Events

We're excited to announce our new Frontend Drupal meetup, which meets on the 4th Tuesday of every month. This month, we're meeting at Filter Digital, a digital solutions agency in Culver City, between 7-9pm on August 28, 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.

This is looking to be a great kickoff for our series of Frontend Drupal meetups! At our inaugural session, we'll have a presentations about the Foundation framework by Ishmael Sanchez, another presentation on Adobe Edge by shaRon and a lightning talk on @fontyourface by joyseeker.

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!

Light food and refreshments will be served throughout the evening courtesy of our food, drink and venue sponsor, Filter Digital, a digital solutions agency.

Filter Digital's client list spans global brands and Fortune 100 companies to startups and boutique firms. Let us help you create a digital solution that fits your needs!

The projection equipment, 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.

Several of the organizers of Drupal Design Camp LA 2012 have scheduled an open conference call on on July 17, 2012 between 2-2:45pm Pacific (5-5:30pm Eastern). Anyone who's interested in being part of the organizing effort or is just interested in seeing how this conference is coming together is welcome to join us!

For calling in by phone and Skype, we use FreeConferenceCallHD. To receive the conference call information, click the Signup button below. The agenda will consist of discussion around upcoming tasks listed in the DDCLA 2012 planning wiki at http://groups.drupal.org/node/196533#tasks

What's Drupal Design Camp LA 2012?

DDCLA 2012 is our Drupal design, theming, accessibility and usability conference in Los Angeles, California. Our second annual DDCLA conference will be at Droplabs in Downtown Los Angeles, California, on October 12, 13 & 14, 2012.

We will hold windsprints (mini sprints) each week on IRC in #drupal (on irc.freenode.net).

Timezone conversion: Friday, 17:00 to 19:00 UTC

Objectives

• Bring lessons learned from core mentoring hours to Drupal 8 Core Initiatives.
• Provide a structured time where anyone can contribute to core initiatives.
• Leverage an army of potential contributors who don't know where to start.

The Plan

English description follows

Suivez avec nous la création d'un look unique pour un site web Drupal. Nous apprendrons tout le processus de création d'un thème, cheminant ensemble pendant la transformation d'une maquette en un thème Drupal. En plus des défis uniques au theming dans Drupal, nous aborderons les derniers standards Web et leurs défis: CSS 3 et HTML 5. Selon les besoins et envies des participants, nous pourrons aussi aborder quelques pratiques plus avancées, par exemple, des "sprites," ou un bref introduction au theming mobile.

Join us in the creation of a unique look for your Drupal website. We'll guide you through the whole process of creating a theme, from a mockup to a launch-ready Drupal theme. In addition to theming challenges unique to Drupal, we'll cover the latest Web standards and their challenges: CSS 3 and HTML 5. Depending on the needs and interests of participants, we can also touch on some more advanced topics (for example, "sprites," or a brief introduction to mobile theming).

Please note that this training is offered in French, though some resources or materials may be proposed in English. An English-language course may be organised later in the year, depending on interest.