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This effort wants to connect you to likeminded people - online and offline - with no membership fees, no product pitches, and a fresh look at networking. We're here to help you find your support group: the people you want to brainstorm with, who you call when you need a push in the right direction, who will give you an honest opinion when you need it most. Florida Creatives Happy Hours are for professionals, hobbyists, entrepreneurs, consultants and everyone else too - no matter what your creative pursuit is. This website and our other online presences reinforce the connections you make at events, and help our members discover and publish what's new.
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Our site is a container for lots of great content. The most common posts on the site are Discussions in the Forum and Events in the Calendar. Any member can add a Community or Meetup to the Directory or a Job Listing in a group. Members are also encouraged to record Podcast Episodes.
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If you want to be here, you belong. The first step is to register or login and join some groups. You'll get email updates about new posts and comments in all your groups.
Our groups are all over the state: we have long-running meetups in Orlando and Brevard County, and satellite efforts in Gainesville, Jacksonville, Lakeland, South Florida, Southwest Florida, Tallahassee, and the Tampa Area. If you are interested in seeing these networks grow, get on the discussion list and shout out to the other creatives in your area. We also have interest-based groups for specific industries, disciplines and free event, forum and wiki hosting for meetup groups.
The Wiki on the site is broken out into several areas to collect information - places to get wi-fi, great local resources, companies or artists in your area, and more. Anyone who registers can edit pages or add new ones. There are some pointers in the Help wiki. We are collecting awesome tutorials in the Guides wiki.
Recent Posts by Members
Two Orlando tech training startups featured in NYT
Our friends in downtown Orlando were featured in a New York Times blog today:
Coding Start-Ups Compete for Booming Market by Jessica Bruder:
If you build it, they will code.
FamiLAB Intro to Arduino Class
Seats are extremely limited, please sign up in advance via http://orlandoarduino.eventbrite.com.
The Arduino platform is an amazing way to learn more about electronics or to bring your latest idea to life.
Burrow Press Book Release Party for 15 Views of Orlando
Tuesday, January 31st, from 6pm to 9pm, come out to Urban ReThink for the release of Burrow Press' latest book 15 Views of Orlando:
From the neon strip of Little Vietnam to a desolate Albertsons parking lot, 15 Views of Orlando takes the reader on a secret tour of the City Beautiful. Told by 15 authors in a series of loosely linked fiction, the story is a (successful) experiment in setting, theme and community.
All the proceeds from books sales will benefit Page 15, a local children’s literacy nonprofit that provides free tutoring and creative writing programs to Orlando public school students.
Love Your Shorts Film Festival
Location
The Love Your Shorts Film Festival will return Feb. 10-12 for its second year, when the event will move into a larger venue, add an additional category of films, and show 70 short movies from filmmakers around Central Florida and the world.
The festival will be held in the historic downtown Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center. The three-day event will feature short films up to 30 minutes each in the 1923 theater.
Florida DrupalCamp 2012
Location
Florida DrupalCamp: learning, teaching and growing community
Florida DrupalCamp is the annual regional gathering of Drupal developers, decision makers, end users, and site administrators. The event is friendly and open, provides hands on learning, expert teaching, and active networking.
Use Drupal to build everything from personal blogs to enterprise applications. Thousands of add-on modules and designs let you build any site you can imagine. Drupal is free, flexible, robust and constantly being improved by hundreds of thousands of passionate people from all over the world. Join us!
BarCamp Miami 2012
Join us for our 5th Anniversary!
BarCamp Miami kicks off South Florida Tech Week,
starting February 19th, 2012!
What is BarCamp Miami?
BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.
Brevard Tech Meetups
I am planning on getting a Brevard Tech Group monthly meetup started with the first meetup planned for early in February.
My idea is to not limit the topics, but to keep it open for discussion and exploration of hardware and software.
Right now, I have one meeting place on New Haven that we can certainly use, but it could be too small depending on the number of people who attend.
There also is the possibility of using FIT's lab as well.
For the first meetup, I am hoping to get the presenter from familab who has been doing the introduction to arduino and the arduino courses if this is possible.
Does anyone have any ideas or want to help?
Tampa Bay Mini Maker Faire
Location
Tampa Bay Mini Maker Faire, scheduled for March 31, 2012, at the University Area Community Center Complex in Tampa is accepting Maker applications through the end of January.
Tampa Bay Mini Maker will be a family-friendly event showcasing both established and emerging local “makers.” We’ll be showcasing everything from machines, to DIY (Do It Yourself) science and technology, alternative energy projects, unique hand-made crafts, music and food, and educational workshops and installations. We’re even hosting a Tampa Bay Mini Maker Faire Food Truck Rally, with good eats from the likes of Burger Culture, Gone Bananas, Coconut Bo’s, Michelle Faedo, Kona Ice, and Jerk Hut Jamaican Grill and Catering!
Film: monochrom's Kiki and Bubu: RATED R US
Location
Florida Premiere!
Our favorite sock puppets Kiki and Bubu have some feelings, so they sign up for an online dating site. When the People of China want to become their friend, they are excited. However, sending the People of China a video of themselves proves to be difficult: Their content gets flagged as inappropriate and taken down from YouTube. On the long quest for knowledge which follows, Kiki and Bubu learn all about Internet censorship. And love.
Join us for the Florida premiere of Kiki and Bubu's longest (50 minutes!) and most epic adventure! monochrom's Johannes Grenzfurthner will present the film and share some behind-the-scenes knowledge. Yada, yada!
TEDx Orlando Salon
TEDxOrlandoSalon meets monthly on second Thursdays at Taste, a casual restaurant in the College Park neighborhood. A typical meeting draws between 15 and 50 smart, interesting, engaged people. Some will be regulars and some will be newcomers. Some choose to eat during the event, others choose not to. Two TEDTalk videos are shown, each followed by a discussion break. The event program is determined by vote, and discussions are open-ended.
TEDxOrlando is an annual one-day conference now in it's third year, to be held next in 2012. Please stay tuned for details.
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Recent News and Links
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- DISnut's YouTube Channel: What I Learned from Disney Movies (Video Response)
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- Out and About with Jeremy Seghers: The Genghis Khan Guide to Etiquette & ArtsFest
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