Join us Tuesday, June 11, 2013 for our monthly gathering to learn, share, and meet others interested in Drupal. This month our meetup will be at Stauffer Inc (map). Come learn all about Drupal!
Mark your calendars for the second Tuesday of each month as "LA Drupal DAY"! This event is FREE!
New Drupal users are encouraged to join us!
Every month experts guide our local community showcasing professional Drupal techniques, industry standards, and best practices. LA Drupal brings a spectacular lineup of topics and presentations centered around Drupal. We help users answer questions, and resolve issues with solutions surrounding planning, supporting, and developing with Drupal. Our meetups are a good place for Job seekers and employers to find talent. Also, we typically have raffle prizes including various Drupal books, DVD's, and subscriptions!!!
The Stauffer team has proudly supported the LA Drupal community for years and is excited to host LA Drupal meetups through September 2013!
Where
Stauffer, Inc.
12540 Beatrice St., Suite #200
Los Angeles, CA 90066
You can park in the Stauffer and/or Activision spaces in the parking lot next the Stauffer office or on the streets, but be mindful of the signage!.
AGENDA
6:45pm-7pm Early Arrivals
* Venue setup
* LA Drupal Open Lab & Users Helping Users - Bring your laptop and Drupal questions, or contribute to an issue in the queue.
* Lightning Talk prep - need help getting a lightning talk together, show up to the pre-meetup lab and we can help!
* Early Networking - looking to chat with folks before the meetup begins, this is your chance.
7pm-9pm
* News & Announcements
* Job announcements (free)
* Presentations
* Lightning Talks (5min ea): Open Floor. Come share something cool, new, and Drupaly! (post a comment to lock in your spot)
* Users Helping Users - bring up a question to the crowd and see how they can help you overcome your latest Drupal roadblock.
* Raffle prizes & Giveaways
* Networking - bring your business cards
9pm-Late
* Drupal After Dark - after the meetup come out to meet new friends, network, grab a drink or bite to eat. Details are posted in a comment each month (sometimes during the meetup). If you have a recommendation, please comment!
Appreciation for our Sponsors
Venue & Wi-Fi: Stauffer Inc: Give a shout! staufferinc
Presentation Details
Tonight's presentations (in no predictive order) are as follows:
- A Safe Return from [Square]Space by @chellman
As we've seen in past LA Drupal presentations by the estimable BTMash, Migrate is an enormously useful and powerful system for bringing content from nearly anywhere into Drupal. I've recently been working with a client who is migrating a very active website from SquareSpace so he can get more control over everything. SquareSpace will export your site, which is great, but unfortunately the export is a single, monolithic, undocumented XML file. Migrate supports XML like a champ, but dealing with this crazy thing took some doing.
Join me as we tear this thing to bits and build it back up into nodes, comments, and users. We'll look at some Drupal screens, some code, some drush, and a hero called XMLStarlet that makes working with enormous XML files so much easier, I can't decide whether to sing or cry about it.
- TBA
Meetup Info
Users Helping Users and open Q&A
The general meetup begins at 7:00pm but the doors open a little earlier for Users Helping Users, which is a chance for members of the community to help and be helped by others with whatever questions and problems they're having with Drupal. Please note that while Users Helping Users is not designed to be a replacement for bonafide consulting from a Drupal professional that there are plenty of Drupal experts and professionals who attend our meetups and sometimes they need help, too!
Lightning talks
We have time as well for lightning talks, which are 5 minute presentations from attendees who would like to share something with the group. If you'd like to give a lightning talk, be sure to come a few minutes early and bring your laptop (and power and display cables) and whatever else you need.
As always, please feel welcome to leave a comment below and let others know what you'd like to present ahead of time.
Job announcements
At the beginning of each meetup LA Drupal provides an opportunity for local businesses to make job announcements and ask for referrals and recommendations.
Raffle! Prizes! Collect them all!
We love our sponsors and have several raffle prizes from our sponsors in the Los Angeles area and around the world. If you or your company would like to sponsor a raffle prize at the LA Drupal meetups, please come early or contact the LA Drupal managers.
Breakout Groups
As we've occasionally done, we'll split up into groups (sometimes called BoFs, or birds of a feather) and each group can jump into a particular topic that's set at the beginning of the meetup. The topics for these BoFs so far have ranged from high performance websites, Features-driven development, PCI compliance and general "getting started" discussions.
What to bring
Bring a co-worker, maybe your laptop or tablet, but definitely bring your business cards for networking. We do a lot of networking!
About LA Drupal
LA Drupal is Southern California's largest hub for all things Drupal, and is one of the world's largest regional Drupal user groups. We host a monthly meeting on the second Tuesday of every month. LA Drupal also produces the annual DrupalCamp LA conference, one of the largest annual volunteer Drupal networking and training events world-wide since 2007.
There are also other member led social gatherings and meetups throughout the southland. Visit http://groups.drupal.org/la/events for more details.
