Events & Training

We're having coffee and talking Drupal on Thursday, June 18, 2009 at Coffee Connection (also known as The Vineyard Cafe). Afterwards, we might go out to dinner or go looking for something stronger than the Coffee Connection's espresso. You're invited!

L.A. Drupal - Los Angeles' Professional Drupal Network & User Group

*** NOTE: NEW ADDRESS!!! ***

When? Tuesday, June 30th, 7:30PM-9:30PM
Where? 1558 10th St. - Unit D, Santa Monica, CA 90401 (Venue Sponsor: CauseCast.org) (map)

Whats an LA Drupal meetup like? Fun & Interesting!

LA Drupal meetups are free and open to anyone interested in Drupal from beginner to guru, but you have to bring a fun attitude and be willing to share or learn.

We have areas for networking, general topics, and more advanced learning and sharing. Presentations and a big breakout session at the end to chat and network.

We like to highlight and encourage folks with cool local projects to present at upcoming meetings. In the past year we've had presenters from Warner Brothers Records; hosting over a hundred artist sites on Drupal, StandUp2Cancer.org - over a million hits in one day during the airing of the show, and local shops such as www.ThisByThem.com, www.openChimp.com, www.chillco.com, www.exaltations.net, www.IJHANA.com, www.WorkHabit.com, www.AchieveInternet.com, and others. Topics have included How to build your first Drupal Module, Using Views 1 & Views 2, Panels module, Drush module, Theming, and Scaling Drupal & Cloud computing among others.

Have a topic you'd like to see? Add it here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/9220

Agenda
Free Beer & Pizza provided by our host: www.causecast.org

Book Raffles sponsored by Apress and Wrox publishing.

DrupalCampLA 2009 Details: August 8-9 @ UC Irvine!

Main Presentation Area
Main presentation area holds up to 80 people and is geared towards general interest topics, especially geared towards people who are new to Drupal or the Topic(s) being presented. It is also a forum for sharing, asking questions.

Lightning Talks - come prepared to talk for 5 min. about something you'd like to share with the Drupal group. Finished a new Drupal site? Find a cool new module? Keep it succinct - you get stopped at five minutes - but we'll be nice about it.

Q & A followed by Job Announcements.

Learn enough PHP to get started with CMS software like Drupal and Wordpress in one night from one of L.A.'s best technology teachers - Chris Charlton, L.A. resident web guru & author.

Need to get some PHP under your belt? Trying to get comfortable with Drupal, but feel stuck?

If you already know HTML & CSS then its time to move up to PHP!

Buy Your Ticket Now!

This is a 3 hours workshop training at night, from 7pm-10pm in Venice, CA. (near the beach)
http://learn-basic-php-in-one-night-07162009-ladrupal.eventbrite.com

For this event, LA AIR, LA Adobe, LA ColdFusion User Group, and the LA Flex User Group collaborate to present an entire evening celebrating the launch of the newest releases of Adobe Flex and ColdFusion.

Event details: http://groups.adobe.com/posts/41f1263469

chx (Károly Négyesi) is coming to Los Angeles and he's asking the L.A. developers to bring it for what will be one of the final pre-d7 code freeze coding and testing sprints. There will be chocolate, and at some point beer.

This will be a working code sprint. If you have experience coding modules and/or writing simpletests, that would be very helpful. If not, someone will assist you in getting up to speed. There will be tasks for anyone who wants to work.