LA Drupal community

we're mostly friendly. and mostly fun. but we're pretty geeky. in a cool way, of course. but this month we're a bit melancholy on the news Crystal is leaving us for Seattle. :-/

the good news is that we taped our meeting. ya, real geeky. but LA area is HUGE. and sometimes making it to the meeting in person can be difficult. so there you go... we're geeky but thinking about everyone that wanted to join us, but couldn't.

Hi folks, I'm sure you want free stuff. Well, you'll get it. Not only do all attendees get to be on the official beta of the XTND.US Drupal Themer's Kit Pro for Dreamweaver, but there's new offerings for our members. In looking to get more talent to volunteer and speak at our LA Drupal meetings I have outlined the various offerings below.

This is a list of all the related resources/links that were mentioned during this month's meetup.

Mark showed the use of taxonomy access control on the XPrize website. Below is the link to the lullabot article on using taxonomy access modules to control permissions for node creation.

http://www.lullabot.com/articles/private_forums_in_drupal_forum_access_v...

Post up more links/resources that were discussed during the April meetup.

In response to Chris' post on "What Topics Should Our Meetings Cover?" I vote for:

Keeping Dev & Production (Live) Sites/Databases Synced

I think this is a very diverse area of discussion with many different approaches. Unique environments can produce different challenges. Not everyone will want to push the same data sets the same way from dev to production. There may also be certain data points that you don't want synced across both environments. Many topics to discuss and methods to share.

Grand Casino Bakery

3826 Main Street (@ Venice Blvd.), Culver City. 90232

(310) 202-6969

Wireless network. Great coffee and pastries, sweet & savory.

Across the street from The Museum of Juarassic Technology

Open till 8 pm on Tues, Weds. Thurs. & Friday

Pick a day of the week.

Richard

How about it?

Where and when?

-Richard

Agenda

Part one (4-5pm)

intro—next meeting—next topics

Where to find tutorials/on-line help for Drupal?

45 minutes on CiviCRM and its integration into a Drupal site.

Presented byRichard Schave

Part two (5-6pm)

break into two groups, two separate rooms

JP Klein(Group One)
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continue IDE tutorial

Richard Schave(Group Two)
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Since I will never be able to make a 4PM Sunday meeting, I wondered if anyone was interested in alternatives. I could meet any weeknight evening, although Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday are best. I am on the West Side, but I don't mind a little travel.

If there is sufficient interest, I can try to find a location.

Thanks,

Cary Gordon
The Cherry Hill Company

Just wanted to post in to say that I really enjoyed the meeting Sunday and look forward to the next one. I had a couple of notes with question marks after them and thought I might post them here for potential response. Don't know if anyone else had the same questions...

1) What is Open ID and what makes it so exciting to Drupal?

2) There was some discussion of a module for login customization. What was the name of it again? (I had "login tobaggan")

3.30 pm - Richard arrives to coordinate equipment and their setup.

4:00 pm - Meeting begins

discuss the next few steps, next meeting, possible venues and directions- installfests, hacking sessions, CiviCRM integration, community building.

4:20 pm - Marcus walks us through Ourmedia.org

http://groups.drupal.org/node/3119#comment-9772

5.00 pm - split into two camps

JP runs IDE tutorial, getting started with IDE and Drupal (this is the most important good habit a developer can learn)