Westside

Join us for an evening of Drupal sharing, learning, and open source goodness - our Valentine's Day themed event will feature Module Crush + Heartbreaks - Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at the Santa Monica Public Library (main branch).

• PRESENTATION: LA DRUPAL Members' Latest Drupal Core Contributions
• LIGHTNING TALKS: Drupal Module Crushes + Heartbreaks
• Open lab time from 6pm-7pm; main meetup 7pm-9pm.
• Wi-fi and raffle prizes!!!

When: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 from 6:00-9:00pm

Where: Santa Monica Pubic Library (main branch; multipurpose room). 601 Santa Monica Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90401 (parking is $1/hr. under the library in a dedicated parking structure; we meet in the "multipurpose room")

After hours: After the meetup, it is typical for many of us to meet at a local restaurant or pub for additional Drupal networking. We will post the venue info prior to the meetup; if you have a suggestion, please leave a comment.

AGENDA:

6pm-7pm
* LA DRUPAL Contrib Lab - open lab for people bringing their laptops and looking to get help with a Drupal related problem.
* LA DRUPAL Mentors Lab - come meet with your mentors in person before the meetup starts.
* Lightning Talk prep - need help getting a lightning talk together, show up to the pre-meetup lab and we can help!
* Early Networking - looking to chat with folks before the meetup begins, this is your chance.

7pm-9pm
* Main presentation - Ashok Modi & Mike Stewart (both core contributors) will go over in detail the latest contributions their collaborated efforts brought to us all by helping fix Drupal Core!
* Lightning Talks - Drupal Module Crushes + Heartbreaks - come share your latest module crushes! Free "sweethearts" candy for those who do.
* Users Helping Users - bring up a question to the crowd and see how they can help you overcome your latest Drupal roadblock.
* Raffle prizes
* Job announcements
* Networking - bring your business cards

9pm-Late
* Drupal After Dark - hang with the community for a drink or bite to eat, after the meetup.

As many of you know, the High Performance Drupal meetup we started 9 months ago is looking for a larger venue. After bouncing around Westside venues for a while, we've hunkered down at the Venice Grind coffeeshop, made it a regular, monthly meetup and put a call out for help with finding a new venue.

Gavin from the Downtown LA Drupal meetup last week has invited us to check out his space at Filter Digital in Culver City as a possible venue. Would anyone like to go there for a site visit tomorrow at 1pm?

In the tradition of other site visits that we've gone on, this visit to open to anyone interested in helping with our upcoming events!

The High Performance Drupal meetup now meets on the 1st Tuesday of the month. We're meeting again on February 7, 2012 and will be at Filter Digital, a digital solutions agency in Culver City located just two blocks from Media Temple, a familiar venue of Drupal meetups on the Westside.

LA Drupal meetups follow a basic format and start off with Drupal news and announcements, local job announcements, raffle prizes and full-length presentations. As always, we'll also have community Q&A, during which time anyone in attendance can ask questions, divine answers from the crowd and give brief, 5-10 minute-long presentations known as lightning talks.

We'll finish off the night with more networking and a Drupal After Dark at 9:30pm.

For any changes to our agenda, stay tuned to this meetup announcement or click the Sign up button below (or both!) to be notified when the agenda has been updated.

About High Performance Drupal

What is the High Performance Drupal meetup about? The "high performance" part of the name is a catch-all to describe Drupal scalability, performance and benchmarking but we also discuss hosting, infrastructure, deployment, monitoring and highly repeatable processes. Also, this meetup has been held at coffeeshops in the past and the addition of caffeine makes our meetings feel as if they go faster and faster as the night goes on.

This is an LA Drupal meetup that focuses exclusively on advanced topics and there will not be a Users Helping Users portion to the evening.

Thank you to our sponsors!

Light food and refreshments will be served throughout the evening courtesy of our food, drink and venue sponsor, Filter Digital, a digital solutions agency.

Our client list spans global brands and Fortune 100 companies to startups and boutique firms. Let us help you create a digital solution that fits your needs!

Our projector for the evening is being provided by Exaltation of Larks, a Drupal strategy, consulting, development and training company with a team of Drupal experts in Los Angeles.

We like doing hard things on the web and excel at creating and maintaining exceptional Drupal sites with unexceptional budgets.

Randal Schwartz, host of the Floss Weekly podcast, will presenting a very thorough introduction to git at the UUASC-LA meetup in Culver City on Thursday, and y'all are welcome to attend. For those that have not heard of Git, it is the version control system Drupal.org developers use to share code with one another.

Details below and at...

http://www.meetup.com/UUASC26/events/44387702/

Reposted with permission from http://groups.drupal.org/node/196363#comment-659113

The SCALE team has started ramping up towards SCALE 2012 next January.

SCALE 10X (January 20-22) will be the tenth anniversary of the Linux Expo, and we hope to make it a special one! SCALE started 10 years ago with a single day event at USC with two tracks and 400 attendees. Considering that SCALE 10X will be a three day event, with as many as a half-dozen tracks and possibly as many as 2,500 attendees, it's clear that Open Source software is alive and thriving in Southern California!

The High Performance Drupal meetup now meets on the 1st Tuesday of the month.

