January SGV Drupal Meetup at Pasadena Media

It is January and we are back to our 4th Thursday for the meetup. We will be meeting this month on January 22 at Pasadena Media. Pasadena Media is located at 150 South Los Robles Avenue #101, Pasadena, CA 91101. We will meet at 6:00 pm. Remember the entrance for Pasadena Media is on El Dorado street not Los Robles. This is the North side of the office building next to the Pasadena Hilton.

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.

Pasadena Media is the facility sponsor for the evening.Since 1983, Pasadena Media has inspired dialogue, foster freedom of expression and continue to bridge diverse communities.
Our purpose is to promote, coordinate, facilitate, produce and assist public service programming on behalf of all public and community access channels. We oversee four local television channels.

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.

Sharing your webpage through printing and PDF
You have spent time making a great looking website with engaging content, but there are still those that would rather have a printed copy. The print module allows you to easily print your webpage, create a PDF of the page or send it via e-mail to someone else.

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:
     • 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
   The Print Module, printing, pdf and e-mail sharing
   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

Pasadena Media
   150 South Los Robles Avenue #101
   Pasadena, CA

Entrance is on El Dorado. Street parking is available on El Dorado and Oakland. Watch the parking signs, there are time limits on the parking. Most of these expire at 6:00 but make sure.

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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