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
These posts are shown in the order that they were posted (i.e. events do not appear in the order in which they are scheduled in the calendar).
Introduction to Drupal Workshop and Fundraiser at Droplabs on September 28, 2012
What is Drupal? For large and complex websites, nothing beats Drupal! 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.
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
High Performance Drupal Meetup at Droplabs on October 2, 2012: Vagrant, SPDY and Google Ad Manager
The next High Performance Drupal meetup is on Tuesday, October 2, 2012 and will be at Droplabs, your FREE Drupal event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles. Are you interested in attending this meetup but can't make it in person? You're welcome to attend remotely to via WebEx.
At this meetup, we'll learn about Vagrant, an open source tool that's used for creating and configuring virtual development environments. We'll also have an update on SPDY, the featured topic from last month's meetup. Finally, we'll hear about performance issues (and solutions) related to Google Ad Manager.
Thank You to Our Sponsors!
The projector, raffle prizes and video conferencing support for this event are being provided by Exaltation of Larks, a Drupal strategy, consulting, development and training company with a team of Drupal experts in Los Angeles. We create fun websites, mobile apps, virtual worlds and e-commerce sites. Follow us at @LarksLA to learn more about our Drupal services and upcoming trainings.
This event is hosted by Droplabs, a collaborative Drupal event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles. We're quickly gaining a reputation for being the only free coworking space around with a freemium business model: come work here for free and only pay for the extras, such as 24/7 access, equipment rental and a locker for your belongings.
Frontend Drupal meetup at Media Temple on September 25, 2012 in Culver City, CA
We're excited to announce the 2nd event in our series of Frontend Drupal meetups, which are on the 4th Tuesday of every month.
This month, we're meeting at Media Temple in Culver City, between 7-9pm on September 25, 2012. This meetup focuses on design, usability, accessibility and theming, and as part of the Design 4 Drupal movement is about inviting the larger design community to become a part of the Drupal community.
We're soliciting presentations for this meetup. If there's a topic that you'd like give a presentation on, please leave a comment in the comments below. Likewise, if there's a topic that you'd like to learn more about, you're welcome to make a request in the comments below. Thanks!
At last month's meetup, we had presentations about the Foundation framework by Ishmael Sanchez, another presentation on Adobe Edge by shaRon, and lightning talks on @fontyourface by joyseeker and an overview from oseldman of the theming- and design-related sessions at DrupalCon Munich.
Our 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.
About Design 4 Drupal (D4D)
Translating a design into a Drupal "theme" is often a high barrier and it has been difficult and costly for many designers to have a “design-driven approach” to Drupal. Feedback from the design community has often focused on the difficulties of designing for the Drupal theme system, which combines several programming disciplines and languages, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP.
Design 4 Drupal is an organized movement in the Drupal community to help make Drupal more friendly and approachable to designers, information architects and usability engineers, and in general anyone who is interested in customizing Drupal’s output to the web page.
At its core, Design for Drupal is about inviting the larger design community together to be a part of the Drupal community and enabling designers, usability engineers, developers, information architects and themers to coordinate efforts, come up with creative ideas and work towards making Drupal easier to use and look beautiful.
Thank You to Our Sponsors!
Raffle prizes and video conferencing support for this event are being provided by Exaltation of Larks, a Drupal strategy, consulting, development and training company with a team of Drupal experts in Los Angeles. We create fun websites, mobile apps, virtual worlds and e-commerce sites.
Follow us at @LarksLA to learn more about our Drupal services and upcoming trainings.
Read moreSan Gabriel Valley Drupal Meetup in Old Town Pasadena on September 27, 2012
Drupal meetups are officially back in the San Gabriel Valley and are now on the 4th Thursday of each month. Following our reboot of the SGV Drupal group with our Reboot and Drupal After Dark at Intelligentsia on May 17th, we're meeting this time at Il Fornaio in Old Town Pasadena on Thursday, September 27, 2012 from 6:30-8:30pm. Join us!
Those interested in participating remotely during the featured presentations are welcome to join us via WebEx.
Thank You to Our Sponsors!
The projector, raffle prizes and video conferencing support for this event are being provided by Exaltation of Larks, a Drupal strategy, consulting, development and training company with a team of Drupal experts in Los Angeles. Follow us at @LarksLA to learn more about our Drupal services and upcoming trainings.
For any changes to our agenda for the evening, stay tuned to this meetup announcement or click the Sign up button below (or both!) and be notified when the agenda has been updated and to receive the organizers' phone number.
Read moreAccessibility Camp LA 2012
Accessibility Camp LA takes place Saturday, October 20, 2012 at CSU Northridge's University Student Union (18111 Nordhoff Street). The goal of the day is to provide an open, informal space where attendees will drive the agenda.
Registration
Accessibility Camp LA is completely free to attendees. Register at http://www.accessibilitycampla.org/register.php
Interested in stepping up as an event sponsor (to help pay for lunch, t-shirts, disability-related accommodations, etc.)? Have a general question about the event? Want to be updated by e-mail as the event takes shape?
