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Thanks for a great event this year.

Some attendees were asking if the slides from my Drupal Government Day presentation were available, so here they are:

https://one.ubuntu.com/files/shareoffer/5dfe3e10-0053-4bfa-ae0c-8c705ff3...

• Drupal4Gov

Start:  2012-05-22 18:30 - 20:30 America/New_York User group meeting Organizers:  ultimike

Join us on Tuesday evening, May 22th at 6:30pm for the latest installment of the Brevard Drupal Meetup Series, 2nd Edition. Topics for this meetup may include (but not be limited to):

• Drupal Ladder (http://learndrupal.org/) - the goal for this meetup is to make sure everyone has completed at least the first 2 rungs of the ladder (http://learndrupal.org/ladder/ee503327-50be-1904-8d04-9499098cad64)
• Tinkertoy Git, part 2 (working with remote repositories)

As always, we'll also leave some time for some free-form discussion about any Drupal-related topic.

The meetup will take place at The Porcher House in Cocoa Village. You're welcome to bring food and drink to the meetup, but please be respectful and leave the venue cleaner than we found it.

Please use the signup functionality below so we have an idea about how many people to expect.

• Central Florida

Thanks to everyone who attended the third Jacksonville Drupal Meetup. (Original event: http://groups.drupal.org/node/228133)

In attendance:
Kevin Basarab
Kelly Devlin
Erik Hendrick
Ramesh Marikanti
Jitesh Doshi
Ovi Dimulescu
Ritika Oswal
Pramod Jain
Priya Ganesan
Mirek Chowaniok
Kevin Basarab
Tad Kellermann
Max Bodruch

We started off the meeting with some introductions before starting up a Google Hangout and starting a presentation on Drupal Storm by Ramesh. Unfortunately we ran into issues with the Hangout. We had made it public which caused lots and lots of people showing up but not actually there for the presentation. Thinking next time we may need to make it invite only and get email addresses via IRC for invites into the hangout or have the Hangout only running on one computer as a moderator.

After Ramesh's presentation Jonathan took the stage for some Drupal 7 theming. We'll be doing another presentation by Jonathan on this as well soon.

Our next meeting will be June 19th. If you have any suggestions for a meetup topic please post them in the discussion below. Look forward to seeing everybody then.

• Duval County (Florida)

Drupliconquistador with feather 0% (0 votes) Drupal Diver 20% (2 votes) Drupal Orange 10% (1 vote) Drupal Shark 0% (0 votes) Flamingo of Doom 0% (0 votes) Drupal Sun 1 20% (2 votes) Drupal City 30% (3 votes) Drupalconquistador 0% (0 votes) Drupal Sun 2 0% (0 votes) Drupal Gator 0% (0 votes) Drupal Moon 0% (0 votes) Drupal Wave 20% (2 votes) Drupal Sun 3 0% (0 votes) Total votes: 10

• Broward Drupal (Broward County, Florida)

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• Broward Drupal (Broward County, Florida)

Start:  2012-05-19 12:00 - 16:00 America/New_York Training (free or commercial) Organizers:  rnorman

Drupal of Miami Workshops

This week we will going over Jay Callicott's Top 50 Drupal 7 Modules.

What Jay has done is trimmed his list down to the top 50-ish modules that he is most likely to use on any given project. Most of these modules he has used on real projects, many of them have been carried over from Drupal 6. Several of these are new Drupal 7 modules that didn’t exist in Drupal 6 and some others are Drupal 7 replacements for Drupal 6 modules.

I hope that you will come and join us for the fun.

May 2012 Dates

May 19, 2012
Saturday Drupal of Miami Workshop starting at 12:00 noon until 4pm

May 23, 2012
Drupal of Miami Monthly Meeting Wednesday evening starting at 6pm

May 26, 2012
Saturday Drupal of Miami Workshop starting at 12:00 noon until 4pm

We hope that you will join us for the fun.

Location Address:
Telephone Number Needed: 786-286-0773
Terranova Building
801 Arthur Godfrey Road 402A
Miami Beach, Florida 33140

This is located NW corner of Arthur Godfrey Road and Meridian Avenue. 801 41st Street is the same as 801 Arthur Godfrey Road - one block east of Alton Road.

Free Parking is located one block North of the Terranova Building. Coming across the causeway from Miami, go to the third traffic light which is Meridian Avenue, turn left

(North) go one block, turn left and there will be parking in front of the school.

