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Posted by Chris Charlton on June 11, 2011 at 11:43pm
Last updated by jromine on Wed, 2011-07-20 18:22

Update: DrupalCampLA 2011 registration is NOW OPEN. Register or login at http://2011.drupalcampla.com This wiki page will be used to coordinate community details for those involved with the event.

August 6-7th, 2011

Venue: UC Irvine Conference Center
Location: Irvine, CA

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what is it? DrupalCampLA is a free community training event where topics revolving around Drupal are shared, recorded, and celebrated. People come from all around the world to this event, making it one of the largest annual West Coast Drupal events ever!

will it be as cool as last year? Yep, our venue will keep you covered and cool. Our party will keep you hoppin'. Our community will keep you Drupal-fied.

will it be as big as last year? bigger? That depends on your involvement. From newbies to elite Drupal ninjas, our aim is to have lots of Drupal goodness useful to all skill levels! We need awesome session proposals, and volunteers/friends to help bring everything together and make this sweet.

where is it? The UCI Conference Center in Irvine, CA. We think the place is cool; the venue holds a lot of people so we can hold this awesome event! We have a lot of costs to cover, so sponsors are needed!

where to register? http://2011.drupalcampla.com. Mark your calendar, and line up a carpool or bunkmate for August 6-7th, 2011. Irvine, California. United States. Stay overnight on campus at Hotel UCI

what's in it for sponsors? Lots! Show the community some love and get exposure plus valuable face-time and some social following mojo. Plus, tell us what you'd like to get out of helping, and together we can work out the logistics to ensure community knows how much you helped!

how to get involved? step up if you can help. Let us know if you have ideas or you want to be involved. Many other Drupal user groups are helping us on this one. We're open to to everyone that wants to help and be involved.

MANY more details to come. sign up below or contact us directly.

website: 2011.DrupalCampLA.com

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I Volunteer to help

Posted by JSCSJSCS on June 17, 2011 at 4:22pm
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I want to help out anyway I can. How do I get involved? This will be a great learning experience!

James Sinkiewicz
Drupal Site Builder and Generalist
http://MyDrupalJourney.com

Thanks for offering to help!

Posted by mike stewart on June 18, 2011 at 2:39pm
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Thanks for offering to help! In short, the idea of a camp is a bit of self organization. We've found a venue that allows us to offer a huge professional space for us to all come together and share. The rest, well, it's mostly up to you. It's quite amazing what happens when 400-500 people just get together to share ideas about Drupal. Please check out some of the activities needed in past camps, here's a start: http://www.drupalcampla.com/information/volunteers and http://www.drupalcampla.com/information

Then, jump in where you can help.

--
mike stewart { twitter: @MediaDoneRight | IRC nick: mike stewart }

Standing by for DrupalCampLA2011 website to go live

Posted by JSCSJSCS on June 18, 2011 at 4:45pm
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I reviewed the previous camp activities and find I qualify for many of them, especially moving chairs and tables! The U.S. Navy also trained me to stare straight ahead for long periods of time without moving or talking, so if you are going to have a customer service desk similar to the one my local cellular service center provides, I am qualified to help there too. Looking forward to the website going live so I can "jump in". Let me know if you need any help before that!

James Sinkiewicz
Drupal Site Builder and Generalist
http://MyDrupalJourney.com

Update?

Posted by oseldman on June 28, 2011 at 7:14pm
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Can we get an update on the status of the camp site and how people might get involved with helping to organize the event? Maybe we can discuss this at tonight's meetup?

volunteering

Posted by todd zebert on June 25, 2011 at 6:48am
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I'm willing to help out also.

facebook "friend"

Posted by todd zebert on June 25, 2011 at 6:49am
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Not to be picky, but LA Drupal should be a FB Page or Group, not a profile (person).

LA Drupal's Facebook page is

Posted by christefano on June 25, 2011 at 7:40am
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LA Drupal's Facebook page is at http://www.facebook.com/ladrupal.org

The profile page is left over from a time before Facebook had "pages" and it just hasn't been deleted yet.

Let me know how I can Help

Posted by hyperglide on June 26, 2011 at 3:43am
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Hi -- How can I help? I will be coming to LA to visit family and attend this 'amazing' event.

Please let me know!

