The fourth edition of Florida DrupalCamp is rapidly approaching - Drupalists from Florida and beyond will be descending on Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida on February 11 and 12, 2012 for the largest Drupal event Florida has ever seen.

Registration is currently open at fldrupalcamp.org at the low cost of $20 per person - the cost will be going to up $25 on January 11, so be sure to register soon to get the lowest possible price. Admission will include a t-shirt, drinks, snacks, and lunch and access to the entire session program.

Session proposals are still being accepted as well - the deadline for submitting a session is January 12, so if you're interested in sharing some of your Drupal knowledge, be sure to submit your proposal soon. 

As part of a Drupal workshop that I'm teaching (the Drupal Career Starter Program), we've been discussing Acquia Commons. Our discussions led us to decide to have a local meetup specifically to learn more about it.

Since we expect a number of newbies at the meetup, I figured I post a quick video showing how to get Commons up-and-running using Acquia Dev Desktop. I found it to be a little bit tricky, mainly because the memory requirements for Commons are a bit higher than for core Drupal. The video shows how to tweak a couple of memory setting in the php.ini file.

The first DrupalCamp South Florida will hit the campus of Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale on October 22, 2011! The event is a community-organized, attendee-driven day designed to bring together and grow the South Florida Drupal community to learn, network, and share ideas.

Over the past few months since DrupalCon Chicago, I've spent some time working with other members (bhosmer, greggles, coltrane, christefano, lisarex, marguerite) of the community in reorganizing and rewriting the first version of the Drupal Camp Organizing Guide. Along with a new title (signifying the inclusion of other types of events such as sprints, summits, and hackfests), the guide is greatly enhanced with a lot of new information.

In this video, Ed Sussman, CEO of Buzzr.com tells us a bit about their usability layer on top of Drupal, and gives us a demonstration of three new features: a live theme editor using Sweaver, twitter integration with a new auto-tweet feature, and a feature he calls QuickStarts, to give you a complete site instantly, complete with a theme and content, which you can then customize.

For more videos from DrupalCon Chicago, visit DrupalEasy's video page.

In this video, Heather James talks about Training and Professionalism as it relates to the future of Drupal, following a comment by Dries that Drupal needs more professionalism.

For more videos from DrupalCon Chicago, visit DrupalEasy's video page.

In this video, Kevin "cyberswat" Bridges gives us his take on Drupal as a data store that can talk to other systems and act as a conduit for other platforms' data, based on the vision laid out by Dries Buytaert.

For more videos from DrupalCon Chicago, visit DrupalEasy's video page.

In this video, Amye "msamye" Scavarda tells us about her favorite part of Dries Buytaert's keynote "What is Drupal?" at the 2011 Chicago DrupalCon.

For more videos from DrupalCon Chicago, visit DrupalEasy's video page.

In this video, Larry "crell" Garfield shares his thoughts following Dries Buytaert's "What is Drupal?" keynote, where the development plan for Drupal 8 was laid out.

For more videos from DrupalCon Chicago, visit DrupalEasy's video page.

Let's face it - anyone with anything more than a passing interest in the Drupal community is probably aware that we're in the midst of embracing Git, "the fast version control system". As with just about everything else in our community, we are continuously jettising outdated technology and replacing it with modern solutions.