Entrance to the Terranova Building will be in the rear of the building. You will not be able to enter from the front doors at night or on the weekends.
Walk South across the parking lot and go to the backside of the Terranova Building and up the car ramp to the back door.

You will have to call me at 786-286-0773 so I can let you in.

Thank You
Ronald Norman

• Miami, Florida

Start:  2012-05-25 09:00 - 17:00 America/New_York User group meeting Organizers:  Andrew M Riley caelon

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 May 25th 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.) I will most likely be bringing baked goods for the morning.

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: May 25th 2012
Address: Urban ReThink, 625 E Central Blvd, Orlando, FL, 32801
Hours: 9am - 5pm (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

Start:  2012-05-19 13:00 - 15:00 America/New_York User group meeting Organizers:  Andrew M Riley liberatr

Orlando Drupal Meetup (Jay's Top 50 D7 Modules), May 19th 1pm

This month we'll be reviewing Jay's Top 50 Drupal 7 modules (http://www.mediacurrent.com/blog/jays-top-50-drupal-7-modules). We'll discuss what modules are on the list, what they do, why they are there and if there are any "must have" modules that aren't on the list that should be.

Please remember that there is a suggested donation of $5 or more at Urban Rethink. Its not required but it is appreciated :)

Parking map of Urban ReThink - I don't recommend the garage (unless there is a massive event at Lake Eola)

P.S. Don't forget that there will be a FREE Drupal Coworking event at Urban Rethink on May 25th!

P.P.S. If you are interested in attending remotely, please let me know so I can setup a Google+ Hangout.

• Remote Meetups

Location: Orlando, Florida
Position Summary:
The Lead Drupal Developer position requires a senior developer with proven experience delivering Drupal based web sites through hands on development and leading a team of less experienced developers. It requires a deep understanding of the Drupal platform and using various modules and custom PHP coding to meet the business requirements communicated through Product Requirements Document (PRD), Wireframes, and HTML prototypes. The Lead Drupal Developer serves the as the technical point of contact for the implementation of the Drupal based solution and is responsible for establishing methods and procedures for the rest of the development team.

Required skills:
•3+ Years developing Drupal based sites including custom PHP development
•Experience using various Drupal add-on modules and customizing those modules
•PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
•Experience integrating Drupal based sites to other backend systems through web services
•Development team leadership experience
•Knowledge of proven source control processes and reliable deployment procedures
•Fluent in English with strong written and verbal communication skills

Responsiblities:

•Review site requirements provided in various formats such as PRDs, Wireframes, HTML prototypes, etc. and create a project schedule with high level tasks and assignments across the development team
•Provide input to the project plan managed by a project manager
•Provide weekly status reports on tasks to the project manager
•Establish best practices and oversee the end-to-end development process to ensure high quality and future maintainability
•Manage a team of 3-10 developers to deliver a particular release comprised of local and offshore resources
•Customize existing Drupal modules or develop new custom modules to meet site requirements
•Consult with product managers to give feedback on site design and future functionality
•Administer the Drupal servers during development and conduct handoff to offshore teams for ongoing support

• Florida

For those of you that know Rachel - she has joined the Peace Corps and is now in Masatepe Nicaragua and will be teaching small business development. You can follow her blog at http://mytravelepic.com/ - she hopes to connect will some Central American Drupal folks.

• Florida

We held our Broward Drupal monthly meetup on Wednesday, May 9th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.

Remote participant(via Skype):
Seattle - Chris Parsons @chillin411

In Person (Greater Fort Lauderdale, Broward County Florida):
Jay Epstein @jeppy64
Rob de Koter @Robdekoter
John Everett @Agile_dot_TV
John Dennison @JohnDennison
Jeff Locke (adoptek.com)
Tony Webb
Elvis Svoboda
Samantha Jackson
Shevlin Pierce
Me @hectoriribarne

We started the meetup talking about Git. Chris Parsons (@chillin411 http://chris-parsons.com) gave a presentation using Git for source control. Chris covered the following topics:
- What version control is and why it should be used
- Why Git?
- Getting started with Git and Drupal
- Examples of most popular Git commands ( git add, git status, git commit, etc.)
- Merging, Branching, and Reverting
- Pushing code out to the world

Jay Epstein (@jeppy64 http://jay-epstein.com) gave a demo of Views slideshow. He focused the demo on using CSS to customize each slideshow. Jay showed how to use multiple views slideshows on the same page. He also talked about image cache and using libraries in Drupal.

