Pasadena / San Gabriel Valley Drupal Meetup at Pasadena City College on June 27, 2013

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2013-06-27 18:00 - 20:00 America/Los_Angeles
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User group meeting

Pasadena City College End the month with some fun and Drupal at the San Gabriel Valley Drupal Meetup at Pasadena City College on Thursday, June 27, 2013 from 6-8pm!

New to Drupal or the SGV Drupal meetup? See http://groups.drupal.org/node/295838#comment-918913 for notes from a recent meeting. Here's a testimonial from a happy attendee:

This is a very well organized and informative session. We got a good mix of senior developers and new comers and some in between. It is a pretty good turn out with 11 people considering it is in Pasadena right around rush hours. People are just terrific, very friendly and ready to help others. Feels like I have moved forward by leaps and bounds. Thanks everyone!

Do you have a presentation or job announcement that you'd like to share with the group? Is there a topic about something you'd like to see a presentation on? Leave a comment at http://groups.drupal.org/node/302508#comments to let the organizers and attendees know what you're interested in.

Thank You to Our Sponsors!

Thanks to our sponsors, we'll be meeting at Pasadena City College each month through August, 2013!

Exaltation of Larks - Expert Drupal strategy, consulting, development and training Our projection equipment and raffle prizes 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.

Droplabs Los Angeles Our meetup this month is being organized with assistance from Droplabs (@Droplabs), a collaborative coworking space, classroom and makerspace near Downtown Los Angeles. We're the leading low-cost coworking space in the Greater Los Angeles Area and have shared and private workspaces that are uniquely designed for entrepreneurs, freelancers and remote workers.

For any changes to our agenda for the evening, stay tuned to this meetup announcement or click the Sign up button below (or both!) and be notified when the agenda has been updated and to receive the organizers' phone number.

Presentations and Lightning Talks

Do you have a presentation or job announcement that you'd like to share with the group? Is there a topic about something you'd like to see a presentation on? Leave a comment at http://groups.drupal.org/node/302508#comments to let the organizers and attendees know what you're interested in.

Users Helping Users

The meetup this month will include both 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; and Lightning Talks, which are brief, 5-minute long presentations on any topic related to Drupal.

Please note that while Users Helping Users is not designed to be a replacement for bona fide consulting from a Drupal professional that there are plenty of Drupal experts and professionals who attend our meetups and sometimes they need help, too!

Agenda

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 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.

After the meetup, we'll finish off the night with more networking and a Drupal After Dark at 8pm. We may stay at Intelligentsia or over to Jake's or Lucky Baldwin's for something stronger. Even if you can't make it to the meetup, going to the Drupal After Dark is a great way to meet your fellow Drupal community friends and colleagues. Join us!

   6pm
   Introductions and Job Announcements
   News & Upcoming Events, including:
     • Module Development Bootcamp;
     • High Performance Drupal Meetup on June 18, 2013;
     • DrupalCamp LA in Irvine, CA, on July 13 & 14, 2013;
     • Interesting events listed at http://groups.drupal.org/events
   Community Questions and Answers

   7pm
   Raffle prizes!
   Lightning Talks
   Users Helping Users
   DrupalCon Portland Redux Roundtable

   8pm
   Wrap-up, Clean-up and Close-up
   Drupal After Dark

What to Bring

Just bring your laptop, your business cards or whatever else you need.

Food and drinks are not allowed at this venue, but we will be going to a bar or restaurant afterward for a Drupal After Dark.

Drupal After Dark

After the meetup, a bunch of us will walk over to Lucky Baldwins (the one near PCC, not the one in Old Town Pasadena) for food and drinks.

The last time we went to Lucky's, we talked about everything from various forms of non-profit status and fun things to do in Pasadena, to the region's crazy meetup schedule and the differences between some upcoming Drupal workshops.

Raffle prizes! Collect them all! Must be present to win!

Raffle prizes at this meetup have been provided by Exaltation of Larks. Our raffle prizes often include discount codes, magazines, DVDs, books and tickets to attend professional, paid Drupal trainings. Some raffle prizes may be available to remote attendees (at the discretion of the meetup organizers and raffle prize sponsors).

