Drupal California is a working group for Drupal users, organizers, service providers and evangelists in the State of California. This group provides a single place for local and regional organizers to share California-specific legal resources, venue information, marketing materials and organizing strategies.
Group members are encouraged to cross-post relevant discussions, events, polls and wiki pages from other groups to this one. This is not a job board and job announcements will be removed. Additional group organizers and content moderators are welcome!
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DrupalCamp Sacramento 2012
The Sacramento Drupal Users Group is pleased to announce the 2nd annual DrupalCamp Sacramento.
This highly-anticipated event will be two days full of sessions, BoFs, code sprinting, and engagement, with our special keynote speaker Chris Shattuck.
Registration is now open and session proposals are now being accepted!
Sacramento Area Drupal Users Group
Sacramento Area Drupal Users meet on the third Wednesday of every month, 5:30pm -9pm, at Hoppy Brewing Company in Sacramento.
It's an opportunity to learn more about Drupal, get help with any Drupal issues you have, and contribute to the project as a whole. We always have a fun time and everyone is welcome!
Hoppy Brewing Company
6300 Folsom Blvd.
Sacramento, California 95819
http://www.hoppy.com/sacramento/index.html
Downtown LA Drupal Meetup on April 17th, 2012 at Droplabs
The next Downtown LA Drupal meetup is on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 and will be at Droplabs, a Drupal event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles. At this meetup, we'll be featuring two presentations: Introduction to VPS Hosting and Managing Servers with Virtualmin, Featurize! and Business Model Generation for Drupalpreneurs.
Light food and refreshments will be served throughout the evening courtesy of our food and drink sponsor, Chernick Consulting. We are a full IT outsourcing organization that can help you make your computers do anything you want it to (except cook or do laundry). We have a great deal of experience following corporate policies and procedures and will gladly supply IT services for larger organizations with branch offices in Los Angeles.
For any changes to our agenda for the evening, stay tuned to this meetup announcement or click the Sign up button below (or both!) to be notified when the agenda has been updated.
Read moreSacramento Area Drupal Users Group
The Sacramento Drupal Users Group meeting is coming up this week!
We meet on the first Wednesday for Users helping Users, 6pm - 8pm and the third Wednesday of every month for our general meeting, 5:30pm -9pm, at Hoppy Brewing Company.
Read moreSacramento Area Users Helping Users
Is Drupal leaving you lost, confused, frustrated? Dont worry, there's help for people like you. Come on down to the Sacramento Area Drupal Users Group Users Helping Users meeting. There will be plenty of people there who will be more than happy to lend you a hand in understanding Drupal. Plus, it's just a great place to meet other people who are into Drupal and make some new nerdy friends!
Drupal rock star? This is your chance to give back to the community that has helped you become what you are! So bring your huge brain and be ready to gain endless adulation from the noobs!
Where:
Read moreTraining: Two Day Turbo Theming - Mar. 2-3, 2012 - San Diego, CA
»Register Here: Two Day Turbo Theming
Are you a developer looking into designing in Drupal? Or a designer looking to start out in Drupal?
Read moreSacramento Area Users Helping Users
Is Drupal leaving you lost, confused, frustrated? Dont worry, there's help for people like you. Come on down to the Sacramento Area Drupal Users Group Users Helping Users meeting. There will be plenty of people there who will be more than happy to lend you a hand in understanding Drupal. Plus, it's just a great place to meet other people who are into Drupal and make some new nerdy friends!
Drupal rock star? This is your chance to give back to the community that has helped you become what you are! So bring your huge brain and be ready to gain endless adulation from the noobs!
Where:
Read moreSANDcamp Registration Special
We have a few rooms left to book at the OMNI so to use them up we are running a special until Friday, January 20 at 3 PM:
- Two days of camp
- Two lunches
- 1 Ticket to the Andaz Rooftop Bon Voyage Party
- 1 night at the fabulous five-star OMNI
- $149
- 20 available, first-come-first-served
To get this great deal:
Read moreDistribution Summit
This year SANDcamp 2012 is featuring an innovative Distribution Summit aimed at streamlining all things Drupal Distributions.
Register and get more information at SANDcamp.org.
