DrupalCamp LA

Chapter Three will be giving away 1 free ticket to our Drupal in a Day class on October 5th, in El Segundo, CA. The winner will be announced tonight, at the September 21st LA Drupal Meet-Up!

Upcoming LA Drupal Meetups

Monday August 16th Long Beach "Brewpal" at Belmont Brewing Company 6pm

Tuesday August 17th at Oversee.net from 7:30-9:30pm

Saturday August 21st Drupal Afterdark at the Outdoor Cinema Foodfest

Tuesday August 31st at Specialized Digital Solutions in Marina Del Rey from 7:30-9:30pm more info

In 2009, LA Drupal gave our DrupalCamp L.A. site code away to the world for other groups to adopt that would hopefully help spark new DrupalCamps across the world. At the time of its release we could only provide a ZIP file with the database dump and a folder of modules. Handfuls of user groups adopted our code and started to give us feedback. Up until now there has been no official documentation, instructions, or anything that would help get a new DrupalCamp site up painlessly. That is about to change.

DrupalCamp LA is coming up on August 7-8 and I'm wondering if anyone here is interested in youth events during the conference. For example, if there's enough interest I can help organize a youth afterparty.

What kind of for youth, by youth things can we do at DrupalCamp LA? What has worked well at other conferences? I'd love to hear from you.

Last weekend at DrupalCampLA we had a great turnout of women using Drupal, including a number of technical presentations led by women! Out of 66 sessions, 13 were presented by women (this includes Brenda Boggs' "The Doctor Is In" shift at the Drupalchix table and events such as that). 7 of those sessions were technical in nature, and while many of them were aimed at those new to Drupal, they were valuable topics such as Views, Upgrading from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6, and Site Migration.

With over 500 camp attendees and 60+ session proposals, us organizers of Drupal Camp LA needed a Drupal site that was built for organizers and attendees, with lessons learned from 3+ DrupalCons & 2+ DrupalCamps. Here is our formula for our awesome camp site.

"DrupalCampLA.com was built on Drupal 6 using core & contributed modules to handle event registration, sponsorship management, featured speakers, user bio's, and session proposals. The website features an attendee driven event schedule where members propose sessions and only registered members pick which sessions they'd like to see (in the BarCamp style). Planning the schedule for the day of events has been made flexible enough to allow organizers to maintain a master schedule with ease. Not to mention that all attendees get their own schedule view with the sessions they pick."

"The web site was based on the latest Drupal 6.x release and utilized many of the current generation modules such as CCK for content customization, imagefield and imagecache to handle imaging Views & custom theming built on Zen for content presentation." (A full list of the modules used is in the case study - http://drupal.org/node/519100 )

The download link is available in the case study post - http://drupal.org/node/519100 and has been made available by LA Drupal & This By Them.

I'm excited about the upcoming Drupal Camp, but found out I may only be able to attend one day instead of two.

From the website, I can't tell which day the specific sessions are scheduled for. I'm assuming that most sessions will not be available both days... or are they?

If all sessions are available for both days then my problems are solved, if not, does someone know when specific information will be available?

Thank you,
Joe

Curious. I was a community sponsor last year.

Thanks,

Daniel Banales
Web hosting by www.Inhost.com

Drupal Camp LA 2009 will be taking place from August 8-9th. Our annual two day event features training, sessions, an install fest, and networking opportunities with hundreds of Drupal users!

New this year is our DrupalCampLA 2009 Shirt Design Contest! You design a shirt and the winner will receive a printed shirt with their design or a Drupal book (provided by book sponsors). Each prize option valued over $25.00!

Rules: Entries must be submitted before Monday July 13, 2009. Designs can be in color. Multiple entries per person is allowed. Usage of the Drupal logo is not required, but helps. One or more of the following phrases should appear in your design(s):
* Drupal Camp LA
* 2009
* Los Angeles
* www.drupalcamp.com (or just drupalcamp.com)
* www.ladrupal.org (or just ladrupal.org)

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!