Florida Creatives - Creating a Community of Innovation

To everyone who attended BarCampTampaBay:

What was it like? Did you take pictures? Make a video? Who spoke? What was your favorite part? What can other BarCamps learn from the gang out West?

I couldn't attend, so I'd love to hear what happened.

Location

BarCampTampaBay is a community building event which happens twice a year to brings together people from different technology backgrounds to share and learn from one another. There will be people who know Java, Python, Django, .NET, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PHP, ColdFusion, CSS, HTML, SEO, PPC and various other magical technological skills and online wizardry. There will be people who know film, music, photography, graphic design, podcasting, tweeting, social media, and other new aspects of New Media.

Location

THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED
iPhoneDevCamp was formed just a week after the launch of the original iPhone device and now meets annually to promote the work of developers and designers for iPhone and iPod touch. This year iPhoneDevCamp 3 will be hosted at Yahoo!‘s Sunnyvale, CA campus.

We are thrilled to announce that MOSI will sponsor and host the Inaugural iPhoneDevCamp - Florida 2009.

REGISTER HERE

iPhoneDevCamp - Florida will run simultaneously with iPhoneDevCamp 3 as one of 19 simultaneous Satellite events to connect developers around the world.

From this thread on the BarCampOrlando Discussion list:

I was just reading a DevExpress newsletter where I clicked on a link
for GiveCamp Lansing, http://lansinggivecamp.org/Default.aspx,

Interesting concept, do we have anything like this locally?

From there home page:

What Is Give Camp?

A GiveCamp is a weekend-long event where software developers,
designers, and database administrators donate their time to create
custom software for non-profit organizations. This custom software
could be a new website for the nonprofit organization, a small data-
collection application to keep track of members, or a application for

Medill Reports, the graduate Journalism student paper at Northwestern, recently wrote a piece on Chicago's COOP, a coworking space. Our own Eric Marden was in the space that day, and he was quoted in the article:

Coworking offers new freedom to freelancers

Location

BarCampOrlando is back and is going to be bigger and better than ever. The Orlando Scene has quickly proven it can put on one of the premier BarCamp events in the US, and quite possibly the world.

BarCampOrlando is a 1 day 'unconference' offering all attendees the opportunity to share their knowledge by giving short talks on ANY subject. This year we will have 3 different rooms to showcase the participants and sessions of different lengths to accommodate more content then you can shake your marshmallow stick at.

BarCamp by it's nature has no schedule, no keynote speaker, and no main topic of conversation - the participants decide the who, what, how, why and when - we just pick the where!

Please register for the event so we can plan accordingly!

P.S. BarCamp may still be looking for sponsors - any amount will be accepted. We have a "fill in the blank" sponsorship available for those who can't swing $100 or $300, as much as they might like to.

Location

More than 2 years ago, I heard about these two marketing guys / geeks from New York who had started an event they held on Friday mornings for coffee and conversation. The first few were just the two of them, but as they invited people and the word got out, it grew until it started getting on the radar all over the world. Now Likemind happens in scores of cities on every continent, and Orlando has been on that list almost since the beginning.

The next Likemind should be April 17th, the day before BarCampOrlando. Let's use that international date to take action locally. Likemind is before work (8AM), it happens downtown, and everyone is welcome. Bring a few friends, get some coffee, and tell us what's on your mind.

We had a great turnout from Orlando, Tampa and Jacksonville folks down in Coconut Grove yesterday, and a substantial number of presentations by our regular cast of characters. Gregg Pollack, Rob Dempsey, Bryan Conzone, Brian Feldman, Eric Marden, Tim Rosenblatt and myself (just to name a few) all took the podium at various times throughout the day.

A huge thanks to Alex DeCarvalho, who seemed to have single-handedly pulled this unconference together in a matter of days.

Location

Come and learn about Drupal!

Join us at Florida's first-ever full-day DrupalCamp in Altamonte Springs on Saturday, February 7 from 9AM to 5PM, followed by a networking event at a local restaurant.

The camp will cover a variety of topics for everyone from newbies to experienced developers. We'll also have some true "BarCamp" style sessions where anyone can present anything in 5-10 minute increments. The session schedule is a work in progress - we'd love everyone's feedback at:

groups.drupal.org/florida

If there's a particular topic you'd like to see covered, please let us know!

Download Steerage 2a
flcreatives_steerage_02a_jan_09.mp3
Length: 19:49

Here is a summary of what we discussed on the call:

BarCamp Meeting - Jan 12th, 9PM

Gregg Pollack
Greg Pederson
George Drage
Eric Marden
Ryan Price
David Rogers
Rachael Page
Joshua Blount

Gregg

• has been talking to Wall St. about Ignite and BarCamp
• One day event instead of 2 days

More venues - CityArts? CoLab?
Evening event - CityArts? other downtown venues that don't open until later, but it would be nice to give the business to Wall St since they were so nice with the space

Monetary

• $2000 food from Wall St - per day
• $2000 t-shirts
• $ 600 promotional materials - signs, posters, flyers
• $ 150 chars - 200 chairs - kirby rental
• $ 25 nametags
• $FREE A/V, projectors, sound, (donations, or available by venue)

Dates

• FOWA - last week of Sunday, Feb 22nd - 24th
• massive coworking at Brik-o-lodge on Monday
• Avoid April 12th - Easter
• -- email the list to ask about dates - Eric Marden
• -- if you want to get more involved, Florida Creatives Monday the 19th
• Eric will also make an official BarCamp wiki page

Coordinators

• sponsors -- David Rogers david@ethos-consulting.com
• food / venue -- Gregg Pollack greggpollack@gmail.com
• shirts / graphics / eventbrite / wiki -- Eric Marden eric@xentek.net
• tangibles / promo / posters / cards / badges / web -- Joshua Blount hello@joshuablount.com
• facilities / Wi-fi / AV / sound -- Thomas Meeks thomas@thomasmeeks.com
• media / press releases / blog badges -- Ryan Price rprice@ryanpricemedia.com
• Wi-Fi - repeaters? Mike Blake, contacts with the city of Orlando?

You can listen to the other half of this call at the Project X half of the conference call

You can edit the Orlando WiFi page or the wiki page for other cities at http://floridacreatives.com/wiki/florida

Download Steering Committee 2a