Read moreSANDcamp in ONE Week: Register & RSVP & Invite Your Clients
Can't believe it but camp is just a week away. Some of you have accounts but haven't yet registered for camp, make sure you've purchased your ticket! A few things to do this week:
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SANDcamp Event Sign Ups, Training, Agenda
Hey Drupalers,
Drupal SANDcamp 2012, January 25-28, in San Diego is shaping up to be a big success. We are expecting hundreds of executives, technical leaders, experts and users of all experience levels to participate. SANDcamp’s four-day agenda is filling fast:
Read moreSANDcamp is Coming! (Updates)
Register: Register Here
LAST CALL to Propose a Session (after registration/login): Propose a Session
Book at the swanky Omni Hotel to get a Special Rate: Limited Rooms
Summit Pre-camp Training: Submit Training
Learn Drupal 7 Site Building with Open Outreach - Enroll Today for Community College Short Course
Enroll Today
Enrolments Now Open
Call Ms. Dera Williams at Merritt College, Oakland, California (510) 436-2413
Tell her that you want to enroll in EDT 801 Class Code 24295
This is the only way to enroll in this class!
Cost: $ 130
Class completely online, class materials run by Moodle
Scheduled interactions via Elluminate
More information: http://opensourcecollege.org/enroll-merritt
Email info@opensourcecollege.org
Enrollments: Phone Ms. Dera Williams at Merritt College, Oakland, California (510) 436-2413
Drupal Scalability and Performance training at SANDCamp 2012 on January 26, 2012
Join us at SANDcamp, the San Diego Drupal Camp, on Thursday, January 26, 2012 for a full day of scalability and performance training! This class is being offered at a 50% discount off our normal prices. Sign up today or contact us with any questions.
| Sign up today at http://www.larks.la/training |
In this all-day workshop, top experts with years of front-line experience building large-scale Drupal deployments show you the best known practices for running fast sites for a large volume of users. Starting with a blank Linux virtual server, we will work through the setup, configuration and tuning of Drupal using Varnish, Pressflow, Apache, MySQL, Memcache and Apache Solr.
Through this process, we will explain common pitfalls and how to avoid them. By the end of this course you should feel comfortable with the basics of how to setup, configure and tune your Drupal site. You’ll learn the most robust solutions the community has discovered.
Read moreSANDcamp 2012 Registration and Call for Submissions Now Open!
SANDcamp 2012 Registration and Call for Sessions is Now Open!
Registration is now open: Register Here
Submit Session (after registration/login): Submit a Session
Book your stay, rooms are limited at the Omni Hotel: Limited Rooms
Is anyone in California attending the Drupal on the Bayou Summit?
Out of Curiosity...
Hello Everyone!
I was just wondering how many people will be representing California at the Drupal on the Bayou Summit next week? I'm very much looking forward to meeting more of our Drupal community, maybe I'll see some of you there?
Peace!
Private flight shares to BADcamp 2011
Would anyone like to get together on chartering a private plane to San Francisco or Oakland for BADCamp next month?
A good friend of mine flies on a private plane from Los Angeles to San Francisco a few times a month and she just pays for her share of the fuel. The cost comes to about the same as a regular commercial flight, but flying privately is more convenient for her and it's much faster since there's no airport security to go through. I need to find out how many seats are on the plane she flies on.
Read moreTraveling Drupaler Program
The Traveling Drupaler Program aims to link Traveling Drupalers with the local communities and events in the area that they're visiting. This benefits the group greatly because it allows a local group to get speakers and presentation content from outside their general community reach. Some speakers may find this to be a benefit as well, social Drupalers generally like to see what's going on in other cities, as long as it's not too much of a hassle for them to get involved with the local group.
Read moreDrupal user groups in California
Last updated by christefano on Fri, 2012-03-16 22:29
About this page
This is a list of the Drupal user groups in California. Here are some of the things that can be done with this information:
- It is now much easier to find the California groups you'd like to join. Just click the name of the group you want to join and click the "Join" link in the sidebar of that group's page.
- If you are creating a new group in California, list it here to let others know about it.
- Depending on how #1074208 (Add a location field to group node) goes, a California-specific map showing the user groups can be created using this information (e.g. a Google map with markers showing the locations of all the groups and their meetups)
- Add your ideas here!
Session proposals for DrupalCamp LA 2011
Post your session proposals here. Be sure to mention if you're looking for co-presenters!
Update: Reverse proposals are good, too! If there's something you'd like to see someone else present, you can post your requests and suggestions.
DrupalCamp LA 2011 (August 6th & 7th)
Get ready for the fifth annual DrupalCamp LA this August 6-7th. Mark your calendars... this year is a milestone for us and we’re going all out!
