Florida Creatives - Creating a Community of Innovation

Use this space to talk about ideas for Florida Creatives projects, promotions, traditions and recurring events.

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Create Magazine invites you to party like it's 1499! Come be the spark to a new renaissance within the creative community, where creative professionals of all walks of life come together in a collision of ideas.

That collision of ideas began with Create Magazine, expanded with our Create Network and will continue to grow into 2008 and beyond.

Join us for a night of renaissance-themed fun to celebrate a new era in the creative community. Door prizes, delicious appetizers, interactive art, and first drinks courtesy of Shipyard Brewery - you won't want to miss this!

Where: The Beacon
Address: 100 S Eola Drive, Orlando, FL 32801
When: Thursday, May 8th from 6 p.m.-9 p.m.

Creative cocktail or renaissance-themed attire.

RSVP to [rsvp AT createmagazine .com] please!

Dear anyone:

We need a little help with the Wiki - I have all the posts moved over, but there are two tasks yet remaining.

1. Copying the timestamps from the old wiki posts' creation dates to the new ones. Call me detail-oriented, but I'd like to see that happen.
2. Creating an .htaccess file in the old wiki subdomain with a bunch of 'redirect permanent' lines to all the new wiki pages. This is a simple yet tedious task. If you'd like FTP access, email me via the sitewide contact form.

The idea here is that we can reproduce all of the features of Meetup.com and Google Groups in about an hour using a couple of off-the-shelf open source tools, like Drupal with the Organic Groups module installed.

I just did a really quick setup at FloridaCreatives.com/community - nothing fancy yet, but groups are turned on, so once you register you can create any group you like and ask your friends to join.

Today at BarCamp I suggested we create a "secret" handshake for Florida Creatives members or people who are involved in the local community.

Here are some suggestions: hugs, peace sign, hang loose, three-fingered wave, etc.

What would you use as the Florida Creatives secret handshake? Record something and post it in the comments!

Every month, tons of events happen in Orlando. We post lots of them on this site, and sometimes people attend. This month, our group or our members are planning some cool things:

• Florida Creatives @ Enzian FilmSLAM (2008/03/09)

  Second Sundays, Enzian has an event for local Florida filmmakers to showcase their work. It costs just $5 to get in, and you get to see a half-dozen or so new short films. At the end you get to vote on which one you think should get shown at the Brouhaha Grand Slam in December. Enzian even has food and drinks available because they don't want to hear grumbling tummies over the films.

  Then we go across the street to Copper Rocket - you meet some filmmakers, some filmmakers meet all of us, we have fun.

  FilmSlam - 3/9 1PM at Enzian
  Happy Hour - 3/9 3PM at Copper Rocket

• Florida Creatives @ OMA First Thursdays (2008/03/06)

  On the first Thursday of the month, the Orlando Museum of Art opens their galleries up late and has a themed exhibit in the front room - the theme this month is "Beat-niks & Bongos: Abstract Art". I believe admission is $9 for non-members. There are food and drinks available for additional monies. 3/6 6-9PM at Loch Haven Park

  First Thursdays are also when Dandelion CommuniTEA has their art openings, immediately following First Thursday. Dandelion is behind Colonial Photo and Hobby on Mills (they are on Thornton).

• Coworking Tuesdays

  This is a new event that will hopefully coalesce itself into tradition in the coming months. Anyone who works out of their living room is invited to work outside their living room by joining some other folks in the same boat every Tuesday... somewhere. A regular location will emerge, I'm sure. We had settled on B&S Daily Market, but Manny has admitted defeat and closed up shop. Watch this space, the Coworking Wiki and Coworking Mailing List for more details.

• Florida Creatives Happy Hour (2008/03/17)

  Yes, it comes around so quickly, doesn't it? We get together at the Crooked Bayou every month from 6-9 PM so you always have a place to meet new people and catch up with folks. It's important to our community to have these Third Places (not home or work/school) to gather and visit. If you've never been or you feel like it's been too ling since you've been around, there's never a better time to make a habit of attending.

  This is the last Florida Creatives before BarCampOrlando goes down on April 5th & 6th, so you'll want to attend if you're interested in assisting with planning activities, passing out fliers or doing any other publicity. I also believe that will be the last week to find sponsors.

Today a friend of mine sent me an email asking him to help him find some resources (like money) for a film project he's working on. I thought, as I often do, that the best way to chase down opportunities like making money is to get involved with the community. Therefore, I got him in touch with several film types, and pointed him to some film resources with a brief explanation of why he should get involved.

Florida Creatives on Mahalo

Originally uploaded by Liberatr.net.

Mahalo is a human-edited search directory - sortof a return to the original Yahoo! - hand-edited lists of relevant pages, videos and links to other directories or wiki pages about tens of thousands of subjects. Naturally, I submitted Florida Creatives to be on the Orlando page, but I was denied until yesterday. Check it out at mahalo.com/Orlando

Florida Creatives Podcast Interviews

As long as the Florida Creatives Happy Hour has existed, we have been recording podcast profiles with members of our community.