LA Drupal community

Being a relative Noob, I'm very interested in Drupal best practices. Attending DDCLA was about the best thing for me.

One thing that kept happening was hearing the presenter saying "There's a module for that!" OK, but I didn't write them all down, and there were so many across the sessions I know I missed most of them. What might seem obvious to some are not so for newbies like myself.

Maybe someone's got a nice list of the modules mentioned during DDCLA? Where? Maybe post here?

Thanks!
Jeff

Are you headed to the cocktail party tomorrow night?

  https://2011.ddcla.org/news/saturday-night-afterparty
  http://digitalladrupal.eventbrite.com/

I cannot attend the camp but would love to meet others -- thanks to the Drupal in a Day trainers for help using this system.

Christefano posted to Drupalchix about where Drupal Camp LA 2010 bought their women's tee shirts. And it gave me a perfect segway to say my piece, which I copy below.

You must have lost money on any women's tee shirts you bought for DrupalCamp LA 2010 -- the camp was a sea of men. I only saw about 10 other women. There was one point where all the participants were outside in a area, and all you saw were hundreds of men.

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.

Apparently group admins can no longer delete posts. Please delete the following event posts. We plan to posted again under the "LA Drupal" user closer to the event date, as we have traditionally done in the past; plus posting closer to the event date has an added benefit of an email announcement.

Please delete these event posts:
Jan - http://groups.drupal.org/node/112599
Feb - http://groups.drupal.org/node/112604
Mar - http://groups.drupal.org/node/112614
Apr - http://groups.drupal.org/node/112619
May - http://groups.drupal.org/node/112624

The Southwest Drupal Summit is happening at the end of this month in Houston, TX & they've got some great speakers lined up: http://swdrupalsummit.com/. Katherine Druckman, aka "Webmistress", from Linux Journal & I got to chatting after she posted a D7 is released article: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/drupal-7-officially-here. Long story short, she gave us a $50 off coupon for the event.

We're about to start a two week long Drupal Training session here in San Francisco, and we still have seat or two left in a few of our classes. Come top off your Drupal knowledge and set 2011 off with a bang!

Drupal in a Day
Drupal for site builders
Drupal Panels for site builders
Drupal Theme Development

Who's going to SandCamp this year? There's a large contingent of Los Angeles-area Drupal community members who are going, so feel free to post here if you're looking for co-presenters or rideshares.

This looks like a lot of fun! Would anyone else like to see us do this at a meetup?

(exerpted from http://growingventuresolutions.com/blog/fun-and-games-denver-drupal-meetup )

Yesterday was the Denver Drupal User Group Meetup. In the holiday spirit, we decided to do something a bit different - DrupalGames. It all started with a conversation in our local IRC channel, #drupal-colorado. After some discussions about possible rules and game play, we decided on taking some inspiration from the Food Network's Chopped TV show.

Registration is now OPEN!

We're expecting an incredible lineup of speakers here in Houston, and you do not want to miss this event. Please help spread the word to anyone you know in our area and beyond who is interested in web design and development, as this will be a fantastic opportunity to learn not only about Drupal, but web technology in general.

Join us in welcoming speakers like:

Angela Byron - Drupal 7 maintainer and Lullabot rockstar

Narayan Newton - noted scalability expert and Drupal.org system administrator