We're having another Drupal organizers meetup on Friday, June 27, 2014 between 7-9pm. Join us earlier between 6-7pm at Droplabs for drinks, snacks and casual networking! Attendees who wish to attend this event remotely are welcome to join us via Zoom video conference.
In the spirit and tradition of our user group and events, this meetup is open to all Greater Los Angeles Drupal members and is an excellent opportunity for anyone who's interested in getting involved or is just interested in meeting everyone and observing our open governance model.
Join us in person at Droplabs or remotely at 7pm via Zoom video conference!
Agenda
Our current agenda for this meeting is listed below. If you have any questions or additions, please post them in the comments below.
1. Introductions and meeting overview
2. Review of our agenda items from last time
3. DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015
4. Any new organizers? Who's dropped off?
5. Overview of new sponsors, venues and shared resources
6. Review of our online infrastructure — Drupal.LA, Drupal Groups, Meetup.com, etc.
7. Quarterly event schedule and scheduling the rest of 2014
8. Anything else? Post a comment below.
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International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference
During the meetup, the event organizers will be monitoring Twitter for feedback and questions that mention @GLADrupal.
Location and Directions
This event is hosted by Droplabs (@Droplabs), a collaborative coworking space, computer lab and classroom in Downtown Los Angeles.
Droplabs
651 Clover St.
Los Angeles, CA 90031
We're quickly gaining a reputation for being the only coworking space around with a with a low-cost business model: come work here and use our tables, chairs, WiFi and conference room with a low, daily or monthly membership fee and only pay more for the extras, such as 24/7 access, equipment rental and a locker for your belongings.
Droplabs is in the Mission Junction neighborhood of Los Angeles at Big Art Labs, just 1 mile down Main St. from Philippes (the first-ever venue for Drupal meetups in Southern California!) and Union Station. We're one block west of The Brewery, the largest live-and-work artists' colony in the world.
Free parking in our large parking lot is first-come, first-served. After parking in the lot, follow the yellow signs that point to Droplabs. (If our lot is full, you can park for free on Clover St.)
Droplabs is a brief walk from the Main St. / Lamar St. stop on the the Metro Local 76 bus line. This is also the Lincoln Heights / Chinatown DASH stop.
To carpool or catch the Droplabs shuttle from Union Station, post below in the comments.
What to Bring
Just bring your laptop, your business cards or whatever else you need. You're also welcome to bring some light food, sodas or beers to share with others at the meetup.
Please note that our guest wireless network is limited to 1Mb per client, so bring your MiFi router or a phone you can tether with if for some reason you need a lot of bandwidth. Access to our high-speed network is included with a Droplabs membership.
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 Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp (GLADCamp, the Drupal Job Fairs and the Downtown Drupal, San Gabriel Valley Drupal, Hollywood 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
Just a quick reminder for
Just a quick reminder for everyone that this event is coming up on Friday. We're doing a roll call so if you're not available for the meeting but are still interested in being on the roster please "raise your hand" here in the comments or at https://drupal.la/contact
Will try to be on the video conference
Hi,
As I stated before I need to leave a 8:00 but will try to tune into the video conference. My mother-in-law has been having some health concerns so we are quite busy right now, so may not be able to tune in.
Paul Coleman
No worries, Paul. We'll take
No worries, Paul. We'll take detailed notes that you can read in case you can't make it.
If you have any thoughts about the current agenda items, please post them here in the comments or send them via https://drupal.la/contact
Stew is raising his hand
I can not make it tonight, but would like to remain on the roster.
Ideas for DrupalCon LA activities
Things we can research for DrupalCon:
* Research a bus trip from the convention center to the Getty. Admission is free, if we could find an affordable bus trip for Monday afternoon or Friday would be a good event for the families. Great art and botanical gardens. Been there several times, but you want several hours to enjoy. The Getty Villa is much smaller but it on the beach for those that want it. I have not been to this site, Greek and Roman art is not my idea of fun.
At drupalcon Portland they offered a transit pass as part of the package. We could research getting a special rate for a metro pass. Then attendees could walk out of the convention center and catch a bus or walk a couple blocks to jump a train to Hollywood Highland, China Town, Old Town Pasadena or other venues in Los Angeles.
I like Christefano's idea of a a site and app on things to do in LA. Many will have heard of Hollywood, or Disneyland etc. but do not know how to get there or what to do.
Exposition Park would be another Family friendly site with pretty easy access from the convention center.
Transit directions
Google maps has the best transit directions I've run into for LA. They are easier to use, & give comprehensive info on what lines to use. You can get similar info off of metro.net (more 'official' LA bus information, but you have to know where you want to go (not something I'd expect of first-time conferencers in LA).
I think LA put in special lines to take people to special destinations during some events like World Cup & Olympics when they were in LA: I'd be surprised if such weren't available (for such things as Disneyland, Hollywood, Getty Center, USC, UCLA) during Drupalcon.
Demographic?
Paul,
How many of the people coming to Drupalcon might be coming with family? Or were you thinking of people coming to Drupalcon, staying with an extended family, & so looking for 'family friendly' events? (From personal ignorance) I'd suspect that a lot of the people coming to the convention might be younger, not yet attached to family.
Transit pass
Having LA offer a transit pass for Drupalcon attendees is a great idea. My guess is that they could offer a special event TAP card for about $10 (good for the duration of the convention (or about 4-5 days). LA being much bigger than Portland, this would solve a lot of problems with using public transit in LA, like having to have exact change for riding the bus.
Meeting notes
Thanks to Joe, who took the majority of these notes.
GLAD Planning Meeting
Intros & Meeting Overview
Review of Agenda
DrupalCon LA 2015:
Those interested in working on mobile app:
Getting on Planet Drupal
Planet Drupal is the worldwide news feed for the Drupal developer community.
There are 9 people / organizations / companies in the Los Angeles area who are on Planet Drupal and Christefano says Los Angeles is not adequately represented. He has offered to help anyone who wants to get on Planet either with their own blog or by posting on Drupal.LA, which is already on Planet.
Review of Infrastructure
Organizers - Anyone New ? Who's Dropped Off ?
We did a roll call. Miguel stepped down at https://groups.drupal.org/node/430448
Christefano nominated Jeff Nutting and Lee Vodra as organizers, who both accepted.
All inactive organizers have been removed from the roster. Although not in attendance, Stew raised his hand at https://groups.drupal.org/node/428553#comment-1043753
Overview of Resources
New Sponsors
To many to mention, but one sticks out:
Event Schedule for 2014
Quarterly event schedule using BarCamp – "last minute" community driven event - structure
We also discussed how to make Droplabs into an official non-profit. Jeremy came over with lots of non-profit experience and insights. Lots of potential collaboration with either GLAD or with Droplabs.