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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Downtown Los Angeles Drupal Meetup at Droplabs on May 15, 2012
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The next Downtown Los Angeles Drupal meetup is on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 and will be at Droplabs, your FREE Drupal event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles. At this meetup, we'll be celebrating the 1 year anniversary of Droplabs, the kickoff of our new Downtown Los Angeles Drupal user group and breakout sessions and an extended Users Helping Users.
Read moreGreater Los Angeles Drupal Governance Policy (old draft)
This governance policy went into effect on April 21, 2013, and this wiki page is here for historical purposes. See the meeting minutes from the governance meetup at http://groups.drupal.org/node/289988#comment-912503 for details.
This wiki document is a formal proposal for the governance policy of the Greater Los Angeles Drupal group (formerly Downtown Los Angeles Drupal). It should be considered a draft until further notice and is editable at http://groups.drupal.org/node/230018/edit
So long as this is a wiki document on groups.drupal.org, it is editable by a growing number of members of the larger Drupal community. We ask our neighbors that the following policy be written by its group members and not by the larger community.
Discussion is welcome from all interested parties and that discussion should take place in the comments below rather than inline in the document itself.
Table of Contents
- Shared Goals and Values
- Code of Conduct
- Transparancy
- Accountability
- Conflict Management and Resolution
- Definition of Roles
Birthday Month Kickoff Extravaganza and Drupal After Dark on Friday, May 4, 2012
Join us on Friday, May 4, 2012 from 7-to-wheneven for our Birthday Month Kickoff Extravaganza and Drupal After Dark at Droplabs, your FREE Drupal coworking and hackerspace in Downtown Los Angeles.
In just 1 year, we've had nearly 100 events, including dozens of Drupal meetups and workshops, countless FREE tutoring sessions from Drupal professionals and several barn raisings to benefit non-profits and members of our community here in and around Los Angeles.
Celebrating our Birthday Month Kickoff Extravaganza is a great way to show your support and cheer us on for another year of coworking, networking and collaboration. Join us!
What to bring
Bring warm clothing and some light food, sodas or beers to share with others. Be a hero and bring good stuff to throw on the grill. Feel free to bring your business cards, but this is a social occasion and you can leave your laptop at home, in the car or in your locker at Droplabs.
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day on May 9, 2012 at Droplabs
Global Accessibility Awareness Day is a community-driven effort whose goal is to focus one day to raise the profile of digital (web, software, mobile app/device, touch screen kiosk, etc.) accessibility and people with different disabilities.
The idea started with a single blog post. On May 9th, people in communities around the world are encouraged to hold a talk/meetup, organize hands-on demos, or plan another activity that brings attention to some aspect of digital accessibility. Follow @GblA11yDay on Twitter and use the #gaad hashtag in your own tweets.
Droplabs is happy to participate in this global event. We will have both Dallas Legan and Larry Hart on-hand to present:
- Dallas Legan is a well-respected member of the Southern California Open Source ecosystem. He has presented on a variety of topics at UUASC, LAMP-SIG, the San Fernando Valley Linux Users Group, the San Gabriel Valley Linux Users Group and SCALE.
- Larry Hart is a longtime member of the San Fernando Valley Linux Users Group. He also happens to be a blind web user and will be imparting both his knowledge and frustrations of using a non-accessible web. We hope this will lead to discussions on how we, as web developers, can create a more usable and accessible web.
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San Gabriel Valley Drupal Meetup in Old Town Pasadena on May 31, 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, May 31, 2012 from 6:30-8:30pm. Join us!
Presentations are being lined up for this meetup. Do you have a job announcement that you'd like to make? Is there a presentation you'd like to give or see given? Leave a comment at http://groups.drupal.org/node/227348#comments to let the organizers and attendees know what you'd like to present.
This event is being sponsored by Joico/ISO (@Joico), a subsidiary of Shiseido (the oldest cosmetics company in the world) that produces and sells salon-quality healthy hair products and hair color products for professionals who specialize in hair care.
Joico/ISO is hiring a Drupal developer to work with them in their San Gabriel Valley office, located at the base of the San Gabriel mountains in Arcadia, CA. See http://groups.drupal.org/node/232553 for more information.
