Santa Barbara, CA
Welcome!
This group is for Drupallers in and around Santa Barbara, California to connect and get to know each other. We hope to also organize meet-ups or other local Drupal events.
LA Drupal User Group Meeting (September 29th)
LA Drupal is one of the world's largest Drupal user group & networks. Come join the conversation with over fifty local LA Drupal members.
WHEN? Tuesday, Sept. 29th, 2009 - 7:30PM-9:30PM
WHERE? 1558 10th St. - Unit D, Santa Monica, CA 90401 (Entrance is on Colorado Ave.; venue & food sponsor: Causecast.org) (map)
Book Raffles sponsored by Apress and Wrox publishing.
LA Drupal meets at least once a month, bringing together professional and upcoming talent from the world of Drupal. This month our meeting will include the following agenda:
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Mobile Drupal Sites - a discussion on Drupal sites going mobile. Tom Boone, an LA Drupal member, will be spearheading this talk and you should bring your mobile-Drupal questions.
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Drush on Windows - the uber-popular command line tool, Drush, runs on any platform. Last month Chris Charlton showed Drush on Mac OS X (Unix), and Nickolas will be showing Windows users this month how to reduce Drupal updates from hours & minutes to seconds!
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Firebug Lite - All web developers & designers are now relying on the Firebug extension for Firefox web browsers to help debug their JavaScript & CSS. For years Firebug has offered a version that works in any other web browser, allowing us to debug CSS reliably in Safari, Opera, or Internet Explorer! Firebug Lite is free, and there's even a Drupal module for it. This lightning talk is by Chris Charlton and will show you how Firebug Lite (module) works cross-browser in just seconds!
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Bad Camp 2009 - some of us locals are going to the "Bay Area" Drupal camp next month. Highlights of the camp can be shown/discussed.
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DrupalCon San Francisco 2010 - that's right, the next official Drupal conference will be in San Francisco, California. Yup, just North of us. If there are details to share with us locals, then we'll hear it. Otherwise, get ready for it come April 2010.
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.
Contract Web developer | Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media
The Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media at the University of California, Santa Barbara seeks a creative, qualified, experienced, and professional vendor to implement a Content-Management System to publish the Center's current and future Web content. The scope of the project is to transition the Center's current Web site content to the latest, stable release of Drupal-based Content Management System.
Drupal Training Santa Barbara
Three Days of Drupal Training in Santa Barbara Starting at $199!
October 6: Drupal Basics is a one day training session for new users of open source software Drupal. Participants will learn to install and configure Drupal software, community contributed modules, and Drupal themes. ($199)
New Drupal Book : Drupal 6 Site Blueprints
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Adobe MAX 2009 conference (Oct. 4-7; Los Angeles, CA)
Adobe's annual MAX conference comes to Los Angeles, CA from October 4-7th.
Over 200 sessions. Topics include Drupal, Web CMS, PHP, Dreamweaver, Flash, Flex, Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator, Adobe AIR, PDF / Acrobat, mobile, video, and many more technologies.
LA Drupal Meeting Highlights 2009-08
Wiki page for our LA Drupal notes from the meeting that took place in August 2009, in Santa Monica, CA.
Thank you to our supporters, volunteers, and presenters.
Help Drupal - Come to the Los Angeles Drupal Code Sprint
The final pre-freeze Drupal 7 Code Sprint begins Saturday, Aug 15th (tomorrow as this is posted) morning at Causecast in Santa Monica.
Camp/Conference formula for Drupal
With over 500 camp attendees and 60+ session proposals, us organizers of Drupal Camp LA needed a Drupal site that was built for organizers and attendees, with lessons learned from 3+ DrupalCons & 2+ DrupalCamps. Here is our formula for our awesome camp site.
"DrupalCampLA.com was built on Drupal 6 using core & contributed modules to handle event registration, sponsorship management, featured speakers, user bio's, and session proposals. The website features an attendee driven event schedule where members propose sessions and only registered members pick which sessions they'd like to see (in the BarCamp style). Planning the schedule for the day of events has been made flexible enough to allow organizers to maintain a master schedule with ease. Not to mention that all attendees get their own schedule view with the sessions they pick."
"The web site was based on the latest Drupal 6.x release and utilized many of the current generation modules such as CCK for content customization, imagefield and imagecache to handle imaging Views & custom theming built on Zen for content presentation." (A full list of the modules used is in the case study - http://drupal.org/node/519100 )
The download link is available in the case study post - http://drupal.org/node/519100 and has been made available by LA Drupal & This By Them.
LA Drupal User Group Meeting (August 25th, 2009)
L.A. Drupal - Los Angeles' Professional Drupal Network & User Group
When? Tuesday, August 25th, 7:30PM-9:30PM
Where? 1558 10th St. - Unit D, Santa Monica, CA 90401 (Door entrance is on Colorado; 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 Raffle - come win a Drupal related book!
