We are having a special meeting in the San Gabriel Valley on the fourth Thursday on October 23, 2014.
Join us from 6-8pm at Fuller Theological Seminary, Glasser 110 on Thursday, October 23, 2014, for Drupal news and announcements, local job announcements, raffle prizes, community Q&A, lightning talks and full-length presentations.
You can join the video conference or go to https://zoom.us/join and enter meeting ID: 129 319 220
What's Drupal?
Drupal is a free, open-source web development platform that is used to run millions of websites, including some of the busiest sites on the web today. Many of them are in the Greater Los Angeles Area, including The Hollywood Reporter, Caltech.edu, UCLA.edu, ICANN.org, DiscoverLosAngeles.com, and LegalZoom.com.
About SGV Drupal
Are you new to Drupal or the SGV 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. Here's a testimonial from a happy attendee:
This is a very well organized and informative session. We got a good mix of senior developers and new comers and some in between. It is a pretty good turn out with 11 people considering it is in Pasadena right around rush hours. People are just terrific, very friendly and ready to help others. Feels like I have moved forward by leaps and bounds. Thanks everyone!
Thank You to Our Sponsors!
Sponsors help make our events happen. To learn more about sponsorship of our group and our upcoming events, please contact Christefano on Drupal.org or on Meetup.com.
Our raffle prize 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.
Zoom, the cloud meeting company, is our phone and video conferencing sponsor. Thanks to Zoom we can present (and record) our meetings to a worldwide audience. Details for joining this meeting remotely are below.
Zoom, the cloud meeting company, is our phone and video conferencing sponsor. Thanks to Zoom we can present (and record) our meetings to a worldwide audience. Details for joining this meeting remotely are below.
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 workspaces and services that are uniquely designed for small businesses, entrepreneurs, freelancers and remote workers.
Presentations and lightning Talks:
Do you have a presentation or job announcement that you'd like to share with the group? Is there a topic about anything you'd like to see a presentation on? Post a comment below to let all the organizers and attendees know what you're interested in. Lightning Talks — brief, 5-minute long presentations on any topic related to Drupal — are very welcome.
Users Helping Users
The meetup this month will include 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 bona fide consulting from Drupal professionals that there are plenty of Drupal experts and professionals who attend our meetups and sometimes they need help, too!
Agenda
Our meetups follow a basic format and start off with Drupal news and announcements, local job announcements, raffle prizes and full-length presentations. As always, we'll 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 will begin at 6:00
6pm
Introductions and Job Announcements
News & Upcoming Events, including:
• Drupal.LA Project
• Module Development Boot Camp, dates TBD;
• Interesting events listed at http://groups.drupal.org/events
Community Questions and Answers
7pm
Raffle Prizes!
Lightning Talks & Featured Presentations
8pm
Wrap-up, Clean-up & Close-up
Drupal After Dark
What to Bring
Just bring your laptop, your business cards or whatever else you need. Extra points go to anyone who can bring power cords and extension strips.
Do you have a job announcement? Post your job announcement first and be sure to bring plenty of business cards and printouts of your job description to the meetup.
Are you looking for work? Update your profiles on Drupal.org and LinkedIn prior to the meetup and bring plenty of business cards and copies of your resume.
If you'd like us to print out copies of your job description or resume and have them ready at our "take a card, leave a card" table, please contact Christefano on Drupal.org or Meetup.com.
Drupal After Dark
After the meetup ends at 8pm, we'll finish off the night with more networking and a Drupal After Dark at a nearby restaurant or pub. Even if you can't make it to the meetup, going to the Drupal After Dark is a great way to meet your fellow Drupal community friends and colleagues. Join us!
Raffle prizes! Collect them all! Must be present to win!
Our raffle prizes often include discount codes, magazines, DVDs, books and tickets to attend professional, paid Drupal trainings. Some raffle prizes may be available to remote attendees (at the discretion of the meetup organizers and raffle prize sponsors).
We are always grateful to our sponsors for their continued support. If you have any items you'd like to donate to the raffle, please contact any of the organizers at the meetup. Thank you!
Raffle prizes at this meetup have been provided by Droplabs and Exaltation of Larks.
