This is the planning group for facilitating organization and team-building around GLADCamp 2016 and future GLADCamp conferences.
The next GLADCamp conference, a DrupalCamp serving the Greater Los Angeles Drupal community, is January 21, 2016, at the Pasadena Convention Center.
Conference Website: http://gladcamp.org
Twitter: http://twitter.com/GLADCamp
Working Group: http://groups.drupal.org/gladcamp
Issue Queue: http://drupal.org/project/issues/gladcamp
This group provides the basic groupware collaboration tools that GLADCamp organizers need, such as discussions, wiki pages and polls, is highly specific to GLADCamp and will help keep the volume of email notifications down in other groups. Join us!
We also wish to reduce bottlenecks and use public Drupal.org infrastructure for this planning process rather than use privately-hosted resources such as Redmine, Open Atrium, etc., and encourage transparency and collaboration with the larger Drupal community.
Gladcamp Sprint
SECOND UPDATE TIME AND DATE: 11:00 to 4:00 Saturday February 15th On Google Hangout
Is anybody interested in having a Gladcamp sprint this weekend? We can work on the website and content. Or anything else that needs work, sponsorship, the nonprofit summit, the extreme games, the job fair, install fest, trainings, etc.
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Saturday at Droplabs 11:00am to 4:00pm
Pringle Design Services will provide food and drinks.
Drupal Development Best Practices training at GLADCamp 2014 - now 50% off!
We'll be at GLADCamp, the Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp, on March 7th, 8th & 9th, and to celebrate we're offering an Early Bird discount of 50% OFF this training until March 1, 2014! Use coupon code GLADCAMP2014 during checkout to receive your discount.
About Drupal Development Best Practices
This one-day workshop gives you a comprehensive tutorial on the right way to manage your Drupal website. You'll learn about version control for your code and ways to manage changes in your data. You'll also see how the Features module can enable you to keep your configuration changes in version control.
We cover industry-approved deployment strategies that let you move smoothly through development, testing and live environments. You'll get a high-level overview of how to modify the way your site looks by sub-theming, preventing hours of frustration should your original theme be updated.
What you will learn
- Using version control with Drupal;
- Maintaining development, testing and production environments;
- Managing configuration changes using the Features module;
- Creating a basic sub-theme;
- Creating a basic module;
- Understanding Drupal’s API and the hook system;
- Using Drush, the command-line power tool for Drupal;
- Dozens of tips, tricks and stories from the developers at Exaltation of Larks.
Are you a non-profit? Do you need a new website? Apply for the Barn Raising at GLADCamp!
Today is our official call for barn raising applications at this year's GLADCamp, the Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp!
On March 9, 2014, we'll be building a website from scratch to include much needed functionality, design, and other work required by a local 501c3 non-profit organization.
This event is "Drupal for Good in action" and is a teach-and-learn opportunity for our local Drupal community and is a win-win-win for everyone.
What's a Barn Raising?
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_raising
- A "barn raising" describes a collective action of a community, in which a barn for one of the members is built or rebuilt collectively by members of the community.
- Barn raising was particularly common in 18th- and 19th-century rural North America. A barn was a necessary structure for any farmer, for example for storage of cereals and hay and keeping of animals. Yet a barn was also a large and costly structure, the assembly of which required more labor than a typical family could provide.
- Barn raising addressed the need by enlisting members of the community, unpaid, to assist in the building of their neighbors' barns. Because each member was entitled to recruit others for help, the favor would eventually return to each participant.
Just replace the word "barn" in the description above with "website" and you'll see that we've adapted this "barn raising" model for the digital world.
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Non-Profit Drupal Summit 2014, in association with GLADCamp
The Non-Profit Summit is on March 7, 2014, in Pasadena, California, in association with the Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp (GLADCamp). This is part of GLADCamp's theme of “Drupal for Good” and will be for and by non-profits in the Greater Los Angeles Area and beyond.
Attending the summit is free! Are you a non-profit and want to use Open Source Software and Drupal to amplify your efforts? Are you a service provider who specializes in products, training or other services for non-profits? Do you just want to learn more? This event is for you.
Read moreCall for Trainings at GLADCamp 2014!
Training day at GLADCamp 2014, this year's Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp, is on March 7th, 2014. We have room at our conference venue for 3 simultaneous trainings and are starting our call for trainings! Everyone is welcome to apply:
https://gladcamp.org/2014/training
Space is limited and priority is given to experienced Drupal trainers and training companies. Don't let that discourage you, though. If you're a newcomer to the Drupal training scene and want to offer something no one has offered before, we'd love to hear from you!
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Downtown Drupal Meetup in Downtown Los Angeles at Sensis Agency on February 4, 2014
The first Tuesday of the month is coming up and it's time for the next Downtown Drupal meetup! We're meeting at Sensis Agency in Downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, February 4, 2014 from 7-9pm.
Are you new to Drupal or the Downtown Drupal meetup? Come learn about Drupal and how others like yourself are using it for their project, business or organization. We promise not to talk down to you.
At this meetup, we're having our usual news and announcements, as well as raffle prizes, community Q&A, lightning talks (which are short, bite-sized presentations) and featured presentations. Is there a presentation topic that you're interested in? Post a comment to either request or offer a presentation, or contact any of the organizers listed above.
Read moreRequest for input on our "Coders with a Cause: Community Barn Raisings and Drupal for Good" session at GLADCamp 2014
Hi everybody,
Lee Vodra and I (two of the founders of Droplabs, a Drupal-friendly coworking space in Los Angeles, and creators of the Coders with a Cause program) will be presenting on barn raisings and "Drupal for Good" in action at the Non-Profit Drupal Summit at GLADCamp next month.
Read morePlan 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?
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So, 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 moreSensis Heads-Up
Hey, guys. Some good news: James over at Sensis is going to be submitting a UX presentation from his team through the site. He'll be doing this through the training contact form, which I told him would be fine, since that's the only way he can do this for now. So just wanted to let you all know to expect it.
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