Florida Creatives – Creating a Community of Innovation

Download Podcast 25
flcreatives_25_caringcompy.mp3
Length: 21:50

In 2008, Chris Jones put together a charity project which collects unused computers, installs free software, and trains a needy family or organization in the care and use. Caring Compy will soon have non-profit status, and we couldn't be more proud of our Florida Creatives membership.

Shameless Links:

• Caring Compy Blog
• Caring Compy on Twitter
• Chris Jones on Twitter
• Chris Jones' Portfolio
• Florida Creatives on iTunes

Download Podcast 24
flcreatives_24_colab.mp3
Length: 55:22

There have been some great things happening down at Orlando's coworking space, CoLab. We have a show recorded by Robert Dempsey and Greg Pederson live on Ustream, and a roundtable from the Florida Creatives Steering Committee at the end of February 2009, with Tim Rosenblatt, David and Rachael Rogers, and George Drage. Hosted by Ryan Price.

Shameless Links:

• Find out more about CoLab Orlando
• Get info about Orlando's Coworking Movement
• Florida Creatives on iTunes

Download Steerage 2b
flcreatives_steerage_02b_jan_09.mp3
Length: 38:44

Project X Meeting - Jan 12th, 9PM

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

After discussing plans for BarCamp in 2009, we also discussed a program similar to Google's "Summer of Code" where we solicit projects, mentors and interns from the local talent pool.

Listen to part one of this meeting at FLCreatives Steering Committee Jan 2009

David/PHP - Workshops - certification - mentoring

Eric Marden - mentoring? people get involved with selfish intent
-- good for the mentee and mentors
-- interns

Ryan - FLCreatives Jobs group - http://floridacreatives.com/group/jobs
- reach out to schools (college), hold an event
- I have contacts at the three major schools - UCF, Valencia, FullSail

Rachael - would this look like a user group on campus?

Eric - expand beyond web developers
- an application - a form for the potential mentees to volunteer for something
- a la Summer of Code
- find non-profits or worthy causes, assign a mentor, get them involved

David - Les, from the Knowledge Shop - older folks interested in learning

Eric - what questions do we ask? what info can we collect?
- creative internship this summer

Ryan - create a wiki page with potential projects, mentors, mentees
- also, give them a venue to show off what they've done, get some validation

Eric - or do a special event, "awards" ceremony

George - agrees that students are looking to learn

David - there is plenty of thirst for knowledge
- it's a worthwhile practice to tutor someone

Josh - specific tasks, and specific time frame - a la Summer of Code
- it's measurable, kids and projects benefit

Ryan - United Arts of Central Florida - professional development grants
- 3-to-1 matching, also a specific time and task

Josh - also, some of our knowledge is worth it, whether or not money is involved

Eric - looks like we need two types of data collection, one for mentorees and one for projects
- have the event in the fall / winter

Ryan - use the Steering Committe group for discussion http://floridacreatives.com/group/steering-committee/

Other Events

• Perl Oasis - Jan 17th - Kissimmee
• Ruby User Group
• Otronicon
• Drupal User Group
• DrupalCamp - Feb 7th
• Coworking Tuesdays - CoLab
• Orlando SCRUM

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

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 Show 22
flcreatives_22_directart.mp3
Length: 37:35

Tisse Mallon has created a school near Virginia and Mills in Orlando called Direct Art that lets students sample or "taste" different art forms in short and inexpensive classes. Get more info and a list of current offerings at tastethepassionnow.com

Shameless Links:

• Get more info at Direct Art's website and online catalog
• Find out more about Tisse
• Florida Creatives on iTunes

Download Show 21c
flcreatives_21c_rachaelpage.mp3
Length: 6:30

Rachael Page and Ryan Price discuss a bit about Rachael's history and voice some ideas and possibilites for Florida Creatives as a community.

The discussion doesn't end here. You are encouraged to call in with your feedback by leaving a voicemail at 321-441-3964.

Shameless Links:

• Get notified about future Steering Committee meetings by joining the official group on FloridaCreatives.com
• Florida Creatives on iTunes

To view the meeting notes, please check out previous parts of this Steering Committee recording on FloridaCreatives.com

Download Show 21a
flcreatives_21b_steering.mp3
Length: 42:26

On December 8th, 2008 the first Florida Creatives Steering Committee meeting and conference call was held in my kitchen downtown. In attendance were people with an invested interest in the continuation and growth of Florida Creatives. Among the contributors are:
Ryan Price, Eric Marden, Gregg Pollack, Darren McDaniel, Rachael Page, David Rogers, James Tryon, James Caruso

The discussion doesn't end here. You are encouraged to call in with your feedback by leaving a voicemail at 321-441-3964.

