About Greater Los Angeles Drupal (GLAD)
Greater Los Angeles Drupal (GLAD) is the umbrella group for most of the Drupal activity in the Greater Los Angeles Area.
With several weekly and monthly events, the Greater Los Angeles Area is one the most active areas for Drupal in the world. We've been bringing more Drupal to more people since 2010, and have as many as 10 meetups and other events dedicated to Drupal topics each and every month.
Our members and organizers have produced hundreds of Drupal events, including job fairs, meetups and workshops, conferences, paid trainings, coworking days, study group sessions, movie outings, FREE tutoring sessions from Drupal professionals, and website barnraisings to benefit non-profits and members of our community.
The Greater Los Angeles Drupal leadership team endeavors to actively empower and support volunteers and attendees in the Greater Los Angeles Area, and to provide resources (venues, guidance, equipment, raffle prizes, etc.) and an open governance model with consistency, transparency and accountability.
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Several of our members and organizers proudly participate in the California Drupal Travelers Program, which aims to connect businesses and community members who are visiting the area with our local community and events. Inquire within by contacting any of the Greater Los Angeles Drupal organizers, or by joining the global Drupal Hospitality Network.
What's different about this group? (?)
In addition to our unique open governance model, GLAD has a different geographic focus than other regional groups. Formerly named Downtown Los Angeles Drupal, we've been meeting regularly in and around Downtown Los Angeles, California, since early 2010.
GLAD organizers lead a large number of events in the Greater Los Angeles Area, including Downtown Los Angeles, Koreatown, Culver City, Santa Monica, Pasadena, the San Fernando Valley, Orange County, Riverside and Ventura.
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Suggested Topics
Is there a topic you'd like to learn more about? Would you like to offer a presentation, show-and-tell, or quick lightning talk? Please take a look at our Suggested Topics page.
For events by other Drupal user groups in the area, see our Drupal Meetups in the Greater Los Angeles Area page.
News, Events and Discussions
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AMA (ask me anything) with Mike Haggerty of Trellon on Fundraising, Events and Advocacy with AbleOrganizer
Hi everybody, I just wanted to announce that Mike Haggerty at Trellon will be presenting on AbleOrganizer, their community engagement platform, at tonight's Downtown Drupal Meetup and Webcast. Please join us!
Fundraising, Events and Advocacy with AbleOrganizer by Mike Haggerty
https://groups.drupal.org/node/434603#join-online
Mike presented at GLADCamp (Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp) earlier this year. In case you missed it, this is your chance to get up to speed. Here's the AbleOrganizer website:
Read moreDrupal Meetup at Playaskool in Black Rock City, Nevada, at 1:30pm on Saturday, August 30, 2014
We're excited to announce our second Drupal event on the playa at Burning Man! Join us at 1:30pm on Saturday, August 30, 2014, in the dome at Playaskool.
Playaskool is at 10 & J. (It might show up at "Recess Reunion" on some maps.) This is the venue where TEDx is on Friday.
Are you interested in attending? Sign up below, follow DrupalBRC on Twitter for updates, invite your friends on Facebook!
This is going to be a meet-and-greet and many of us will be meeting (some the first time) to talk about Drupal and how you're using it to change the world. We'll catch up with each other from last year's event, chat about the upcoming Burning Man installation profile and have some cold drinks.
Wait, what? There's a Drupal event at Burning Man?
Yes! This is our second event of the new-ish Burning Man group here on Drupal Groups. If you're using Drupal for your regional events or theme camps, or are considering it and are looking for help and inspiration, this is the group for you. We also have a Burning Man Regional Groups and Theme Camps Using Drupal wiki page you might be interested in.
Read moreDrupal Coworking Friday and Indie Code Sprints at Droplabs DTLA on August 8, 2014
Are you an entrepreneur, freelancer or remote worker? You don't have to work alone. Join us for Drupal Coworking Friday at Droplabs, a collaborative coworking space, classroom and computer lab, on Friday, August 8, 2014.
Indie Code Sprints
This day-long event is being combined with indie code sprints for your personal Drupal projects. Drop in any time during the day and work on your modules, themes and sites and contribute to Drupal.org! If you need any help, there will be experienced mentors on hand to provide assistance. Please note that our mentors will also be working on their own projects and might need your help with acceptance testing, user feedback, etc.
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Image Action for Blend mode: Darken or Multiply?
Hi There, anyone have any code written for a custom Image Style Action that will blend (darken or multiply) an image into a canvas color I provide?
I've been toying with Image Styles Actions module and I can't seem to find a darken/multiply blend mode.
I can't install ImageMagick on this server, if that's important. So I'm hoping for an Action I can load that will process the images as necessary.
Any way to do this with Image Actions or with custom code?
Thanks!!
Read moreGreater Los Angeles Drupal Special Event: Silicon Beach Drupal with Friday5.org Founder Michael Berman
We're excited to announce a Greater Los Angeles Drupal Special Event: Silicon Beach Drupal with Friday5.org Founder Michael Berman. This event focuses heavily on the needs of startups, innovative ways to use the Drupal framework and related technologies, and the nuts and bolts of product development and customer acquisition.
Join us on Tuesday, September 16, 2014 in Santa Monica, CA, between 7-9pm Pacific. This will be our first-ever meetup at BLANKSPACES Santa Monica. Seating, food and drinks are limited and RSVPs are encouraged.
This is an off-the-record presentation and discussion and there will not be a webcast for this meetup.
