Ventura Drupal
This group is for Drupal users and professionals in Ventura, California, and the surrounding area of Ventura County, which includes the cities of Camarillo, Fillmore, Moorpark, Ojai, Oxnard, Port Hueneme, Santa Paula, Simi Valley and Thousand Oaks.
Downtown LA Drupal Meetup on February 21, 2012 at Droplabs: Banking on Drupal at the Echo Park Time Bank
The next Downtown LA Drupal meetup is on February 21, 2012 and will be at Droplabs, a Drupal event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles. Created by LA Drupal members for the LA Drupal community, Droplabs is the host of LA Drupal's monthly Downtown LA meetup, the weekly Pro Drupal 7 Development book study group and special events like LA Drupal's job fairs.
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.
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.
Light food and refreshments will be served throughout the evening courtesy of our food and drink sponsor, Exaltation of Larks, a Drupal strategy, consulting, development and training company with a team of Drupal experts in Los Angeles.
We'll finish off the night with more networking and a Drupal After Dark at 9:30pm.
SANDcamp Registration Special
We have a few rooms left to book at the OMNI so to use them up we are running a special until Friday, January 20 at 3 PM:
- Two days of camp
- Two lunches
- 1 Ticket to the Andaz Rooftop Bon Voyage Party
- 1 night at the fabulous five-star OMNI
- $149
- 20 available, first-come-first-served
To get this great deal:
High Performance Drupal meetup at Filter Digital in Culver City on February 7, 2012
| Video: The Magic of NewRelic, by Robert J. Brown: http://blip.tv/ladrupal/episode/5944185 Video: Drupal and MongoDB, by Ashok Modi: http://blip.tv/ladrupal/episode/5944184 |
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.
Distribution Summit
This year SANDcamp 2012 is featuring an innovative Distribution Summit aimed at streamlining all things Drupal Distributions.
Register and get more information at SANDcamp.org.
SANDcamp Event Sign Ups, Training, Agenda
Hey Drupalers,
Drupal SANDcamp 2012, January 25-28, in San Diego is shaping up to be a big success. We are expecting hundreds of executives, technical leaders, experts and users of all experience levels to participate. SANDcamp’s four-day agenda is filling fast:
Who's going to SANDcamp this year? Post here if you're looking for co-presenters or rideshares
Who's going to SANDcamp this year? There's a large contingent of LA Drupal members who are going, so feel free to post here if you're looking for co-presenters or rideshares.
SANDcamp is Coming! (Updates)
Register: Register Here
LAST CALL to Propose a Session (after registration/login): Propose a Session
Book at the swanky Omni Hotel to get a Special Rate: Limited Rooms
Summit Pre-camp Training: Submit Training
UUASC-LA Presents "Introduction to Git" by Randal Schwartz on January 5, 2012 at Media Temple in Culver City
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
Worldwide Coworking Day at Droplabs on January 16, 2012 #JELLYWEEK2012
January 16, 2012 is Worldwide #JELLYWEEK in North America and at Droplabs we're celebrating with a day of coworking (or jelly, as they call it in Australia). You're invited!
Drupal Coworking Friday at Droplabs on January 27, 2012
Droplabs is happy to take part in Drupal Coworking Friday, a worldwide event spurred in part by the DrupalEasy Podcast #65 which featured Droplabs. We're in Downtown Los Angeles and are happy to host anyone in our local community or who is just passing through for some coworking on the last Friday of each month for some coworking. This event is free!
While every day is a Drupal coworking day at Droplabs, we're doing something different on Drupal Coworking Fridays and will provide light food and drinks all day. These are being hosted by Blake, Christefano and Paul, a few of the Droplabs founders.
After the day is over, a group of us will go to a nearby restaurant or pub. In the past we've had beers and a bonfire and were serenaded by Skrillex. We've also gone to a variety of other locations, including Barbara's at The Brewery (at 620 Moulton Ave., just a 5 minute walk away) and Carnitas Michoacan (on 1901 N. Broadway, just a 5 minute drive away).
About Drupal Coworking Friday:
- Proposed date: Last Friday of each month
- It takes place in your local city
- Anyone can start/host one
- Focused on Drupal Professionals (freelance, fulltime, part time, in office, home, etc.)
