Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp (GLADCamp) at SCALE 13x on Friday, February 20th, 2015
GLADCamp 2015, the Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp, is a full day of Drupal on Friday, February 20th, 2015, at the Hilton LAX in Los Angeles, California.
We've partnered with SCALE 13x, the Southern California Linux Expo, and are part of SCALE's 4 full days of activities, including keynotes, sessions, presentations, trainings and more!
What is GLADCamp?
GLADCamp is for All Things Drupal™ and is brought to you by the same team who organize countless Drupal events in the Greater Los Angeles Area, including Drupal Design Camp LA, the Drupal Job Fairs, the High Performance Drupal meetups and Drupal Coworking Fridays.
Stay tuned to this page and @GLADCamp on Twitter for news, including an updated program of events.
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November SGV Drupal Meetup: Drupalgeddon (SA-CORE-2014-005) Followup and Better Sleep Through Web Security
November and December present a challenge for having our meeting on the 4th Thursday. Normally these conflict with the holidays. For November and December we will be meeting on the third Thursday. Please add November 20 and December 18 to your calendar.
Join us from 6-8pm at Fuller Theological Seminary, Glasser 110 on Thursday, November 20, 2014, for Drupal news and announcements, local job announcements, raffle prizes, community Q&A, lightning talks and full-length presentations.
You can join the video conference or go to https://zoom.us/join and enter meeting ID: 129 319 220
Read moreGLADCamp site visit and Drupal After Dark at the Hilton Pasadena on February 20, 2014
My apologies for the last-minute notice, but a small group of us will be meeting at the Hilton Pasadena & Convention Center today after close of business. Join us!
We'll be taking a look at the venue and will be finalizing a few venue details, including the registration area, sponsor booths, pre-conference storage for our sponsors, etc., for next month's Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp. After the tour, we'll be getting a drink at Grill 168 to further plan and discuss the venue.
Read moreDrupal Employers Summit at GLADCamp on March 7, 2014
We're having another Drupal employers summit! Invitations are being sent out for this special event, which is during the evening on Friday, March 7th.
Our last summit was at Droplabs in January, 2013, and half a dozen Greater Los Angeles Area companies offering Drupal services were represented. This time, we're partnering with GLADCamp and are having our summit at the Hilton Pasadena & Convention Center on Friday, March 7th.
About the Employers Summit
This event is a roll-up-your-sleeves working meeting for companies and organizations who use and depend on Drupal, as well as its healthy business community and marketplace. We'll be meeting one another (many for the first time) and discussing the following topics:
- Building a healthy marketplace of colleagues and potential partners;
- Getting the most out of our recruiting and marketing dollar;
- What we're doing now to staff up, from local recruiting and in-house training to outsourcing and hiring out-of-town or overseas;
- Identifying the skills, job titles and qualifications of desirable candidates, employees and vendors;
- Workshops, trainings and other programs that most or all of us can get behind in order to solve our business needs.
Are you a non-profit? Do you need a new website? Apply for the Barn Raising at GLADCamp!
Today is our official call for barn raising applications at this year's GLADCamp, the Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp!
On March 9, 2014, we'll be building a website from scratch to include much needed functionality, design, and other work required by a local 501c3 non-profit organization.
This event is "Drupal for Good in action" and is a teach-and-learn opportunity for our local Drupal community and is a win-win-win for everyone.
What's a Barn Raising?
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_raising
- A "barn raising" describes a collective action of a community, in which a barn for one of the members is built or rebuilt collectively by members of the community.
- Barn raising was particularly common in 18th- and 19th-century rural North America. A barn was a necessary structure for any farmer, for example for storage of cereals and hay and keeping of animals. Yet a barn was also a large and costly structure, the assembly of which required more labor than a typical family could provide.
- Barn raising addressed the need by enlisting members of the community, unpaid, to assist in the building of their neighbors' barns. Because each member was entitled to recruit others for help, the favor would eventually return to each participant.
Just replace the word "barn" in the description above with "website" and you'll see that we've adapted this "barn raising" model for the digital world.
Read moreNon-Profit Drupal Summit 2014, in association with GLADCamp
The Non-Profit Summit is on March 7, 2014, in Pasadena, California, in association with the Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp (GLADCamp). This is part of GLADCamp's theme of “Drupal for Good” and will be for and by non-profits in the Greater Los Angeles Area and beyond.
Attending the summit is free! Are you a non-profit and want to use Open Source Software and Drupal to amplify your efforts? Are you a service provider who specializes in products, training or other services for non-profits? Do you just want to learn more? This event is for you.
Read moreCall for Trainings at GLADCamp 2014!
Training day at GLADCamp 2014, this year's Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp, is on March 7th, 2014. We have room at our conference venue for 3 simultaneous trainings and are starting our call for trainings! Everyone is welcome to apply:
https://gladcamp.org/2014/training
Space is limited and priority is given to experienced Drupal trainers and training companies. Don't let that discourage you, though. If you're a newcomer to the Drupal training scene and want to offer something no one has offered before, we'd love to hear from you!
Read moreRequest for input on our "Coders with a Cause: Community Barn Raisings and Drupal for Good" session at GLADCamp 2014
Hi everybody,
Lee Vodra and I (two of the founders of Droplabs, a Drupal-friendly coworking space in Los Angeles, and creators of the Coders with a Cause program) will be presenting on barn raisings and "Drupal for Good" in action at the Non-Profit Drupal Summit at GLADCamp next month.
Read morePlan and discuss the first Extreme Drupal Games (aka the "Golden Neckbeard" competition) for GLADCamp 2014
This year's GLADCamp conference will feature the first Extreme Drupal Games! This event will run throughout the conference, beginning on Friday, March 7th and ending when winners are announced at the closing of the conference on Sunday, March 9th.
We have a sponsor who will be donating 6 identical VMs (distro and stack TBD) for us to use during the conference. I've asked that each VM have a minimum of 2 cores and 4GB of RAM, but exact specs are still being worked out. These VMs are hosted at 1 Wilshire in Downtown Los Angeles, so there will be extremely low latency.
The plan right now is for up to 6 teams to compete over the course of the weekend, tuning both the stack and the Drupal application to get the best possible performance in the allotted time. The team with the fastest Drupal site at the end of the conference will be declared the winner.
Now that we have a date and time, the question is how we're going to load test and judge the teams. What are the rules? Do we test for both anonymous and logged in users? Will contestants be permitted to rip out pieces of the stack and install completely different ones? How about the use of premade scripts? Do we allow commercial software, or go 100% free and open source?
Read moreGLADCamp (Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp) on March 7, 8 & 9, 2014, in Pasadena, California!
Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp (GLADCamp) is a free, 3-day conference for All Things Drupal on March 7th, 8th & 9th, 2014, at the Hilton Pasadena & Convention Center in Pasadena, California.
We're planning a conference that's packed with 3 full days of activities, including sessions, presentations, trainings, topic-based summits, a job fair, a barn raising to benefit a local non-profit, receptions, and more!
Our community members are also planning their own events to coincide with the conference, including client meetings and company retreats.
