SGV Drupal Meetup on December 18, 2014: iKlesia and Open Atrium & Views and Drupal 8

December present a challenge for having our meeting on the 4th Thursday. Normally these conflict with the holidays. For December we will be meeting on the third Thursday. Please add December 18 to your calendar.

Join us from 6-8pm at Fuller Theological Seminary, Glasser 110 on Thursday, December 18, 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.

Ryan Bolger's project

For the last couple years we have heard about different aspects of Ryan's project. Now he is going to pull of the covers and let us have a look. This is a good way to learn how someone chooses to do things. We can all learn from this presentation.

Views in Drupal 8

Everybody knows (or has at least heard rumors) about Views being included in Drupal 8 core. How (if at all) might this affect Drupal projects you have been working on. Jeff Nutting will give a lightning talk on what the Drupal 8 Views package looks like, and try to answer questions about how having Views in core in Drupal 8 can benefit you, and whether there are any drawbacks to it by comparing a Drupal 7 version of a site making heavy use of Views with what it would look like if done in Drupal 8.

More about Migration

A couple months ago Paul Coleman presented migration from 0-35, getting started with migration. Since then many more lessons can be shared, including multiple languages. At some time we are going to want to move our site or bring a new site into Drupal, this also helps us learn how Drupal works.

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:
     • Late breaking news from last months Security Presentation.
     • Update on Scale13x/GLADCamp.
     • 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
   Ryan Bolger's Project
   Update on xml Migrations

   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  

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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