Central Florida

Florida DrupalCamp 2020 is coming in February! In order to make it another outstanding event, we need some additional volunteers!

Please check out our issue queue and find something that you can help with based on your interests and bandwidth.

We are currently looking for help with these tasks:

• Marketing: FLDC email newsletter: https://www.drupal.org/project/fldc2020/issues/3093506
• Badge production and delivery: https://www.drupal.org/project/fldc2020/issues/3093502

Hey everybody,

On Tuesday of DrupalCon Seattle week I attended the Community Summit. One of the (literal) roundtable discussions I was involved with was for virtual meetups. I was going email a braindump directly to Adam Varn (the current coordinator of Florida's upcoming virtual meetup initiative), but I figured it would be more valuable to post it here to gather (hopefully) additional feedback.

Hey everybody,

We're going to have a Drupal meetup in Brevard for the first time in forever! This meetup will be the first of the newly-organized (thanks, Adam Varn!) Florida Drupal meetups that will be broadcast via Zoom.

Each month, a different geographic area of Florida will have an in-person meetup and broadcast it via Zoom (link will be posted here prior to the meetup).

I'll be presenting "11 tips to start your Drupal project right" at this meetup.

Following the meetup, we'll be heading to Ryan's Pizza for dinner.

Hope to see everyone there!

-mike

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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thank you!

Florida DrupalCamp is an annual conference that brings together web developers from all over the world to learn, network and discuss web development and the Drupal content management system.

The Orlando Drupal Meetup takes place every month on the 4th Thursday of the month. Unfortunately, that means that in November we run headlong into Thanksgiving, and in December, we run afoul of all kinds of holidays, not to mention the general year-end lethargy and vacations.

Our solution for November and December this year is to simply move the meetup up by a week to the 3rd Thursday (that is to say, November 16 and December 21). I would like to propose that we make this a permanent change, in order to avoid this same problem cropping back up in the future.

Location: Code School

Speaker: Helena McCabe

Date: 10/26/2017

Topic: Accessibility

Parking is free in the GAI garage (accessible from South St. and Summerlin St.).

Speaker: Ryan Smith

Date: 08/24/2017

Topic: Drupal 7 Services module

Parking is free in the GAI garage (accessible from South St. and Summerlin St.).

Since last month's meetup was kind of a bust (we had a perfect storm of people not being able to attend), Ryan has very kindly agreed to give his presentation again to allow those who missed it to see it.

Speaker: Ryan Smith

Date: 07/27/2017

Topic: Drupal 7 Services module

Parking is free in the GAI garage (accessible from South St. and Summerlin St.).

Speaker: Dan Dease

Date: 06/22/2017

Topic: Drupal Rules module

Parking is free in the GAI garage (accessible from South St. and Summerlin St.).

Location: Code School
Speaker: David Younker
Topic: Component-based theme development for Drupal 8 (KSS)

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:

... ♪ Guess who's back...back again...Orlando's back...tell a friend ♪

The Orlando Meetup group is back from the dead – or at least from a lengthy self-induced coma!
Come help us get the band back together!

Good day, all:

My company has been a provider of "traditional" software development for the past 30 years. However, Drupal development - or any other CMS work - has not been a focus of the company, despite the fact that we have extensive coding resources both in-house and out, we manage a significant array of servers in our Orlando data center, and we have a number of local clients (potential Drupal prospects) to whom we provide IT support services.

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:

What's new in Drupal 8 and how does it compare to it's other Gartner Magic Quadrant competitors?

Join FFW Center of Excellence Director Ray Saltini as he walks you through Drupal 8's new features and what Drupal 8 can mean for your enterprise organization.

Whether your organization is shopping for a new platform or already invested in a particular technology, this class will help you understand the changes and features in Drupal 8 that are opening up new opportunities and creating new challenges. Learn how Drupal 8 can:

scale web properties faster and with less risk

Let's meet at Ryan's Pizza to celebrate completion of camp and for some dinner and conversation.

We can also talk about the upcoming DrupalCon New Orleans travel plans, and who's doing what with Drupal 8.

thanks,
-mike and caroline

Group photo

Drupal Global Training Days is an initiative of the Drupal Association. The association partners with companies around the world to provide introductory Drupal training. My company, SPI, sent me as the instructor for the Drupal training day held at the Larry R. Jackson public library in Lakeland on February 5. Three people attended.

If you are a Drupal Professional and would like to work with other Drupal Professionals come out and cowork with us. We'll be at Downtown Credo on January 29th, 2015 in the back room all day long (The Credo back room cost will be covered by Mediacurrent.)

Credo does serve coffee and pastries (food, coffee and meals are the responsibility of the attendees.) We'll most likely be eating lunch within walking distance of Credo but you are welcome to bring your lunch if you wish.