- This is not a meetup, code-sprint, BoF or presentation
- Attendees would still do their regular work/calls/etc
- Other Drupal folks would be there to talk to, collaborate, advise (and likewise for the attendee)
- Ideally, an entire section of the space will be dedicated for Drupal professionals
See http://groups.drupal.org/node/195983 for the Drupal Coworking Friday FAQ and the Coworking group at http://groups.drupal.org/coworking for general information about coworking.
Drupal Scalability and Performance training at SANDCamp 2012 on January 26, 2012
Join us at SANDcamp, the San Diego Drupal Camp, on Thursday, January 26, 2012 for a full day of scalability and performance training! This class is being offered at a 50% discount off our normal prices. Sign up today or contact us with any questions.
| Sign up today at http://www.larks.la/training |
In this all-day workshop, top experts with years of front-line experience building large-scale Drupal deployments show you the best known practices for running fast sites for a large volume of users. Starting with a blank Linux virtual server, we will work through the setup, configuration and tuning of Drupal using Varnish, Pressflow, Apache, MySQL, Memcache and Apache Solr.
Through this process, we will explain common pitfalls and how to avoid them. By the end of this course you should feel comfortable with the basics of how to setup, configure and tune your Drupal site. You’ll learn the most robust solutions the community has discovered.
Leave GoDaddy Day at Droplabs on December 29, 2011
December 29, 2011 is Leave GoDaddy Day and we're celebrating the occasion with a domain transfer and website migration workshop at Droplabs. You're invited!
What's Leave GoDaddy Day, you say? In simplest terms, we're participating in a global event with thousands of others and are moving GoDaddy-registered domains and GoDaddy-hosted websites to other registrars and webhosts.
This impromptu workshop is being organized by individuals who have done this migration already. If you've been inclined to do the same but wanted a helpful hand, this event is for you. Drop in any time between 11am and 4pm. We'll also be in the #droplabs IRC channel during the workshop and will provide emotional and technical support as needed.
SANDcamp 2012 Registration and Call for Submissions Now Open!
SANDcamp 2012 Registration and Call for Sessions is Now Open!
Registration is now open: Register Here
Submit Session (after registration/login): Submit a Session
Book your stay, rooms are limited at the Omni Hotel: Limited Rooms
High Performance Drupal meetup in Mar Vista on January 3, 2012
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!).
| When: 5pm to 8pm on Tuesday, January 3, 2012 |
| Where: Venice Grind at 12224 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90066 |
Is anyone in California attending the Drupal on the Bayou Summit?
Out of Curiosity...
Hello Everyone!
I was just wondering how many people will be representing California at the Drupal on the Bayou Summit next week? I'm very much looking forward to meeting more of our Drupal community, maybe I'll see some of you there?
Peace!
Downtown LA Drupal meetup, Holiday Party and Food Drive on December 16, 2011 at Droplabs
Due to the holidays, the next Downtown LA Drupal meetup in December has been rescheduled to be on Friday, December 16, 2011. We're being hosted again by Droplabs, an event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles created by LA Drupal members for LA Drupal community. This time we're combining our meetup with a holiday party and food drive. You're invited!
LA Drupal meetups follow a basic format and start off with Drupal news and announcements, local job announcements, raffle prizes and presentations. We're forgoing full-length presentations this time and will be opening the floor to 5-10 minute-long presentations known as lightning talks. As always, we'll have our community Q&A, during which time anyone in attendance can ask questions and divine answers from the crowd.
Light food and refreshments will be served throughout the evening courtesy of our food and drink sponsor, Exaltation of Larks, and we'll finish off the night with more networking and a Drupal After Dark at 9:30pm.
Agenda
6:30pm
Food drive for the LA Food Bank and Occupy Los Angeles
Users Helping Users
Projector and tables / chairs setup
7:30-9:30pm
Holiday party at Droplabs
Introductions and job announcements
Lightning talks and community questions and answers
Raffle prizes! Collect them all! Must be present to win!
9:30pm
Wrap-up, Clean-up and Close-up
Drupal After Dark and open networking
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.
