We meet on the last Tuesday of the month in the Los Angeles area. This meeting will be held at the Rich Media Institute in Venice, CA.
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
Drupal for Music Bands
Are you a musician or band member and heard of Drupal? Come watch a free panel discussion on how various LA Drupal members/agencies are helping the music world and local bands get sites online and actually manageable. This will be a panel style discussion bringing various panel members to talk about how Drupal can help the music scene anywhere by providing free websites that are enhanced with community modules and themes - and we're here to discuss that. Questions will be taken.
Presentation technical level: Beginner-Intermediate
DrupalCampLA 2008 Volunteer Info & Updates
Plan to help by volunteering at Drupal Camp LA this year? Attend the user group meeting if you're planning to the camp so we may meet you before hand.
Drupy - Drupal running on Python
Drupy is a Python port of the Drupal Content Management System. The project is not yet complete, but is moving at a fast pace towards an alpha release. Brendon Crawford will be presenting this preview of his talk planned for DrupalCampLA 2008.
The primary goals of the Drupy project are:
- Giving Drupal developers an easy transition into the Python language.
- Giving Python developers an easy transition into Drupal.
- Implementing any possible Python-specific optimizations to the core codebase
Some of the ways which these goals are being accomplished are:
- Maintain full API compatibility with Drupal version 7
- Implement all core code as fully namespaced and Object Oriented structures
- Provide a comprehensive PHP function abstraction tookit for Python
- Enable major core components to run in persistant memory via WSGI
This presentation will cover:
- Current status and timelines of the Drupy project.
- Installing and running
- Differences between Drupy and Drupal
- Porting Drupal modules
Brendon Crawford is a Venice native. He has been hacking away at PHP and JavaScript for the last 12 years, and Python for the last 5 years. He enjoys arguing in #drupal on Freenode (IRC).
Presentation technical level: 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, updates about DrupalCamp LA 2008, raffle prizes for attendees, and as always, the end of the meeting networking session with the fun and knowledgeable LA Drupal crowd.
Tags for the night:
Upcoming/Flickr: upcoming:event=958059
Comments
raffle prizes for LA Drupal Aug.08
Some books we're announcing as prizes for the attendee raffle. http://groups.drupal.org/node/13788
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
Who else will be speaking about Drupal based band sites?
I will be presenting a discussion of how we built the Curt Smith website. I would like for some of the discussion to be non-technical in nature, where we discuss the needs that bands/musicians have for their websites. I will also give an overview of some of the modules and techniques that were used to build the site. These include Panels 2 (using node overrides), Embedded Media Field, FAQ & FAQ_ask, and more...
I thought Blake's presentation on the REM Tour site that he built was awesome and would love it if he was there to talk a little more about it.
See ya there...
answer .. Noone - postponed .. come learn some Panels background
I really love the idea of discussing drupal-based band websites in a panel format. Unfortunately, that's not going to happen at tonights meeting. We will hold this session for another evening when not only more developers of band sites can come, but perhaps more musicians and band managers who want to find out what can be done for them. We'd be very interested in their input.
I will instead be holding a session in which I will talk about Panels. This is not completely off topic, from band sites, since I will be using the Curt Smith site as an example of using Panels to build a site. We will have more time to get into the guts of how the panels are built than I would in the band presentation. Topics that will come up include:
Location?
Hello all--
RSVP'd for the event, but just wondering where it's being held.
Thx much,
Craig McEldowney
DPCI
Los Angeles, CA
310.694.8441
Los Angeles, CA
The meetups are at the Rich
The meetups are at the Rich Media Institute in Venice.
http://www.richmediainstitute.com/contact/losAngeles
venue added to info
Sorry folks, forgot to add the venue. :P
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 organizing
Thanks for organizing tonight's event. Can't wait to use Panels in Drupal 6. Just checked the site and there is a Dev release: http://drupal.org/node/96562