Florida Creatives – Creating a Community of Innovation

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Come join Orlando's longest-running art and tech happy hour for our first gathering of the new year! Lots of exciting things are happening in Central Florida, and people who are well-connected and passionate about the future can't afford to miss out on these tribal gatherings.

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.

We also have a chapter in Melbourne that has been meeting for over a year now with great success. If you'd like to see events like this in your town, feel free to start one!

Crooked Bayou has some of the best food in downtown Orlando, and drink specials for people who show up in the first hour. Monday is also when they run a special on their wings - check them out. Of course, the traditional "hot tots" and fried pickles are always a favorite.

P.S. Please bring a camera and snap some photos! You'll want to show your friends what it was like.

Download Stefan Price's Friday Night Film Group
flcreatives_28_stefan.mp3
Length: 26:26

Local film professional, set and prop builder, and last but not least special FX guy Stefan Price is this month's subject. He's created a Friday Night Film Group in Winter Garden that produces internet television and short films under a Creative Commons license. He and his group are inviting just about anyone with a script and the right mindset to come play in their video sandbox.

Download Stefan Price

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We just announced that we're putting on a conference in Jacksonville, Florida - Oct 17th 2009.

We have an awesome venue and a killer set of speakers for this one day conference. First 100 signups for the conference get to eat lunch with the speakers.

1. Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibrary.tv
2. Derek Sivers founder of CDBaby.com
3. Kevin Hale founder of Wufoo.com
4. Mike McDerment founder of Freshbooks.com
5. David Hauser of Grasshopper.com/GotVmail.com
6. Eoghan McCabe and Des Traynor of Contrast.ie

UPDATE: Please read the comments below.

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Mollom costs €30 (approximately $42.50) per month. Therefore, I'm asking our community to help me raise $510 to pay for a year of beefier spam protection.

I read a lot of posts on the international Coworking google group, I just don't always have a lot to say there. Today I had a whole lot to say, it seems. You may want to get some perspective by going and reading a few of the original posts.

From SXSW Panel on Federated Coworking

Hello everyone. I'd like to point to a few external examples that can help lend some structure (or lack thereof) to this discussion.

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It is a free event held at night during a weekday. A place where we can all network, talk, drink and watch presentations. It is all paid for by sponsors. It is ran in 2 parts.

1st Part

We have presentation scheduled that last 5 minutes. Each person has 20 slides that rotate automatically every 15 seconds. The presentations are on creative and or interesting things that are not typically your everyday type of presentation.

Here are some of the presentations we have had in the past;

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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.

Gregg Pollack wrote on the Coworking Orlando mailing list:

Yesterday I stopped by John Hussey's office, he wanted to talk to me
about CoLab. John Hussey, in case you're not aware, owns the Angebilt
Building where CoLab is located and helped put together CoLab. I assumed
CoLab wasn't bringing him as much income as he would have hoped, so I wasn't
sure what to expect from the meeting.

John let me know a few things. First of all that Fredda is no longer

At CoLab Orlando with my coworking pals, at 37 N Orange Ave on the 6th floor. Alex Hillman from IndyHall gets interrogated. Apparently Florida is more than just Oranges and Disney.