Downtown LA Drupal Meetup on January 17, 2012 at Droplabs: Marketplace.org Case Study
| Video: Marketplace.org Case Study http://blip.tv/ladrupal/episode/5944371 |
The next Downtown LA Drupal meetup is on January 17, 2012 and will be at Droplabs, a Drupal event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles. Created by LA Drupal members for the LA Drupal community, Droplabs is the host of LA Drupal's monthly Downtown LA meetup, the weekly Pro Drupal 7 Development book study group and special events like the LA Drupal job fairs in June and November, 2011.
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.
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.
Light food and refreshments will be served throughout the evening courtesy of our food and drink sponsor, Exaltation of Larks, a Drupal strategy, consulting, development and training company with a team of Drupal experts in Los Angeles.
We'll finish off the night with more networking and a Drupal After Dark at 9:30pm.
Agenda
6:30pm
Users Helping Users
Projector and tables / chairs setup
7:30pm
Introductions and job announcements
News (SCALE 10x, Drupal Design Camp LA, DrupalCon Denver, etc.)
Community questions and answers
8:30pm
Case study on Marketplace.org by Matt Berger, Paul Brent and Abhishek Taneja
Lightning talks
Raffle prizes!
9:30pm
Wrap-up, Clean-up and Close-up
Drupal After Dark and networking session
Drupal Design Camp LA 2012 planning
Hi organizers,
Is anyone interested in a Drupal Design Camp LA conference for next year? It hasn't been officially announced or scheduled on the calendar yet, but if next year's DDCLA is anything like the one we had earlier this year it would be some time in February.
Drupal meetups or get-togethers in Ventura County in 2011?
Hi, Ventura Drupal! There's a lot of activity in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, but not much here in Ventura County. By my count there have been five events over the years but none have been in 2011. Is anyone interested in there being a 6th in either November or December?
In other group news, I moved job posts to their own Jobs page. To keep event announcements (including my own) in other groups from crowding out the announcements in this group, I've created a separate page and accompanying RSS feed for events specifically in Ventura County:
LA Drupal job fair on November 15, 2011 from 4-7pm at Droplabs
Do you represent a company or organization that's looking for Drupal talent? Are you a freelancer or service provider who's looking for Drupal work?
Come and make new friends and turn new connections into long-term relationships at the next LA Drupal job fair on November 15, 2011. This event is being hosted by Droplabs, a Drupal event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles, the venue of the successful LA Drupal job fair in June, 2011.
Light food and drinks are being provided by Chimney Coffee House, our favorite neighborhood cafe, bakery, sandwich and dessert boutique. Chimney is also the location of the local branch of Stanford's machine learning class.
Droplabs is also hosting the popular Downtown LA Drupal meetup the same evening at 7:30pm. If you're looking for Drupal talent and are interested in reaching as many up-and-coming Drupal developers, designers, themers and architects as possible, this month's meetup at Droplabs is a great place to be.
Sign up!
If you are looking for Drupal work, you are welcome to sign up by clicking the Sign up button below. This is optional but it will confirm you to attend and there is nothing else to do other than arriving at the event at 4pm. An automatic email reminder will be sent to you 1 day before the event.
If you're an employer or a representative of a company or organization, contact us at jobs-nov15jobfair@droplabs.net or http://droplabs.net/contact and we'll follow up with you about sponsorship opportunities.
Conference Organizing Distribution (COD) code sprint on October 8 & 9, 2011 in Downtown Los Angeles #CODD7
Join members of the Los Angeles Drupal user group in the Drupal community's second code sprint for updating COD (Conference Organizing Distribution) to Drupal 7. This is a joint event produced by LA Drupal's Pro Drupal 7 Development book study group and Droplabs, a Drupal coworking / hackerspace in Downtown Los Angeles.
Join us in person or online!
During the code sprint, we'll be gathered in the #drupal-cod IRC channel and all are welcome to join us. The event organizers and attendees will also be checking Twitter for feedback and questions that mention @UseCOD or use the #CODD7 hashtag.
About COD, the Conference Organizing Distribution
COD is used for building conference and event websites. It's built on Drupal, the highly-regarded open-source web framework and content management system, and each component is independent of each other. This means you can disable the features you don't need, whether it's selling tickets or listing sponsors or allowing session voting.
Just like Drupal, COD is free and can be used by anyone. There is a very long list of sites that use COD, from the DrupalCon Chicago and DrupalCon London conferences to RIACon, Brisbane Innovation Camp, the Meego Conference, the Bay Area Drupal Camp, and our own Drupal Design Camp LA.
