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Apr 16 2012 Apr 20 2012 Link:  Official Registration

This five-day training event is designed to get you up-to-speed and on the right track with your Drupal career, whether you wish to build your skills and knowledge from the starting gate, or need some spot training on development and theming. Choose your topics, choose your days, or join us for the week to fuel your knowledge and enthusiasm.

We've consolidated the foundational sessions of DrupalEasy's 10-week Career Program into 5 fast-paced sessions designed to build knowledge sequentially, or rev up key development and theming capabilities.

Pick the Focus you need or sign up for the week:

1. Day 1: Zero to Drupal
2. Day 2: Site Building 1 (content types, taxonomy)
3. Day 3: Site Building 2 (Views, Context, Panels)
4. Day 4: Module Development Fundamentals
5. Day 5: Theming Fundamentals

Day 1: Zero to Drupal: $250
Development and Theming Classes: $350/day
Weeklong Jumpstart Program: $1,500

Sign up for all five days and save $150!

We'll get your day started right each morning with breakfast and keep you hydrated throughout the day. Lunch will be on your own from 1:00 to 2:00 pm.

 

Location Residence Inn Ft. Lauderdale Plantation 130 North University Drive Plantation, FL 33324 See map: Google Maps --> Trackback URL for this post: http://floridacreatives.com/trackback/1741

• Orlando PHP

Mar 19 2012 6:00p - 9:00p Link:  Tailgaters UCF Link:  RSVP on Facebook

Join Orlando's longest-running creative meetup to celebrate our 5th year of bringing likeminded people together. You can get great benefits out of meeting new people, like stimulating your brain, having a safe (non-judgemental) place to talk shop, finding someone to help you build that next startup, or just making friends.

The who live/work in East Orlando will get some due for a) being noisy and b) being present at last month's Happy Hour (seriously how could you guys miss out on free beer?). Therefore we are venturing on to the UCF campus near the stadium for the Tailgaiters Smoke House experience.

If we keep this up maybe we can eventually have more than one Happy Hour a month... (Dr. Evil Pinky)?

Also curious how we get some students - Marketing, Communications, Digital Media, Computer Science, Creative Writing, etc to attend these if we keep doing them in their back yard. Discuss!

Thanks to Barry Kirsch for our new promo picture!

About FLCreatives Happy Hour

Whether you're a poet, an actor, a photographer, a producer, a marketer, a programmer, an entrepreneur or a combination of them all, you'll find some great conversation and new friends by attending, and coming back every month on the third Monday.

If you'd like to see events like this in your town, feel free to start one! We now have Facebook Fan Pages and LinkedIn Groups for Orlando, Brevard, Tampa, South Florida, Southwest FL, Tallahassee and Gainesville. P.S. Please bring a camera and snap some photos! You'll want to show your friends what it was like.

Community or Meetup:  FLCreatives Happy Hour Orlando Location Tailgaters UCF 4000 E Central Florida Blvd East Plaza Drive Orlando, FL 32816 Phone: 407-882-0777 See map: Google Maps --> Trackback URL for this post: http://floridacreatives.com/trackback/1740

• Coworking

We are looking to use Drupal as the CMS for our Scuba Diving website and have functional specifications already documented for the front end and admin panel. Additionally, we have pdf documents which detail the front end/admin panel design which must then be used to create custom themes in Drupal. This is a very large project that we will break down into many small milestones in which we seek deliverables on our server every 2-4 weeks depending on the actual milestone. Acceptance testing must also occur on our server and as such all source code and other deliverables must reside there prior to the beginning of the test period.

We are looking to create a long term relationship with the right development partner and will assist them throughout the entire development process. This partner must sign NDA and work for hire agreement. For each milestone, we will need a breakdown of cost for each section included in a milestone. Additionally, at the start of the project, we will place all funds for the related milestone into escrow and when all deliverables have been met and testing has been conducted on our server and all bugs fixed, if applicable, escrow will be released and we will move on to the next milestone.

Our first milestone will contain homepage as well as social networking features which include ability for individuals, businesses, groups to register as well as many facebook like features such as wall, newsfeed, dive buddy requests, chat, messages, photos, videos, events, memos etc. This milestone must be delivered to our server within 2 months of the actual start date. We are looking to begin on or before February 29 and have hard set timeframes for this milestone.

Additional future milestones will include SDTN Blog, Dive News, Travel Articles, Technical Articles, and Dictionary, photo/video gallery, and many others.

