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Victor Kane & Chris Charlton teach Drupal Site Building, based on Victor Kane's new book "Leveraging Drupal" in Venice, CA.

LA Drupal resident members get a special $100 off! (email for bulk ticket pricing)... and for an additional $35 people can get a signed copy of Victor Kane's book.

A full day training of with the author of "Leveraging Drupal: Getting Your Site Done Right," Victor Kane, and LA Drupal trainer Chris Charlton, training users and administrators of Drupal software. TICKETS ON SALE NOW. HURRY, THEY WILL GO FAST! - http://drupal-la-training-2009-march-14-ladrupal.eventbrite.com/

L.A. Drupal - Los Angeles' Professional Drupal Network & User Group

NEW VENUE, NEW TIME!

When? Tue., Feb. 24th 7:30PM-9:45PM (new start time)
Where? 902 Colorado Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90401 (Venue Sponsor: CauseCast.org)
map: http://tinyurl.com/ladrupal-2009-02-venue-map

No RSVP required, but PLEASE CLICK SIGN-UP BUTTON (below). Signing up will give the event organizers a better idea of how many are coming and makes it possible to email you if there are last-minute changes to the venue or agenda.

Topics:

Sun Microsystems: Uncovering the synergies between Drupal & Sun.

Sun open source projects include: MySql, Netbeans IDE with both a PHP and Drupal plugins, Open Office, Java, Virtualbox, Open Solaris... you get the idea. Sun has a lot to offer! Details for the meetup forthcoming. If there's anything in particular please post a comment below.

Drupal Labs (Intermediate to Advanced)

Drupal Labs is a room set aside for more advanced Drupal discussions, away from the main presentation of the night. Bring your laptop, hang out with other code interested members; even offer to do a lightning talk for the room. LA Drupal Labs is open during the entire user group meeting, usually from 7:30pm-9pm.

Drupal Internals - Talk about core modules, functions and APIs in LA Drupal's first monthly Drupal Labs for Non-Beginners

ATTENDEE RAFFLE PRIZES: Drupal 6 book valued over $40, AND a ticket to an upcoming Los Angeles Drupal Training valued over $300!!! Raffle is for attendees, and you must be present to win.

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We're having coffee and talking Drupal at the Venice Grind tomorrow, Thursday, January 29. Afterwards, we might go to dinner or go looking for something stronger than the Grind's espresso. You're invited!

When? Tuesday, Jan 20th, 7pm-9:30pm.

Where? RMI (Rich Media Institute), located at 525 Venezia Ave., Venice, CA 90291 (parking on the street)
no RSVP required, but PLEASE CLICK SIGN-UP BUTTON (below), which will allow us to send you an email once venue, date, and topics are locked down. we might meet at a larger venue since we continue to grow and attract such a large fun crowd.

Topics

NOTE: we're meeting one week earlier than normal to coincide with San Diego Drupal camp scheduled for Jan 24/25.

Beginner / Intermediate Topics

• TBD - still up in the air.

Int -> Advanced Topics

• christefano - Using Webmin to manage unlimited Drupal sites: From start to finish in 20 minutes or less
• John Delacruz - "The Power of Drush!" - Drush is a powerful module+software combo, bringing amazing power to administrators, maintainers, webmasters, and Drupal developers. Imagine installing modules and updating Drupal in fractions of a second, not minutes or hours.

Plus...

When? Tuesday, Dec. 16th, 7pm-9:00pm (two weeks earlier than normal due to holiday season)

Where?RMI Los Angeles located at 525 Venezia Ave., Venice, CA 90291 No RSVP required. - but please click signup (below) if you plan to attend

Can you believe this marks our last meeting of the year?!! It's been a great year! make sure to check out our LA meeting Archives. We've got the latter half of our meetings online. We're shooting to start streaming live meetings and we're already lining up some great stuff for us next year! ...there's A TON going on with Drupal. plus if the economy stays soft... my prediction is the future is very strong for open source and Drupal!

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Tonight, Tuesday the 16th, from 7pm-9:30pm, LA Drupal will be host to a night presentation on the Organic Groups module, aka "OG," which allows Drupal sites to setup groups that users can join and subscribe to. Come tonight to ask questions about this module and more.

We will also be offering open-mic opportunities through the night to ask Drupal questions during our wonderful meeting segment, "Ask the LA Drupal Community." Need to just ask another human a Drupal question? Then this is that chance.

Plus...

To close off the night we will have freebies, networking chatter time, job announcements, and a retrospective look at LA Drupal throughout 2008... and how 2009 is shaping up to be.

