Announcements

The LA user's group is planning the 2009 DrupalCamp, and nbluto and I are going to organize a drupalchix-themed track of some sort. We've just begun planning - and are hoping for feedback from you as to what themes/topics/discussions you would find most useful in such a track!

The second article in my Drupal series for Adobe.com is out now. This article covers Drupal Themes, Dreamweaver tip(s) when working with Drupal, and shows off the Drupal Theme Starter desktop software.

"Understand the fundamentals of a Drupal theme and how Dreamweaver CS4 helps designers produce these themes."

Read the article now at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/drupal_themes_with_dwcs...

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For over a year LA Drupal has been recording our meetings and many of our events. View the videos online... http://ladrupal.blip.tv

Subscribe to our video podcast... http://ladrupal.blip.tv/rss (available directly on iTunes too)

We provide these videos for free for people to learn Drupal of course. Over the next handful of weeks you will see us release videos from our meetings and DrupalCampLA '08. Learn the basics of Drupal, theme design, module development, advanced views, Services module (Flash + Drupal), and many, many more topics all relating to Drupal.

Follow us on twitter... https://twitter.com/ladrupal

Someone (sorry, forgot your name) asked about setting up a Drupal multisite on the Mosso Cloud at the last group meeting. I've been trying the same thing, but unfortunately, it appears that's not possible.

I found this on a blog from the crew that built TheWrap.com:

... A few things to consider before moving a Drupal site to Mosso:

1) Is your site a multi-site? If it is then Mosso cloud sites is not an option. You cannot point multiple domains to one single instance of the hosting environment. There is no virtual host infrastructure.

Full post here:

I just saw my latest Drupal article is now published on Adobe.com, and this is the first in a series I have produced.

"Read on to see how you can set up a Drupal site in just 10 steps. Learn about adding content, altering menus, modules, and themes, and how to get your site ready for search engines and users."

Read the article now at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/drupal_site_in_10_steps...

Tonight I went through the LA Drupal group's member list on groups.drupal.org and removed the administrator privileges from the accounts of several people who haven't been active recently or aren't directly involved in running the group. I'm announcing this because I'd like everyone to know that while our group has fewer admins now than before, the daily to day moderation of the group on groups.drupal.org remains the same and I hope this isn't seen as a consolidation of power.

On the contrary, our current admins (shown in the "Group organizers" list in the sidebar) absolutely want to hear from anyone and everyone who's interested in helping out and fostering the development of LA Drupal. Just like how anyone in the Drupal community has a say about how they want to participate, everyone in the LA Drupal community is invited to foster the development of our group, both online and offline.

If you see anything that doesn't belong in the group (like spammy comments or job listings that violate US laws), please let the Maintenance team or groups.drupal.org administrators know. Thanks!

LA Drupal is looking to hear about your Drupal work. Contact me directly (private message or via email) with a link and your contact info. Right now we offer 5 minute lightning talks at our monthly meetings, and plan to showcase local Drupal works on LAdrupal.org (yes, its getting a face lift). I hope to see all types of sites brought to my attention that the local community has produced. Sites must be at least in Drupal 5 and you must be an LA Drupal member.

Dear Los Angeles Drupal Community,

The Downtown LA Art Walk, the biggest grassroots art community happening in central Los Angeles, is becoming a non-profit, and will be under new management starting in June.

We are looking for a Drupal developer who would like to volunteer to develop the theme for our new website. A simple, clean design for the basic design template exists and will be available to you.

Existing temporary web site/info: http://www.downtownartwalk.com

Not totally Drupal / but definitely related /

For those interested I just figured I would share this information -

// Might benefit someone. I haven't applied for anything but seems like a good deal.

[Right now Adobe is offering a full version of Adobe Flex for anyone Unemployed looking to acquire a new dev skill -Or- Anyone in the Education realm / that includes Student or Teacher! / Again Adobe Flex Pro!]

For anyone interested in learning or getting into Flex - This may be a good opportunity to get nice new fresh licensed software. ($249)

We are currently developing "Equality Central" with the goal of establishing a clearinghouse for all events, organizations, campaigns, resources for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) equal rights and justice movement. We have "buy-in" from major grassroots organizations in California and have built a beta website. We need Drupal developers and designers who can help develop the website. We are focusing on California, but this could become the national, grassroots hub for LGBTQ activism.

Please let me know if you are interested.