We will look to review 3-5 Live DRUPAL active sites that you have built with Drupal that have the features we are looking to implement. We will also look to speak with references. Please also supply your profile on Drupal.org.

Please provide your hourly rate.

Please contact us with any questions at melissa@sdtn.com.

Thank you.

Drupal Jobs

Feb 24 2012 9:00a Link:  Official Registration

This hands-on workshop will introduce you to the latest release of Drupal to get you started on how to build and administer a Drupal site: creating and managing content, granting user permissions, expanding your site's capabilities with key modules, and all the basics you’ll need to use this powerful content management system to build web sites without writing a line of code.

Price: $50.00

As a training partner of Acquia, one of leading Drupal firms in the world, we are pleased to offer Acquia's "Drupal in a Day" training course.

Dig into the powerful tools that make Drupal 7 the most flexible and efficient way to get your website online. In this introductory, hands-on workshop, you'll learn your way around the latest release of this popular web content management system. You will take on key tasks for building and administering a Drupal site: creating and managing content, granting user permissions, expanding your site's capabilities with key modules, and more. Drupal lets you accomplish these essential steps without writing a line of code. Join us for this one-day workshop, and see what you can do with point-and-click site building!

Location UCF Executive Development Center 36 West Pine Street Orlando, FL 32801 See map: Google Maps --> Trackback URL for this post: http://floridacreatives.com/trackback/1738

• Orlando PHP

Start:  2012-03-06 18:30 - 20:00 America/New_York User group meeting

Save the date for our next meetup. I am thinking we can meet at Square1 ( US 41 - across from SMH) and use the meeting room.

Florida

We are wondering what other people in Florida think is the best hosting facility. We are pretty small now but hope to grow to significant traffic and don't want to have to move. Reliability, speed and knowledgeable Drupal support are important.

First off - Does anyone have recommendations on Unix/Linux/Ubuntu vs. windows environment? Our current hosting environment is windows 2008 server-based - not specifically a drupal host (Intermedia).

I read a recommendation for Greengeeks, Hostgator and Bluehost. Anyone have experience with any of these?

Florida

Start:  2012-02-24 09:00 - 17:00 America/Detroit Related event (ie. not Drupal specific)

Even though this is not Drupal-specific, there is already a co-working day planned for this Friday at Tampa Bay Wave. It's just an open, free-for-all co-working event. However, if some Drupalistas show up, we can still talk Drupal and help one another. This is the same spot we met at in January for our coworking event.

Here are the details for this Friday if anyone is interested in attending, please RSVP though meetup.com:
http://www.meetup.com/TampaBayWaVEFriends/events/52832152/

Drupal Coworking

Start:  2012-02-24 09:00 - 18:00 America/New_York User group meeting Organizers:  Andrew M Riley petermallett

Orlando will be one of the host cities for the first Drupal Coworking Friday. So if you are a Drupal Professional and would like to work along side other Drupal Professionals come out and cowork with us. We'll be at UrbanReThink on February 24th 2012 in the "Garage" all day long (The UrbanReThink cost will be covered by Mediacurrent.)

There are plenty of good restaurants around Urban ReThink so we'll probably do lunch "out". (Meals will be the responsibility of the attendees.)

Please comment or signup for this event on groups.drupal.org so I can get a better picture of the number of people that will be attending the Orlando event.

Date: February 24th 2012
Address: Urban ReThink, 625 E Central Blvd, Orlando, FL, 32801
Hours: 9am - 6pm (EST)
Cost: Free (Sponsored by Mediacurrent)

About Drupal Coworking Friday:
- Date: Last Friday of each month
- Focused on Drupal Professionals (freelance, fulltime, part time, in office, home, etc.)
- This is not a meetup, code-sprint, BoF or presentation
- Attendees would still do their regular work/calls/etc
- Other Drupal folks would be there to talk to, collaborate, advise (and likewise for the attendee)
- Ideally, an entire section of the space will be dedicated for Drupal professionals

See http://groups.drupal.org/node/195983 for the Drupal Coworking Friday FAQ and the Coworking group at http://groups.drupal.org/coworking for general information about coworking. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coworking for writeup from Wikipedia about what coworking is.

