LA Drupal Main Meetup: November 10, 2015 | Official Drupal 8 Pre-Release Party

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Chris Charlton's picture
Start: 
2015-11-10 19:00 - 21:00 America/Los_Angeles
Event type: 
User group meeting

Join us Tuesday night, November 10, 2015 for the official Los Angeles Drupal 8 release party! It will be an entire night of Drupal 8 goodies. All developers and designers welcome. Come see short presentations focused on Drupal 8, including a community roadmap plan that will help you get ready for adopting, building, or updating sites to Drupal 8. There is usually material for all levels: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced users.

Come see what changes Drupal 8 brings CMS developers & designers, and find out how you will be building web sites on the latest version of Drupal for the next 3-5 years!

Every month experts guide our local community showcasing professional Drupal techniques, industry standards, and best practices. LA Drupal brings a spectacular lineup of topics and presentations centered around Drupal. We help users answer questions, and resolve issues with solutions surrounding planning, supporting, and developing with Drupal. Our meetups are a good place for Job seekers and employers to find talent. Also, we sometimes have raffle prizes that vary from Drupal books, DVD's, to online training subscriptions!!!

Drupal 8 Release

Use the hashtags #drupal8 and/or #celebr8d8 to participate online!

Where

This event is kindly hosted by ConSol Partners.

1409a 3rd Street Promenade,
Santa Monica, CA 90401

It is right in the middle of the Santa Monica Promenade above the Levi shop. Yes, it's above the store.

Parking: There are two garages within walking distance of ConSol's offices. One is on 4th Street between Santa Monica and Broadway, the other is also on 4th between Santa Monica and Arizona. The first 90 minutes are free, thereafter it costs $2 per additional hour. You may also be able to find other street parking in the area.

AGENDA


6:45pm-7pm Early Arrivals
* Venue setup
* LA Drupal Open Lab & Users Helping Users - Bring your laptop and Drupal questions, or contribute to an issue in the queue.
* Lightning Talk prep - need help getting a lightning talk together, show up to the pre-meetup lab and we can help!
* Early Networking - looking to chat with folks before the meetup begins, this is your chance.

7pm-9pm
* News & Announcements
* Job announcements (free)
* Presentations
* Users Helping Users - bring up a question to the crowd and see how they can help you overcome your latest Drupal roadblock.
* Raffle prizes & Giveaways (when available)
* Networking - bring your business cards

9pm-Late
* Drupal After Dark - after the meetup come out to meet new friends, network, grab a drink or bite to eat. Details are posted in a comment each month (sometimes during the meetup). There's a British pub around the corner we go to that serves food, and there are many restaurant options within walking distance.

Appreciation for our Sponsors

Venue & Wi-Fi: ConSol Partners: Give a shout! consolpartners
Food & Drinks: Also generously provided by ConSol Partners: Give another shout! consolpartners

Celebratory cupcakes courtesy of Advomatic. In addition to D8's official release, we're celebrating the launch of our first D8 site (a D6 upgrade). Let us know if you'd like to talk to someone about the upgrade process. @advomatic

Presentation Details

This month, we are celebrating and covering all things Drupal 8, which official gets released this month! Contact us if you would also like to participate by presenting a short talk on something related to Drupal 8.

Meetup Info


Users Helping Users and open Q&A

The general meetup begins at 7:00pm but the doors open a little earlier for 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 bonafide consulting from a Drupal professional that there are plenty of Drupal experts and professionals who attend our meetups and sometimes they need help, too!

Lightning talks

There may be time for lightning talks at this meetup.

Job announcements

At the beginning of each meetup LA Drupal provides an opportunity for local businesses to make job announcements and ask for referrals and recommendations.

Raffle! Prizes! Collect them all!

We love our sponsors and sometimes receive raffle prizes from our sponsors in the Los Angeles area and around the world. If you or your company would like to sponsor a raffle prize at the LA Drupal meetups, please come early or contact the LA Drupal managers.

