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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Planning wiki for Drupal booth at SCaLE - 12th annual So Cal Linux Expo; Feb 22-23, 2014
Sign up here with your contact info and how you'd like to contribute:
Step 1: Signup
IMPORTANT: Key coverage times are during session breaks, when there is atypically a surge on the floor. Please make an effort to help us cover questions at these times: 11-11:30a, 12:30p, 2:30-3p, 4p-4:30p, 5:30p
- Chris Stauffer - Stauffer
I'm the contact person! If you've committed to 4+hrs of volunteer and want/need free admission, contact me and I'll email you "the code."
Drupal Camp Phoenix 2014
Drupal Camp PHX is a 2-day conference organized by Drupal professionals and the Phoenix Drupal User Group (PHX DUG) to promote and advance the Drupal community in Arizona and the Southwest region. Drupal Camp PHX brings together a variety of people interested in learning and growing skills in open-source, web content management and web development. This year's camp will consist of trainings, sessions for various levels of experience, and a chance to contribute to the Drupal core.
- Explore best practices for web developers and marketers alike
Plan 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 moreSo, What Can We Report for the End of This Week?
Hey, GLADCampers! So, I just wanted to check in regarding what we've been able to make happen, and if there is any forward momentum about sponsors, trainings, et al that I can report on for the newsletter. I also plan to declare a general GLADCamp meeting for volunteers in February as well. If anyone wants to make this and has a specification of dates, I'll be happy to hear them, but I'm thinking February 2nd or so.
Read moreDrupal Sprint Weekend 2014 at Droplabs in Downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, January 25, 2014
We're scheduling an extra special Drupal event this Saturday, January 25, 2014, and you're invited!
This is a mega event with four separate activities, including code sprints and expert Drupal mentoring. Join us for any or all of the following, including the Drupal Sprint Weekend: Los Angeles; having a GLADCamp.org website sprint; open lab hours for attendees of the module development boot camp; and a FREE video learning and mentoring workshop using Build a Module.com videos.
Agenda
For any changes to our agenda for the event, stay tuned to this meetup announcement or click the "Sign up" button at https://groups.drupal.org/node/399498#signup (or both!) to be notified when the agenda has been updated.
Drupal Sprint Weekend
The annual Global Drupal Sprint Weekend is upon us and anyone interested in learning more about Drupal core and how the Drupal software project is managed and developed will be guided and mentored in the Drupal Way.
We'll help you select tickets in the core issue queue at https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal to work on so that together as a group we can move Drupal 8 closer to a release date. See https://groups.drupal.org/node/332998 for more details.
GLADCamp.org Code Sprint
Thanks to an amazing team and help from our design and development partners, the GLADCamp.org website is now up! Before we open user registrations and session submissions, the website needs help from volunteers in our community.
We'll be updating the GLADCamp.org website, including descriptions of the non-profit summit and venue and hotel information, and cataloging any remaining bugs in the issue queue at https://drupal.org/project/issues/gladcamp
Open Lab Hours for the Module Development Boot Camp
This weekend is the last best chance for attendees of the Module Development Boot Camp to participate in open lab hours at Droplabs. The boot camp instructors will be on hand to help boot camp attendees finish their class projects and get them published to Drupal.org.
FREE video learning and mentoring with Build a Module.com videos
That's right, we're also doing a mentored Drupal training! If you're interested in learning more about Drupal, site building, theming, module development, change management, or anything else, come with your laptop or tablet and a pair of headphones. The staff at Droplabs will set you up with a day pass to Build a Module.com and help create a video playlist for you to gently climb the Drupal learning curve at your own pace.
Read moreDrupal Commerce Meetup at ROC in Santa Monica on January 30, 2014: E-Commerce Conversion Rate Optimization
We're having another joint meetup this month with the eCommerce Merchants group. The main topic this month will be on E-Commerce Conversion Rate Optimization with a presentation by Daniel Gonzalez from Conversion IQ.
Our food, drinks and venue sponsor is Solid Commerce, a web-based platform that makes it easy to manage inventory across multiple marketplaces. To help us with a headcount, please sure to sign up below or RSVP on Meetup.com.
E-Commerce Conversion Rate Optimization
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blockquote>Everyone operating an e-commerce shop understands customer acquisition can be difficult and expensive. Conversion Rate Optimization is the scientific process of increasing website leads and sales without spending money on attracting more visitors by reducing visitor "bounce rate" and improving sales metrics.
Read moreDrupal "meet and greet" meetup at Great Matter in Torrance, California, on January 17, 2014
As you may know, Torrance, California has 1.5 miles of beaches, warm temperatures and sea breezes… but did you know that there is now a user group for Drupal aficionados in Torrance?
Join us this Friday at 5pm at Great Matter in Torrance, California, for a "meet and greet" meetup. If anyone have any questions, please don't hesitate to email Adam at Great Matter (or contact him on Meetup.com). If you have any dietary restrictions, just let him know.
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SANDcamp 2014 Jan 23-25 Marina Village Conference Center, San Diego
SANDcamp 2014 is coming in less than 2 weeks, Jan 23-25!
We've got a great schedule of sessions and after parties this year at the seaside Marina Village Conference Center. Registration and ticket info at http://www.sandcamp.org/
Camp Summary
Jan 23 Day 1- Specialty training by various Drupal industry leaders, registration and training info here Drupal Training
Jan 23 Welcome Party - Sponsored by MJD and Acquia at the MJD office in Pacific Beach
GLADCamp Organizational Meeting January 19th or 20th
So as some of us already are starting to feel in their bones, GLADCamp 2014 is fast approaching, so it has fallen onto me to organize as much of us as can be assembled for an organizational meeting. Stewart and Oliver, I hope I can see you there at the very least.
So right now, I figure it might make sense to coordinate schedules to meet up within the next two weeks. What does, say, next Sunday or Monday look like for everybody, the 19th-20th look like for everybody? Let me know that asap so we can get something dialed in that will work for everybody.
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January 2014 SGV Meetup
Last month we had a good meeting with presentations on Workgroup and GLAD a year in review. Because of the ways the dates fall this month the meeting is early the 16 th is the third Thursday. I will be good to get together again and kick off the new year.
We do not have any presentations at this time but I we will discuss these in the comments. Normally we run out of time before we run out of topics so there should not be any worries of a dead meeting.
GLADCamp is just around the corner. This is taking place in the San Gabriel Valley so there should not be any reason us to not be involved. Besides attending we need to look for ways we can volunteer to help make the event amazing!
Come ready to share all your tips.
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