Drupal Coworking

Feb 25 2012 2:00p - 5:00p Link:  https://www.facebook.com/events/229323287141616/ Link:  http://familab.org

 

 

Join the members of the circuit-bent rock band CMKT4 for a workshop on building your very own EconoMIC Bottle Cap Contact Microphone (from Creme DeMentia). CMKT4 will show you how to solder up a piezo-electric pickup and house it sturdily in a recycled bottle-cap housing of their own design! Stick around for a set from the band as the tool-handle dip on your freshly built contact microphone dries. Additional take-home kits and other surprises will be available, come build a mic and see and hear some of the circuit-bent instruments you've read about on www.GetLofi.com up
close. Bring your own instruments and objects to amplify!

The workshop is $15, additional kits will be on sale for $10, and
we'll have fully assembled mics in several varieties for sale as well.
We'll have some other fun goodies also. Interested onlookers are
encouraged to donate if they don't want to build a kit.

CMKT 4 are Austin Cliffe, Zach Adams, and Jeff Cox. The circuit-bent /rock trio has made it their mission to leave no hackerspace behind on their way to their next Maker Faire; they want to bring new devices, sounds, and ideas to your town. They are constantly working to make new and interesting devices and music.

 

Location FamiLAB 1355 Bennett Drive Unit 129 Longwood, FL 32750 See map: Google Maps --> Trackback URL for this post: http://floridacreatives.com/trackback/1737

• BATT

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Tim Howe and Ryan Price briefly discuss the idea of holding multiple user group meetings in the same building at the same time, much like a mini-barcamp.

Happy Hour is Feb 20th, 6pm at Urban ReThink

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Urban ReThink
• The Storefront Innovation PlayTank, startig Feb 20th at Urban ReThink
• BarCamp Miami
• BarCamp Orlando
• Florida Creatives Website
• @FLCreatives

If you want to contribute to FLCreatives Podcast, contact Ryan

Download Podcast 33

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• Open Data

Mar 02 2012 8:00a Mar 04 2012 - 1:00p Link:  Florida Creativity Coalition

The 9th Annual Florida Creativity Conference is scheduled March 2-4, at the Girl Scout Center in Sarasota. The conference features experts in the fields of creative thinking, art, dance, music, theater, technology, and education who will conduct interactive workshops. Business professional will show how to apply the various creativity tools and techniques they’ve used with industry leaders like Disney, Clairol, and Procter & Gamble.

This year we will have over 35 speakers including several Nationally Recognized Creativity Experts, and from local organizations including the Sarasota International Chalk Festival, the GWIZ children’s museum, and Florida Studio Theater. We also have special speakers from Disney, and the Ohmies, the new hit off Broadway children’s musical.

We are offering members of Florida Creative’s a special “Weekend” price of $160, a $90 savings. This includes a buffet dinner on Friday night, and breakfast, snacks and lunch on Saturday and Sunday.
Members can also select from One or Two day programs. To register and for all speaker information call (941) 377-1373 or go to http://flcreativity.com/

Location Girl Scout Education and Conference Center 4740 Cattlemen Road Sarasota, FL 34233 Phone: 941-377-1373 See map: Google Maps --> Trackback URL for this post: http://floridacreatives.com/trackback/1735

• Southwest

Feb 24 2012 7:00p - 10:00p Link:  Pecha Kucha Orlando

The next PechaKucha Night in Orlando (Vol. 5) is going to be happening smack dab in the middle of our Global Cities Week, on February 24. Here’s the poster that was produced for the event, that will take place at the Blank Space Gallery & Lounge. You’ll find the full list of presenters with links on the official event page.

• Mark Baratelli, The Food Truck Bazaar
• Michael Burnett
• Patrick Greene, ReThinking the City
• Derek Orth, Off the Grid
• Amy Selikoff, Lessons from the 7th Grade
• J. Travis Johnson, Creating the Next Great City
• Danny Page, An Adventure in Pictures
• Orrett Davis, Startup Weekend Orlando
• Ken Montano, The Art To Always Being You
• Ian and Adam Cole

$5 admission   New Location! For the first time, PechaKucha Orlando v5 will be held at The Orange Studio at the corner of Mills Ave. and Lake Highland Drive. We're excited to have one of our best speaker lineups ever, and some surprises! Join us at 7 p.m. for mingling and networking; presentations begin at 8 p.m. Community or Meetup:  Pecha Kucha Orlando Location The Orange Studio 1121 N Mills Ave Orlando, FL 32803 See map: Google Maps --> Trackback URL for this post: http://floridacreatives.com/trackback/1734

• Japanese Language and Culture

Start:  2012-02-24 09:00 - 17:00 America/New_York Training (free or commercial) Organizers:  ultimike

Hey everybody,

Just a quick note to remind everyone that we'll be offering a low-cost ($50) Drupal-in-a-Day training workshop on Friday, February 24 in downtown Orlando.

