David Notik

On Tuesday, April 27th, a few of us got together for the latest Drupal Miami meetup. I intended to write a quick recap, and so here it is, just in time for tonight's meetup.

We got together at Incubate Miami for this meetup, a temporary departure from our now-usual location at the Knight Foundation's headquarters. Seated in Incubate's trendy lobby, we promptly got into a discussion about the recent DrupalCon in San Francisco, with attendee Hector sharing a bit about the sessions and BoF discussions he had liked. From there we bantered about -- with myself, Hector, Carol, Vince, Steve, Adam and John all having something to say (sorry if I missed anyone).

Before long, our discussion centered around our proposal to put together a DrupalCamp Miami. We talked about the need to pull in designers, introduce them to the power of Drupal and align with them to strengthen our capabilities and our community. We talked about leveraging Miami's strengths with respect to it having a strong design (fashion, art, music) presence as well as its position as the gateway to (and for) Latin America. I promised to pull together a sort of vision statement, and here's a shot:

DrupalCamp Miami will bring together coders, designers, implementors and all those interested in learning more about the awesome power of Drupal, the leading content and community management platform that's behind some of the biggest and best interactive websites in the world. Miami is a world-class city, the gateway to the Americas and an international center for entertainment, media, music, fashion, film, and the arts. Our vision for DrupalCamp Miami is to bring together implementors from every part of our vibrant ecosystem for two days of intense learning and sharing about building beautiful websites with Drupal.

This is a rough start and we'll evolve it from here. Oh, and here are some pictures of our meetup, along with a photo tour of our gracious host's quarters.