ABOUT
Our mission is to support and facilitate collaboration and cross training among Drupal users in the Inland Empire. This is a large area that includes cities such as Riverside, Corona, Chino, Upland, Rancho Cucamonga, Fontana, Rialto, San Bernardino, Moreno Valley, Temecula, Hemet & Murrieta. We welcome Drupal beginners & seasoned professionals - we hope to be a place where we can all network & learn something from one another.
Our meetups occur on the 2nd Thursday of every month in Ontario unless otherwise mentioned.
You might also want to check out some of the other Southern California groups if you can't make ours: Orange County, Los Angeles, High Desert, and San Diego.
CONNECT
Connect with Inland Empire Drupal (IE DRUPAL).
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Events are organized on Meetup.com. They are cross posted on our groups.drupal page.
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Event Code of Conduct
As a courtesy to IE Drupal organization, members are always welcome to post Discussions anytime as warranted however we request that either only organizers post Events to the IE Drupal GDO or organizers are contacted before to approve its posting. If there are a few for the month, we as organizers may feel it is better to group all events for month together and announce through our Meetup or Twitter channels versus GDO. Any violators will be contacted directly and persistent violations will be followed by other means as appropriate
EVENTS
Downtown Los Angeles Drupal Meetup at Sensis Agency and via WebEx on October 16, 2012
The next general Downtown Los Angeles Drupal meetup is on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 and will be at Sensis Agency 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, a series of lightning talks, which are short, bite-sized presentations, and a featured presentation by Chris Shattuck (@Chris_Shattuck) on how Drupal is used at Build a Module.com, a video subscription website with nearly 800 videos on Drupal development, theming and site building.
Read the discussion at http://groups.drupal.org/node/260843#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!
Our venue and drinks sponsor is Sensis (@SensisAgency), a cross-cultural advertising agency with digital at its core. We got our start building websites and have expanded into a full service advertising agency, helping our clients take advantage of the fundamental changes taking place in the marketing world.
Our parking, video conferencing and raffle prize sponsor for this event is 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 being organized with help from Droplabs (@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.
Drupal Design Camp LA 2012 and Downtown Los Angeles Drupal conference call #7 on October 10, 2012
Several of the Downtown Los Angeles Drupal organizers have scheduled an open conference call on Wednesday, October 10, 2012 between 5:30-6:30pm Pacific (8:30-9:30pm Eastern). Anyone who's interested in being part of our organizing efforts — or is just interested in seeing how we organize our events, including Drupal Design Camp LA and the Downtown Los Angeles Drupal meetups — is welcome to join us!
Read moreDrupal Design Camp LA 2012 and Downtown Los Angeles Drupal conference call #6 on October 8, 2012
Several of the Downtown Los Angeles Drupal organizers have scheduled an open conference call on October 8, 2012 between 5:30-6:30pm Pacific (8:30-9:30pm Eastern). Anyone who's interested in being part of our organizing efforts — or is just interested in seeing how we organize our events, including Drupal Design Camp LA and the Downtown Los Angeles Drupal meetups — 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. We're using the same call-in information that we've used in the past, so signing up is optional for anyone who has already participated in these conference calls.
The agenda will consist of discussion around our upcoming events, including Drupal Design Camp LA and the Downtown Los Angeles Drupal meetup.
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.
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Higher Education Drupal Technology Workshop - October 11, 2012 - San Diego, CA
The San Diego Higher Education Technology Summit is aimed at providing University Administrators with the tools and knowledge to implement a successful web presence for their faculty, staff and students.
Today’s competitive marketplace makes Admissions and Marketing the crucible to provide the answers for today’s hot questions - How to create new revenue, new markets and new audiences? How do you keep a student's college experience both enlightening and fun? How do you get your graduates to keep coming back and enhance your institution's reputation?
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Join us for a Barn Raising for Droplabs.net and festivities after!
This Saturday, October 6, 2012 at 1pm, we're having a Barnraising for the launch of the new version of the Droplabs website, followed by festivities around the firepit celebrating the launch!
Steve and Cory have done a fantastic job on the website and it not only has some great new features, it looks great!
