Announcements

I believe that it is time to examine this group's structure. I would like to suggest that anyone interested in being the sole leader of the group nominate themselves, and that we have an election or elections until one person gets the majority of the votes.

The elected leader would be the decision maker for LA Drupal for the next 12 months (or ???) and could put their name in for reelection if they like. The new leader would oversee the activities of this group and have direct responsibility for the organization of the meeting currently held in Culver City.

What ever happened to the Theming Study Group? I still plan to do it but it will have to wait or somebody else can take up the gauntlet.

I wanted to wait until Paul’s Development Study Group got going, since the study group concept was his idea. But now that we are off to a great start in the Devel SG I am just over booked and can’t take on any more commitments for a while. Once we start to wind down In the Development Group I will have more time to do my own Study Group. So maybe 3 months.

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To effectively administer a Drupal site it is necessary to understand the Drupal framework, this hand-on-training workshop is fun and comprehensive. Also good for those needing a basic training on how Drupal works.

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I've been a member of UUASC for over a decade. Disclaimer: I assisted the LA Chapter start up. Unix user meetings rarely touch on Hot Drupal topics, and I thought this one comes close. VozBox is a Drupal based endeavor, and Mobile web author and Mobile Apps are so very hot right now, I thought as a service to some of our members, to cross post this Announcement.

Hi all, I'm happy to announce that VozMob Drupal Distro (VozMobDD) version 0.5.1 has been released. VozMobDD is Drupal customized as a widely accessible mobile blogging platform. VozMobDD has been designed to make it easy to post content to Drupal from regular mobile phones via voice calls, SMS, or MMS.

http://thinkvitamin.com/code/css3/free-css3-video-course-24-hours-only/

In a previous thread, I mentioned my challenge to the Los Angeles Drupal community about ways for all of us to help both presenters & organizers alike avoid the dreaded 'B' word- burnout. I detail ways that we all, as a community, can step it up- which we need to do since word has come down from the LA Drupal Managers that only the Westside meetup is the "official/main" meetup & that they won't be providing official, logistical/managerial support for all of the other local groups that have sprung up in the last year (& are thriving!).
http://groups.drupal.org/node/129924#comment-430889

Update on March 10, 2011: The Git Tower team has extended to us a group discount that we can use until April 10, 2011. Use the code DRUPAL10 to get 10% off!

Hot on the heels of the recent Git on Mac OS discussion in the LA Drupal group, we're happy to offer the Drupal community a 25% discount code towards Gitbox by Oleg Andreev. Gitbox is an excellent user interface to the Git version control system that we at Exaltation of Larks find invaluable for our development work.

The discount code is LADRUPAL and it will work until April 9, 2011. Gitbox doesn't have a time-based trial period and purchasing a license unlocks the ability to manage unlimited repositories, so you can download and use Gitbox risk-free on a trial basis to manage up to 3 repositories. Gitbox also has a friendly per-user, multi-machine license.

Neither Exaltation of Larks nor LA Drupal get any kickbacks in the form of shared revenue from this promotion. As with the Path Finder discount that we offered last year, this is purely an offer to the Drupal community to help make people's work easier.

Here's a quick update about Drupal Design Camp LA that's coming up this weekend, February 5-6, 2011. This news is also on the DDCLA site at https://2011.ddcla.org/news

As always, feedback and questions are welcome in the comments below.

• Sessions: What you need to know
• Thank you to our sponsors!
• Drupal in a Day training on Friday, February 4th

Last night, Stauffer New Media Development, a long-time local Drupal agency full of loyal LA DRUPAL members, donated an awesome projector to us. LA DRUPAL now has our own projector!!!

This was in the works for some time and we'd like to ask our fellow LA Drupal members to comment here thanking Chris Stauffer of Stauffer New Media Development for his large donation. In the past we had to rent or beg volunteers to get access to a projector. Having a projector of our own now allows us to utilize venues for events that did not already have a projector setup. This allows us to broaden our reach and lower our venue requirements for community training or similar events.

Again, we all thank Stauffer New Media Development for their continued involvement and support of LA DRUPAL, and this wonderful gift would also not be in our hands without the dedication of all our members, sponsors, and supporters. We love you all.