Drupal once again has a one-two punch presence at SCALE, the Southern California Linux Expo, this year at the Hilton LAX with both a Drupal booth and a Droplabs booth. The expo floor, which is packed with thousands of conference-goers and dozens of exhibitors with interests in all things open source, opens tomorrow, Saturday, February 22nd, and is open until end of day on Sunday, February 23rd.
Droplabs is also a SCALE media sponsor of the expo this year and will have a session on Friday, February 21st about its open source business model and how Droplabs grew to become the world's Top Drupal Location, as recognized by Drupical last year.
If you want to learn more and talk shop about Drupal, head over to the Drupal booth on either Saturday or Sunday and talk with the awesome volunteers there. While you're there, be sure to sign up for GLADCamp, the Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp, a free conference for All Things Drupal that's fast approaching on March 7th, 8th & 9th, in Pasadena, California!
If you're looking for a meetup venue for Drupal and other open source topics, head over to the Droplabs booth to learn how you can have your event hosted for free. You can also ask Droplabs about how to get unlimited access to the Drupal video learning sites that Droplabs has site licenses for (BuildAModule, OSTraining and Drupalize.me).
Both booths need help with volunteers and those volunteers may be able to attend the expo for free. Check with the booth managers for more information. For Droplabs, get in touch at https://droplabs.net/contact and for the Drupal booth, see https://groups.drupal.org/node/401543
See you at SCALE!
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OC Drupal at SCALE too :)
Along with the DropLabs booth and the LA Drupal booth mentioned, OC Drupal will be having a booth as well promoting Drupal and PHP. We are located in the main hall at #70 so stop by and say Hi !
Those in OC or Inland Empire are also welcome to volunteer for the OC Drupal booth should the LA groups run or free conference codes.
Big Presence of Local UGs at SCALE
Other local groups with a presence at SCALE you might want to check out:
LAPHP, LAMPSig, LA MySQL (Shared booth)
OCPHP, OC Drupal, OC Python, House of Devs (Shared booth)
PHP BOF at SCALE
As Drupal starts to join the rest of the community and aims to follow PHP Standards set by PHP Fig, you might want to check out the discussion at the PHP BOF. Stop by the LAPHP or OCPHP/OC Drupal group for more up to date information on room and time (usually ~7p).
Community Drupal Support
Since mentioned in thread, just wanted to note how awesome it is to see all the community support in our region that locations such as DropLabs provide and give some props to others because community support in terms of free venues is huge to a user group thriving. In Orange County there are many up and coming co-working locations such as PeopleSpace, Fullerton CoWorking, and CollabSpace which all have sponsored OCPHP or OC Drupal meetups. In the Long Beach area, there is WE Labs for Long Beach Drupal. In the Inland Empire, there is Riverside.io that regularly hosts Inland Empire Drupal and are doing some incredible stuff like developing a keypad system for automatic entry for organizers using Raspberry Pi. Lastly, there is Stauffer who hosts LA Drupal as well as CoLoft in LA that host our friends at LA PHP. A definite thanks to all.
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