We meet on the last Tuesday of the month at the Rich Media Institute.
LA Drupal meets monthly and offers a nice place for members and new people to learn and talk about Drupal, a world popular content management system (CMS). RSVP is not required and attendance is free.
Topics
Building R.E.M.'s concert tour site in Drupal
Learning Drupal? Want to see a completed Drupal site for the world-famous music group R.E.M.? You're in luck!
Our LA Drupal member Blake Lucchesi, from BoldSource, a local Drupal firm, will be showing us what makes this new web site tick. Come see the modules used, listen to the customization needed, and ask tons of questions.
Presentation technical level: Beginner (anyone)
See the R.E.M. tour site at http://tour.remhq.com
Developer Topic: Preventing SQL/XSS Code Injections in your PHP
Dave Keays, from RDK Software, will be showing the PHP crowd how they need to watch their code and make sure we don't let our guard down with accepting user input from things like forms. Drupal runs on PHP, so if you're interested in making modules or developing on top of Drupal then you'll want to learn all things related to PHP security and code injections is at the top of the list.
Presentation technical level: Intermediate-Advanced
Plus...
In addition to our presentation(s) of the night we have open-mic opportunities for those who have general Drupal questions or need help, time for those who are hiring or looking for consultants, upcoming Drupal training announcements, a message from our Drupalcon L.A. Proposal Group, updates about DrupalCamp LA 2008, and as always, the end of the meeting networking session with the fun and knowledgeable LA Drupal crowd.
Comments
Raffle prizes - over $400 in stuff!
We will be raffling a ticket (worth $300) to the upcoming two day Basic Drupal Training course in Long Beach this August 16-17.
Plus, books! From Apress this month. AWESOME.
Chris Charlton, Author & Drupal Community Leader, Enterprise Level Consultant
I teach you how to build Drupal Themes http://tinyurl.com/theme-drupal and provide add-on software at http://xtnd.us
Some links from the night
Raffle prize sponsor
Apress - http://apress.com - Pro Drupal Development (Apress; book), and Advanced Flex Application Development: Building Rich Media X (Friends of ED; book)... thank you Apress!
Donating to Drupal
http://association.drupal.org/membership - Get badged!!! (Donate to Drupal)
http://drupal.org/forum/51 - Want someone to fix an old module? Want to ChipIn?
DrupalCampLA
http://drupalcampla.com
We're looking for a secure venue at this time. No RSVP info yet. Watch the video online.
Careers/Jobs
Warner Bros Records - http://www.wbr.com/cmp/job.html (don't believe the site, email about Drupal work!)
Around the Drupal Planet
Blog to check out with high profile Drupal site - http://buytaert.net
Sites mentioned using Drupal at the meeting: Jabber, Femina, Metallica, Flex.org (Adobe).
Drupal Newsletter Summer 2008 is out
Step up and volunteer to help with the LADrupal.org community website
http://groups.drupal.org/node/13108 - post a comment of how you can help or you would like to be contacted to help. We're going to hold an online meeting just about this before the end of July.
Presentations/Presenters
http://boldsource.com BoldSource did the tour site for R.E.M.
Next meeting - August 26th, 7pm-9pm
http://groups.drupal.org/node/13549
Additional Sponsors
XTND.US - http://xtnd.us - July pamphlet - makers of Dreamweaver extensions for Drupal users.
RMI - http://richmediainstitute.com - location
Thanks to the folks who helped with chairs, cleaning, having tacos, folding paper, and giving up the raffle prizes because they were honest and said they had the book already!
Chris Charlton, Author & Drupal Community Leader, Enterprise Level Consultant
I teach you how to build Drupal Themes http://tinyurl.com/theme-drupal and provide add-on software at http://xtnd.us
Snap, almost forgot our winners...
Gratz to the winners of the books and the ticket to my 2-day Basic Drupal Training course in August! Information on the course is available at http://drupallearning.com.
Also, since we're one day away from July being over we'll schedule the online website volunteer meeting for the first half of August with a separate announcement coming for that.
Chris Charlton, Author & Drupal Community Leader, Enterprise Level Consultant
I teach you how to build Drupal Themes http://tinyurl.com/theme-drupal and provide add-on software at http://xtnd.us
thanks for the meeting!
I'm sorry that Dave Keays wasn't able to present on Drupal security (organizers, please update the event details when the agenda has a significant change like that) and definitely hope to see him at the next one.
Video of the July Meeting is Available
LADrupal July meeting has (finally) been posted online - see it on our main "show" channel at http://drupal-la.blip.tv/
Main Presentation
How the REM Tour 2008 website was architected and why. Website was built on Drupal 5, in April-ish 2008, utilizing the following modules:
Core Modules
Contributed Modules
Full write-up: http://boldsource.com/portfolio/rem-tour-website-drupal
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