Florida Technical Communities (October 2010 Update)

• 2010-10-09
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It has been over a year since the last time I updated my list of Florida technical communities and a lot has changed since then. Joe Healy, our Florida Microsoft Developer Evangelist, maintains a list for each of the main areas in Florida, but this only covers the .NET-focused groups. 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

• 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
• Lakeland .NET Users Group - http://www.lakelandug.net/
• 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
• Pasco County .NET - http://www.pascousergroup.net/
• 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
• Tampa ASP.NET MVC Developers Group - http://www.tampadev.org/

Azure Groups

• Azure South Florida Users Group - http://www.asfug.org/

Architecture Focused Groups

• Green .NET User Group - http://greentug.spaces.live.com/
• Jacksonville Architecture SIG - http://jaxarcsig.wordpress.com/
• Tampa Bay International Association of Software Architects - http://tampabayiasa.eventbrite.com/
• Tallahassee .NET Architecture SIG - http://www.tallyarch.com
• Tampa Agile Development Group - http://agiletampa.spaces.live.com/

DotNetNuke Groups

• Boca Raton DotNetNuke Users - http://dotnetnuke.meetup.com/44/
• DotNetNuke Tampa - http://dotnetnuketampa.com/
• 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
• Orlando SharePoint Users Group - http://www.orlandosharepoint.com/Pages/Default.aspx
• South Florida BizTalk - http://www.btug.biz/Home/SouthFlorida/tabid/173/Default.aspx
• Tallahassee SharePoint Developers - http://www.tallahasseespeed.com/default.aspx

Specialty Groups

• BizSpark Tampa Bay - http://www.meetup.com/BizSpark-Tampa-Bay/
• Florida IT Server Group - http://www.fisg.us/
• Green .NET User Group (Online) - http://manguardsystems.com/default.aspx
• Internet Media User Group - http://www.internetmug.org/
• Sarasota IT Pro - http://www.sarasotaitpro.org/
• South Florida PowerShell User Group - http://www.flpsug.com/
• Tampa PowerShell User Group - http://powershellgroup.org/tampa.fl

SQL Server Groups

• Jacksonville SQL Server Users Group - http://jacksonville.sqlpass.org/
• Orlando SQL Server Group - http://orlando.sqlpass.org/
• Pensacola SQL Server Group – http://pensacola.sqlpass.org
• Sarasota SQL Server Group - http://sarasota.sqlpass.org/
• South Florida SQL Server Group – http://www.sfssug.com/
• Space Coast SQL Users Group - http://spacecoast.sqlpass.org/
• Tampa Bay SQL Server Group - http://www.tampasql.com
• Tampa Bay SQL BI User Group - http://tampabaybi.sqlpass.org/

User Interface/Design Focused Groups

• Jacksonville Silverlight User Group - http://www.meetup.com/JAXSLUG
• Rich Application Developers of Melbourne - http://itsrandom.info/
• South Florida Silverlight User Group - http://www.sfsug.org/
• Tampa Bay Silverlight User Group - http://tampaslug.net/