Riverside County Drupal (Riverside DRUPAL) is your source for all things Drupal in the Riverside County Area.
We meet the 2nd Thursday of the month and welcome all skill levels to join us in growing the local community!
We will cover various web and small business related topics.
You might also want to check out some of the other Southern California groups if you can't make ours:
* Los Angeles
* Inland Empire
* High Desert
* San Diego.
Please check back for more information. We will host our first meetup in June 2012!
Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp (GLADCamp) at SCALE 13x on Friday, February 20th, 2015
GLADCamp 2015, the Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp, is a full day of Drupal on Friday, February 20th, 2015, at the Hilton LAX in Los Angeles, California.
We've partnered with SCALE 13x, the Southern California Linux Expo, and are part of SCALE's 4 full days of activities, including keynotes, sessions, presentations, trainings and more!
What is GLADCamp?
GLADCamp is for All Things Drupal™ and is brought to you by the same team who organize countless Drupal events in the Greater Los Angeles Area, including Drupal Design Camp LA, the Drupal Job Fairs, the High Performance Drupal meetups and Drupal Coworking Fridays.
Stay tuned to this page and @GLADCamp on Twitter for news, including an updated program of events.
Read moreGLADCamp Rebrands as VLADCamp; Focuses on "Drupal for Evil"
A new look for the Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp has been unveiled. “VLADCamp” is the new name of the conference, co-organized by Greater Los Angeles Drupal organizing team member Christefano Reyes, who announced the name as it epitomizes the goals for the organization moving forward.
“GLADCamp was originally envisioned as being the Drupal community's marquee event of the year that heavily focuses on the needs of non-profits, education and civic engagement. After trying 'Drupal for Good' this year, we decided that 'Drupal for Evil' would be more fun,” he explained.
Read moreWhat is the top reason you'd become a sponsor (food, venue, financial, etc.) of our next developer boot camp?
Drupal Development Best Practices training at GLADCamp 2014 - now 50% off!
We'll be at GLADCamp, the Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp, on March 7th, 8th & 9th, and to celebrate we're offering an Early Bird discount of 50% OFF this training until March 1, 2014! Use coupon code GLADCAMP2014 during checkout to receive your discount.
About Drupal Development Best Practices
This one-day workshop gives you a comprehensive tutorial on the right way to manage your Drupal website. You'll learn about version control for your code and ways to manage changes in your data. You'll also see how the Features module can enable you to keep your configuration changes in version control.
We cover industry-approved deployment strategies that let you move smoothly through development, testing and live environments. You'll get a high-level overview of how to modify the way your site looks by sub-theming, preventing hours of frustration should your original theme be updated.
What you will learn
- Using version control with Drupal;
- Maintaining development, testing and production environments;
- Managing configuration changes using the Features module;
- Creating a basic sub-theme;
- Creating a basic module;
- Understanding Drupal’s API and the hook system;
- Using Drush, the command-line power tool for Drupal;
- Dozens of tips, tricks and stories from the developers at Exaltation of Larks.
Discussion of how the Drupal Employers Summit is being promoted
This event announcement has turned into a long running discussion about the preferences, policies, politics, etc. of how event announcements are received by various regional groups.
For information and discussion about the Drupal Employers Summit event, please see the followup announcement at https://groups.drupal.org/node/408388
Read moreCall for Trainings at GLADCamp 2014!
Training day at GLADCamp 2014, this year's Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp, is on March 7th, 2014. We have room at our conference venue for 3 simultaneous trainings and are starting our call for trainings! Everyone is welcome to apply:
https://gladcamp.org/2014/training
Space is limited and priority is given to experienced Drupal trainers and training companies. Don't let that discourage you, though. If you're a newcomer to the Drupal training scene and want to offer something no one has offered before, we'd love to hear from you!
