Bring in the new year this January 1, 2013, by getting Drupal Fit and relaxing with friends and members of the Drupal community at Century Spa in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
Century Spa is a 24-hour gym, sports club and jimjilbang (Korean community spa) with 3 floors of spacious spas, hot tubs, pools, saunas and relaxation rooms (gold, ice, eucalyptus steam, etc.) and has a restaurant and juice bar. Their phone number is (323) 954-1020.
The entry fee is $10 per person (normally $20). We are meeting in the lobby at Century Spa at 1pm and will be leaving at 4pm to return to Droplabs. If you arrive on your own you can leave at your convenience.
What to Bring
Just bring yourself and $10. If ordering food, bring extra cash or debit / credit card.
Towels, robes, etc. and a variety of toiletries are provided by Century Spa, but feel free to bring a change of clothes or other personal items. Internet access is provided upstairs in the jimjilbang.
Century Day & Night Spa
4120 West Olympic Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90019
(323) 954-1020
A group of us will be meeting and carpooling from Droplabs. We will be leaving Droplabs promptly at 12:45am.
Droplabs
651 Clover St.
Los Angeles, CA 90031
Droplabs is in the Mission Junction neighborhood of Los Angeles at Big Art Labs, just 1 mile down Main St. from Philippes (the first-ever venue for Los Angeles Drupal meetups!) and Union Station. We're one block west of The Brewery, the largest live-and-work artists' colony in the world.
Free parking in our large parking lot is first-come, first-served. After parking in the lot, follow the yellow signs that point to Droplabs. (If our lot is full, you can park for free on Clover St.)
Droplabs is a brief walk from the Main St. / Lamar St. stop on the the Metro Local 76 bus line. This is also the Lincoln Heights / Chinatown DASH stop.
About Downtown Los Angeles Drupal
The Downtown Los Angeles Drupal group regularly meets in and around Downtown Los Angeles, California. We organize a large number of weekly and monthly events on various Drupal topics, including the general Downtown Los Angeles Drupal meetup that has been meeting regularly on the 3rd Tuesday of the month since early 2010.
The Downtown area is the most active area for Drupal in the Greater Los Angeles Area and has seen hundreds of Drupal events, including job fairs, meetups and workshops, study group meetings, conferences about design and theming, paid trainings, FREE tutoring sessions from Drupal professionals and barn raisings to benefit non-profits and members of our community here in and around Downtown Los Angeles.
Attending Drupal events in and around Downtown Los Angeles is one of the best ways to meet and talk with other Drupaleros and we encourage you to attend as many meetings and special events as you'd like. Whether it's to find solutions to problems you've been having, sharing something you've learned or just meeting interesting like-minded people, the Downtown Los Angeles Drupal events are an essential resource for Drupal professionals and hobbyists alike.
If you aren't already a member of Downtown Los Angeles Drupal, it's easy to join our community. Our community calendar is on our "Events" tab on our home page at http://groups.drupal.org/dtla
The Downtown Los Angeles Drupal group proudly participates in the California Drupal Travelers Program and can host businesses and community members who are visiting the area. Inquire within by contacting any of the Downtown Los Angeles Drupal organizers.
Comments
Organizers of "LA Drupal",
Organizers of "LA Drupal", could you please add "Koreatown" as a new "Event location" taxonomy term?
Here's the link to do this in case you have trouble finding it. (OG Vocab is still broken on this site until http://drupal.org/node/968248 is fixed.)
http://groups.drupal.org/node/3002/og/vocab/terms/X/add_term
Replace "X" with the ID of the "Event location" vocabulary.
If there is a more appropriate place to post this, just let me know. Thanks!
Please use the Wilshire area
Hi Christo,
I did a check of the Event Locations vocabulary and we are using the Wilshire region to include Koreatown and the rest of the Golden Mile:
http://groups.drupal.org/taxonomy/term/20733
I am assuming you would like that added to your event but will stop short of adding that since I am not an organizer of the event. I hope you have a great restorative time!
Steve
Thanks for the reply, and for
Thanks for the reply, and for the well wishes!
We're not posting the event announcement here, but we're introducing Korean culture and the concept and customs of Korean jimjilbang at a class at Droplabs before carpooling to the Korean spa. You're most welcome to join us.
I'm aware of the Wilshire taxonomy term (I created it and its text description back in 2010) but Koreatown is an official district in Los Angeles and tagging it with "Koreatown" says more about the event, IMO, than using the "Wilshire" tag.
Of course it's up to you, but I do recommend creating a new taxonomy term for the area.
By the way, while researching
By the way, while researching things to do in Koreatown I found that Discover Los Angeles, the official site of the Los Angeles Tourism and Convention Board, is a Drupal site:
http://www.discoverlosangeles.com/explore/guides/multicultural
I've updated the Los Angeles-area Drupal Business Directory:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/73063
I think letting others chime
I think letting others chime in on this issue would be helpful.
