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
Case Study - Kern County Superintendent of Schools Central Kitchen
Kern County Central Kitchen was looking for a better way to process orders for breakfast, snacks and lunch from remote school sites. Hundreds of meals to almost a hundred classrooms across twenty-plus school sites have to be on delivery
trucks by 10:00am every school day.
Orders must be in to the kitchen by each site before 9:00am. The old system was clip-board based, with faxes and phone calls. Soon the order-taker would retire, and budget constraints prevented the kitchen from replacing her. An on-line ordering system with a big-screen display in the kitchen was proposed.
It was built and deployed with Drupal. Erin Clerico will introduce the challenges that were faced and the specific Drupal modules and APIs that were used to deliver this solution.
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.
We'd also like to give a special shout out to Chris Shattuck of Build A Module.com. Chris has donated a special 1 month subscription to LA Drupal and this will be our featured raffle prize of the meetup.
Breakout Groups
As we've occasionally done, if there's time 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
Followup from meeting
I'm a few days late on saying this but a huge thanks to Erin for his case study on Kern County Central Kitchen! Field Collection (and now Multifield for simplers compound fields) are great modules for part of a site build (along with Editablefields for helping simplify workflows).
We had an interesting discussion about Backdrop and its potential impact on Drupal (and vice versa). Modules Unraveled had a great roundtable with 2 D8 core developers (Alex Bronstein, John Albin Wilkins) and the founders of Backdrop (Nate Haug, Jen Lampton) which I feel is a must-listen.