Santa Barbara Drupal
This group is for Drupalistas in and around Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara County, California, to connect and get to know each other. Follow @SBDrupal on Twitter for news and updates!
Our meetings have been held at a variety of locations since early 2008, including the Santa Barbara Hackerspace, RightScale, the Goleta Public Library, the Las Cumbres Observatory, coffeeshops like Java Station, French Press and the Daily Grind, and UCSB departments including the Marine Science Institute, Technology Management Program and Davidson Library.
We're very grateful to our past and present venue sponsors and are always interested in hearing from venue sponsors for future meetups. If you'd like to host a future meetup or event, please post a discussion in our group or contact @SBDrupal on Twitter. Thanks!
Santa Barbara news and events
Joint Meetup with eCommerce Merchants: Review of KaleCart.com, a mobile-friendly Drupal e-commerce website
This is a joint Drupal meetup with eCommerce Merchants and has been cross-posted from Meetup.com.
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/eCommerce-Merchants-Los-Angeles-Chapter/events/142...
Short URL: http://ex.tl/ZnE
For our October meeting we are going to take a look at the recently launched KaleCart.com website, a custom Drupal based e-commerce website of an organic grocery delivery service start-up in Downtown Los Angeles.
The KaleCart.com website features:
- Mobile-friendly HTML 5 responsive theme and fluid product catalog
- Delivery scheduling widget
- Product catalog filtering for dietary designations
- Instagram image feed block
- Flexible coupon system
- Credit card payment gateway
- Automatic product image processing
When we are done taking a look at KaleCart.com we can brainstorm potential topics of interest for future Meetups and open the floor to questions to see if we can help each other with specific challenges we are having starting or operating our own e-commerce projects.
Following the presentation at Droplabs we will be heading over to a restaurant at nearby Chinatown for lunch and networking.
Read moreDrupal Mentorship Training by Exaltation of Larks at Opodz in Little Tokyo, Downtown Los Angeles, on October 11, 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 October 11, 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
Downtown Drupal Meetup at Sensis Agency in Downtown Los Angeles on October 1, 2013: Introducing BackDrop and DrupalCon Prague Retrospective
The 1st Tuesday of the month is coming up and it's time for the next Downtown Drupal meetup! We're meeting at Sensis Agency in Downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, October 1, 2013 from 7-9pm.
This meetup is highly accessible by public transportation. Attendees often carpool to the meetup together, and those who are interested in attending remotely are welcome to join us via WebEx.
There will also be Drupal Happy Hour and a GLADCamp planning meeting earlier in the evening at 6pm. See our agenda for more information.
At this meetup, we're having our usual news and announcements, as well as raffle prizes, community Q&A, lightning talks (which are short, bite-sized presentations) and featured presentations. Is there a presentation topic that you're interested in? Post a comment to either request or offer a presentation, or contact any of the organizers listed above.
Read moreDrupal Watchdog magazines available to Southern California user groups
Hi all,
Droplabs has a huge surplus of new Drupal Watchdog magazines at our original Downtown Los Angeles location. If any organizers of Drupal meetups, conferences and workshops around Southern California want a stack to take back to their meetups, let us know!
These are being offered free of charge. Droplabs doesn't have the resources to ship or deliver these, however, so the only catch is you'll need to come pick them up.
Read morePOSTPONED: 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 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.
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Best Californian companies
Hi.
I am thinking about moving into California(from Europe) and I am curious about which California based companies are the best ones to work for? I'm more interested in full service advertising afencies rather than just companies specialized on websites(pure Drupal shops). Also I'm more interested in companies with more than 50 employees(I've worked for small companies and want a change of environment).
Which companies would you recommend?
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Looking for co-maintainers
hi everyone!
im looking to build a team around a responsive theme ive been maintaining called professional theme
if anyone is interested i would love to hear some ideas, feedback, and see if we cant make this theme better then before!
https://drupal.org/project/professional_theme
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