We had one remote participant via Skype and ten in the meeting room. The rest of the meetup was spent answering questions from our participants.

Below is a link to the slides of the Git presentation:
http://browarddrupal.org/PastMeetings/may-2012

To keep up with the Broward Drupal meetup group, follow us on Twitter: @BrowardDrupal
You can also follow our members at http://twitter.com/BrowardDrupal/broward-drupal-members

--Hector

• Broward Drupal (Broward County, Florida)

Start:  2012-05-12 12:00 - 16:00 America/New_York User group meeting Organizers:  rnorman

Drupal of Miami Workshops

Planning a website take time. What is the correct way to plan a website? What do you need? I will be going over these questions and more this week at the workshop. Come and bring your skills on planning a Drupal Website. Let's discuss the best Drupal ideas for developing the best Drupal Websites possible.

I hope that you will come and join us for the fun.

May 2012 Dates

May 12, 2012
Saturday Drupal of Miami Workshop starting at 12:00 noon until 4pm

May 19, 2012
Wednesday evening Drupal of Miami monthly meeting starting at 6PM

May 23, 2012
Drupal of Miami Monthly Meeting Wednesday evening starting at 6pm

May 26, 2012
Saturday Drupal of Miami Workshop starting at 12:00 noon until 4pm

We hope that you will join us for the fun.

Location Address:
Telephone Number Needed: 786-286-0773
Terranova Building
801 Arthur Godfrey Road 402A
Miami Beach, Florida 33140

This is located NW corner of Arthur Godfrey Road and Meridian Avenue. 801 41st Street is the same as 801 Arthur Godfrey Road - one block east of Alton Road.

Free Parking is located one block North of the Terranova Building. Coming across the causeway from Miami, go to the third traffic light which is Meridian Avenue, turn left

(North) go one block, turn left and there will be parking in front of the school.

Entrance to the Terranova Building will be in the rear of the building. You will not be able to enter from the front doors at night or on the weekends.
Walk South across the parking lot and go to the backside of the Terranova Building and up the car ramp to the back door.

You will have to call me at 786-286-0773 so I can let you in.

Thank You
Ronald Norman

• Miami, Florida

Start:  2012-05-10 17:00 - 20:00 America/New_York User group meeting Organizers:  bhosmer

The second Brevard County Drupal Meetup will be held at the Cocoa Library in Meeting Room #4.

Dorothy will discuss Vagrant, but feel free to propose any other topics as well.

• Central Florida

Start:  2012-05-16 18:00 - 20:00 America/New_York User group meeting Organizers:  mherchel jenlong brandonratz

Due to scheduling conflicts, our monthly Gainesville Drupal meetup is postponed till next Wednesday, May 16th. It'll be at the same place and time - Alachua County Library HQ (in the Foundation Rm Storybook Room on the first floor) at 6pm.

We'll be discussing some beginning to intermediate Views techniques, in addition to having a module Q & A round-table!

• Gainesville

Download Podcast 82

Brandon Morrison (Brandonian on drupal.org) joins Andrew Riley and Mike Anello on the first post-DrupalCon Denver edition of the podcast to talk about all things Geo in Drupal 7. Brandon is one of the maintainers of the GeoField module and is an active member of the Drupal Geo community.

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Great feedback from my "Tinkertoy Git" Tampa meetup and DrupalCamp Nashville presentation has inspired me to make it bigger. Much bigger. The expanded full-day "Blue Collar Git" workshop covers not only the basics of the distributed version control system, but also delves into remote repositories, resolving conflicts, and working with patches.

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Start:  2012-05-09 19:00 - 21:00 America/New_York User group meeting Organizers:  chillin411 jeppy64 iribarne

Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Dunkin' Donuts - 9170 State Road 84 (south side of I-595 between Nob Hill and Pine Island) Davie, FL 33324 USA
http://browarddrupal.org/gmaplocation

This month we will be talking about Git and also about Context

If you want to participate virtually, send me a Skype connect request to hectoriribarne. I will initiate the Skype call with the people that signed up for the event but are not present at the meetup shortly after 7pm. We will be using http://Join.me to share our desktop with remote participants. We have used Join.me for the last few meetups and things are going pretty well.