The projector and raffle prizes 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.
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 moreSan Gabriel Valley Drupal Reboot and Drupal After Dark in Pasadena on May 17, 2012
Drupal meetups are officially back in the San Gabriel Valley. We're kicking off our new series of Drupal After Dark outings and monthly SGV Drupal meetings with a meetup and Drupal After Dark at Intellegentsia Pasadena on Thursday, May 17, 2012 from 6:30-8:30pm. Join us!
There aren't any formal presentations scheduled for this event. We'll be getting together and talking tech and Drupal over some good coffee, food and microbeers. Formal presentations are being planned for our meetups on the 4th Thursday of each month, starting on May 31, 2012.
For any changes to our agenda for the evening, stay tuned to this meetup announcement or click the Sign up button below (or both!) to be notified when the agenda has been updated.
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Downtown LA Drupal Meetup on April 17th, 2012 at Droplabs
The next Downtown LA Drupal meetup is on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 and will be at Droplabs, a Drupal event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles. At this meetup, we'll be featuring two presentations: Introduction to VPS Hosting and Managing Servers with Virtualmin, Featurize! and Business Model Generation for Drupalpreneurs.
Light food and refreshments will be served throughout the evening courtesy of our food and drink sponsor, Chernick Consulting. We are a full IT outsourcing organization that can help you make your computers do anything you want it to (except cook or do laundry). We have a great deal of experience following corporate policies and procedures and will gladly supply IT services for larger organizations with branch offices in Los Angeles.
For any changes to our agenda for the evening, stay tuned to this meetup announcement or click the Sign up button below (or both!) to be notified when the agenda has been updated.
Read moreBarn Raising and Code Sprint for the Echo Park and Arroyo S.E.C.O. Time Banks on April 28, 2012
Join us at Droplabs on Friday & Saturday, April 27-28, 2012, for a Barn Raising and Code Sprint to benefit the Echo Park Time Bank and TimeBanks USA!
There's something for everyone at this two-day event and you're welcome to attend either or both days. If you're interested in learning more about the Features module and getting some practical hands-on experience, or if you're a Features power user and would like to help mentor others into using Drupal's best practices for site development, this is an excellent opportunity.
The Echo Park Time Bank is a non-profit community collective with a mission to facilitate the cooperative exchange of goods and services among its hundreds of members. Since September 2011, the Echo Park Time Bank has been using Drupal to manage their community website at http://arroyoseco.timebanks.org and its currency system.
We'll be using the Features module and configuration-in-code methodology to help make feature development, maintenance and updates to their site much easier. The Features that we create will be shared with TimeBanks USA, which will directly benefit the 300+ time banks that have their own sites that use the same Drupal distribution.
Read moreVPS and Virtualmin Installfest: Manage Your Servers Without Excruciating Pain! at Droplabs on April 21, 2012
Join us for a VPS and Virtualmin Installfest at Droplabs on Saturday, April 21, 2012. We're going to discuss VPS (virtual private server) hosting, when and why you should be using it, and we'll have a brief presentation on Virtualmin, a free, open-source control panel.
The second part of the workshop is a hands-on installfest. We'll be getting as many people up and running with their own VPS servers, and optionally install Virtualmin for those who want it.
For any changes to our agenda, stay tuned to this workshop announcement or click the Sign up button below (or both!) to be notified when the agenda has been updated.
Agenda
10:00am
Projector and tables / chairs setup
10:30am
Introductions
Presentation: Smart VPS Management for Smart People, by Christefano Reyes
Questions and answers
12:00pm
Lunch! This is potluck-style, so please bring something for yourself and another
12:30pm
Hands-on VPS and Virtualmin Installfest
2:30pm
Wrap-up, clean-up and close-up
A Note About VPS Hosting
Please note that running ones own server isn't for the faint of heart. If you're happy with shared hosting or have limited time and resources, then this workshop is probably not for you.
This workshop is intended for people who want to further their knowledge and are ready for — or already have — VPS or dedicated hosting and all the power and performance options that come with that.
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