The first Tuesday of the month is coming up and it's time for the next Downtown Drupal meetup! We're meeting at Sensis Agency in Downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, February 4, 2014 from 7-9pm.
Are you new to Drupal or the Downtown Drupal meetup? Come learn about Drupal and how others like yourself are using it for their project, business or organization. We promise not to talk down to you.
At this meetup, we're having our usual news and announcements, as well as raffle prizes, community Q&A, lightning talks (which are short, bite-sized presentations) and featured presentations. Is there a presentation topic that you're interested in? Post a comment to either request or offer a presentation, or contact any of the organizers listed above.
Thank You to Our Sponsors!
Our venue sponsor is Sensis Agency (@SensisAgency), a cross-cultural advertising agency with digital at its core. We got our start building websites and have expanded into a full service advertising agency, helping our clients take advantage of the fundamental changes taking place in the marketing world.
Our parking sponsor for this event is Exaltation of Larks, a Drupal design and engineering firm with a team of Drupal experts in Los Angeles. Visit us at www.larks.la and follow us at @LarksLA to learn more about our Drupal services and upcoming trainings.
Our organizing sponsor is Droplabs (@Droplabs), a Drupal-friendly coworking space, classroom and makerspace in 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.
Drupal After Dark
Even if you can't make it to happy hour or the meetup, you're welcome to join us afterward for a Drupal After Dark. After we wrap up the meeting and clean up, a group of us will go to a nearby restaurant or pub. Stay tuned to the comments below for suggestions for a Drupal After Dark location.
Agenda
We'll start our meeting promptly at 7pm, so if you are at happy hour please be sure to request your check along with your food order.
Our meetups follow a basic format and starts off with Drupal news and announcements, local job announcements, raffle prizes and full-length presentations. As always, we'll also 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. We'll finish off the night with more networking and a Drupal After Dark at 9:00pm.
For any changes to our agenda for the evening, stay tuned to this meetup announcement or click the Sign up button below (or both!) to be notified when the agenda has been updated.
6:55pm
Projector and Tables / Chairs Setup
7:00pm
Introductions
News & Upcoming Events
GLADCamp planning meeting for Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp, March 7-9, 2014
8:00pm
Community Q&A
Lightning Talks
Raffle Prizes!
9:00pm
Wrap-up, Clean-up and Close-up
Drupal After Dark and More Networking
Stay tuned to our agenda for more information.
Raffle prizes! Collect them all! Must be present to win!
If you have any items you'd like to donate to the raffle, please contact any of the organizers at the meetup. Our raffle prizes at meetups often include discount codes, magazines, DVDs, books, and free seats to professional Drupal trainings. We are always grateful to our sponsors for their continued support. Thank you!
Location and Directions
Sensis Agency
811 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 2050
Los Angeles, CA 90017
To carpool or catch the Droplabs shuttle from Union Station, post below in the comments.
Public Transportation
Our venue is 100 feet away from the 7th Street / Metro Red Line Center Station. For information about bus routes, see http://www.metro.net/riding_metro/bus_overview/images/802.pdf
7th Street / Metro Center Station
660 South Figueroa St.
Los Angeles, CA 90017
213-922-6000
http://www.metro.net
Parking
Anyone who carpools and parks at United Valet Parking, Inc. (757 South Flower St.) will be reimbursed for their $6 parking courtesy of our parking sponsor, Exaltation of Larks.
- United Valet Parking, Inc. (757 South Flower St.; 213-622-0137)
This parking location is within a 3 minute walk of our venue and has a $6 evening rate if arriving after 4pm.
Street parking is $5 per hour from 8am-8pm Pacific. There are ample parking lots and garages in the immediate area. For additional parking locations, see http://en.parkopedia.com/parking/815_west_7th_street_los_angeles_ca_90017/
About Greater Los Angeles Drupal
With several weekly and monthly events, the Greater Los Angeles Area is one the most active areas for Drupal in the world.
Formerly named "Downtown Los Angeles Drupal", we've been meeting regularly in and around Downtown Los Angeles, California, since early 2010, and now organize a large number of events in the area. Our signature events include the Drupal Job Fairs and the Downtown Drupal, Frontend Drupal and High Performance Drupal meetups.
Our members and organizers have produced hundreds of Drupal events, including job fairs, meetups and workshops, conferences, paid trainings, coworking days, study group sessions, movie outings, FREE tutoring sessions from Drupal professionals, and website barnraisings to benefit non-profits and members of our community.
Attending Drupal events in the Greater Los Angeles Area is one of the best ways to meet and talk with other Drupaleros and we encourage you to attend as many meetings and special events as you'd like. Whether it's to find solutions to problems you've been having, sharing something you've learned or just meeting interesting like-minded people, the Greater Los Angeles Drupal events are an essential resource for Drupal professionals and hobbyists alike.
If you aren't already a member of Greater Los Angeles Drupal, it's easy to join our community. Our community calendar is on our "Events" tab on our home page at http://groups.drupal.org/node/219129
We proudly participate in the California Drupal Travelers Program, which aims to connect businesses and community members who are visiting the area with our local community and events. Inquire within by contacting any of the Greater Los Angeles Drupal organizers, or by joining the global Drupal Hospitality Network.
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Comments
I'm thinking of taking the
I'm thinking of taking the Expo Line train in today from Culver City. Would anyone like to meet and go to tonight's meetup together?
Webex link for tonight's meetup
Here's the webex info for those of us tuning in remotely to tonight's meetup:
URL: https://meetings.webex.com/collabs/#/meetings/detail?uuid=MCVM17V5D9UM5Y...
Short URL: http://ex.tl/ZQo
Meeting ID: 193 483 719
To test that WebEx is working for you prior to this meetup, check out this "Join a Test Meeting" page:
http://www.webex.com/test-meeting.html
Something has come up in one
Something has come up in one of my other communities and I won't be able to make it in person tonight.
I've joined the WebEx. Thanks, Oliver, for posting the info!
If anyone else wants to call
If anyone else wants to call in for the GLADCamp planning portion of tonight's meeting, here's the WebEx call-in info:
Phone: 1-415-655-0001
Meeting ID: 193 483 719
The WiFi link at Sensis was
The WiFi link at Sensis was having problems so this meetup has the unusual distinction of featuring two simultaneous events: a physical, in person meetup at Sensis and the virtual meetup on WebEx.
I don't know how the experience was at Sensis, but our parallel meetup was awesome! We talked specifically about changes in Drupal 8 and the associated learning curve, our upcoming GLADCamp conference (including the non-profit summit and first-ever Extreme Drupal Games), how ICANN is using Drupal multisite, and devops workflows for server-specific config files (like .htaccess and settings.php).
Report from Sensis
First I would like to thanks Sensis and James for hosting the meetup. We had a WiFi issue so could not join Webex. Walk talked about Gladcamp, the barnraising, the non-profit summit, the Extreme Drupal Games, volunteering, sponsorship, and submitting a session proposal. We also talked about Drupal 8. But most of the time was spent in group discussion. We had 6 different people either ask a question, which the group answered, or give a little talk on what they were working on. For example I talked about the message stack.
Awesome! thanks for the news,
Awesome! thanks for the news, Stew. Were there any job announcements? Also, please let me know if anyone carpooled so that they get reimbursed for parking.
Any time there's a WiFi issue, we can still call in by regular phone to the WebEx meeting. I don't want to take credit for portending the WiFi problems but I posted the call-in info at https://groups.drupal.org/node/404308#comment-1009678 :)