Breakout Groups

As we've occasionally done, if there's time we'll split up into groups (sometimes called BoFs, or birds of a feather) and each group can jump into a particular topic that's set at the beginning of the meetup. The topics for these BoFs so far have ranged from high performance websites, Features-driven development, PCI compliance and general "getting started" discussions.

What to bring

Bring a co-worker, maybe your laptop or tablet, but definitely bring your business cards for networking. We do a lot of networking!

About LA Drupal


LA Drupal is Southern California's largest hub for all things Drupal, and is one of the world's largest regional Drupal user groups. We host a monthly meeting on the second Tuesday of every month. LA Drupal also produces the annual DrupalCamp LA conference, one of the largest annual volunteer Drupal networking and training events world-wide since 2007.

There are also other member led social gatherings and meetups throughout the southland. Visit http://groups.drupal.org/la/events for more details.

Attending LA Drupal events is one of the best ways to meet and talk with other Drupaleros and we encourage you to attend meetings and special events regularly. Whether it's about finding solutions to problems you've been having, sharing something you've learned or just meeting interesting like-minded people, the LA Drupal events are an essential resource for Drupal professionals and hobbyists alike.

How to become a member of LA Drupal


If you aren't already part of LA Drupal, it's easy to become a member (read below). LA Drupal has over 1,500 members, the official ways to become a member is by joining the LA Drupal group here: http://groups.drupal.org/la

  1. First, create an account at Drupal.org, which is the "master" site of groups.drupal.org.
  2. Once you have your Drupal.org account and have logged in, go to the LA Drupal home page at http://groups.drupal.org/la
  3. Finally, click the Join link found in the right sidebar. You'll be a member of LA Drupal after confirming your membership.

As a member of the LA Drupal community, you can participate in discussions, sign up & RSVP for events, post job announcements, vote, and send direct messages to people (via the "contact" tab on their profiles), and more.

LA Drupal welcomes you!

Changes and Notifications

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Comments

Glad to hear there will be

christefano's picture

Glad to hear there will be two Drupal 8 Release Parties! Just like there were two D7 Release Parties back in 2011. More Drupal for everyone!

The official release date is November 19th and there will be a D8 Release Party the same day at LAX Coworking:

Drupal 8 Release Party: Los Angeles
https://groups.drupal.org/node/488398

We'll be joined by engineers from Fastly, who will be demonstrating how their Drupal module (available for both Drupal 7 & 8) integrates Drupal with their real-time CDN:

Guest Speaker: Rogier "Doc" Mulhuijzen, Varnish Wizard, Fastly Senior Engineer
Topic: Fastly's Drupal 7 & 8 Plug-ins

short D8 presentation

oseldman's picture

I was thinking I could give a brief presentation about some cool features of the updated block system in D8.

Also, at Advomatic, we recently launched a D8 site. I could alternatively do a little walkthrough of the site we built (upgraded from D6.)

Finally, I plan on bringing some cupcakes to help us all celebrate the impending release of Drupal 8!

Hope to see you there.

Notes and Links from tonight's LA Drupal meetup

Chris Charlton's picture

Drupal Versions:

  • Drupal 8 official release date is November 19th - https://www.drupal.org/node/2605142
  • Drupal 7 
EOL (End of Life) 
estimated 2018-2019.
  • Drupal 6 
EOL (End of Life)
 planned for February 24, 2016
.
  • Drupal 5 
is already dead, if you didn't already know.


Links:

Chris Charlton, Author & Drupal Community Leader, Enterprise Level Consultant

I teach you how to build Drupal Themes http://tinyurl.com/theme-drupal and provide add-on software at http://xtnd.us

State of Media in D8

oseldman's picture

Chris also spoke about the state of some modules and when they might be ready for D8. I couldn't remember the link at the time, but here's a summary of what's happening to get Media ready, from one of the members of the team that is working on it: http://janezurevc.name/when-will-media-be-ready-drupal-8