Downtown Los Angeles

The next Downtown LA Drupal meetup is on October 18, 2011 and will be at Droplabs, a Drupal event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles. Created by LA Drupal members for the LA Drupal community, Droplabs is the host of LA Drupal's monthly Downtown LA meetup, the weekly Pro Drupal 7 Development book study group and special events including next month's LA Drupal job fair on November 15, 2011, from 4-7pm.

LA Drupal meetups follow a basic format and start off with Drupal news and announcements, local job announcements, raffle prizes and full-length presentations. We'll also 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'll finish off the night with more networking and a Drupal After Dark at 9:30pm.

Light food and refreshments will be served throughout the evening courtesy of our food and drink sponsor, Exaltation of Larks, a Drupal strategy, consulting, development and training company with a team of Drupal experts in Los Angeles.

For any changes to our agenda, stay tuned to this meetup announcement or click the Sign up button below (or both!) to be notified when the agenda has been updated.

Join members of the Los Angeles Drupal user group in the Drupal community's second code sprint for updating COD (Conference Organizing Distribution) to Drupal 7. This is a joint event produced by LA Drupal's Pro Drupal 7 Development book study group and Droplabs, a Drupal coworking / hackerspace in Downtown Los Angeles.

Join us in person or online!

During the code sprint, we'll be gathered in the #drupal-cod IRC channel and all are welcome to join us. The event organizers and attendees will also be checking Twitter for feedback and questions that mention @UseCOD or use the #CODD7 hashtag.

About COD, the Conference Organizing Distribution

COD is used for building conference and event websites. It's built on Drupal, the highly-regarded open-source web framework and content management system, and each component is independent of each other. This means you can disable the features you don't need, whether it's selling tickets or listing sponsors or allowing session voting.

Just like Drupal, COD is free and can be used by anyone. There is a very long list of sites that use COD, from the DrupalCon Chicago and DrupalCon London conferences to RIACon, Brisbane Innovation Camp, the Meego Conference, the Bay Area Drupal Camp, and our own Drupal Design Camp LA.

Here are just some of the great features in COD:

• Session submission, voting and moderation
• Session schedule grid
• Personalized attendee schedules
• Easy event registration and attendee management
• Community features (forums, friending, etc.)
• Easy sponsors management

We're already using COD on Drupal 6 for the Drupal Design Camp LA 2011 website and we plan to use COD on Drupal 7 for Drupal Design Camp LA 2012. COD is not yet ready for this but we're not afraid of rolling up our sleeves and getting our hands dirty.

Help us improve COD and you'll also be helping numerous Drupal contrib projects, including Location, Signup and Commerce, as well as other organizations and conferences, such as DrupalCon, SCALE 10x and DrupalCamps around the world including our own Drupal Design Camp LA.

COD on Drupal 7 Battleplans

• Find a venue (done! we're meeting at Droplabs)
• Gather interest and sponsorships
• Set up a hosting environment for group collaboration
• Add contributors to our version control system
• Download COD, set up the team with tools, including Quickstart
• Get up to speed on work that has already been done:
  • San Diego COD sprint on May 7, 2011
  • Notes on Lullabot's Etherpad instance at http://lullapad.com/h12fYizetk
  • Upgrading COD to Drupal 7: Sprint 1 - San Diego
  • COD roadmap
  • Porting COD to Drupal 7
  • COD on Drupal 7 How-to
• Debate Commerce vs. Ubercart 3 (just kidding: the COD roadmap lists Commerce)
• Code! Code! Code!
• Update the COD issue queue with current progress
• Write a summary for Planet Drupal to thank our sponsors and contributors, aid any future CODD7 sprints, etc.

Pre-sprint discussion and planning

We've already begun discussing and planning several parts of the code sprint during the first 15 minutes of each Pro Drupal 7 Development book study group meeting. To join the conversation, click the Signup button below, post a comment below, contact any of the event organizers at the top of this page or just drop by the Pro Drupal 7 Development study group some Monday night.

