Florida Technical Communities (January 2009 Update)
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Florida has a very active developer community. The biggest problem we seem to have is that all of these different groups usually don’t know about each and there hasn’t been a “centralized clearinghouse” listing all of the technical communities. Joe Healy, one of our Florida Microsoft Developer Evangelists, maintains a list and earlier this year started putting together one-page flyers for each of the main areas in Florida. I think the eventual plan is that Joe will be updating his site to take advantage of the newer version of Live Maps and be able to show all of these communities overlaid on the Florida map.
Taking what he has started, I have put together a similar list (based on the information Joe maintains) that covers the other technical communities that I know of. If you are part of a technical user group community and don’t see it listed (or need to change anything about a group that is listed), please let me know so I can add it to my list. I’ll also forward the information on to Joe so he can keep his list in sync as well. (Likewise, if you let Joe know about a new group, please let me know as well.)
.NET Developer Groups
- Central Florida .NET Users Group (Lakeland) - http://www.cfdotnet.org
- Florida .NET Developers Group - http://www.fladotnet.net
- Boca Raton
- Fort Lauderdale
- Miramar User Group
- Tampa .NET Developers
- West Pam Beach
- Gainesville .NET - http://www.gatormug.org
- Gold Coast Users Group (Boca Raton) - http://www.gcdotnet.com
- Gulf Coast .NET Developer Group (Ft. Walton) - http://www.gulfcoastdotnet.org
- Jacksonville Developers User Group - http://www.jaxdug.com
- Miami User Group - http://www.miamiusersgroup.org
- North Florida Dot Net - http://www.nfdotnet.org/
- Orlando .NET User Group - http://www.onetug.org
- Pensacola .NET (Milton) - http://pjcdotnet.events.live.com/
- Sarasota .NET Developers Group - http://www.sarasotadev.net
- Southwest Florida .NET Developers Group - http://www.swfldev.net/
- Space Coast Dot Net User Group (Melbourne) - http://www.scdnug.org/
- Tallahassee .NET User Group - http://www.tlhdotnet.net
Architecture Focused Groups
- Green .NET User Group - http://greentug.spaces.live.com/
- Jacksonville Architecture SIG - http://jaxarcsig.spaces.live.com/
- Tampa Bay International Association of Software Architects - http://tampabayiasa.eventbrite.com/
- Tampa Agile Development Group - http://agiletampa.spaces.live.com/
DotNetNuke Groups
- Boca Raton DotNetNuke Users - http://dotnetnuke.meetup.com/44/
- Orlando DotNetNuke Users Group - http://orlando.dotnetnukeug.net/
General User Groups
- Boca Raton Computer Society - http://www.brcs.org
Java Developer Groups (JUGs)
- Orlando - http://www.orlandojug.org/
- Tampa Bay - http://www.tampajug.org/
- Miami - http://www.miamijug.org
Office/SharePoint/BizTalk Groups
- Central Florida BizTalk User Group - http://www.btug.biz/Home/CentralFlorida/tabid/110/Default.aspx
- Jacksonville Office Geeks (JOG) - http://floridaofficegeeks.org/JOG
- Orlando Office Professional Special Interest Group - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cfcs-msoffice
- Orlando SharePoint Users Group - http://www.mossmosis.com/orlando
- South Florida SharePoint User Group - http://www.sharepointgroups.org/sfsug/default.aspx
- Tallahassee SharePoint Developers - http://www.tallahasseespeed.com/default.aspx
- Tampa Bay Office Geeks Association (TOGA) - http://floridaofficegeeks.org/TOGA
Specialty Groups
- Campus Koders (Academic) – http://www.missociety.org
- Sarasota IT Pro - http://www.sarasotaitpro.org/
- South Florida PowerShell User Group - http://www.flpsug.com/
SQL Server Groups
- Jacksonville SQL Server Users Group - http://jacksonville.sqlservercentral.com
- Orlando SQL Server Group - http://orlando.sqlservercentral.com
- Pensacola SQL Server Group – http://pensacola.sqlpass.org
- Sarasota SQL Server Group - http://www.sarasotasql.net
- South Florida SQL Server Group – http://gcsqlgroup.com
- Tampa Bay SQL Server Group - http://www.tampasql.com
- Tampa Bay SQL Server Business Intelligence Group - http://tampasqlbi.sqlservercentral.com
User Interface/Design Focused Groups
- Rich Application Developers of Melbourne - http://itsrandom.info/
- Tampa Bay User Experience (TUX) User Group – http://www.tampatux.org