Volunteering

Posted by mcfilms on July 1, 2011 at 12:07am
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Hi. Just letting you know that I am available to lend a hand. If you need help getting http://2011.drupalcampla.com live, please let me know.

Is it possible to just skin last years This By Them theme? Is there an effort afoot to create a new theme? Can we at least get a receptacle up so that people can start posting their session proposals? Also, I think Ron and Mike had developed some sort of grid-based scheduling system for the linux expo. Is that available for use on this site?

The grid scheduler came from Drupalcamp originally

Posted by rgon on July 4, 2011 at 2:00am
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It was Mike Stewart and John Romine that developed the grid scheduler for DrupalcampLA 2010. I just borrowed it with Mike's help and adapted it to SCALE.

Get site live sooner

Posted by bvirtual on July 1, 2011 at 5:24am
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Getting the grid base scheduling going again would be cool. Last year, I reviewed all the source code and admin screens for it. Boy, is it powerful. If my account works, then I'll look around.

Ok, I guessed my password, https://2010.drupalcampla.com/user/password , as reCaptcha key has expired https://2010.drupalcampla.com/admin/user/captcha/recaptcha BIG POINT IS other volunteers may have forgotten their passwords, and WILL NOT BE ABLE TO GET IN.

I do not think I had ssh access, otherwise, I'd create a copy of the drupal folder, and database, edit settings.php, and have a strawman site running this weekend with an empty database for testing. I see many modules need updating https://2010.drupalcampla.com/admin/reports/updates and the site is at core 6.17.

I'm thinking volunteers need to be explicit in stating what they will do. It helps the organizers, who may not be tracking your skill set. And call Mike up. Use the phone. Email is so slow, and we our site up sooner. Did I say that already? ;-)

My vote is for rolling with the current theme, for branding purposes, recognition, rather than create all new artwork, looking like a 'new' camp, when really, it's an old one. Just my vote. Of course, the 'year' needs to be changed in artwork, and in lots of places.

I'd like to see "old" sites be archived, and I like what SCALE has done. http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/ is the current expo, now over, and it's front page reflects that. The pathname is a Drupal folder. The older web sites are still online, like /scale8x/, /scale7x/, etc. Thus, links to sessions, speakers, and presentation materials for past years give excellent benefit to attendees, surfers and for each speaker and volunteer who has credit via pages with their name on it. That's a real inducement to speak. My vote is for the domain name to redirect to a pathname. Most of all is SEO at google. 2010.drupalcampla.com is a separate web site, and no juice points, or keyword density will improve PageRank if we continue to use 3LDs, imho. But its just one vote.

Having each year's site in a folder, means any new artwork, and new theming, can be compared to previous years. And the growth over time, the maturing site, can be seen. Reskinning every year may hide a lot of this type of aging features, better interface, new widgets, more user friendly, etc.

A new database can be used. I'm in for just using the initial empty database. Remember to remove all the old attendees from one table, where they still are. I pointed that out in the first distribution.

I'll confirm my account still works to log in, and I will start making a new Volunteer sign in sheet, that reflects the needed activities, their time frame, and how many people are needed for each. I want to have this done within 3 weeks, so the first person on site, can put them down on the table for early arrivals to get busy. I'll see about a large sign as well. And post the first draft here. I'm sure I have something from last year.

Peter

LA's Open Source User Group Advocate - Volunteer at DrupalCamp LA and SCALE

RECAPTCHA

Posted by jromine on July 20, 2011 at 6:23pm
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RECAPTCHA is now fixed, and the 'request new password' link is mailing out correctly. http://2011.drupalcampla.com

John Romine

+1

Posted by mcfilms on July 1, 2011 at 8:26am
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• I agree about the "rolling with the current theme." That was a d6 site and theme. Hope that's not an issue.
• I agree about using more SEO-friendly Googled-juiced urls for this, and future camps.
• We have a fairly large banner that was used at the SCALE booth this year
• I do not have a username and password from last year but can happily contribute several hours a week. I can build Views, tune up css, edit copy, and/or create a needed feature (within reason). If we had a blank, cloned version of the 2010 site, I could replace the 2010 art, copy edit and update the /information page and update the venue info.

Again, happy to do what I can to move this forward.

