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Join us at Droplabs on Friday & Saturday, April 27-28, 2012, for a Barn Raising and Code Sprint to benefit the Echo Park Time Bank and TimeBanks USA!

There's something for everyone at this two-day event and you're welcome to attend either or both days. If you're interested in learning more about the Features module and getting some practical hands-on experience, or if you're a Features power user and would like to help mentor others into using Drupal's best practices for site development, this is an excellent opportunity.

The Echo Park Time Bank is a non-profit community collective with a mission to facilitate the cooperative exchange of goods and services among its hundreds of members. Since September 2011, the Echo Park Time Bank has been using Drupal to manage their community website at http://arroyoseco.timebanks.org and its currency system.

We'll be using the Features module and configuration-in-code methodology to help make feature development, maintenance and updates to their site much easier. The Features that we create will be shared with TimeBanks USA, which will directly benefit the 300+ time banks that have their own sites that use the same Drupal distribution.

Join us for a VPS and Virtualmin Installfest at Droplabs on Saturday, April 21, 2012. We're going to discuss VPS (virtual private server) hosting, when and why you should be using it, and we'll have a brief presentation on Virtualmin, a free, open-source control panel.

The second part of the workshop is a hands-on installfest. We'll be getting as many people up and running with their own VPS servers, and optionally install Virtualmin for those who want it.

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

Agenda

   10:00am
   Projector and tables / chairs setup

   10:30am
   Introductions
   Presentation: Smart VPS Management for Smart People, by Christefano Reyes
   Questions and answers

   12:00pm
   Lunch! This is potluck-style, so please bring something for yourself and another

   12:30pm
   Hands-on VPS and Virtualmin Installfest

   2:30pm
   Wrap-up, clean-up and close-up

A Note About VPS Hosting

Please note that running ones own server isn't for the faint of heart. If you're happy with shared hosting or have limited time and resources, then this workshop is probably not for you.

This workshop is intended for people who want to further their knowledge and are ready for — or already have — VPS or dedicated hosting and all the power and performance options that come with that.

The High Performance Drupal meetup is meeting again on the 1st Tuesday of the month. Please join us at Droplabs, a Drupal event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles, on May 1, 2012.

Our meetups follow a basic format and start off with Drupal news and announcements, local job announcements, breakout sessions, 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. We'll finish off the night with more networking and a Drupal After Dark at 9:30pm.

The projector and raffle prizes for this event are being provided by Exaltation of Larks, a Drupal strategy, consulting, development and training company with a team of Drupal experts in Los Angeles.

About High Performance Drupal

What is the High Performance Drupal meetup about? The "high performance" part of the name is a catch-all to describe Drupal scalability, performance and benchmarking but we also discuss hosting, infrastructure, deployment, monitoring and highly repeatable processes. Also, this meetup has been held at coffeeshops in the past and the addition of caffeine makes our meetings feel as if they go faster and faster as the night goes on.

This is an meetup that focuses exclusively on advanced topics and there will not be a Users Helping Users portion to the evening.

Join us Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 at the Santa Monica Public Library (main branch). Every month we have experts guide our local community, it's always a spectacular lineup of topics and presentations centered around Drupal. Plus we help users answer questions, and resolve issues with solutions surrounding planning, supporting, and developing with Drupal.

Mark your calendars for the second Tuesday of each month as "LA DRUPAL DAY"!

Room1: 7pm-9pm (sharp!)

• Case Study: (45-55m) www.cesarsway.com the website of the show 'Dog Whisperer with Cesar Milan' - by George Gomez - Director, Online Development at Cesarsway.com. Come learn how the site was built, some of the modules that were used, hurdles & successes.
• Shop Talk: (20m) Joel Farris / Matt Young / Andrew Root of Transparatech
• Lightning Talks: (5min ea) Open Floor. Come share something cool, new, and Drupalie! (post a comment to lock in your spot now)
• The first 50 people: will receive a free copy of the Drupal specific magazine: Drupal Watchdog -- normally $12/issue!!!
• Plus, News, Best-of-Drupalcon, Job announcements, Networking, Wi-fi and raffle prizes, including various Drupal books, DVD's, and subscriptions!!!

Room2: 6pm-9pm
Open Contrib Lab & Coder's Lounge: Come learn or teach how to work on Drupal core & contrib issues, a.k.a., give back! Work on your project and collaborate with others. Users Helping Users - bring up a question to the crowd and see how they can help you overcome your latest Drupal roadblock. The coder lounge is our time to come together and work and share ideas. Afterwards, we can go to the Drupal afterdark and network with folks from the main presentation room.

When: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 from 6:00-9:00pm (repeats every second Tuesday night of the month)

Where: Santa Monica Public Library (main branch; in the multi-purpose room)
601 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90401 - Map

The next Downtown LA Drupal meetup is on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 and will be at Droplabs, a Drupal event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles. At this meetup, we'll be featuring two presentations: Building an AJAX-driven Application in Drupal and State of the Drop: Live from DrupalCon Denver!

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 for the evening, 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 us Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at the Santa Monica Public Library (main branch) - DOWNSTAIRS in the auditorium. This month we have a spectacular lineup of topics and presentations centered around Drupal Themeing plus the issues and solutions surrounding deployment of Drupal in a changing production environment.

• GENERAL PRESENTATION: What, How, & Why to use Drupal for Firebug by Frank Anderson (frob)
• ADVANCED PRESENTATION: Content Type and Views Themeing - Take Control! by Mike Land of http://www.wearelanding.com
• SHOP TALK: Deployment issues & solutions by Tom Friedhof of www.ActiveLamp.com
• LIGHTNING TALKS (5min ea): Open Floor. Come share something cool, new, and Drupalie!
• Open lab time from 6pm-7pm; main meetup 7pm-9pm.
• Wi-fi and raffle prizes, including various Drupal books or DVD's and subscriptions from www.BuildAModule.com!!!

Plus the event is FREE!!!!
(except nominal parking fee if you park at the library)

When: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 from 6:00-9:00pm

Where: Santa Monica Public Library: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. AUDITORIUM
601 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90401 - Map

After hours: After the meetup, it is typical for many of us to meet at a local restaurant or pub for additional Drupal networking. We will post the venue info prior to the meetup; if you have a suggestion, please leave a comment.

Come contribute! The 4th Monday (change this month due to Drupalcon to) 4th Wednesday in Long Beach we're holding meetups to coincide with core office hours.

Join us in Long Beach or meet us online in our google+ hangout. The first few meetups have been fantastic! During each we either contributed patches or helped somehow in the process. As a result we've already helped get code committed to Drupal core! Want to help? Can't code? no problem. There truly is something for everyone to do. We'll help teach you.

NEW OC Drupal MEETUP Event!

For the last 2 months Mike Stewart from Media Done Right has been organizing a well received meetup in Long Beach. I know some of us cannot make this unique Drupal meetup because of the distance.

So we decided to try and add a new monthly event that mimics this meetup directive in Long Beach on the same day. We also plan on using a Google+ Hangout to communicate between the meetups! (is this a Drupal First!?)

Long Beach event link

Meetup Location:

The next Downtown LA Drupal meetup is on February 21, 2012 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 like LA Drupal's job fairs.

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.

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.

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.

We'll finish off the night with more networking and a Drupal After Dark at 9:30pm.

Can you teach or learn how to contribute to Drupal? Then please join us! The first two meetups were fantastic! During each we either contributed patches or helped the RTBC process. As a result we've already helped get code committed to Drupal core! Want to help? Can't code? no problem. There is truly something for everyone. We'll help teach you.