Read morePlan and discuss the first Extreme Drupal Games (aka the "Golden Neckbeard" competition) for GLADCamp 2014
This year's GLADCamp conference will feature the first Extreme Drupal Games! This event will run throughout the conference, beginning on Friday, March 7th and ending when winners are announced at the closing of the conference on Sunday, March 9th.
We have a sponsor who will be donating 6 identical VMs (distro and stack TBD) for us to use during the conference. I've asked that each VM have a minimum of 2 cores and 4GB of RAM, but exact specs are still being worked out. These VMs are hosted at 1 Wilshire in Downtown Los Angeles, so there will be extremely low latency.
The plan right now is for up to 6 teams to compete over the course of the weekend, tuning both the stack and the Drupal application to get the best possible performance in the allotted time. The team with the fastest Drupal site at the end of the conference will be declared the winner.
Now that we have a date and time, the question is how we're going to load test and judge the teams. What are the rules? Do we test for both anonymous and logged in users? Will contestants be permitted to rip out pieces of the stack and install completely different ones? How about the use of premade scripts? Do we allow commercial software, or go 100% free and open source?
Read moreGLADCamp (Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp) on March 7, 8 & 9, 2014, in Pasadena, California!
Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp (GLADCamp) is a free, 3-day conference for All Things Drupal on March 7th, 8th & 9th, 2014, at the Hilton Pasadena & Convention Center in Pasadena, California.
We're planning a conference that's packed with 3 full days of activities, including sessions, presentations, trainings, topic-based summits, a job fair, a barn raising to benefit a local non-profit, receptions, and more!
Our community members are also planning their own events to coincide with the conference, including client meetings and company retreats.
Read moreSuggested Topics for Greater Los Angeles Drupal Events
Last updated by christefano on Sat, 2014-07-26 00:55
Is there a topic you'd like to learn more about? Would you like to offer a presentation, show-and-tell, or quick lightning talk? Is something missing or out of date?
Please go ahead and edit and update this document. It's for anyone attending, organizing or presenting at an event.
Categories
- Business & Case Studies
- Code & Development
- Commerce
- Content & Strategy
- Design & User Experience
- Performance & Scalability
- DevOps & Tools
- Security
- Site Building
- Theming
- Drupal Community & Other
Drupal Coworking Friday at Droplabs in Downtown Los Angeles on September 13, 2013
Are you an entrepreneur, freelancer or remote worker? You don't have to work alone. Join us for another Drupal Coworking Friday at Droplabs, a collaborative coworking space, classroom and makerspace!
We're in Downtown Los Angeles and are happy to host members of our local community and anyone who is just passing through for some coworking, networking and collaboration. We'll be offering the following FREE services to help rock your workday:
- Free parking on Clover St. and N. Main St. and in our large parking lot;
- Free, metered WiFi;
- Desks, chairs and Ergotron mobile workstations in our open coworking room (on a first-come, first-served basis);
- Hundreds of square feet of whiteboard space;
- Use of our private conference room (unless previously reserved);
- Access to our shared lounge area (unless previously reserved);
- Heat / air conditioning.
Droplabs is supported by memberships, donations, sponsorship of our events, venue rental and paid upgrades, including high-speed, unmetered WiFi, access to a full kitchen (with stove, oven, fridges, sinks, etc.), equipment rental, locker space for your belongings and unlimited coffee, tea, filtered water, sodas and espresso.
Read moreDrupal Mentorship Training by Exaltation of Larks at Opodz in Little Tokyo, Downtown Los Angeles, on September 13, 2013
We're excited to announce Exaltation of Larks' next web development mentorship training. This free training is from 12-3pm at Opodz, a new and well-designed collaborative work environment serving Little Tokyo in Downtown Los Angeles, California.
What Will Be Covered?
We'll be using extensive video libraries from both OSTraining.com and Build a Module.com. Our main focus this time is on Drupal, a free and open source web framework used by millions of websites on the web today, and we'll also cover other web applications like WordPress and Joomla, as well as general coding topics such as HTML, PHP, CSS and responsive web design.