Broward Drupal site: http://BrowardDrupal.org
Broward Drupal twitter: @BrowardDrupal

--Hector

• Broward Drupal (Broward County, Florida)

May 21 2012 6:00p - 9:00p Link:  Orlando Fringe Festival Link:  RSVP on Facebook

The Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival is one of the most anticipated and creatively freewheeling events we have in Orlando, and our May happy hour has always taken place under their sacred Beer Tent. Your beer money all goes to support this non-profit festival and make sure independent theatre has a place to grow and thrive every year.

Usually we hang out under the beer tent for a little while and take advantage of the food trucks parked on the green lawn (bring cash), and follow that up with a show or two at the festival.

Some shows I am suggesting that have some appeal to Florida Creatives:

• Connected at 5:45
• Scientist Turned Comedian at 7:30
• Medicine at 11:00

There are tons of great shows, and probably several you would like to see if you check out the complete list, so please don't hesitate to make a suggestion (take a look at Page 8 of this PDF for the Monday schedule).

What?

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.

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 Orlando Fringe / Loch Haven Park 812 E Rollins St Beer Tent Orlando, FL 32803 See map: Google Maps --> Trackback URL for this post: http://floridacreatives.com/trackback/1790

Hilary Mason will be giving a talk at Urban ReThink tomorrow.

This is definitely a defining moment in the history of Orlando's creative / tech / entrepreneurial scene. This is something I've been working on personally, along with hundreds of others, for what feels like forever now. That, or 7 years, whichever comes first.

Interlude:

A few years ago, I was in the right place at the right time to be able to hold an unconference during the Create Chaos event. (Big thanks to Katrina Diamond and Dana Delapi for the opportunity.)

I bring up BarCamp Chaos because it was capitalizing on a huge opportunity we have in Orlando - it is such an awesome destination - 50+ million visitors come here every year for pleasure, conventions, training, or to escape the snow. Major publications' travel columns have been picking up on the better qualities of the rest of Orlando (the part outside of Touristan) for some time now, like this week in New York Magazine. The locals know about all the cool culture in Orlando, and the rest of the world is starting to learn about it too. Now it's time for the Creatives to gain awareness in the wide world alongside the neighborhoods.

Today two people visited Urban ReThink from Kitchener/Waterloo in Canada - it's a well-known technology hub, but these two folks (one of whom works at an incubator with 50+ startup companies) thought they had something to learn from us. I fully intend to follow up on that meeting and keep the relationship alive. We have also had reporters from Brazil, Japan, Australia and other parts of the country ask us questions about Urban ReThink and what is going on here. While they are asking about UR, they are just asking because that's one of the few things they can see through the pin-prick-sized aperture they have to look at Orlando's creative scene.

When I say "this is going to be a turning point", I don't just mean Hilary's talk, but I also do mean Hilary's talk.

Not to put an undue amount of pressure on her, but I'm going to use her as an example.

For example, Hilary is on a technology advisory board for Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York. She has also given keynote presentations in front of thousands of people, or in front of a few people who can afford a more intimate setting. If she has something nice to say about Orlando, it will be hard to measure the exact impact of her report, but I promise you it will have an impact. One theme that comes up over and over in my life is that the world is a very small place and technology is making ii smaller by the minute.

Should I be writing this? It sounds like we are trying to use someone who we are having as a guest to get something we want. That's not how I see it. This is more of a "you get out what you put in" or "if you make yourself available" or something like that. I have nothing directly to gain from this event other than getting to meet someone I admire and respect. Beyond that I'm happy to know everyone else is having a good time, and last but not least that we have raised a few dollars for the Urban Think Foundation.

I could just as easily write about my excitement in discovering Lance Vick at BarCampMiami - "this guy is going to put Orlando on the map", I said to myself at some point. Hopefully he will help open the aperture the rest of the world has to see Orlando in the process.

Yet another reason why tomorrow's event is kind of a big deal has to do with the idea of making events like this recurring - maybe we bring Hilary back, maybe other special guests, maybe we start up the Creative Summit after the idea has been laying on the back burner for so long. There are lots of paths to take from this point, which is no different from most of the rest of life. Except this time there is an amazing group of people helping out.