Here are just some of the great features in COD:
- Session submission, voting and moderation
- Session schedule grid
- Personalized attendee schedules
- Easy event registration and attendee management
- Community features (forums, friending, etc.)
- Easy sponsors management
We're already using COD on Drupal 6 for the Drupal Design Camp LA 2011 website and we plan to use COD on Drupal 7 for Drupal Design Camp LA 2012. COD is not yet ready for this but we're not afraid of rolling up our sleeves and getting our hands dirty.
Help us improve COD and you'll also be helping numerous Drupal contrib projects, including Location, Signup and Commerce, as well as other organizations and conferences, such as DrupalCon, SCALE 10x and DrupalCamps around the world including our own Drupal Design Camp LA.
COD on Drupal 7 Battleplans
- Find a venue (done! we're meeting at Droplabs)
- Gather interest and sponsorships
- Set up a hosting environment for group collaboration
- Add contributors to our version control system
- Download COD, set up the team with tools, including Quickstart
- Get up to speed on work that has already been done:
- San Diego COD sprint on May 7, 2011
- Notes on Lullabot's Etherpad instance at http://lullapad.com/h12fYizetk
- Upgrading COD to Drupal 7: Sprint 1 - San Diego
- COD roadmap
- Porting COD to Drupal 7
- COD on Drupal 7 How-to
- Debate Commerce vs. Ubercart 3 (just kidding: the COD roadmap lists Commerce)
- Code! Code! Code!
- Update the COD issue queue with current progress
- Write a summary for Planet Drupal to thank our sponsors and contributors, aid any future CODD7 sprints, etc.
Pre-sprint discussion and planning
We've already begun discussing and planning several parts of the code sprint during the first 15 minutes of each Pro Drupal 7 Development book study group meeting. To join the conversation, click the Signup button below, post a comment below, contact any of the event organizers at the top of this page or just drop by the Pro Drupal 7 Development study group some Monday night.
The attendance of the book study group is already capped for this book group cycle but you're more than welcome to drop by, talk with us and work on your projects at Droplabs alongside other Drupaleros.
Downtown LA Drupal meetup from 7:30-9:30pm on November 15, 2011 at Droplabs
| Video: http://blip.tv/ladrupal/episode/5743625 |
The next Downtown LA Drupal meetup is on November 15, 2011 and will be at Droplabs, a Drupal event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles. Created by LA Drupal members for the LA Drupal community, Droplabs is the host of LA Drupal's monthly Downtown LA meetup, the weekly Pro Drupal 7 Development book study group and special events including an LA Drupal job fair the same day on November 15, 2011, from 4-7pm.
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.
Light food and refreshments will be served throughout the evening courtesy of our food and drink sponsor, Exaltation of Larks, and 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.
Drupal Fundamentals training in Los Angeles on October 31, 2011
This introductory one-day workshop touches on nearly every aspect of the core Drupal framework and covers many must-have modules. You'll learn best practices from the experts at Exaltation of Larks how to create a sustainable framework for managing your content. By the end of the day, you'll have created a Drupal site that looks and functions much like any you’ll see on the web today.
| Sign up today at http://www.larks.la/training |
Drupal Scalability and Performance training in Los Angeles on October 31, 2011
In this all-day workshop, top experts with years of front-line experience building large-scale Drupal deployments show you the best known practices for running fast sites for a large volume of users. Starting with a blank Linux virtual server, we will work through the setup, configuration and tuning of Drupal using Varnish, Pressflow, Apache, MySQL, Memcache and Apache Solr.
Developing RESTful Web Services and APIs training in Los Angeles on November 3, 4 & 5, 2011
Developing RESTful Web Services and APIs is a 2-day training on November 3 & 4, 2011, with an optional third day of additional hands-on support for those developers seeking accelerated understanding of exploiting Services 3.0 to its fullest.
During this training, the experts at Exaltation of Larks cover the fundamentals of using the Drupal Services module to create, test and support use of your own web API. This training covers Services 3.0 for both Drupal 6 and Drupal 7.
This is the training you need if you're using Drupal to create a backend for iPad, iPhone or Android applications. Developing your own web API is essential to entering the SaaS (Software as a Service) business model and this training gets you there.
| Sign up today at http://www.larks.la/training |
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