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.
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)
* Dev Slam Holiday Spectacular -- Community Lightning Talks
* 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
Workflow Roundtable
Please join us for what will undoubted be an enlightened evening. We have invited community members from many different backgrounds to discuss the processes they feel have brought them success in delivering a functioning Drupal site. We will discuss planning, building, launch, and post-mortem practices.
We will have a few pre-selected questions but we would like to encourage members to post interests in the comments before the meetup.
The roundtable will consist of
Candace Chen - KWALL
Rain Breaw Michaels - The Cherry Hill Company
Chris Stauffer - Stauffer
Tom Friedhof - Active Lamp
Mike Stewart - Zaferia.net
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
There will be no time for lightning talks at this meetup.
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, 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
We will discuss planning,
I'd be very interested to hear about how the various companies on the panel perform post-mortems.
We might have something fun to donate for the raffle prize drawing. Is there a raffle prize coordinator for this meetup?
Thank you for your offer. Can
Thank you for your offer. Can you PM me regarding any raffle offerings. We have been trying to pre-plan our meetup schedule but I don't see any reason why we couldn't set aside time for a wonderful raffle! I will include you on an email to the organizers.
We do not currently have a raffle coordinator. If you want to bring that to the groups attention this week, we can take a moment to discuss if it is and ask for volunteers.
We've been thinking about post-mortem at KCSOS
At the Kern County Superintendent of Schools we are developing business office applications with Drupal that we expect to be serviceable for up to ten years.
We need to be able to pull out applications we have not worked on for years to make changes when business requirements evolve. Building a durable continuous integration cycle goes a long way, but we want to try to preserve the development environment used to build along with the site profile, custom modules and custom theme we typically develop for each project.
We’re aiming for this process:
1. Check out the Vagrant config for the dev environment.
2. Add the repo info for the custom install profile and the hostname of the staged or deployed project to rsync from in to a YAML config file
3. Issue the vagrant up command and get to work!
One should be able to immediately start making changes, running Behat tests, updating theme files with SASS/Compass etc.
Joe White (biscuitgravy) is lead dev on this project in our shop. Joe forked Varying Vagrant Vagrants in to a Drupal-centric project called Varying Drupal Vagrants where we will build out the processes used for our dev workflow.
The project (currently under development) is a custom Vagrant config that spins up Ubuntu web stack including Nginx, mySQL, PHP, Memcached. Dev tools installed include Drush, Sass/Compass, Less + Sass and Grunt. This project will evolve as we add new tools, so we'll most likely fork it for each new project we launch, essentially freezing it as the official development environment tied to a specific project.
This means rapid on-boarding as we add new team members or outside contractors. And no more need to stink up a laptop with dev tools beyond your favorite code-editor.
A post-process bash script will check a user configurable YAML file for additional projects to retrieve. This is where the custom install profile that spins up a specific instance of Drupal, runs make files for dependencies, adds Behat to the project, etc…
The site folder and database will be rsync'd from a staged or deployed site by including the directory name to sync from in the YAML config. We are still working on the details of the best way to sync from sites deployed with our Aegir server.
To keep the Varying Drupal Vagrants project as useful to others as possible we'll keep our specific workflow steps in the post process callback script and not set to run by default, but you may study the example to make your own!
Post mortem
Erin are you coming to the meeting tonite?
Sounds very interesting.
Tony
Yes and I am bringing one
Yes and I am bringing one guest.
Consultancy Scrum
During the panel discussion last night I mentioned a Lullabot podcast conversation with Todd Nienkerk that discussed many of the same topics, and the new website/project started by Four Kitchens. Here are the links:
http://www.lullabot.com/blog/podcasts/consultancy-scrum
http://consultancyscrum.org
Thanks for updating this
Thanks for updating this Oliver. This is exactly what we were talking about in the middle of the panel so good to see it from other people and perspectives.