Shameless Links:

• Get notified about future Steering Committee meetings by joining the official group on FloridaCreatives.com
• If you need to be represented as a non-profit 501c3, talk to Fractured Atlas
• Florida Creatives on iTunes

To view the meeting notes, please check out Part 1 of this Steering Committee recording on FloridaCreatives.com

Download Show 21a
flcreatives_21a_steering.mp3
Length: 32:43

On December 8th, 2008 the first Florida Creatives Steering Committee meeting and conference call was held in my kitchen downtown. In attendance were people with an invested interest in the continuation and growth of Florida Creatives. Among the contributors are:
Ryan Price, Eric Marden, Gregg Pollack, Darren McDaniel, Rachael Page, David Rogers, James Tryon, James Caruso

The discussion doesn't end here. You are encouraged to call in with your feedback by leaving a voicemail at 321-441-3964.

Shameless Links:

• Get notified about future Steering Committee meetings by joining the official group on FloridaCreatives.com
• Florida Creatives on iTunes

Here are some notes I took during the discussion:

Mission/Purpose:
Organic Approach is good, but other groups are entering, so we need some focus
Writing stuff down - a wiki committee?
Benefits to membership
Harness the energy
How do you sell "unnetworking" to folks who have never networked?
What benefit to other user groups?
Refresh-like group? Mix it up.
Creative Consortium - Creating a physical space for Florida Creatives
A Tangible Project - a physical product
Something more than Happy Hour

User groups
give a calendar, have a presence at local user groups, give people permission to be evangelists
Tell a story about who you are

Non-profit
*we're not spending tons of money
*liability - insurance
*if we were sponsoring tons of local user groups
*a simple LLC can be a good shelter

Events?
*Demonstrative - "This is my passion, this is what I made"
*Representative of a place, not a discipline

Community Support
*A Creative Collective
*Portfolio Review
*Promotional Help
*The Studio Model - A Cohort - Students, internships
*"The Big Brothers of Geekdom"
*Mentoring, getting paid, earning experience
*Florida Creatives as the go-between for user groups and cohort studio

Download Show 20
flcreatives_20_edcwakefield.mp3
Length: 38:32

Jennifer Wakefield is the Director of Public Relations for the Orlando Economic Development Commission (EDC). In this inteview with Ryan Price, she shares a number of exciting industries taking root all over Central Florida, including Film and Digital Media, Helath and Biomedical, Military Simulation and Training, and of course the Entertainment industry.

Shameless Links:

• Orlando EDC
• Metro Orlando Film and Entertainment Commission, headed by Suzy Spang Allen
• Film in Florida, the Governor's office of Film and Entertainment
• Employ Florida Digital Media Banner Center
• Florida Interactive Entertainemnt Academy Downtown
• Enzian FilmSLAM
• Orlando Film Festival
• Florida Film Festival
• Orlando/Orange County Convention & Visitor's Bureau
• Nemours Children's Health Care
• Burnham at Lake Nona
• City of Orlando Community Venues
• UCF College of Medicine
• Orlando Health and Adventist Health System
• Winnie Palmer Hospital
• Disney Children's Hospital
• Institute for Simulation and Training
• IITSEC Conference
• National Center for Simulation
• Engineering & Computer Simulations
• Texture Magazine
• Global Robotics Institute
• Florida Creatives on iTunes

Watch Florida Creatives History at Pecha Kucha Night Jax

BlogOrlando is happening this week, and that was really the event that kicked Florida Creatives out of the minds of the collective and into reality. Don't believe me? Watch this video. Yours truly has the full explanation of how it all went down.

Recorded at the first Pecha Kucha Night in Jacksonville.

Download Show 18
flcreatives_18_eric.mp3
Length: 1:34:26

Eric Marden, AKA Xentek or Dr. XNLB, shares with us some stories from his past about starting record labels, trying to form creative collectives, and the creative climate in Orlando.