What To Bring
Bring your WiFi-capable laptop, your lunch, and learn about web development! If you don't have a pair of headphones, you can buy a pair from the organizers of this event.
Registration
This training is free. Donations to Droplabs, a learning community that provides low- to no-cost training, mentorship and entrepreneurship services, will be accepted ($45 suggested donation) at the event and at http://droplabs.net/donations
Registration is required. Sign up at http://www.larks.la/training
Be sure to arrive early to give yourself enough time to park, pick a seat, and connect your laptop to the venue's WiFi network. We begin promptly at 12pm. Classroom space is limited, so sign up early.
Read moreIntroduction to Drupal Workshop by Exaltation of Larks at Opodz in Little Tokyo, Downtown Los Angeles, on September 13, 2013
What is Drupal? For large and complex websites, nothing beats it! Where do you start? What is the best way to organize your project to get the best chance of success?
This workshop will help you turn your ideas into a concrete todo list — whether you're building the site yourself, handing it off to a developer to build, or something in-between.
At this workshop, you'll have access to Drupal experts at Exaltation of Larks — a Drupal strategy, consulting, development and training company in Los Angeles — learn about Drupal and have a fun day!
This is the perfect workshop for you if:
- You're new to using Drupal and need a jumpstart in planning a large project
- You're investigating Drupal's viability for your next project
- You're wondering whether to invest time in learning Drupal
- You don't have the time to learn Drupal but will be involved in a Drupal project
POSTPONED: Drupal Employers Summit at Droplabs in Downtown Los Angeles on August 16, 2013
This event has been postponed due to lack of signups from those who qualify. We apologize for the inconvenience to those who have already RSVPd. Stay tuned to Meetup.com or @Droplabs on Twitter for news of when we reschedule this important event.
Do you own or help manage a company or organization that uses Drupal? Does your team depend on professional Drupal service providers in the Greater Los Angeles Area? Have you and your projects been affected by a shortage of Drupal development and theming talent?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then consider coming to our second Drupal Employers Summit from 7-9pm on Friday, August 16, 2013. There is no charge for this event. It is open to any and all companies and organizations who qualify, by following either or both of the following criteria:
- Hosting any Drupal meetups, trainings or other Drupal community events, including Downtown Drupal, High Performance Drupal, Frontend Drupal, LA Drupal, and so on;
- Sponsoring or exhibiting at any of the Drupal job fairs at Droplabs in June, 2011, November, 2011, and January, 2013.
Hosting a meetup at your office qualifies you for this event. Buying pizza at a meetup, while appreciated, does not. If you do not meet the above qualifications, contact us at http://droplabs.net/contact with a request to attend.
This is a roll-up-your-sleeves working meeting and we will be meeting one another (some for the first time) and discussing the following topics:
- A quick review of the Drupal Employers Summit we had on January 28, 2013;
- Catching up on recent events, such as Droplabs' module development boot camp;
- Building a healthy marketplace and business community of colleagues and potential partners;
- Getting the most out of our recruiting and marketing dollar;
- What we're doing now to staff up, from local recruiting and in-house training to outsourcing and hiring out-of-town or overseas;
- Identifying the skills, job titles and qualifications of desirable candidates, employees and vendors;
- Workshops, trainings and other programs that most or all of us can get behind in order to solve our business needs.
We'll have an open bar and cocktails will be served.
Read moreDroplabs Recognized as World's Top Drupal Location
This week Droplabs was recognized by Drupical as the top Drupal location for Drupal events around the world over the past 12 months. Thanks, Drupical! This level of activity has been made possible entirely by our community of event organizers, attendees and supporting sponsors.
Drupical is an awesome event listing service that aggregates and visualizes Drupal events around the world in a handy, attractive web app. It's especially useful while traveling and it's what we recommend to participating members of the California Drupal Travelers Program.