Interested in Pressflow, APC, Varnish and memcache? Want to jump from shared or "grid" hosting to VPS or dedicated hosting but aren't sure what to do? Do you just want to get more out of what you currently have and take your Drupal site to the next level?

Meet with friends, have coffee and talk about Drupal performance, scalability and DevOps on the Westside at the Venice Grind between 5-8pm on Tuesday, January 3, 2012. In the past, we've gone to dinner afterward at nearby restaurants including El Agave and Mitsuwa. You're invited!

To get last-minute updates, sign up by clicking the Signup button below or stay tuned to the comments on this page (or both!).

Join us for an evening of Drupal sharing, learning, and open source goodness - new venue - new meetup date - new open lab & mentor time - now doors open earlier - Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at the Santa Monica Public Library (main branch). Note that our new venue will have tables and chairs perfect for laptops, lab time, and great way for mentorship/breakout groups. The library is our new monthly venue; expect the next few regular monthly meetups to take place here on the second Tuesday.

• PRESENTATION (General Audience): TBA (to be announced)
• PRESENTATION (Advanced): Powerful Drupal Administration Using Drush part 2, by Chris Charlton
• Talks and topics: BadCamp 2011 recap, Lightning Talks, LA Drupal speed-networking, info on DrupalCon Denver 2012.
• Open lab time from 6pm-7pm.
• Wi-fi and raffle prizes!!!

When: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 from 6:00-9:00pm

Where: Santa Monica Pubic Library (main branch; multipurpose room). 601 Santa Monica Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90401 (parking is $1/hr. under the library in a dedicated parking structure; we meet in the "multipurpose room")

After hours: After the meetup, it is typical for many of us to meet at a local restaurant or pub for additional Drupal networking. If you have a suggestion, please leave a comment.

AGENDA:

One presentation will be "Powerful Drupal Administration Using Drush part 2", presentation by Chris Charlton, Senior Consultant at Stauffer New Media Development


Long time LA DRUPAL luminary and author, Chris Charlton continues his new power tools series for Drupal & Drush that goes beyond the basics*. This is the second part of an ongoing series exclusive to LA DRUPAL monthly meetup audiences that will not be recorded.

Time to take things up a notch with your Drupal skills this year. Learn the higher level uses of Drush in this multi-part series and become the most efficient Drupal users in the world! If Drush is not yet a part of your Drupal workflow then you are behind and missing out. Do things faster and better with Drupal using Drush.



*Drush basics are covered in video screencasts available online recorded from our previous events.

Updated: Hours now 1-5pm due to library hours

Hi all,

Join us for a special end of the year evening of Drupal fun: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at the current headquarters of Media Temple in Culver City, CA.

• THEME: Another Successful Year Of Drupal
• NO LONG PRESENTATIONS - JUST MUSIC, LIGHTNING TALKS, RAFFLE PRIZES, & NETWORKING ALL NIGHT LONG
• Free food, drinks, Wi-fi, and raffle prizes!!!

When: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 from 6:30-9:30pm

Where: Media Temple in Culver City, CA at 8520 National Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (park on the side street, enter the corner building to suite 101)

PARTY DRINK SPONSORS: Media Temple & Stauffer New Media Development

Come hang out, network, geek out and celebrate another good year for Drupal


LA DRUPAL has been meeting and hosting a free annual conference for over 5 years and it's time to take a moment to celebrate the awesomeness that is our community. Drinks & food provided, first come first serve. Come chat all night and enjoy random 5-minute lightning talks related to Drupal. Come have fun, let your hair down, and leave the laptop in the car! This night is for us humans.

SPECIAL GUEST: Victor Kane - Author of "Leveraging Drupal". Bring your copy of the book and get it signed by the author during the party!

Join us for an evening of Drupal sharing, learning, and open source goodness: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at the current headquarters of Media Temple in Culver City, CA. Note that our venue sponsor is moving and this will be the last time we meet at Media Temple in culver city. Announcement of our new venue for 2012 will follow.

• THEME: Administering Drupal
• PRESENTATION: Powerful Drupal Administration Using Drush, by Chris Charlton
• Talks and topics: BadCamp 2011 recap, Lightning Talks, LA Drupal speed-dating (aka geek networking LA Drupal style).
• Free food, drinks, Wi-fi, and raffle prizes!!!

When: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 from 7:00-9:00pm

Where: Media Temple in Culver City, CA at 8520 National Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (park on the side street, enter the corner building to suite 101)

After hours: After the meetup, it is typical for many of us to meet at a local restaurant or pub for additional Drupal networking. If you have a suggestion, please leave a comment.

AGENDA: Powerful Drupal Administration Using Drush, presentation by Chris Charlton


Long time LA DRUPAL luminary and author, Chris Charlton starts his new power tools series for Drupal & Drush that goes beyond the basics*. This is an ongoing series exclusive to LA DRUPAL monthly meetup audiences and will not be recorded.

Time to take things up a notch with your Drupal skills this year. Learn the higher level uses of Drush in this multi-part series and become the most efficient Drupal users in the world! If Drush is not yet a part of your Drupal workflow then you are behind and missing out. Do things faster and better with Drupal using Drush.



*Drush basics are covered in video screencasts available online recorded from our previous events.