Curtis, Steve, Puja, Ken, Elizabeth, Darren, Dina, Pat, Kathryn and so many others have all been pulling together to make Sunday's event and the ongoing Tech Thursdays at Urban ReThink really special. This simply would not have been possible in the old days. At some point in the last month I realized that we had crossed some major milestones in the health of our community when we were able to pull together events like this and Florida Drupal Camp in our free time, while raising money from sponsors, bringing in awesome speakers from out of town like Jason Pamental, skyping in creators from all over the world and our own backyard, and creating new events like Drupal Coworking Fridays here in Orlando that have spread across the globe.

Are there other things I would like to see? Sure. But that's always the case. The moment I have everything I ever wanted for the community, then my vision must have stopped growing. Not that I have all the answers - we steal from the best.

Then today I was talking to Tony from Kitchener and I realized something that made events like Startup Weekend and the Orlando Fringe Festival so very important to me - they both honor and encourage the same kind of collaboration and experimentation. Startup Weekend is, by defenition, fleeting. You don't really have enough time to do anything but generate a great pitch for your startup, and all of the prerequisites, which are numerous. Similarly, at Fringe, after 7 performances, no matter what, you are done with that show.

• The investment is small - more of your time than anything, and revisions are cheap.
• The audience knows what they are getting in to - early adopters, patrons, peers, and true fans.
• The friendships you make, particularly with other teams, can make a long-lasting change in your life, and in this way you can grow a global network.
• As a creative, you get to see what is on the cutting edge in your community, or where the local talent pool is rooted.
• There is just enough potential for fame and fortune to make it glamourous.
• The creme-de-la-creme will go on to be real jobs and new careers. The others are awesome learning experiences.
• You get to work outside your comfort zone, if that's what you want. (trust me, you want it)
• I could go on...

This is certainly a rant-heavy blog post, so wrapping up will be a bit challenging. Here's a shot:

At BarCamp Orlando last month, I encouraged Urban ReThink's Resident Wizard, Kathryn Neel, to give a talk called "Not the next Silicon Valley, the first Orlando". She actually did an amazing job, and far exeeded what I could have done with it. She also got a lot of great feedback and well-deserved adulation after the talk. The point is that all the ingredients for making Orlando a first-class city are out there, we just need to tap into them - our number one problem is likely more cultural than one of infrastructure, although the infrastructure can be made to support a culture if one exists.

I'd like to keep the discussion going about how to make both culture and infrastructure strong. Sunday is a great chance to start that discussion. So is Monday, May 21st under the Fringe Festival Beer Tent, and tons of other times in the next few months.

Tags: OrlandoBarCampUrban ReThinkCategories: CoworkingLocalTech

Start:  2012-05-05 12:00 America/New_York User group meeting Organizers:  rnorman

Drupal of Miami Workshops

This week we will be setting up a new Drupal Website, "Drupal of Miami". We hope that you will join us creating our new Website for Drupal of Miami. We would like your input. Now is the time to give us your input on creating the best Drupal Website ever made, or least I would think so. Think about what you would like in a local Drupal Website and what you would like us to do for future workshops.

I hope that you will come and join us for the fun.

May 2012 Dates

May 5, 2012
Saturday Drupal of Miami Workshop starting at 12:00 noon until 4pm
May 12, 2012
Saturday Drupal of Miami Workshop starting at 12:00 noon until 4pm
May 19, 2012
Saturday Drupal of Miami Workshop starting at 12:00 noon until 4pm
May 26, 2012
Saturday Drupal of Miami Workshop starting at 12:00 noon until 4pm
May 30, 2012
Drupal of Miami Monthly Meeting Wednesday evening starting at 6pm

We hope that you will join us for the fun.

Location Address:
Telephone Number Needed: 786-286-0773
Terranova Building
801 Arthur Godfrey Road 402A
Miami Beach, Florida 33140

This is located NW corner of Arthur Godfrey Road and Meridian Avenue. 801 41st Street is the same as 801 Arthur Godfrey Road - one block east of Alton Road.

Free Parking is located one block North of the Terranova Building. Coming across the causeway from Miami, go to the third traffic light which is Meridian Avenue, turn left

(North) go one block, turn left and there will be parking in front of the school.

Entrance to the Terranova Building will be in the rear of the building. You will not be able to enter from the front doors at night or on the weekends.
Walk South across the parking lot and go to the backside of the Terranova Building and up the car ramp to the back door.

You will have to call me at 786-286-0773 so I can let you in.

Thank You
Ronald Norman

• Miami, Florida