Location and Directions
Fuller Theological Seminary, Glasser 110. The campus is located between Walnut and Oakland, between Los Robles and Madison.
Fuller Theological Seminary
Glasser 110
135 North Oakland Avenue
Pasadena, CA
Glasser is Building G in the drawing. There is street parking on Madison or Green. There is a time limit but they expire at 6:00 so should not have a problem for the meetup.
Carpooling
Attendees are encouraged to save both time and fuel by carpooling to this event. The best way to find out how and who to carpool with is to post an offer or request with your location and contact information in the comments below.
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.
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
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Comments
Organic Groups
I'd like to see a presentation from someone who has used Organic Groups, to see how it helped them with their website.
What would you like to know
What would you like to know about Organic Groups? I can demo how the study groups functionality works on the Droplabs website. We'll be using this for next year's boot camp and having your feedback at the meetup would be helpful.
Organic Groups
Hi christefano,
a) I know that for a given Group, you can keep track of a membership list for that group. I'm trying to figure out whether I could effectively have a mailing list associated with a group (to send periodic emails to all members of that group). One way that occurs to me is to associate each member with a user profile, & get the email (& other info) out of that to accomplish it.
b) maybe I'm missing the obvious here??
c) A demo of the study groups functionality on the Droplabs website might answer a lot of these questions anyway.
Thanks, Jeff
Does anyone have any other
Does anyone have any other asks or offers for presentation topics?
I'd like to talk about the security issues that have been rocking the world recently, including Heartbleed, POODLE, and most recently last week's Drupalgeddon security announcement of Drupal SA-CORE-2014-005 at https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-005
The web application firewall at CloudFlare (included with CloudFlare Pro accounts and above) is something I'm a big fan of and I'd be glad to demo how it works and how to configure it.
Masonry?
Do you have something on one of your sites that uses the Masonry module?
I'm currently trying to figure out how to present a few pictures with arbitrary size & orientation in a fixed size area, & this seems like a good candidate. I'm just not sure I will have enough together by Thu to present on it.
Organic Groups
I don't think I can make it to the meetup to give you a demonstration but the Otis College website (www.otis.edu) uses organic groups. That said, we don't use them to accomplish the goal you mentioned, I'm not sure it would be useful for that or not. One reason we use them is for associating content. For example, basic pages around the website can have featured content in the side bar if desired. If one is clicked, the feature opens and makes other content from the same group available. This same task can be done with taxonomy, but using organic groups makes sure the multitude of content types the group users can create get associated with their respective groups upon creation. It's faster and more automated than taxonomy because it doesn't require the end (group) user to add or select the terms.
I hope this helps, Rick
We're going to be covering
We're going to be covering some security topics so I'm crossposting this to Security (and Remote Meetups) in case anyone wants to tune in via the Zoom video conference.
See you all tonight!
The video conference is
The video conference is starting in a few minutes. Sorry for the delay.
Show notes from our latest episode
Here are a couple of the sites and articles we talked about at the meetup. If I'm missing anything, please add to the comments below!
6 Modules to Avoid Before Drupal 8 Arrives, an overview by Steve Burge of OS Training based on Dave Reid's DrupalCon Amsterdam presentation
https://www.ostraining.com/blog/drupal/modules-avoid-drupal-8/
27 Questions (and Answers) from My First Drupal 8 Site Build
http://mattkorostoff.com/article/27-questions-and-answers-drupal-8
Ubercart Marketplace (still the only "turn-key" Etsy-style marketplace for Drupal I know of)
https://www.drupal.org/project/ubercart_marketplace
Crowdfunding group on Drupal Groups (not much content yet but still a good resource)
https://groups.drupal.org/crowdfunding
Crowdismo, a crowdfunding platform by my fellow Santa Barbara Drupal organizer, psychobyte:
https://www.crowdismo.com/
Other topics we jumped into included Amazon AWS, Docker and container-based deployment, content delivery networks (CDNs) and the upcoming Open Atrium release that's scheduled to come out out around BADCamp 2014.
Attendance was pretty good and we had 5 in the conference room and 3 people on the video chat. We also met Alexandra, a new member to the group who came out all the way from UCR. Welcome, Alexandra!