The attendance of the book study group is already capped for this book group cycle but you're more than welcome to drop by, talk with us and work on your projects at Droplabs alongside other Drupaleros.

The next Downtown LA Drupal meetup is on November 15, 2011 and will be at Droplabs, a Drupal event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles. Created by LA Drupal members for the LA Drupal community, Droplabs is the host of LA Drupal's monthly Downtown LA meetup, the weekly Pro Drupal 7 Development book study group and special events including an LA Drupal job fair the same day on November 15, 2011, from 4-7pm.

LA Drupal 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 also 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.

Light food and refreshments will be served throughout the evening courtesy of our food and drink sponsor, Exaltation of Larks, and we'll finish off the night with more networking and a Drupal After Dark at 9:30pm.

For any changes to our agenda, stay tuned to this meetup announcement or click the Sign up button below (or both!) to be notified when the agenda has been updated.

This introductory one-day workshop touches on nearly every aspect of the core Drupal framework and covers many must-have modules. You'll learn best practices from the experts at Exaltation of Larks how to create a sustainable framework for managing your content. By the end of the day, you'll have created a Drupal site that looks and functions much like any you’ll see on the web today.

In this all-day workshop, top experts with years of front-line experience building large-scale Drupal deployments show you the best known practices for running fast sites for a large volume of users. Starting with a blank Linux virtual server, we will work through the setup, configuration and tuning of Drupal using Varnish, Pressflow, Apache, MySQL, Memcache and Apache Solr.

Developing RESTful Web Services and APIs is a 2-day training on November 3 & 4, 2011, with an optional third day of additional hands-on support for those developers seeking accelerated understanding of exploiting Services 3.0 to its fullest.

During this training, the experts at Exaltation of Larks cover the fundamentals of using the Drupal Services module to create, test and support use of your own web API. This training covers Services 3.0 for both Drupal 6 and Drupal 7.

This is the training you need if you're using Drupal to create a backend for iPad, iPhone or Android applications. Developing your own web API is essential to entering the SaaS (Software as a Service) business model and this training gets you there.

Drupal Architecture (Custom Content, Fields and Lists) is a two-day workshop that explores modules and configurations you can combine to build more customized systems using Drupal. You’ll create many examples of more advanced configurations and content displays using the popular Content Construction Kit (CCK) and Views modules.

We’ll guide you through the complex User Interfaces that Drupal provides for controlling and customizing the many different ways to present lists and tables of your site’s content.

What you will learn

• Creating custom content types
• Building RSS feeds
• Allowing viewers to filter results
• Building interactive tables
• Displaying content in a grid
• Adding a date field to your content, and sorting by date
• Creating iCAL feeds and other date displays
• Using views arguments to dynamically filter your results based on the URL
• How other modules integrate with Views

Site you will build: http://dsb.training.chapterthree.com

The agenda for this evening's book study group will be posted prior to the event. Stay tuned!

From the original announcement at http://groups.drupal.org/node/154494

A study group for Drupal 7 Development is being formed. As a study guide, the group will be using the book Pro Drupal 7 Development by Dave Reid, Todd Tomlinson and John VanDyk, published by Apress.

On September 26, 2011, we will complete Chapter 14 Working with Files Chapter 15 Working with Taxonomy.

To prepare for this session, please read chapters 14 and 15 and make the modifications to your Pro Drupal 7 Development Website. Bring any problems or questions you encounter in the chapters or attempting the code.

From the original announcement at http://groups.drupal.org/node/154494

On September 19, 2011, we will complete Chapter 12 the filter system and Chapter 13 Searching and Indexing as well. To prepare for this session, please read chapters 12 and 13 and make the modifications to your Pro Drupal 7 Development Website. Bring any problems or questions you encounter in the chapters or attempting the code.

From the original announcement at http://groups.drupal.org/node/154494