Florida Creatives – Creating a Community of Innovation

I must be brave to say this, but when is the next meetup? (last time I had to get my appendix out when I got home from Melbourne)

I think Grill 192 was a great location - good food, decent beer, not too hard to find, and the manager was nice, if a bit excitable - "You should link to us from your website!"

I think we had 7 creatives at the last event, including 2 of the founding members from the first event in Orlando... how ironic.

When to do the next event? Orlando is having a happy hour Monday the 19th...

What about sometime later that week? Thursday the 22nd? Any objections?

Location

1st (or 2nd depending) meetup of the Brevard East Coast Creatives.

Please bring a canned food donation, $20 registration fee, and a list of your favorite websites.

KIDDING! Bring nothing but yourself. Come as you are or... well, you know the drill. Come late, come early. Leave late, leave early.

It's fully casual. No agenda. Discuss any or all of the following with some good chow to boot.

* The Web Business
* Marketing to Businesses
* Good business / Bad business around town
* What's shakin', What's movin.
* Horrible clients and how to avoid them

Hey all Brevardians!

I'm sorry I've been off the charts. Some sudden changes in my weekly plans about two months ago threw me for a loop. I'm completely booked Mon-Thurs nights so there's just no way I can make a Thurs meeting between now and the new year.

Does anyone know of a "Co-Working" or other type of Cooperative Office space in Downtown Melbourne ?

I was down there the other day at a cool wi-fi coffee shop and I think that the area has a lot of potential. I like this area better then anything that I have seen in downtown Orlando, which just isn't worth the hassle of doing business there.

However being poor like everyone else I don't have the money to rent a store front down there and really don't think that I would require that much space anyway.

Myself and a few other guys have put together a new user group for developers in the Brevard Area named Rich ApplicatioN Developers Of Melbourne (RAnDOM). Our blog is located @ http://itsrandom.info. Our goal is to meet monthly and work to cooperatively program sample projects focusing on assorted topics in the web and RIA technology space. Our first meeting will be August 21st at 7:00 PM at Goombay's. We'll be building a mash-up web application using HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

Some discussion has already taken place on the prior post (be sure to scour that first), so I thought I'd place a followup here and open the floor for discussion. Ideally, we should probably have a discussion in a forum since that is some kind of internet rule that Al Gore put in place when he invented the internet, but I'm just going to risk it and start one here.

Recently (two weeks ago) Mike has taken over an established meet up dot com group, which wasn't holding any meetings. This group has a membership of over 500 people, and everyone here is encouraged to join:

http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/2/

Our plans for this group is to build a realistic business cooperative for people in our community. By connecting with people everywhere in the Orlando Market, which includes people in Brevard and Volusia Counties.

We'll close the poll down end of this week. So far, 10 of the current 17 members have voted and it's looking like Thursday night (5 votes) is winning swimmingly. However, we'll give it to the end of the week if anyone else wants to chime in. Saturday morning (2 votes) and Tuesday evenings (3 votes) have some interest as well.

We are up to 15 members now and well on our way to getting to 20. Welcome to all those who have recently joined. I think it's going to be very interesting meeting many of you. I'm seeing a lot of diversity so far and that is a great thing!

Please welcome Alex Rudloff!

Saturday Morning Wakeup (8am-?) at a Coffee Shop with WiFi (stay later and do a little work maybe)

Monday Evening at a Bar with some Stiff drinks

Friday Happy Hour (5-7pm) before heading home and forgetting about work all weekend

Thursday evening (6-9) at a place with food and drinks. Bring a friend.

Tuesday evening at a wi-fi joint. If no one shows, at least you can get some work done.

Location

Our meetings are an open forum where ideas are freely exchanged in a relaxed environment. Meet with people that use computers & the Internet for business. Get the answers to your questions about computers & the Internet in plain English.

We are now meeting with the Island Styles Leads Group at Pizza Uno on Merritt Island.
Tuesday Nights at 6:30PM

Venue: http://ebizowners.meetup.com/169

Wiki: http://OnA1A.com

Contact: Mike Feravolo (407) 745-1545

The first draft of the Brevard wiki is up. For now, we are a one-page wiki called Brevard East Coast Creatives.

There's a list of the companies represented by our present members. New members, please go add your companies.

There's also a list of free wi-fi hotspots in Brevard. If somebody wants, they can add a list of subscription wi-fi hotspots separately.

If the page becomes too big, we'll start breaking stuff into separate pages.

Brevard East Coast Creatives

This is our micro-wiki to help coordinate and keep us all up to speed with Brevard tech, creative, and media stuff.

We have a group home page which has a blog, event manager, and other goodies which any member can post entries to, or comment there upon. That's a great place to put forth an idea or event notices to see what the community thinks.

Brevard Companies

Just want to say a quick thank you and "Welcome!" to the first three that joined. Pioneers all!

I see Eric from Longbow just joined. I had the pleasure of meeting Eric just a few weeks ago. We had exchanged emails late last year (over a completely unrelated subject) and he seemed like, well... a swell guy. Yes, that's maybe an outdated term, so sue me.

Some might wonder what types of things would we "meet" about so I thought I'd share my thoughts here on that.

First, please join the group and subscribe to the RSS feed (or the email link). We encourage lurking and realize that you may not be able to make the first 10 meetups due to the busy life we all lead, but by keeping in touch via those resources, you will be giving yourself a chance ("Just one chance!" as Braveheart would say) to one day hookup with the rest of us.

I'm jumping out on a limb based on a few conversations with folks around Brevard and starting this group in the hopes that there are others, many more others, of creative types equally interested in community.

Over the past year, I've been privately surveying various web companies and firms to see if they would be interested in having a get together one evening.

I've had all manner of responses. Some positive. Some very suspicious. Some literally threw me out of their office.

But I've begun to feel the time is turning.