Moving forward needed info and access request

Posted by bvirtual on July 1, 2011 at 10:56pm
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Ok, not to be pushy, but being pushy anyway ;*) - yes I know email and forums are not read every day, so the person or people with access, to grant volunteers the following capabilties:

  1. GoDaddy.com DNS requirements
    1. Give me your contact information, phone and email, so I can let you know my test results, and coordinate any future changes. I'll only publish your name, and do.org/user/### for others to contact you.
    2. Access to the DNS at godaddy, we need 2011.drupalcampla.com, hmm, I'd never give out my GoDaddy account access as I have other domain names on it, so please create this 3LD and point the A record to 174.36.186.194, and add a 4LD of www.2011 pointing to the same.
    3. It would be good to get a complete list of all RR records for drupalcampla.com, so please save that web page, and forward it to me, for evaluation of what else is needed (MX, etc). I hate CNAMEs, btw, so A records are cool.

      4. Note: I could be all wet in thinking softlayer's IP will be hosting, so I hope the member holding the GoDaddy account will post corrections, or last year's high level design team will slug me hard, and tell me "Not that way!" Point is, I'm being pushy, to get it done SOONER. Oh, did I yell that? No, I'm not really sorry. ;^)

  2. At softlayer.com where the site is hosted,
    1. Give me your contact information, phone and email, so I can let you know my test results, and coordinate any future changes. I'll only publish your name, and do.org/user/### for others to contact you.
    2. Announce who is accepting volunteers contacting them to create accounts for sftp to the webroot, git accounts, drupal super admin and admin and developer accounts, etc.
    3. Enable the new 2011 3LD and 4LD www.2011 in the web server. Why? To maintain consistency with past endeavors, as I like 'user friendly' meaning it's a web, more than one way to get there.
    4. Create a web root folder 2011/ with open permissions, for now.
    5. Add a front page at 2011.dcla.com to redirect to a folder drupalcampla.com/2011/ via a META REFRESH tag. This page will be enhanced with needed text and link, in case the redirect fails.
    6. Store a compressed mysqldump of the 2010 site at drupalcampla.com/2011/2010.sql.tgz, so it can be downloaded, for clearing out the userids and sessions and other stuff.
    7. Be prepared to create the new, cleared, database for 2011, at Softlayer if it allows that many databases and tables, I do not know if they a quota system, or other restrictions.
    8. A back up of the web root and database will be made available for installing on volunteer local computers.
      drupalcampla.com/2011/2011.cleaned.sql.tgz and drupalcampla.com/2011/2011.cleaned.webroot.tgz
    9. I imagine to be shot down on these manual methods, where git might be the order of the day for checking out these items for local installing for development by the volunteer. And git check in to upload and test the integrated changes with other developers' changes. bullets>null :-)
  3. Set up a list of volunteer phone numbers and email addresses, so everyone can communicate directly. This list should be private, imho. Or get approval from each volunteer to make their contact info public. I'm just that way, private by default. Written permission to be public. Expect me to be a stickler on this. But that's just my one vote.
  4. Say, how was this done the years before? I'm not recalling. Should I email the WHOIS contact email address DRUPALCAMPLA.COM@domainsbyproxy.com for a faster caterwauling? <stupid smile>

I'd appreciate feedback if I was not pushy enough. <grins> Flames>null

Peter

LA's Open Source User Group Advocate - Volunteer at DrupalCamp LA and SCALE

+1 on anything

Posted by btmash on July 3, 2011 at 7:29am
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I'll be glad to help out in whatever capacity I can as well. Helping with the website would be my forte :)

Throwing my hat in the ring...

Posted by lacrosse_20 on July 13, 2011 at 5:51am
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I'm down to help in any way I can. I've been using Drupal on client projects since the beginning of Drupal 6 and am stoked to see what's new now that Drupal 7 is taking a real foothold.

Sponsoring

Posted by jhays on July 13, 2011 at 8:59pm
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My company can show some love...Someone just email me and let me know!

Thanks for sponsoring!

Posted by jromine on July 21, 2011 at 9:00pm
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We have your sponsor page up at http://2011.drupalcampla.com/sponsors/neospire-managed-hosting

John Romine

Interested in Volunteering

Posted by romulo-rivera on July 18, 2011 at 10:46pm
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I'd like to help out in the upcoming Drupal Camp.