Friday5 Demo and Case Study by Michael Berman
Michael Berman is Founder of both Friday5, a Drupal-based crowdfunding platform for nonprofits, and Ready, a real-time location-based mobile app that brings new friends together.
Prior to founding Friday5 and Ready, Michael spent many years selling at Fortune 1000 and Fortune 500 companies. In 2010, he stumbled upon a promising little startup in Silicon Valley called Eventbrite. Michael lead Eventbrite's sales team during two years of rapid company expansion, scaling from 40 to 200+ employees, and was a part of many successes including raising 130m in venture funding.
Michael's Eventbrite experience propelled him to create a company of his own, and it manifested into Friday5, an innovative crowd-funding platform that helps take the guesswork out of finding worthy causes and making tax-deductible donations. Members who sign up at Friday5.org enter their credit card information, select the amount they want to donate to a nonprofit each week, and then receive a weekly email detailing which cause Friday5 has carefully curated for that week’s crowd-funded donation.
In short, Friday5 is helping change the world — one Friday at a time — and they’ve been praised in publications such as Forbes and PandoDaily. Check out the case study, Everybody Loves Friday5: The Crowdfunding Platform for Nonprofits, for some technical information on how Friday5 was designed and engineered.
Read moreOpen Members Meeting at Droplabs DTLA on July 30, 2014: Droplabs Academy, Drupal Design Camp LA and more
On the last Wednesday of each month at 7pm, Droplabs has an open stakeholders meeting with the Droplabs founders, keyholders and members of our community in and around Los Angeles, California.
(Join us a little earlier from 5-6:30pm for dinner and drinks at Drupal Happy Hour at Barbara's, which is just a 5-minute walk away.)
These open members meetings are a great opportunity to kick back after a day of coworking, get to know your coworkers, and request, offer and brainstorm new services and upcoming events to serve our members and larger community.
At this meeting we'll be discussing several topics that are related to Drupal.
Read moreAttention LA-area Drupal community webmasters, come and get yer sites
Hi everyone, after doing some house keeping it looks to me like all the sites that have been on the "musclebeach" server at SoftLayer since 2010 are either abandoned or have been moved off to other servers.
I'll be wiping this server no sooner than 2 weeks from today. The backups are in Amazon S3 and I don't plan to delete those.
If I'm mistaken and one of the sites listed here is not hosted or backed up elsewhere, please let me know within the next two weeks that you're the proper custodian of that site and I'll give you copies of the site backups I have.
Read moreEXTREME DRUPAL MEETUP! High Performance, DevOps & Large Scale Drupal in Marina Del Rey, CA and Webcast on August 19, 2014
We're rebooting the High Performance Drupal Meetup! Join us for the first Extreme Drupal Meetup where we focus on Drupal scalability, performance and benchmarking as well as devops, deployment, infrastructure, high performance hosting, monitoring and highly repeatable processes.
This meetup is on Tuesday, August 19, 2014, between 7-9pm Pacific. Those interested in attending this meetup remotely are welcome to join the webcast.
We're also excited to announce our first-ever meetup at our new Marina Del Rey venue right next to Mothers Beach.
About Extreme Drupal
Formerly known as the High Performance Drupal Meetup, this event covers Drupal scalability, performance and benchmarking as well as devops, deployment, infrastructure, high performance hosting, monitoring and highly repeatable processes.
All are welcome but this is not a meetup for beginners.
We've been meeting since April, 2011, in a variety of locations around the Greater Los Angeles Area. 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.
Read moreIntroduction to Drupal Workshop by Exaltation of Larks in Marina Del Rey, CA on August 8, 2014
What is Drupal? For large and complex websites, nothing beats it! Where do you start? What is the best way to organize your project to get the best chance of success?
This workshop will help you turn your ideas into a concrete todo list — whether you're building the site yourself, handing it off to a developer to build, or something in-between.
At this workshop, you'll have access to Drupal experts at Exaltation of Larks — a Drupal design and engineering firm with a team of experts in Los Angeles — learn about Drupal and have a fun day!
This is the perfect workshop for you if:
- You're new to using Drupal and need a jumpstart in planning a large project
- You're investigating Drupal's viability for your next project
- You're wondering whether to invest time in learning Drupal
- You don't have the time to learn Drupal but will be involved in a Drupal project
Downtown Drupal Meetup at Barbara's at the Brewery and via Webcast on August 5, 2014: Show & Tell and AbleOrganizer
The 1st Tuesday of the month is coming up again and it's time for another Downtown Drupal Meetup! Join us at Barbara's at the Brewery near Downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, August 5, 2014 between 7-9pm Pacific. This meetup is free and there will be food, drinks, and raffle prizes!
Those who would like to attend remotely are welcome to join us via webcast.
Are you new to Drupal or the Downtown Drupal meetup? Come learn about Drupal and how others like yourself are using it for their project, business or organization. We promise not to talk down to you.
At this meetup we're having another Drupal Show & Tell. After some quick introductions and light news and announcements, we'll be going into 5-minute presentations (called lightning talks) on the projects that each person is working on. We won't be able to get to everyone, but everyone who attends will be expected to present on something.
Did you recently attend a great Drupal or tech event that you want to tell us about? Are you currently having a problem that you need help with? Did you solve a problem recently and now have a solution to share with the group? You'll have up to 5 minutes to present and then up to 5 more minutes for Q&A with the other attendees. We'll be using a chess clock to make sure that everyone has enough time.
That's right, it's like Drupal speed chess! (The difference, of course, is that we're not really competing. We're here to share and learn and not "smack down" anybody.)
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