Shameless Links:

• Xentek
• Dr. XNLB
• Polyvibe Records
• Egyptian Zombie Robot Party Machine
• Florida Creatives on iTunes

Download Show 17
flcreatives_17_darren.mp3
Length: 52:20

The Director of the Essence of Irwin and former Programming Director for the Downtown Media Arts Center joins Ryan Price for a discussion about his history and the journey of creating his film.

Darren is also working on a local startup company called Petentials: The Internet for Pets.

Florida Creatives on iTunes

Download Show 16
flcreatives_16_barcamp_ladies.mp3
Length: 14:00

Tisse, Katrina Priore, Dana Delapi and Becky Lane talk to Ryan Price during BarCamp Orlando 2008.

Florida Creatives on iTunes

Download Show 15
flcreatives_15_barcamp_sunir_alex.mp3
Length: 9:19

Sunir Shah and Alex DeCarvalho talk to Ryan Price at BarCampOrlando Dev Day about FreshBooks and ScrapBlog, where each of them are the "Community Guy". We also talk about BarCamp and the aesthetic there vs. a regular conference.

Shameless Links:

• FreshBooks
• ScrapBlog
• BarCampOrlando
• Florida Creatives on iTunes

Download Show 14
flcreatives_14_marcwithac.mp3
Length: 29:04

marc. with a c. (aka Marc Sirdoreus) is someone I've been a friend of for the last 2+ years, and a fan of from the first moment I saw him play on the same day. I have had the honor of performing on stage with his band, but someone doesn't really help Marc create something, as much as support his performance. The exception would be Chris Zabriskie, Marc's creative other half (not appearing in this podcast). Listen in as I pay verbal homage to a good friend and a great contributor to Orlando's independent music and 'zine scene.

The following songs appear in this podcast:

• Classic Country Wasn't Multitracked in '61 (Normal Bias)
• Born Vintage (If Conditions Persist, I Will Resist)
• Bite Sized Help (This World is Scary as Fuck)

Shameless Links:

• marc. with a c. (official)
• marc. with a c. (myspace)
• marc. with a c. (thesixtyone)
• marc. with a c. (last.fm)
• Retro Low Fi
• Pop Means Cuddle
• The Zanzibar Lounge
• Florida Creatives on iTunes

Download Show 13
flcreatives_13_johannes_monochrom.mp3
Length: 1:12:14

monochrom is an Austrian art-theory group with an international resume that makes me very jealous. I got the chance to sit down with Johannes Grenzfurthner and Evelyn Fürlinger over some Thai food and talk about some of his many achievements, as well as just talk with an intelligent and well-humored guy.

There are lots more show-notes necessary for this episode, but I don't have the time to sit and list all of the references we make. If someone is motivated and wants to help listing relevant websites, etc. I would appreciate it very much.

Catch some videos and other collected works of monochrom on boing boing.

Download Show 12
flcreatives_12_stevesmith.mp3
Length: 15:58

January 5th, 2008 saw the first New Media Think and Drink at Redlight Redlight in Winter Park. Host Ryan Price talks to Orlando radio personality and part-time podcasting teacher Steve Smith about the podcasting and New Media program at Orlando Tech at the Orlando Centroplex.

Shameless Links:

• Orlando Tech Podcasting Classes
• Orlando Podcaster Meetup
• Now Live Social Podcasting
• Florida Creatives on iTunes

Download Show 11
flcreatives_11_steveweaver.mp3
Length: 24:10

January 5th, 2008 saw the first New Media Think and Drink at Redlight Redlight in Winter Park. Host Ryan Price talks to Tampa DJ and podcast host Steve Weaver about his Sonic Gumbo podcast and some podcasts and services Steve likes.

Shameless Links:

• Sonic Gumbo Podcast
• Podsafe Music Resources
• FLCreatives Wiki
• Florida Creatives on iTunes

BlogOrlando artwork by Jeremy Harrington

Download Show 10
flcreatives_10_blogorlando.mp3
Length: 18:19

The 2nd Annual BlogOrlando unconference was a smashing success, and lots of Florida Creatives members participated or acted as discussion leaders. Ryan Price gets impressions from Becky Lane and Darren McDaniel about what they took away from the conference.

Florida Creatives would like to send huge thanks to Josh Hallet and all the event organizers and contributors for putting on BlogOrlando.

Becky works with educational theatre for elementary age kids, and Darren works on a social networking site, so the crossover between their jobs actually turned out some interesting points during the discussion. One example: there are kids' social networks and moms' social networks, but none really for moms (or dads) of kids who are using social networks.