Topics for the night:
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Group discussion of mobile site development in Drupal. Tom Boone will speak briefly about his own recent experience creating a mobile version of a site and find out what others in the group have done so far in this area, to cover what tools/modules are available, what approaches work best in specific situations, what problems remain to be solved.
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Drush 2.0 for Beginners - Tired of using FTP to update Drupal core and all the modules you use? Time to learn Drush. Chris Charlton will be giving a gentle intro to the community winning software known as Drush (Drupal-shell). Drush literally will save you hours every week managing all your Drupal sites. Drush is not a module, but instead a command-line "Terminal" application, where in one single command can update your Drupal core and ALL modules in under 1 minute! Chris will cover the basics of getting Drush running on a Mac/Unix/Linux environment. You can install Drush locally (great idea!) or on a web server (another great idea!).
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Drupal Camp LA 2009 community recamp - we'll have a chunk of time where camp attendees can voice their favorite moments of the camp. Did you attend? Did you just love a certain session or two? If so, come voice the goods from the largest West coast Drupal event.
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.
LA Drupal User Group Meeting (July 28th)
L.A. Drupal - Los Angeles' Professional Drupal Network & User Group
When? Tuesday, July 28th, 7:30PM-9:30PM
Where? 1558 10th St. - Unit D, Santa Monica, CA 90401 (Door entrance is on Colorado; 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.
Topics for the night:
- Ashok Modi - How to be an LA Drupal Ninja!
- DrupalCampLA 2009 details (August 8-9th)
- LA Drupal 7 Code-Test Sprint (August 15-16th)
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.
Drupal Camp Los Angeles 2009
DrupalCampLA is the annual FREE conference organized by the LA Drupal user group, and hosted by UC Irvine this year, to unite and improve the Drupal Development Community on the West Coast. The event will be taking place August 8-9th 2009, from 8am-7pm each day, and will feature three large tracks and two community rooms for BoFs (birds of a feather). RSVP is required and the event is free to attend.
Would you be willing to present a drupalchix session at Drupal Camp L.A. ?
What days do you plan to attend Drupal Camp Los Angeles 2009? (August 8-9th)
DrupalCampLA 2009 Shirt Design Contest
Drupal Camp LA 2009 will be taking place from August 8-9th. Our annual two day event features training, sessions, an install fest, and networking opportunities with hundreds of Drupal users!
New this year is our DrupalCampLA 2009 Shirt Design Contest! You design a shirt and the winner will receive a printed shirt with their design or a Drupal book (provided by book sponsors). Each prize option valued over $25.00!
Rules: Entries must be submitted before Monday July 13, 2009. Designs can be in color. Multiple entries per person is allowed. Usage of the Drupal logo is not required, but helps. One or more of the following phrases should appear in your design(s):
* Drupal Camp LA
* 2009
* Los Angeles
* www.drupalcamp.com (or just drupalcamp.com)
* www.ladrupal.org (or just ladrupal.org)
Drupal Café at the Coffee Connection on June 18 @ 7:30pm
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!
| When: 7:30pm to 9:30pm on Thursday, June 18, 2009 |
| Where: Coffee Connection at 3838 S Centinela Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90066 |
Mid-Senior Level Drupal Developer | Digital Dollhouse
We are seeking a mid-senior level Drupal developer in the Los Angeles area able to assist us in developing our flagship online community. This position is on-site, contract to full-time. This is an opportunity to get involved with a unique application of Drupal in the creation of a virtual world, details of which can be found here: http://drupal.org/node/430222
As a Drupal developer, the successful applicant would be experienced with the following: PHP, MySQL, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, AMFPHP, in addition to the qualifications listed below.
Desired Qualifications:
WOW! DrupalCampLA 2009 - Aug 8-9 - planning wiki - help make drupal great!
- DrupalCampLA 2009 planning is done and registration is open: http://DrupalCampLA.com
- Questions, Concerns or other musings should be posted here: http://2009.drupalcampla.com/forum
Stay in Contact
follow: www.twitter.com/ladrupal
watch: http://drupal-la.blip.tv
talk: IRC #drupal-la
event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111432092704&ref=mf
friend: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1804760817
Below is the wiki archive -- Please don't edit
- First, do this ... block these dates! Aug 8 & 9.
Adobe.com Drupal article: Using Drupal themes with Dreamweaver CS4
The second article in my Drupal series for Adobe.com is out now. This article covers Drupal Themes, Dreamweaver tip(s) when working with Drupal, and shows off the Drupal Theme Starter desktop software.
"Understand the fundamentals of a Drupal theme and how Dreamweaver CS4 helps designers produce these themes."
Read the article now at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/drupal_themes_with_dwcs...
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/drupal_themes_with_dwcs4.html
LA Drupal User Group Meeting (June 2009)
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.
What web enabled mobile device do you own? iPhone? Blackberry? G1? Something else?
Welcome!
This group is for Drupallers in and around Santa Barbara, California to connect and get to know each other. We hope to also organize meet-ups or other local Drupal events.
