los angeles

I recently attended DrupalCon Barcelona, where I floated the idea to the Drupal Association Board of having a DrupalCon in the Los Angeles area in the Spring of 2009. To make this happen, we would need at least four people who would be willing to commit a significant amount of time and energy between now and the event.

If you are interested in working on this, please speak up. If there is sufficient interest, I will put together an organizing meeting where we can start planning a proposal.

I have already made exploratory contact with potential sponsors.

<p>AGENDA:</p><p>Site for the Downtown Neighborhood Council</p><p>They need a site which acts as a container for a variety of Organic Groups which map to the different constituent interests in their district.</p><p>Features for OGs are:</p><ul><li>OG2List (is this operational for a 5.x site?)</li></ul><ul><li>photo galleries per OG</li></ul><ul><li>&#8220;book&#8221; per OG</li></ul><ul><li>RSS feed per OG</li></ul><p>Theming requirements:</p>

<p><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1038/641022540_89349151c5_m.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="188" align="right"/>+ Filmmaker Joe D&#8217;Augustine and his producer &#38; wife, Heather will discuss their experiences promoting and distributing his latest film, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790722/combined">One Night With You</a>.</p><p>Heather &#38; Joe will also look to the group to provide feedback on their latest decision to use Drupal to create an online channel for the promotion of their work. This will take up the first hour of the meeting.</p>

Gus is going to head up the meeting, as I am going to be away in honor of my first wedding anniversary.

It will be a scaled back meeting again. Gus will very casually head up a round table discussion of the following points:

1) Taking on new web/consulting business

Does a team of local(qualified) developers exist? If so, how to organize them.

2) Developing, utilizing, providing local/media-centric tools and solutions -

This date is the last Sunday of the month. I think we should host it then. I will mention that I will not be able to attend, as it is my wedding anniversary. I know that a meeting held on that day will be well attended. Also it seems that there is a lot to talk about, and a committee or two to be formed per Gus's and and thund3rbox's thoughts,

http://groups.drupal.org/node/4265#new

I will mention that I have little ability to arrange for speakers (I admit my track record for their appearing is spotty) when I am not attending, but I will try my best for the 24th of June.

I will not be able to attend Sunday's meeting, and I am sad to announce the visit from the two guests we had planned on is also off.

Hoping someone else can step up to the plate and MC the meeting. I am happy to work on a minor agenda, I think a straight forward meet & greet would suffice, and perhaps two impromptu presentations on projects by those present.

Please advise,

Richard

Hi all. I created a minimalist Drupal site to serve as a place to discuss the agenda for the first meeting as well as announce the location once I figure out what that will be. I ended up with www.communitybuildrs.com as the domain name. It was one of the less horrific domains still available. Please feel free to create a quick account to join in the discussion and express your interest. I'm really looking forward to sharing our thoughts and ideas.

Grand Casino Bakery

3826 Main Street (@ Venice Blvd.), Culver City. 90232

(310) 202-6969

Wireless network. Great coffee and pastries, sweet & savory.

Across the street from The Museum of Juarassic Technology

Open till 8 pm on Tues, Weds. Thurs. & Friday

Pick a day of the week.

Richard

Marc Salvatierra gave a walkthrough of the Drupal installation he is developing for ICANN committees.

Brady Westwater proposed that our Group take up the challenge of creating a distribution for Neighborhood Councils. We accepted. More on that soon.

<p><img src="http://static.flickr.com/79/246936494_1792772181_o.png" alt="" width="346" height="184" / align="right">In the context of the cut-throat world of emerging web services the subject of both <a href="http://moloko.itc.it/trustmetricswiki/moin.cgi/TrustMetricsEvaluationProject">Trust Metrics</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropayments">Micro-payments</a> came up, opposite side of the same coin.<br /></p><p>I leave this <a href="http://cracl.blogspot.com/">post</a> as a jumping off point for further exploration.</p>