IMO, the taxonomies exist as larger groupings around LA. Koreatown feels like drilling down into microcosms of the community and will introduce a 13th location to the list. You said:
"Koreatown is an official district in Los Angeles"
There are many of these districts, would you recommend adding them over time as well as we have additional events in additional districts? I guess we can wait the day to see what others say, but I won't prevent the term from being created if it is just me and you posting to this thread.
Korean culture outside the scope of GDO
Hey Christo,
I did a little more thinking and despite the additional posts we have here, I think the idea of "we're introducing Korean culture and the concept and customs of Korean jimjilbang" is outside the scope of what GDO offers it's users; and that is only my opinion despite my love for Korean food :)
You have control of several other groups on the site so I think adding the term to one of those groups if its members feel strongly about Korean culture is a good path to head down at this point. I would also recommend bringing this up at the LA Group meetup in early January.
If you are not there, I can make sure that it gets discussed.
Thanks, Steve. I agree that
Thanks, Steve. I agree that introducing Korean culture is probably outside the scope of Drupal Groups. That's why the event announcement for retroasian's workshop is not posted here and is posted instead at http://droplabs.net/events/2013/01/01/introduction-to-korean-culture-fie...
This event announcement here at http://groups.drupal.org/node/274253 is for a Drupal Fit social event. If I'm sure of anything, it's that when Drupaleros get together — whether it's to work together or just to relax and socialize — they talk about Drupal and build a stronger, healthier Drupal community.
tl;dr: There are two separate but connected events: retroasian's introduction to Korean culture and a Drupal Fit social event at a Korean spa. Everyone is welcome to attend either or both.
No need for smaller and smaller locations
I think LA Drupal is getting divided enough. I don't see the benefits of Downtown Drupal, Korea Town Drupal, Culver City Drupal, Santa Monica Drupal, Pasadena Drupal, Burbank Drupal, etc as being beneficial to anyone. I really don't see the point of more than one LA Drupal.
If it needs to be divided, do it regional, San Fernando Valley, San Gabriel Valley, West Side, Central, South LA, but as I said, why divide it at all?
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I agree and its why I
I agree and its why I haven't created a Long Beach group. Taxonomy does a beautiful job organizing and is sufficient for both our needs and amount of activity.
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mike stewart { twitter: @MediaDoneRight | IRC nick: mike stewart }
As a co-organizer of the San
As a co-organizer of the San Gabriel Valley meetups, I can say that the group is absolutely regional and the meetups are referred to as SGV Drupal meetups.
For the Downtown Drupal group, though, we debated in 2010 whether to create a Central LA or Downtown group and decided to go with Downtown Drupal. Perhaps someone can dig up that thread here on groups.drupal.org. It does exist.
For now, I've removed this discussion from the Korean Users group. Most of this discussion is focused on the Los Angeles area and I think this is mostly irrelevant to the majority of people who'd otherwise be interested in this event, which is about taking time off to relax and socialize with fellow members of the Drupal community.
As far as the division is concerned, I think it's mostly about leadership and organizing styles, not just about a division of geographical regions. I see no harm in adding "Koreatown" as a taxonomy term, but I'll leave that decision to those who inherited the work done by their predecessors and are taking the "LA Drupal" group into the future.
If certain Los Angeles-area Drupal community organizers are interested in working together instead of meddling or oppressing one another (and yes, I have documentation of repeated attempts of oppression and bullying that I'll provide to anyone upon request), then count me in. Until then, having separate user groups for different regions is absolutely necessary in order to prevent the meddling by people in one user group in the affairs of another.
edit: Edited to say SGV Drupal meetups, not SGV Drupal groups.
Now that the dust has settled
Now that the dust has settled I've cross-posted this back to the Korean Users group.
Annyeong haseyo! 안녕하세요!
retroasian and I are planning a Korean-language Drupal meetup in Koreatown, Los Angeles. If this sounds interesting to you, stay tuned to @DowntownDrupal on Twitter for news.
Thanks! (너무) 감사합니다!
Make the names geographically oriented
Personally, having a geographical description of the area is useful in deciding whether to go to an event or not (it tells how hard it is to get there -- pretty important as I don't drive). I'd support the addition of "Koreatown" as a taxonomy term on that basis.
Be careful of getting too many area designations, though: it can just get overwhelming; Los Angeles can often push this to the limit: somewhere around 40 groups has been a practical max for me, as with more, there tend to be too many out of area/out of interest. Less than 20 seems more ideal, as someone can go through them quickly (without leaving the page because a 3 second attention span has been exceeded)....