Update: Videos posted at http://replay.uci.edu/clients/drupal
Drupal has changed, so we updated the camp accordingly. Join us for this jam-packed weekend of free Drupal community training - now with even more awesome sauce!
Event Highlights:
* Job Fair
* Drupal 7 Sessions
* Dedicated Beginners Track
* Step-By-Step Workshops
* Drupal Training Video Archives
Incorporation vs. professional liability/E&O insurance
I think this is a pretty common question. I've done a fair bit of research on the topic but lack experience; perhaps some of you who don't could help me out.
The question is: When a sole proprietor (Drupal Developer) starts doing steady business, should he/she:
- Get professional liability insurance?
- Incorporate as an S-Corp?
- Incorporate as an LLC?
- Stay a sole proprietor and just hope his/her contracts are waterproof?
Job fair and Drupal meetup on June 21, 2011 at Droplabs in Downtown Los Angeles
The next Downtown Los Angeles Drupal meetup is on June 21, 2011 and will be at Droplabs, a new Drupal event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles. You are invited for part or all of the 4-hour event, including a Drupal job fair at 6:00pm followed by a meetup with technical presentations, site showcases, open discussions and raffle prizes at 7:30pm.
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Introduction to Drupal for Designers (Webinar, Fee-based)
This two-hour webinar-based course will introduce you to designing for Drupal. The course is intended for web designers and graphic designers who are beginning to create designs that will be built using the Drupal content management system.
The course will introduce web design concepts and techniques, the Drupal architecture, how to work with web developers and clients and how to create designs that will take advantage of the new Drupal 7, as well as current Drupal 6. No programming experience is assumed or required.
Read moreDrupal, CCK & Views: Custom Content, Fields & Lists training in Los Angeles on May 3-4, 2011
This two-day workshop will explore modules and configurations you can combine to build more customized systems using Drupal. You’ll create many examples of more advanced configurations and content displays using the Content Construction Kit (CCK) and Views modules.
| Sign up today at http://www.larks.la/training |
The Drupal experts at Exaltation of Larks and Chapter Three will guide you through the complex User Interfaces that Drupal provides for controlling and customizing the many different ways to present lists and tables of your site’s content.
What you will learn:
- Creating custom content types
- Building RSS feeds
- Allowing viewers to filter results
- Building interactive tables
- Displaying content in a grid
- Adding a date field to your content, and sorting by date
- Creating iCAL feeds and other date displays
- Using views arguments to dynamically filter your results based on the URL
- How other modules integrate with Views
Drupal in a Day training in Los Angeles on June 20, 2011
Drupal in a Day is a full day of training on June 20 2011, offered by the Drupal experts at Exaltation of Larks and Chapter Three for just $400.
| Sign up today at http://www.larks.la/training |
This introductory workshop will touch upon almost every aspect of the core Drupal framework:
- Discover how to add, edit, and moderate content.
- Learn how to create user accounts and understand Drupal's permissions system.
- See how to set-up menus, and position blocks on a page.
- Create human-readable URLs, and categorize your content using Drupal's taxonomy system.
At the end of this one-day class you'll have a completed Drupal site, which looks and functions a lot like many sites you'll see on the web today.
Read moreDrupal Module Development training in Los Angeles on June 21-23, 2011
This three-day workshop teaches you how to create a comprehensive Drupal module. We'll use and explain each of the top ten Drupal hooks, the menu system and the Form API. You’ll learn how to conform to Drupal coding standards. You’ll write secure code by using Drupal’s built-in functions to sanitize data for display.
| Sign up today at http://www.larks.la/training |
You’ll learn from the Drupal experts at Exaltation of Larks and Chapter Three the correct way to save and retrieve data, including how to add your own custom database tables. We’ll also practice using theme system from your module. Depending on interest, we’ll show you how to expose your custom data to Views, demonstrate how to create SimpleTests for your module, or teach you the proper way to upgrade your custom database schema.
What you will learn:
- Drupal coding best practices
- Understanding hooks
- Using the Form API
- Saving custom data
- Providing themable output from your module
- Techniques for keeping your site secure
Days
3 days: June 21-23, 2011. This training is from 10am-5pm and begins at 10am sharp.
Prerequisites
At least six months of prior PHP development. Familiarity with Drupal terms such as nodes, blocks, fields and views. Experience with Drupal configuration and contributed modules/themes is necessary for understanding the concepts of module development.
Read moreAre you an organizer who's interested in a Drupal California group?
Training: Development best practices (Day 5)
Site building with Drupal - Day 5: Development best practices
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