We are always grateful to our sponsors for their continued support. If you have any items you'd like to donate to the raffle, please contact any of the organizers at the meetup. Thank you!

Location and Directions

We'll be meeting in room C163 (C building, room C163; this is on the Eastern side of the building on the lower level).

   Pasadena City College, room C163
   1570 East Colorado Blvd.
   Pasadena, CA 91105

Public Transportation

PCC is accessible by bus, including five Metro Local lines, Metro Rapid, Foothill Transit, and some Pasadena ARTS buses. The school provides a shuttle to and from the Metro Gold Line station and the main campus:

   http://www.pasadena.edu/police/shuttle.cfm

Carpooling

A group of attendees will likely be carpooling together from Droplabs, a coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles. Leave a comment below if you'd like to carpool or offer a ride.

Parking

Parking in the lot at PCC is just $2.

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Comments

Just a friendly reminder that

christefano's picture

Just a friendly reminder that this meetup is coming up tomorrow, Thursday, June 27th, between 6-8pm!

Does anyone have any requests or offers on presentation topics? Job announcements? Please post them here, or bring it up when you're at the meetupp.

Also happening tomorrow evening is the launch of Innovate Pasadena, a group focused on connecting local businesses, developers and investors. Food and drinks will be served, so instead of going to Lucky Baldwin's (our customary Drupal After Dark location) a few of us will be going directly to Innovate Pasadena after our Drupal meetup.

Here's the information about Innovate Pasadena and their launch event:

   http://www.innovatepasadena.org/events/innovate-pasadena-launch/

Thanks, and see you all tomorrow!

We've been moved from C163 to

christefano's picture

We've been moved from C163 to the C217 conference room. We've been in this room before and PCC is posting signs now. Sorry for the inconvenience, everyone!

SGV Drupal

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Just back from another interesting SGV Drupal meeting at PCC, where topics ranged from:
A. Editors
B. Simple payment gateways for a site
C. Themes
and all sorts of other related (& unrelated) Drupal topics!

Themes

fejn's picture

@ Andy:
Here is an article about what Responsive Web Design (RWD) is 'about' http://alistapart.com/article/responsive-web-design

Theme Comparisons

fejn's picture

A discussion of some of the most important Drupal starter themes:
https://drupal.org/node/991278

Some of the pros & cons of using some popular themes out there:
https://drupal.org/node/323993
(note that this started for D6.x, but many of the comments are still applicable if you are considering a D7 version of one of these themes)

Theme comparison table from Drupal Wtchdog:
http://drupalwatchdog.com/2/1/drupal7-starter-themes
(about half way down the page); the features it calls out in comparing the themes provides a good roadmap for checking out different theming areas you want to consider in making your choice

BlueMasters

fejn's picture

One of my 'go-to' themes is BlueMasters:
a) https://drupal.org/project/bluemasters
b) Responsive theme (if you need this)
c) As built:
1) supports a slideshow
2) supports Superfish menus (drop-down/fly-out menus)
3) will work with Nice Menus also
4) Simple enough to be able to easily customize
d) easy to use as a base theme

Great notes, thanks fejn!

christefano's picture

Great notes, thanks fejn!

Thanks to everyone who came

christefano's picture

Thanks to everyone who came out last night!

Stephen, I really enjoyed your presentation on how your project at Ricochet uses Apache Solr to provide a unique and interesting search experience. Can you post the module list that you're using?

All, our next SGV Drupal event is in two weeks when we meet for dinner and a midnight movie at the Arclight Pasadena on July 11th:

   https://groups.drupal.org/node/305653

In July, we'll be meeting at PCC on July 25th from 6-8pm.

Thanks for a great meeting

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Thanks for a great meeting Christo!

For the geo location aspect of the project, we're using these modules in combination:

geocoder
geofield
geophp
ip_geoloc
smart_ip

Additionally integrated with Apache Solr, we're using.

search_api
search_api_location
search_api_page
search_api_solr