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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I created my first sandbox project: DbLog Event Simple Pager module
Adds simple forward/backward links to dbLog Event pages, via jQuery. This is to help debug if you'd like to move forward and backward through the events easily.
http://drupal.org/sandbox/ToddZebert/1972430
While I feel very comfortable coding Drupal, this is my first contrib module. Thanks to everyone in the LA Drupal community who've helped me at various time throughout the years.
- Sorry if this is inappropriate to post here.
Startup Weekend Santa Maria
Contact me and I can get you a FREE TICKET to Startup Weekend Santa Maria!!! Web developers and designers are always in demand.
http://santamaria.startupweekend.org/
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New venue for this month's meetup in Pasadena
Hello, Drupaleros of San Gabriel Valley!
We're putting a meetup together this month on Thursday, April 25th. I just got off the phone with a hot venue in Pasadena and I'm hoping it comes through in time. We're going through their application process now and have some insurance details to work out.
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Drupal 7 Module Development Boot Camp Spring 2013 Los Angeles
Who is interested in participating in a Drupal 7 Module Development Bootcamp? We have created this as a discussion because we are still in the planning stage and would like hear more ideas. When our plans are firmed up we will post an event. So please feel free to comment.
This is what we have discussed so far. Most of this is still up for discussion and change.
Goal:
To conduct an intense course of about 10 meetings in Drupal module development. Whereas by the end of the course, a successful participant will be a competent Drupal backend developer.
Organizers:
Ron Golan
What host do you use?
We need to change hosting for our drupal site. What host do you all use? Perhaps one with drush pre-installed?
Read moreDrupal Commerce Meetup at Droplabs in Downtown Los Angeles on April 23, 2013
We're excited to announce our first Drupal Commerce Meetup, on Tuesday, April 23, 2013, between 6-8pm. This is a new meetup and we meet on the 4th Tuesday of each month at a variety of venues.
We're meeting this time at Droplabs, a collaborative classroom, coworking space and hackerspace near Downtown Los Angeles. Those interested in attending this meetup remotely are welcome to join us via WebEx.
At our first-ever Drupal Commerce meetup, we'll be joined by of Commerce Guys' Ryan Szrama (@ryanszrama), the project lead of Drupal Commerce, who will present on integrating third-party product recommendation services with Drupal Commerce.
We'll also have a demonstration of the Commerce Kickstart installation profile and a walkthrough of many of the features found in the Commerce framework. If time permits, we'll also demonstrate a few interesting modules that extend Commerce in interesting ways, and learn about some of the community resources that are available to new site owners — and new business owners!
Do you have a request or an offer for additional presentations? Let us know by posting in the comments below. Thank you!
Read moreVentura Drupal Meetup at BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse in Westlake Village, CA, on April 24, 2013: Introductions & Users Helping Users
Drupal meetups are officially back in Ventura County! We're kicking off our new series of Drupal After Dark outings and monthly Ventura Drupal meetings with Introductions & Users Helping Users at BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse in Westlake Village, CA, on Wednesday, April 24, 2013, from 6:00-8:00pm. Join us!
There aren't any formal presentations scheduled for this event. Instead, we'll be getting together and talking tech and Drupal over some good food and microbeers. We'll have a round of introductions and raffle prizes, but for the most part we're introducing ourselves and getting to know each other.
If there's interest, we'll do a "reverse case study" of the BJ's Restaurant website at http://www.bjsrestaurants.com and talk about how we'd build it.
Formal presentations are being planned for our meetups on the 2nd Wednesdays of each month, starting on May 8, 2013, at Ventura Drupal's new meetup host, Pixelgate.
Read morePlanning for Drupal Everywhere, our full-day "Drupal for Mobile" summit on April 27, 2013
Not sure if this is the right place to post this. But I have not seen anything about planning for Drupal Everywhere on April 27th. Am I missing it? In any case I have some time this weekend to help out
Read moreDrupal 6 end of life when Drupal 8 is released… or not?
At the Boston Drupal meetup that was at Acquia this month, several presentations were focused on "what's new in Drupal 8" from the view of several people who now work at Acquia. I loved it. There were other presentations, as well (including one of my own!), and I really enjoyed seeing the Boston Drupal group again after many months.
During the questions and answers part of the meetup, I asked Dries if he was considering naming a security maintainer for Drupal 6 when Drupal 8 is released. (In case you didn't know, support for Drupal 6 will be discontinued by the Drupal core and security teams. See the handbook page on backwards compatibility at https://drupal.org/node/65922 for more, including Dries' original statement on the subject in 2006.)
Read moreIf you're still managing Drupal 6 sites when Drupal 8 is released, what will help you out the most with keeping them running?