DrupalEasy is now an Acquia certified trainer, so we'll be using Acquia's training materials for this workshop. It is geared squarely at beginners, and is a great opportunity for anyone who is new to Drupal to get some hands-on training in a small class.

If Florida DrupalCamp 2012 was your first exposure to Drupal, then this workshop will be a great follow-on to cement the basic skills necessary to build and manage a Drupal site. Feel free to leave a comment below or contact me directly if you have any questions if this workshop if for you!

Full details and registration are available at: http://drupaleasy.com/orlando_022412

Thanks,
-mike

Florida

We have an immediate opening for a D6 Ubercart 2.x / Apache Solr Contract Developer

Please send the following to jobs@bigcouchmedia.com:
Name
Drupal.org ID
Resume
Portfolio of eCommerce sites
Your preferred method for us to contact you

No Agencies Please
Must be willing to work on Eastern Time Zone schedule

Florida

Apr 20 2012 7:00p Apr 21 2012 - 7:00p Link:  Official Event Site Link:  RSVP on EventBrite

Downtown Credo’s Summit is a two day experience designed to show you how to affect change in our city and our world by living out a CREDO of meaning, impact and community.  You will be challenged, inspired and equipped to impact our city in transformative and sustainable ways. We are bringing in 3 speakers from around the US to speak into these issues.  This is an incredible Orlando event you do NOT want to miss!

Sean Carasso:

An avid adventurer, Sean has spent much of his life pulling diverse communities together. After starting a number of small companies and grassroots initiatives, he traveled the world with an entrepreneur turned philanthropist, while volunteering alongside Invisible Children and TOMS Shoes. In late 2007, he journeyed into the Democratic Republic of Congo on what was meant to be a short stop. It was there he heard of children too small to carry a gun, who were sent to the front lines of war armed with only a whistle. The Falling Whistles campaign was born in response to a small journal entry he wrote that night. For the Credo Summit Mr. Carasso will talk about how a network of meaning, impact and community in a city is benefited by partnership across traditional dividing lines: socio-economic, religious, geographic, or business and non-profit. These sorts of networks are often built and sustained by focusing on serving their cities well.

Chris Heuertz:

As founder of Word Made Flesh, Heuertz is an activist, author, visionary and public speaker. He has traveled with his wife, Phileena, through nearly 70 countries working with the most vulnerable of the world’s poor—Roma (gypsies), children with AIDS, prostituted women and girls, recovering drug addicts, children on the streets and refugees. For the Credo Summit Mr. Heuertz will share what he has learned about how authentic community among drastically different people can make a profound impact on individuals and cities.

Phileena Heuertz:

As co-director of Word Made Flesh, Heuertz has focused on child advocacy, community care and leadership development. Through that work she has developed the conviction that union of action and contemplation is crucial to ongoing personal growth, healthy community life, and sustainable, authentic social justice efforts. For the Credo Summit Mrs. Heuertz will work to help us understand and share that conviction so that we learn how a life of meaning, impact and community can be both communally and individually sustainable.

Schedule:

The summit will kick off with a large opening event Friday evening. The heart of this first evening is Sean Carasso’s presentation. This talk will be followed by a Q and A panel of all three presenters, facilitated by Ben Hoyer, director of Downtown Credo. Saturday morning Phileena Heuertz will lead a yoga class at the John H. Jackson Community Center. This will be a time to explore an experience that drives toward Phileena’s talk of maintaining an inner sense of meaning in order to sustain the life of meaning, impact and community. Chris Heuertz will lead a lunch conversation on cultivating authentic community across cultures, at the same Center. Saturday evening Chris Heuertz will lead off with his feature presentation and will be followed by Phileena Heuertz. The evening will conclude with a Q and A panel of the speakers, and Downtown Credo Division directors.