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Downtown Los Angeles Drupal Meetup at Droplabs on September 18, 2012
The next general Downtown Los Angeles Drupal meetup is on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 and will be at Droplabs, your FREE Drupal event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles. Those interested in attending this meetup remotely are welcome to join us via WebEx.
At this meetup, we're having our usual news and announcements, raffle prizes and a series of lightning talks, which are short, bite-sized presentations. Read the discussion at http://groups.drupal.org/node/253073#comments to see which presentation ideas are being discussed, or join the discussion and post your offers and requests for presentations!
Thank You to Our Sponsors!
The projector, raffle prizes and video conferencing support for this event are being provided by Exaltation of Larks, a Drupal strategy, consulting, development and training company with a team of Drupal experts in Los Angeles.
We create fun websites, mobile apps, virtual worlds and e-commerce sites. Follow us at @LarksLA or like Exaltation of Larks on Facebook to learn more about our Drupal services and upcoming trainings.
This event is hosted by Droplabs, a collaborative Drupal event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles.
We're quickly gaining a reputation for being the only free coworking space around with a freemium business model: come work here for free and only pay for the extras, such as 24/7 access, equipment rental and a locker for your belongings.
To learn more about Droplabs, visit Droplabs.net, follow @Droplabs on Twitter, sign up at Meetup.com/Droplabs or like DroplabsLA on Facebook!
Read moreHigh Performance Drupal Meetup at Droplabs on September 4, 2012
The next High Performance Drupal meetup is on Tuesday, September 4, 2012 and will be at Droplabs, your FREE Drupal event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles. Those interested in attending this meetup remotely are welcome to join us via WebEx.
At this meetup, we'll have an introduction to SPDY, the low latency network protocol developed (and trademarked) by Google. SPDY support is included in some browsers, including Firefox and Chrome, and available for web servers like nginx, Apache, and even IIS.
This presentation, by Christefano Reyes (@christefano) of Exaltation of Larks (@LarksLA), will bring you up to speed on what SPDY is and what it means for high performance websites. We'll see it used in a live environment and hear about some gotchas to be aware of.
We're soliciting additional presentations for this meetup. If there's a topic that you'd like give a presentation on, please leave a comment in the comments below. Likewise, if there's a topic that you'd like to learn more about, you're welcome to make a request in the comments below.
Thank You to Our Sponsors!
The projector, raffle prizes and video conferencing support for this event are being provided by Exaltation of Larks, a Drupal strategy, consulting, development and training company with a team of Drupal experts in Los Angeles.
We create fun websites, mobile apps, virtual worlds and e-commerce sites. Follow us at @LarksLA to learn more about our Drupal services and upcoming trainings.
Read moreDrupal Tutoring and Coworking at Droplabs on August 25, 2012
This afternoon's tutors are Christefano Reyes (@christefano) and Miguel Hernandez (Techivist), two of the Larks with Exaltation of Larks. This time block is devoted to you, so bring your questions and homework to work on. The tutors' time is on a first-come, first-served basis.
We're also pleased to announce that watching videos on Build a Module.com is FREE at Droplabs and that we are able to incorporate a mentored training approach at these open tutoring sessions. Build a Module.com has over 700 videos on Drupal development and site building and there's something for every skill level. Be sure to bring your headphones.
This is another session of our tutoring series at Droplabs and we welcome your feedback. We'll try to introduce a Users Helping Users concept, so if you're of a certain level, are waiting for an answer, and can help another, please do so!
This event is a fund raiser to benefit Droplabs and has a sliding scale donation of $10-20. No one will be turned away. Donations go directly toward the venue and helping to keep Droplabs free for the community.
Read moreSan Gabriel Valley Drupal Meetup in Old Town Pasadena on August 23, 2012
Drupal meetups are officially back in the San Gabriel Valley and are now on the 4th Thursday of each month. Following our reboot of the SGV Drupal group with our Reboot and Drupal After Dark at Intelligentsia on May 17th, we're meeting this time at Il Fornaio in Old Town Pasadena on Thursday, August 23, 2012 from 6:30-8:30pm. Join us!
Those interested in participating remotely during the featured presentations are welcome to join us via WebEx.
Thank You to Our Sponsors!
The projector, raffle prizes and video conferencing support for this event are being provided by Exaltation of Larks, a Drupal strategy, consulting, development and training company with a team of Drupal experts in Los Angeles. Follow us at @LarksLA to learn more about our Drupal services and upcoming trainings.
Downtown Los Angeles Drupal governance policy conference call #2 on August 21, 2012
Several of the Downtown Los Angeles Drupal organizers have scheduled an open conference call on on Tuesday, August 21, 2012 between 5:30-6pm Pacific (8:30-9pm Eastern). This precedes the Downtown Los Angeles Drupal meetup at Droplabs the same night.
The agenda will consist of discussion around the next steps that were discussed during the previous conference call including the new additions to the proposed Downtown Los Angeles Drupal governance policy at http://groups.drupal.org/downtown-los-angeles/governance
For calling in by phone and Skype, we use FreeConferenceCallHD. To receive the conference call information, click the Signup button below. Anyone who's interested in being part of this discussion or is just interested in observing governance in action is welcome to join us.
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