In the spirit of Droplabs, this is a potluck event, so please feel free to bring a liquid contribution to the afterparty, or snacks to help keep the developers' blood sugar level and their heads in the game. (This isn't necessary to attend, as your sparkling personality would certainly be motivation enough.)
For any changes to our agenda for the evening, stay tuned to this event announcement or click the Sign up button below (or both!) to be notified when the agenda has been updated.
Brought To You By
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!
The projector, video conferencing support and organizational 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.
Read moreDrupal Design Camp LA 2012 conference call #5 on October 1, 2012
Several of the organizers of Drupal Design Camp LA 2012 have scheduled an open conference call on on October 1, 2012 between 6:30-7:30pm Pacific (9:30-10:30pm 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.
Read moreDrupal Design Camp LA 2012 conference call #4 on September 18, 2012
Several of the organizers of Drupal Design Camp LA 2012 have scheduled an open conference call on on September 18, 2012 between 6-6:45pm Pacific (9-9:45pm 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.
Read moreDrupal After Dark and Movie Night at Droplabs on September 21, 2012
It's been a while since we've had a movie night and it's time to do it again. Join us on Friday, September 21, 2012 at Droplabs, your FREE coworking and hackerspace in Downtown Los Angeles!
This is a great opportunity to get together with your colleagues and coworkers, watch some fun and thought-provoking movies, and just kick back and socialize.
Which movie will be shown is to be determined by the attendees! Post your suggestions and recommendations in the comments and vote on the ones that you want to see! If a movie gets a lot of votes but doesn't end up being selected, we might watch it at a future movie night.
Please note that commercial, feature-length films are obviously not eligible for this and won't be discussed here. Movies we've seen in the past been TED Talks, hacker-themed movies and DrupalCon keynotes and presentations.
Read more"How to Rock Your Drupal Groups Announcements" How-To at Droplabs and via WebEx on Monday, September 17, 2012
This Monday, September 17, 2012, we're having an event focusing on How to Rock Your Drupal Groups Announcements, followed by a Drupal After Dark at Droplabs. If you're new to announcing events on Drupal Groups (i.e. groups.drupal.org, or "GDO") or are already a seasoned event organizer, this event is for you. Join us!
We'll be meeting between 7-8pm Pacific at Droplabs, your FREE Drupal event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles. Those interested in attending this event remotely are welcome to join us via WebEx. After the how-to session, we'll have time for questions and answers and then finish off the night with a Drupal After Dark at around 8pm.
For any changes to our agenda for the evening, stay tuned to this event announcement or click the Sign up button below (or both!) to be notified when the agenda has been updated.
Read moreDrupal Coworking Friday at Droplabs on September 28, 2012
We're happy to take part in yet another Drupal Coworking Friday, a free coworking day at Droplabs, your FREE coworking and hackerspace in Downtown Los Angeles.
Drupal Coworking Friday is a worldwide event spurred in part by the DrupalEasy Podcast #65, which featured Droplabs.
We're in Downtown Los Angeles and are happy to host members of our local community and anyone who is just passing through for some coworking, networking and collaboration. We'll be offering the following FREE services to help rock your workday:
- Free parking on Clover St. and N. Main St. and in our large parking lot
- Free, metered WiFi
- Desks, chairs and Ergotron mobile workstations in our open coworking room (on a first-come, first-served basis)
- Hundreds of square feet of whiteboard space
- Use of our private conference room (unless previously reserved)
- Access to our shared lounge area (unless previously reserved)
- Heat / air conditioning
Droplabs is supported by donations, sponsorship of our events, venue rental and paid upgrades, including high-speed, unmetered WiFi, access to a full kitchen (with stove, oven, fridges, sinks, etc.), equipment rental, locker space for your belongings and unlimited coffee, tea, filtered water, sodas and espresso.
Read moreDISCUSS
What would you like to see on our GDO page?
Hey everyone - just wanted to let you know I've updated our group page a bit. Now it has a block for upcoming events that's always at the top and a listing of active content below. This change alone will make it more clear when events are coming up and hopefully allow us to communicate more effectively with new members interested in attending.
What do you want to see on our homepage? Any resources specific to the IE that you think would be nice to have? Maybe the times / dates of related but not necessarily Drupal usergroups in the area (ie Linux groups, etc)?
