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Episode 2 of the LA DrupalCast is now available on blip.tv at http://blip.tv/file/3724223

Show notes

Host
Jassen Bluto - Intrinsic Web Designs

Guests

Rain Breaw- Sun Rain Productions
Nicole Bluto- Intrinsic Web Designs
Christefano - Exaltation of Larks
Mike Stewart- Media Done Right

The newest Drupal podcast, LA DrupalCast, has hit the airwaves and is on iTunes and online at blip.tv. The podcast has a panel discussion format and features news and familiar voices from LA Drupal and the Los Angeles area.

In episode 1, we talked about Drupal 7, installation profiles, object-oriented programming and news about DrupalCamp LA 2010 and how LA Drupal is growing. We finished by going around and sharing one or two of our favorite modules of the moment.

Anyone interested in doing a LA code sprint to work on these issues to help get Drupal 7 to beta state?

http://drupal.org/community-initiatives/drupal-core

Ninjitsu Web could provide pizza or something, and help train new developers in the basics of patching, reviewing, and navigating the issue queue, and get set-up with the tools for doing so.

We'd need someone else to provide a location suitable for a room full of laptops, and probably another coordinator to help the experienced dev's collaborate & providing general traffic control.

RideShare - LA to SF:
I'll be driving up to DrupalConSF in a Honda Civic on Saturday afternoon 4/17 and have room for up to three passengers if anyone is looking for a way up. I'm not coming back down for a number of days after the con, so the ride would be one way. Leaving from Glendale sometime around Noon.

Hotel - 4/17-4/22:
I also have a room at the Westin with 2 beds in it if there are any drupalchix out there looking to share a room (and split the cost) -- reservation is for 4/17 through 4/22. Women only, please. Will update this post when the offer is taken.

Exaltation of Larks is happy to offer the Drupal community a 25% discount code towards Path Finder by Cocoatech. Path Finder is an awesome file manager that we at Exaltation of Larks find invaluable for our development work. It's a complete drop-in replacement for the Apple Finder on Mac OS X that makes the Finder look like it was made for children by Fisher-Price.

The discount code is LADRUPAL and it will work until the end of April, 2010. No one at Exaltation of Larks is getting any kickbacks from this promotion. It's purely an offer to the Drupal community to make people's work easier.

We’re giving all LA Drupal members a discounted registration rate of $200 for Open Source Bridge, the conference for open source citizens on June 1–4, 2010, in Portland, Oregon. That’s $25 off the Early Bird rate, and $100 off our regular registration. User groups are very important to us and our organizers are heavily involved in the local tech community. Use the coupon code "osbugluv" to register for only $200 when you select either an Early Bird Registration (through April 1st) or a Regular Registration (after April 1st).

Hi everyone,

As you may have noticed, the group's home page and OG Panels sub-pages have been broken since the groups.drupal.org upgrade to D6. We finally got tired of that and fixed them a few days ago.

The group's sub-pages have also been updated. Here's where they point to now:

Events
http://groups.drupal.org/la/events

Jobs
http://groups.drupal.org/la/jobs

Polls
http://groups.drupal.org/la/polls

Discussions
http://groups.drupal.org/la/discussions

Is anyone looking for 500GB SATA drives? I need to upgrade our office's RAID and am looking at getting Seagate Barracuda 500GB SATA drives in bulk on eBay. While it would come out to about $50 for each 500GB drive, we only need 4 out of the ten that are being auctioned. If this is something you're interested in, let me know privately or in the comments here and we can meet at one of the local Drupal meetups.

Some time next week I'll be listing two of our MacBook Pro laptops on eBay. It makes sense to offer them here first and skip the shipping and eBay and PayPal fees. They've served us incredibly well and were used to create a lot of Drupal sites.

These laptops are the 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo models (one is a 15" with 3GB of RAM and the other is a 17" with the original 2GB of RAM). They haven't been used at all since they got back from Apple while under their AppleCare warranties.