Attending LA Drupal events is one of the best ways to meet and talk with other Drupaleros and we encourage you to attend meetings and special events regularly. Whether it's about finding solutions to problems you've been having, sharing something you've learned or just meeting interesting like-minded people, the LA Drupal events are an essential resource for Drupal professionals and hobbyists alike.
How to become a member of LA Drupal
If you aren't already part of LA Drupal, it's easy to become a member (read below). LA Drupal has over 1,500 members, the official ways to become a member is by joining the LA Drupal group here: http://groups.drupal.org/la
- First, create an account at Drupal.org, which is the "master" site of groups.drupal.org.
- Once you have your Drupal.org account and have logged in, go to the LA Drupal home page at http://groups.drupal.org/la
- Finally, click the Join link found in the right sidebar. You'll be a member of LA Drupal after confirming your membership.
As a member of the LA Drupal community, you can participate in discussions, sign up & RSVP for events, post job announcements, vote, and send direct messages to people (via the "contact" tab on their profiles), and more.
LA Drupal welcomes you!
Changes and Notifications
For any changes to our agenda for the evening, stay tuned to this meetup announcement or click the Sign up button below to be notified when the agenda has been updated.
Comments
JQuery and Drupal
Excellent meeting presentation on JQuery and Drupal. It solved some issues with the use of newer JQuery for Galleria that I was having. Or let me say that I had a solution, but the presenters offered an even better one (better practice) . . . now to go about implementing it!
Oops, I got this in the wrong section. The note was intended for the May Drupal meetup.
But while I am at it, might as well add that I would be interested in a future presentation on Drupal and Ajax. Other people also seemed interested in that.
I would delete this message and put it where it belongs, but I can't seem to find that as an editing option.
Editing a message
Hi,
As author of a post, you should be seeing an 'Edit' link next to the reply link on your post.
This will let you edit a message & 'repost' it (the garbage message below was my test case for doing that -- you can completely change the title (including none at all), but you need to have some comment text for the submission (presumably, the 'corrected version' of the post.
Cheers,
Jeff
there is no message here...
there is no message here...
Migrate + XML this month?
I'm not sure if you're looking for a presentation for June, but I've gone through enough of the Migrate + XML + SquareSpace craziness to have a presentation's worth of material. If that's interesting, let me know!
You are down.
Hi @chellman,
This sounds fantastic. I spoke with the other organizers and we will put you down. Please prepare 30-45 minutes as we likely have a second presentation (keeping under wraps until confirmed). PM me with a title and description and I will add you to the event node.
Steve
Confirmed.
All right, cool. I'll get you that title and description in a little bit.
Event node update
Joe,
You're topic is in!
Steve
Drush 6 and Drupal 8?
I'd like to get some tips. Does drush 6 work with drupal 8?
Yep.
https://drupal.org/node/1979748
thanks but
I must be doing something wrong cause I am getting a big fat error when I do "drush up".
Fatal error: Call to undefined function _update_cache_clear() in C:\ProgramData\
Drush\commands\pm\update_info\drupal.inc on line 63
It's not you
Drupal 8 doesn't have the _update_cache_clear() function, so apparently that command hasn't been updated for Drupal 8 yet.
Are you familiar with using project issue queues? There's an issue filed on Drush already for this problem:
https://drupal.org/node/2004154
good to know
I was going to go to the issue queue as soon as I had time.... thanks.
Drupal after Dark
Just in case we decide to go to Tompkins Square Bar and Grill for Drupal after Dark I will post the address and directions
Tompkins Square Bar and Grill
8522 Lincoln Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90045
tel: 310.670.1212
At the corner of Lincoln Blvd (PCH) and Manchester Ave.
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Are there other locations for after dark?
Not that I really mind biking it up the hill, but are there OTHER locations in the area to have an after dark? I know that Playa Vista is probably pretty dead at night except for Starbucks. But there might be a real dive bar north of the meeting on Centinela or Inglewood. Or maybe the Scarlet Lady or the Tattle Tale Room on Sepulveda east of the meeting. There is also Petrelli's east of the meeting on Sepulveda and Jefferson, but that might be a little pricey (although it has a great reputation, and I once ate there).
But as I mentioned, not a problem to bike up the hill. Just interested in a little variety.
Rain's talk
Dear Someone,
What was the url for the site Rain presented on?
??ucla.org
Thanks mucho
T.
Here it is
http://ph.ucla.edu/
Meeting recorded?
Hello,
Was "A Safe Return from [Square]Space" taped? If so where where would i find the video?
thanks. ali
It wasn't, but don't despair
Hey Ali,
It was not recorded, but I'll be going one (or more) better by writing it up and providing example code to go with it. Stay tuned for that within a week. Here's the blog where it'll go: http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz
I'll post a comment here when it's done, too.
Slides and first post are up
The slides and the first big post on how to do this are up:
http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/slides-from-squarespace-migration-pres...
http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/migrate-squarespace-drupal-xml
This post talks about the XML and how to deal with it. Example source code will be in the next one.
I won't spam this node anymore with updates. If you're interested, please add the RSS feed to your reader of choice, or do the twitter tweeter:
http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/buzz.xml
http://twitter.com/shooflydesign