Chris
Read moreDrupal Design Camp LA 2011 pre-conference news update
Here's a quick update about Drupal Design Camp LA that's coming up this weekend, February 5-6, 2011. This news is also on the DDCLA site at https://2011.ddcla.org/news
As always, feedback and questions are welcome in the comments below.
- Sessions: What you need to know
- Thank you to our sponsors!
- Drupal in a Day training on Friday, February 4th
Thoughts on ways to bulk remove users with spam profiles?
I have a community portal where users have the ability to register w/o approval. I implemented Mollom almost a year ago and that has eliminated most of the comment / content spam. However - I've recently noticed an increase in account creation where spammers are filling their user profiles (additional profile fields for my users like bio / website / etc) with their spam links. I actually noticed this with some bizarre twitter spam that was linking to a user profile on my site... Not good - I want to get rid of this garbage.
Read moreWho's going to Drupal Design Camp LA 2011? Post here if you're looking for co-presenters or rideshares
Who's going to Drupal Design Camp LA this year? Feel free to post here if you're looking for co-presenters or rideshares. There's also a discussion in the San Diego group about rideshares to DDCLA.
Even if you don't need a rideshare or a co-presenter at the camp, please vote up this post so that others can easily find it on the group's Recent activity tab. Thanks!
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Meetup.com integration module discussion going on
...or will be. So far I'm talking to myself :)
It's over at http://groups.drupal.org/node/121309 - I thought I'd let my main groups know too though since you're likely to have ideas and since the results of this might wind up getting used on ladrupal.org (or vice-versa).
Take a look!
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OMG-Kieran & The Top Drupal Shops At SandCamp.org
Drupal is rapidly becoming THE Web development framework for companies today. We cordially invite you to a Drupal workshop, SandCamp 2011, on Saturday, January 8th and Sunday, January 9th. We are expecting more than 300 attendees this year and we anticipate selling out in just a few weeks.
This camp is excellent for developers, business owners, CIOs, developers, and those who maintain a Drupal website for their company. Some of the highlights include:
• Keynote by Kieran Lal: one of the most highly regarded people in the Drupal arena. Kieran is active in Drupal.org, a Drupal Association Board Member, and lead community evangelist for Acquia. Hear what he has to say about the growth and evolution of Drupal as an Enterprise platform.
• For Beginners: Drupal Basics All-Day Training, professionally delivered by Chapter Three and Exaltation of Larks will educate attendees on the core Drupal framework, reveal best practices, and present “how-to” essentials.
• For Advanced Developers, Sunday Code Sprint: to build a museum dashboard for Balboa Park Online Collaborative’s museum initiative.
• 30+ Workshop Sessions by Notable Firms: on a wide range of topics. This year’s event has more than 20 of the major Drupal shops from around the country presenting high-caliber information for all levels.
Who's going to SandCamp this year? Post here if you're looking for co-presenters or rideshares
Who's going to SandCamp this year? There's a large contingent of Los Angeles-area Drupal community members who are going, so feel free to post here if you're looking for co-presenters or rideshares.
Read moreSandCamp 2011 is Filling Up - Register Soon!
Drupal is rapidly becoming THE web development framework for companies today. We cordially invite you to a Drupal workshop, SandCamp 2011, on Saturday, January 8th and Sunday, January 9th. We are expecting more than 300 attendees this year and we anticipate selling out.
This camp is excellent for developers, business owners, CIOs, developers and those who maintain a Drupal website for their company. Some of the highlights include:
Read moreDrupal 7 Release Party in Los Angeles
Is anyone planning to get together for a Drupal 7 Release Party? There are going to be release parties around the world similar to the Firefox 1.0 release party in 2004 and I think it would be fun to have one or more here in Southern California.
I'm going to be out of town that weekend, so I can't do much in the way of organizing a Los Angeles event. Would someone like to take this on?
Read moreJust bought my first Mac - any Drupal dev advice?
I just made the plunge and bought a Macbook Pro - it's my first Mac and as a longtime PC user I'm sure there's a ton to learn. Any development / advice / OSS tools I should know about? First order of business for Drupal dev (I think) is MAMP but I'd rather learn from you all than stumble through this on my own.
Thanks for any advice you can give,
Chris
