations with Drupal
• Case studies on using Drupal
• General Web topics and technologies (free software, CSS, etc)
• Business related topics
• SysAdmin / DevOps (Containers, etc)
• Being Human (Imposter Syndrome, overcoming adversity, inclusion, etc)

If that doesn't convince you...

We also have beaches down here! And it's warm in February!

Hey everybody,

Coming off yet another successful DrupalCamp Florida (thank you, volunteers!), a few of us were talking about how we can best reinvest some of the leftover funds we have from the camp back intp the community.

Perhaps the most important thing we can do is help grow and strengthen the Florida Drupal community.

With this in mind, we're happy to (re-)announce that if you are a Florida Drupal meetup organizer, you can request reimbursement for expenses to help grow and strengthen your local community.

We're willing to pay for things like:

We’re taking it up a couple notches this year down in Orlando for the 9th Florida DrupalCamp (https://www.fldrupal.camp)! We're expanding in every dimension we can find - highlighted by an opening day (Friday) of full-day workshops followed by two days (Saturday and half-day Sunday) of sessions!

Amazing Trainings

In previous years, we’ve had concurrent trainings on Saturdays and some sprinting on Sunday. This year, we changed it up: Friday will be a full training day including workshops on:

• Beginning React JS - taught by John Tucker
• Docker for Development with Drupal - taught by Lisa Ridley  
• Introduction to Drupal 8 - taught byMichael Anello  
• Introduction to Drupal 8 Theming - taught by Suzanne Dergacheva
• Introduction to DrupalVM - taught by Ben Hosmer

The best part is that trainings are included with the price of the ticket (now $35). You sign up for the training when registering. Space is limited, however, so register soon!

Three Phenomenal Featured Speakers

We have three amazing featured speakers this year!

• Megan Sanicki - Executive Director of the Drupal Association  
• Helena McCabe - Accessibility advocate and expert  
• Suzanne Dergacheva  - Front-end developer  

Many More Extraordinary Sessions and Speakers

We have over 30 sessions already submitted with several weeks to go until the deadline. We still need more. Check them out and submit your session soon.

Kick-A** Weather

Orlando in February. Sunny and warm :)

The Absolute Best Sponsors Ever

It's true, we have the best group of sponsors money can't buy! We're crazy-happy about having Achieve Agency as our top-level Platinum sponsor. This newly formed South Florida shop is looking to make a big splash in the community, and we're happy that we can help introduce them to everyone. 

Combined with Johnson & Johnson, devPanel, and Digital Echidna as Gold-level sponsors as well as all of our other amazing supporters, we're excited to bring you the biggest and best Drupal event you've ever seen (not to mention a few fun surprises!)

Lots More Sensational Stuff!

From a new logo, great catering, t-shirt, giveaways, and even an integrated video game easter-egg on our website, there’s lots to be had. Don't miss it!  Register today or regret it for the rest of 2017!

Hey Drupalers! Florida Drupalcamp tickets are on sale! Get them now at www.fldrupal.camp!

What’s Florida Drupalcamp?

Florida DrupalCamp is an 3 day, attendee-driven, volunteer-organized conference. Most of the content will Drupal-specific, but there will also be presentations related to more general web technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript, and PHP. We’re expecting between 250 and 300 people!

When and Where is Florida Drupalcamp?

FLDC will be Friday, February 17th through Sunday, February 19th in beautiful warm Orlando, Florida!

3 Days? What’s going on?

• Friday, February 17th will be composed of trainings including Intro to Drupal, Front-end Development, and we’re working on more (including possibly React and Docker)!

• Saturday, February 18th will be a day of sessions - most Drupal-specific, but many on web development in general.

• Sunday, February 19th will be a combination day of session and code-sprints. Let’s make Drupal better!

Can I submit a session?

Yes! Please do! Session submissions are currently open at https://www.fldrupal.camp/sessions

How much does this cost?

You can get early-bird priced tickets RIGHT NOW for the low, low price of $25. If you register within the next 10 minutes, you get a free sticker :P

Hey everybody,

I just posted a blog post about FLDC2016 wins and losses.

I wanted to link to it from here to ensure everyone is aware of the challenges we faced in organizing the 2016 camp. While the camp was a huge success, there are definitely some things we can do better, but the only way that will happen is if more people step up to help out.

Here's a quick summary of where we'd love some additional help: