LA Drupal is one of the world's largest and most active Drupal user groups who meets monthly. Top talent, excellent discussions, and great community members share their Drupal knowledge of all levels - from newbies to elite.
When? Tuesday, April 27th (from 7:30pm - 9:30pm)
Where? Causecast.org offices - 1558 10th St. (Unit D), Santa Monica, CA 90401 (entrance is on Colorado; park on the street).
Free Beer & Pizza provided by our host: www.causecast.org
Raffle prizes: every attendee has a chance to win! Prizes include books, and monthly passes to Lynda.com where you can watch titles like "Drupal: Creating and Editing Custom Themes" by Chris Charlton.
TOPICS
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Drupal 7 Update - "Where's the beef?!" - Dries, creator of Drupal, has updated the community on the state of Drupal and where the release of Drupal 7 is predicted to be. If you didn't attend DrupalCon 2010, or haven't had a chance to watch the recorded videos , come to hear where Drupal is and where Drupal will be.
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Inside EarthDay.org's Drupal Scaling - "85 Million hits in 72hrs" - Trellon Strategist, Chris Miller will demo how EarthDay.org was able to scale Drupal. Come see how Drupal helped Earth Day!
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UCLA's S.E.O. using Drupal - Rob Carr from UCLA, and fellow LA Drupal member, will be demonstrating how search engine optimizations (SEO) are necessary for all sites. Come learn the fundamentals and see what modules are used to keep the search engine robots happy, resulting in happy site owners and visitors as well.
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Lightning Talk: Path Finder for Mac OS X - Christefano will demo how he uses a desktop application called Path Finder to work more efficiently. A must see for Mac owners!
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DrupalCon 2010 San Francisco Recap - Did you attend DrupalCon? If so, come share your thoughts and highlights from the conference. If you didn't attend, this is the perfect chance to find out what you missed and what videos are worth watching.
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DrupalCamp LA 2010 Announcement - It's that time again to announce our regional Drupal event - DrupalCamp L.A. With its fourth year running and over 1,000 attendees to-date we are doing something right! Each year Drupal fans from around the world (literally) join together for a full weekend of intense Drupal sharing & training. Come hear the details we have so far and get ready to Drupal it up this August 7-8th at U.C. Irvine; the same venue as last year. Sponsors wanted.
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.
Community Q & A will be available, followed by Job Announcements.
And...
In addition to our presentation(s) of the night we have open-mic opportunities for those who have general Drupal questions or need help during our wonderful meeting segment, "Ask the LA Drupal Community." Need to just ask another human a Drupal question? Then this is that chance.
We have raffle prizes for attendees, and as always, the end of the meeting is our networking session with the fun and knowledgeable LA Drupal crowd.
Those wishing to make announcements for Drupal jobs/work, please come early and speak to the organizers and we can provide time for you to speak to the audience.
Tags for the night:
Post photos on Flickr.com with the tag "ladrupal" and "drupal".
More upcoming L.A. Drupal events & training: http://groups.drupal.org/los-angeles/events
Get a Drupal job or post your own: http://groups.drupal.org/los-angeles/jobs
Watch our videos: http://ladrupal.blip.tv (also available on iTunes or Miro)
Members can vote on our polls: http://groups.drupal.org/los-angeles/polls
Chat with other LA Drupal members online now: http://ladrupal.org/chat
Join in on LA Drupal discussions: http://groups.drupal.org/los-angeles/discussions
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.ActiveLamp.com, www.openChimp.com, www.chillco.com, www.exaltations.net, www.WorkHabit.com, www.AchieveInternet.com, and others. Topics have included How to build your first Drupal Module, Using Views, Panels, Drush, Edit Themes, and Scaling Drupal & Cloud computing just to name a handful.
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