When? Tuesday, Nov. 18th, 7pm-9:30pm (one week earlier than normal due to Thanksgiving)

Where?RMI Los Angeles located at 525 Venezia Ave., Venice, CA 90291 No RSVP required. - but please click sign-up button (below)

Topics

Beginner / Intermediate Topics

• Views 2 module: by Blake Lucchesi of Boldsource

Int -> Advanced Topic

• Tentative - Drush - drush.module itself doesn't provide any actual tools or commands - but it's still amazingly cool! showing us why and how to do some cool tricks John De La Cruz.

Plus...

When? Tuesday, Oct. 28th, 7pm-9:30pm

Where? RMI Los Angeles located at 525 Venezia Ave., Venice, CA 90291 No RSVP required.

Topics

Beginner / Intermediate Topics

• Digital Dollhouse - OVERVIEW & LAUNCH (30min): Christefano, Lee, Scott Nelson, and Beverly Tang

• Writing Your First Drupal Module! Learn everything you need to get started writing modules! Session comes with homework and code samples that follow along the presentation and illustrate specific points and techniques. Karl Schierer

• Views 2 module (30min): Blake -> moved to November mtg

Int -> Advanced Topic

• Drush (~30min) - drush.module itself doesn't provide any actual tools or commands - but it's still amazingly cool! showing us why and how to do some cool tricks John De La Cruz. - moved to November mtg

When? Tuesday, Sept. 30th, 7pm-9:30pm

Where? RMI Los Angeles located at 525 Venezia Ave., Venice, CA 90291 No RSVP required.

Topics

Using Drupal: Stand Up To Cancer

The wonderful national campaign against cancer uses Drupal for their website, and they even use CCK! Come see how the campaign uses Drupal for the web site and internal organization.

Rain Breaw is the technical supervisor (film industry title that comes closest to "webmaster") of the Stand Up To Cancer website - standup2cancer.org. Launched on May 28, 2008, this website was built for two purposes: 1) to advertise the televised fundraising special that aired on ABC, CBS and NBC on Sept. 5; and 2) to assist the special in its goal of raising millions of dollars for cancer research. SU2C built two major donation-driven interfaces into the website in an effort to increase donations, The Constellation, and the Team Challenge. With a long-term goals of becoming a community environment for those impacted by cancer (everyone), a reporting mechanism for the spending of donation dollars, and a continued donation engine in mind, SU2C also built (and continues to improve) a TV channel, a magazine, a user forum, and other tools into the site.

SU2C's model is to direct 100% of public funds raised to actual cancer research. All labor costs for development of the website and show were underwritten, all tools were donated, and all services were deeply discounted. SU2C initially chose Drupal for its website not out of experience or interest, but because it seemed to be the best affordable option given the extremely limited timeframe SU2C faced (the website was conceived, built and launched in less than 5 months). While Drupal made it possible to launch this complex site in a short period of time, the limited experience of the various parties involved in this project led to unique challenges.

Rain (www.rainbreaw.com) is an independent film director/producer and co-founder of the web and internet media development company, SunRain Productions (www.sunrainproductions.com). Stand Up To Cancer is a detour in Rain's career of which she is quite proud.

Tales from DrupalCamp LA 2008

Come talk about what you learned at DrupalCampLA this month. Did you find new modules that you love now? Did you learn good tips on themes? If you didn't attend then this recap talk will be worth your time.

We meet on the last Tuesday of the month in the Los Angeles area. This meeting will be held at the Rich Media Institute in Venice, CA.

LA Drupal meets monthly and offers a nice place for members and new people to learn and talk about Drupal, a world popular content management system (CMS). RSVP is not required and attendance is free.

Topics

Drupal for Music Bands

Are you a musician or band member and heard of Drupal? Come watch a free panel discussion on how various LA Drupal members/agencies are helping the music world and local bands get sites online and actually manageable. This will be a panel style discussion bringing various panel members to talk about how Drupal can help the music scene anywhere by providing free websites that are enhanced with community modules and themes - and we're here to discuss that. Questions will be taken.

Presentation technical level: Beginner-Intermediate

DrupalCampLA 2008 Volunteer Info & Updates

Plan to help by volunteering at Drupal Camp LA this year? Attend the user group meeting if you're planning to the camp so we may meet you before hand.

Drupy - Drupal running on Python

Drupy is a Python port of the Drupal Content Management System. The project is not yet complete, but is moving at a fast pace towards an alpha release. Brendon Crawford will be presenting this preview of his talk planned for DrupalCampLA 2008.

We meet on the last Tuesday of the month at the Rich Media Institute.

LA Drupal meets monthly and offers a nice place for members and new people to learn and talk about Drupal, a world popular content management system (CMS). RSVP is not required and attendance is free.

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Building R.E.M.'s concert tour site in Drupal

Learning Drupal? Want to see a completed Drupal site for the world-famous music group R.E.M.? You're in luck!