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MindComet Hosts Florida Drupal Users Group
MindComet, The Relationship Agency, started hosting the Florida Drupal Users Group beginning in May 2008. Drupal is a free, open source content management system (CMS) written in the programming language PHP. A large community now helps develop Drupal, including many programmers and designers from Florida.
“I’m very excited about the growth and opportunity this user group will provide the community of users and developers in our area,” said MindComet Software Manager Andrew Riley. “One of the fundamental principles of open source software is to share knowledge and learning. We hope to increase visibility and understanding for the software, in addition to teaching the community.”
The group is composed of programmers, creatives, as well as general technology enthusiasts. Higher than expected numbers of non-technical community managers are starting to participate in order to learn how to utilize Drupal for their content. “We are starting from the beginning and teaching everyone from the ground up,” commented Riley. “We have experts and novices. While the lessons tend to focus on fundamentals, the networking opportunities are limitless.”
In their brief existence the group has attracted members from as far away as Miami, Jacksonville, and Tampa. The group will also be hosting free conference calls to allow for additional accessibility - for those that are unable to make the trek to Orlando.
The Florida Drupal Users Group has close ties with FL Creatives , Doterati and they are exploring relationships with UCF, USF and other academic institutions to encourage expansion across a wide variety of skill levels. Drupal’s founder, Dries Buytaert, was also named most promising innovator of 2008 by Business Week .
About Drupal Groups
Groups.drupal.org facilitates collaboration for collections of Drupal fans everywhere. We host local meetup groups like Toronto and South Africa. We host working groups like Views developers and High performance. These groups each get a home page where they can post. Those posts are offered via email and RSS to those who wish to subscribe. The posts are tagged for interesting browsing. http://groups.drupal.org/florida .
About MindComet
Headquartered in Orlando and founded in 1999, MindComet is a leading interactive marketing agency specializing in social media, campaign design and branding, and technology development. The agency has implemented award-winning, relationship-building marketing and communications campaigns for many Fortune 500 companies. MindComet’s team delivers an unparalleled combination of strategy, creativity and technology to produce solutions that deliver lasting fan relationships for client partners. Over the years, MindComet has donated time and services to Habitat for Humanity, the Orlando History Center, the American Cancer Society, Race for a Cure and Toys for Tots. Last year, MindComet became a founding member of doterati, Central Florida’s up-and-coming non-profit interactive marketing, media and technology education group. For more information, visit www.mindcomet.com.
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