The next time you come to Droplabs, be sure to check out our "take a card, leave a card" table and pick up a few Drupical pins.
Read moreFrontend Drupal and Drupal Commerce meetups indefinitely postponed
Hi all,
With the upcoming Drupal Module Development Boot Camp series and Drupal Design Camp LA conference, our organizing time is stretched a bit thin and we will not be having the Frontend Drupal or Drupal Commerce meetups for a while.
If anyone wants to pick up these meetups and run with them, please feel free to post a comment here. Our organizers will be happy help with any assets and resources you need, including venues, video conferencing, projectors, and so on.
Thanks for reading!
Read moreDrupal Module Development Boot Camp at Droplabs in Downtown Los Angeles starting Monday, July 22, 2013 #modbootcamp
We're offering a free, application-based program designed to improve the Drupal skills of beginner- to intermediate-level Drupal and PHP developers. Together as a group, we're going to be diving into Drupal's APIs and helper functions, developing custom modules (many of us for the first time), using version control and other Drupal developer best practices, and advancing our Drupal skills to the next level.
Read moreGroup Photo at DrupalCon Portland 2013
At DrupalCon Portland 2013, several members of the Greater Los Angeles Drupal and LA Drupal user groups gathered together for a group photo.
In the photo are Nate, Subbu, Midhun, Atul, Uzi, Ashok, Tommy, Jeremy, Christefano, Jakob, Frank, Kevin, Ron, Kalyan, Rain, Lehel, Ben, Ki and Abhijeet.
Big thanks to Kalyan for taking the photo; and to Rain for coordinating this via the "DrupalCon LA" GroupMe chat.
Read morePlanning for Drupal Everywhere, our full-day "Drupal for Mobile" summit on April 27, 2013
Not sure if this is the right place to post this. But I have not seen anything about planning for Drupal Everywhere on April 27th. Am I missing it? In any case I have some time this weekend to help out
Read moreAre you interested in a Riverside, CA group?
Drupal Meetups in the Greater Los Angeles Area
Last updated by christefano on Mon, 2014-06-16 21:00
The Greater Los Angeles Area is a very active area for Drupal and has a large number of weekly and monthly events on various Drupal topics.
Greater Los Angeles Drupal Meetups
These meetups are organized by Greater Los Angeles Drupal (GLAD) members and organizers. Some of them, including Ventura Drupal and Pasadena / San Gabriel Valley, also have their own groups and a have lower email volume.
Some of our events occasionally travel from city to city and venue to venue and are produced by Greater Los Angeles Drupal (GLAD) organizers.
- Frontend Drupal / Design 4 Drupal (traveling meetup; frontend topics such as design, theming, accessibility, usability, web typography, etc.), alternating 3rd Tuesdays
- High Performance Drupal (traveling meetup; advanced topics such as performance, scalability, benchmarking, deployment, operations, etc.), alternating 3rd Tuesdays
- Drupal Commerce (traveling meetup; commerce topics such as payments, inventory management, shipping, the Commerce framework, etc.), 4th Tuesdays
Meetups in Downtown Los Angeles
- Downtown Drupal Meetup (general topics; multiple spaces), 1st Tuesdays
- Module Development Boot Camp, 2nd & 4th Mondays
- Mobile Device Lab, alternating Tuesdays
- Introduction to Drupal Workshop, 2nd or 3rd Fridays
- Mentored Drupal Training, 2nd or 3rd Fridays
- Drupal Coworking Friday (free coworking day), 2nd or 3rd Fridays
Meetups in the Greater Hollywood area
- Hollywood Drupal (general topics), alternating Tuesdays
Meetups in the San Gabriel Valley / Greater Pasadena Area
- Pasadena Drupal / San Gabriel Valley (general topics), 4th Thursdays
Meetups in Ventura County
- Ventura Drupal (general topics), 2nd Wednesdays
Meetups in the San Fernando Valley
- Burbank / Valley (general topics), dates to be determined