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You are invited to the next DTLA (Downtown Los Angeles) Drupal meetup on April 19, 2011, We're meeting at the offices of at Oversee.net on April 19, 2011 in Downtown Los Angeles. There will be several presentations as well as open discussions, job announcements and time for networking.

Join us for a Drupal After Dark afterward at Weiland's Brewery Underground. Plus, Weiland's will validate your parking to reduce your parking to just $3, so come by any time after 4pm for food, a drink or just to get your parking validated.

How to prepare for the meetup

Just bring your laptop, a power adapter and any other cables you usually use. Food, drinks and wireless Internet are being provided by our sponsor. Thanks, Oversee!

This event is free and no RSVP is required. To breeze through security, however, you can sign up by logging in and clicking the Sign up button below. All who sign up will also have instructions and last-minute details (if there are any) emailed to them before the meeting.

Be sure to update your profile with your full name so that a name badge will be ready for you at the front desk. To do this, log in and click My Account → Edit → Personal and fill in the "Real name" field. This is optional, but it makes things much easier for the event organizers and our venue sponsor. In any case, please be prepared to show a valid photo ID at the front desk.

We want your feedback!

During the meetup, we'll be gathered in the #drupal-la IRC channel and all are welcome to join us. The event organizers will also be checking Twitter for feedback and questions that mention @ladrupal or use the #ladrupal hashtag.

Drupal in a Day is a full day of training on June 20 2011, offered by the Drupal experts at Exaltation of Larks and Chapter Three for just $400.

This introductory workshop will touch upon almost every aspect of the core Drupal framework:

• Discover how to add, edit, and moderate content.
• Learn how to create user accounts and understand Drupal's permissions system.
• See how to set-up menus, and position blocks on a page.
• Create human-readable URLs, and categorize your content using Drupal's taxonomy system.

At the end of this one-day class you'll have a completed Drupal site, which looks and functions a lot like many sites you'll see on the web today.

Save the date! On Friday, May 6, Droplabs is kicking into open beta and throwing what's shaping up to be an extraordinary event, in conjunction with Toyshoppe Systems, another company at Big Art Labs. All of Big Art will turn out, so we thought it would be a great opportunity for the Drupal community to mingle with the Big Art community at the beginning of Drupal's first hacker / co-working space.

It's potluck barbecue, with a great big bonfire, so bring something to throw on the grill, something to drink, and something to munch on. Evenings have been a bit cool, so unless you're super warm blooded, you might find that you need a jacket.

Droplabs' open beta is just that: we're opening up to the community, and not charging until we officially launch in June. We want to give you an opportunity to try it out for free and see how you use it, tell us what you want or don't want, and generally feel free to hang out as much or as little as you want. You know, open beta. Bring your laptop. Show up. Use the space. Interact with your fellow Drupaleros and see how much joy you can bring to your Drupal practice.

We have some furniture, and before we invest in more, we want to see what the needs of the community actually are. (We'll also gladly accept furniture donations.)

A few of us at are staying late tomorrow evening at Droplabs to deploy a Drupal site. We'll be working with Git and a DV server at Media Temple and will set up dev, test and live sites. You're invited to attend, participate, ask questions and learn how to make this a highly repeatable process for you and your clients.