Credo Summit Committee:

Ben Hoyer – Downtown Credo Director of Ideas and Development
Angela Griner Ed.D. – Director of Educational Programming for Asbury University
Aaron Moore – Director of Solace Counseling
Jack Elkins – Technology Project Manager Orlando Magic
Nick Nanton Esq. – CEO Dicks & Nanton Celebrity Branding Agency
Sam Barns – Multicultural Affairs at Rollins College
Andrea Shindler – Founder Executive Director of The Foundation for Human Potential
James Reginald Colimon – Neighborhood Outreach Coordinator Office of Communications & Neighborhood Relations City of Orlando
Yasmeen Qadri Phd. – Professor and Education Coordinator for Valencia College
Oneka Burnett – Balthazar Facility Manager, Jackson Center City of Orlando

Don’t Forget to Register Here Location Loch Haven Neighborhood Center 610 North Lake Formosa Drive Orlando, FL 32803 See map: Google Maps --> Trackback URL for this post: http://floridacreatives.com/trackback/1730

• Orlando

Download Podcast 74

There’s a full house on the podcast this week as Andrew, Ryan, and Mike are joined by Dave Terry (Mediacurrent), John Hannah (Friendly Machine), and Glenn Hilton (ImageX Media) to discuss the Drupal community’s less-than-stellar effort of marketing our beloved software to people outside the community. Both Dave and John have written thought-provoking blog posts on this topic in the past few months while Glenn has been a leader in organizing and evangelizing Drupal business summits. We also managed to discuss the Drupal Association’s recent at-large elections, Coworking Fridays, Acquia’s recent code contributions, recent usability studies, as well as our picks of the week!

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Apr 14 2012 9:30a - 6:00p Link:  BarCampOrlando.org Link:  RSVP on EventBrite Link:  @BarCampOrlando

Born from the desire to share and learn in an open environment, BarCamp Orlando is back and better than ever.

What is it?

BarCamp Orlando is an annual community-building event which aims to bring people from different backgrounds together for cooperative learning. Technologies such as Ruby, PHP, Java and C will be present alongside graphic design, music, photography, and other new media. We hope to provide free t-shirts and lunch to all attendees, but can only do so with assistance from sponsors.

The First Rule of BarCamp

It is strongly recommended that attendees give a demo, a session, or help with one. Don't be intimidated by this, just pick something you're passionate about and come give a talk on it. It could be anything... an operating system you use, a language you program with, or how to wash your cat. We have four speaking rooms at our venue, and a projector will be available at all but one.

Talks will be scheduled on the day of the event (that's part of the fun). We'll build a speaker schedule on a whiteboard starting at 9:30 am. Come early if you want to guarantee a speaking spot!

Location

For the first time, BarCamp will take place in the heart of downtown Orlando's tech scene at The Plaza. We'll have four areas available for presentations in the north tower: Voxeo's 10th floor common area, and three in the 20th floor space that will soon be home to Envy Labs and Code School. Lunch will be served at TBA, and plenty of open space will be available to hang out and mingle.

Schedule

• 9:30 amDoors open, people can sign up for talks on the whiteboard
• 10:00 amTalks begin at the four venues. Each presentation will last 25 minutes (we recommend leaving 5 minutes at the end for discussion)
• 12:00 pmLunch is served
• 1:00 pmTalks resume
• 6:00 pmBarCamp ends and the after party starts at TBA

Parking

We recommend the parking garage across from the Library. We'll have more information for you as the event gets closer.

 

Location The Plaza / Voxeo / Envy Labs / Code School 189 S Orange Ave 10th + 20th Floors Orlando, FL 32801 See map: Google Maps --> Trackback URL for this post: http://floridacreatives.com/trackback/1728

• Open Data

Start:  2012-03-20 18:00 - 19:00 America/New_York User group meeting Organizers:  kbasarab

Join us for our first Drupal meetup in Jacksonville, FL. We will be discussing future events/locations as well as going over how The Florida Times-Union/Jacksonville.com use Drupal to power a newsroom environment.

We will meet at The Florida Times-Union building in Downtown Jacksonville.

1 Riverside Ave.
Jacksonville, FL 32202

We'll also have punch and pie to serve so that's always a plus. Come down, meet up with other Drupalers in Northeast Florida and begin building upon the great Drupal Community Florida already has.

Florida

Mar 15 2012 5:00p Mar 18 2012 - 2:00p Link:  Camp Maitres Tambour 2012 Link:  Ozilly Connections, Inc. Location Sertoma Youth Ranch 85 Myers Rd (between Orlando & Tampa) Brooksville, FL 34602 Phone: 407-574-2941 See map: Google Maps --> Trackback URL for this post: http://floridacreatives.com/trackback/1726

• Music