Drupal After Dark

Join us Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 at the Santa Monica Public Library (main branch). Every month we have experts guide our local community, it's always a spectacular lineup of topics and presentations centered around Drupal. Plus we help users answer questions, and resolve issues with solutions surrounding planning, supporting, and developing with Drupal.

Mark your calendars for the second Tuesday of each month as "LA DRUPAL DAY"!

Room1: 7pm-9pm (sharp!)

• Case Study: (45-55m) www.cesarsway.com the website of the show 'Dog Whisperer with Cesar Milan' - by George Gomez - Director, Online Development at Cesarsway.com. Come learn how the site was built, some of the modules that were used, hurdles & successes.
• Shop Talk: (20m) Joel Farris / Matt Young / Andrew Root of Transparatech
• Lightning Talks: (5min ea) Open Floor. Come share something cool, new, and Drupalie! (post a comment to lock in your spot now)
• The first 50 people: will receive a free copy of the Drupal specific magazine: Drupal Watchdog -- normally $12/issue!!!
• Plus, News, Best-of-Drupalcon, Job announcements, Networking, Wi-fi and raffle prizes, including various Drupal books, DVD's, and subscriptions!!!

Room2: 6pm-9pm
Open Contrib Lab & Coder's Lounge: Come learn or teach how to work on Drupal core & contrib issues, a.k.a., give back! Work on your project and collaborate with others. Users Helping Users - bring up a question to the crowd and see how they can help you overcome your latest Drupal roadblock. The coder lounge is our time to come together and work and share ideas. Afterwards, we can go to the Drupal afterdark and network with folks from the main presentation room.

When: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 from 6:00-9:00pm (repeats every second Tuesday night of the month)

Where: Santa Monica Public Library (main branch; in the multi-purpose room)
601 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90401 - Map

The next Downtown LA Drupal meetup is on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 and will be at Droplabs, a Drupal event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles. At this meetup, we'll be featuring two presentations: Building an AJAX-driven Application in Drupal and State of the Drop: Live from DrupalCon Denver!

Light food and refreshments will be served throughout the evening courtesy of our food and drink sponsor, Exaltation of Larks, a Drupal strategy, consulting, development and training company with a team of Drupal experts in Los Angeles.

For any changes to our agenda for the evening, stay tuned to this meetup announcement or click the Sign up button below (or both!) to be notified when the agenda has been updated.

Droplabs is happy to take part in Drupal Coworking Friday, a worldwide event spurred in part by the DrupalEasy Podcast #65 which featured Droplabs. We're in Downtown Los Angeles and are happy to host anyone in our local community or who is just passing through for some coworking, networking and collaboration on the last Friday of each month for some coworking. This event is free!

While every day is a Drupal coworking day at Droplabs, we're doing something different on Drupal Coworking Fridays and will provide light food and drinks all day. These are being hosted by Christefano and Paul Chernick, two of the Droplabs founders.

After the day is over, a group of us will go to a nearby restaurant or pub. In the past we've had beers and a bonfire and were serenaded by Skrillex. We've also gone to a variety of other locations, including Barbara's at The Brewery (at 620 Moulton Ave., just a 5 minute walk away) and Carnitas Michoacan (on 1901 N. Broadway, just a 5 minute drive away).

Is on like Red Dawn. We are going to Casa Bonita!!!!

If you are unfamiliar with Casa Bonita, it is the Disney Land of mexican restaurants. If you need any other persuasion to go just watch south park season 7 episode 11.

Already going:

1. Frob
2. TimeFor
3. Christefano
4. BTMash (+1)
5. Stew-bee
6. mbrandon
7. oseldman
8. jmolivas
9. ishmael-sanchez
10. Mike Stewart

We've planned a site visit to American Film Institute on March 5, 2012, at 2:30pm, to determine if it will work as the venue for the free Drupal Design Camp conference we're planning for May, 2012. In the tradition of several other site visits that we've gone on, this visit is open to anyone and is an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in starting to help organize this event.

Several of us are meeting beforehand at Benno's, the venue of last year's LA Drupal Governance meetup and the Hollywood Drupal meetups. We will be leaving Benno's promptly at 2pm. You are welcome to meet us no later than 2pm at Benno's (where parking is free for 2 hours) or at 2:30pm on the AFI campus.

Please sign up or comment below if you're interested in joining us as we tour the facilities. Those who sign up will be on this site visit's mailing list. We'll send you our phone number and any last-minute details if there are any.

What to bring

Bring a camera if you have one.

Join us Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at the Santa Monica Public Library (main branch) - DOWNSTAIRS in the auditorium. This month we have a spectacular lineup of topics and presentations centered around Drupal Themeing plus the issues and solutions surrounding deployment of Drupal in a changing production environment.

• GENERAL PRESENTATION: What, How, & Why to use Drupal for Firebug by Frank Anderson (frob)
• ADVANCED PRESENTATION: Content Type and Views Themeing - Take Control! by Mike Land of http://www.wearelanding.com
• SHOP TALK: Deployment issues & solutions by Tom Friedhof of www.ActiveLamp.com
• LIGHTNING TALKS (5min ea): Open Floor. Come share something cool, new, and Drupalie!
• Open lab time from 6pm-7pm; main meetup 7pm-9pm.
• Wi-fi and raffle prizes, including various Drupal books or DVD's and subscriptions from www.BuildAModule.com!!!

Plus the event is FREE!!!!
(except nominal parking fee if you park at the library)

When: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 from 6:00-9:00pm

Where: Santa Monica Public Library: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. AUDITORIUM
601 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90401 - Map

After hours: After the meetup, it is typical for many of us to meet at a local restaurant or pub for additional Drupal networking. We will post the venue info prior to the meetup; if you have a suggestion, please leave a comment.

The High Performance Drupal meetup now meets on the 1st Tuesday of the month. We're meeting again on March 6, 2012 and will be at Filter Digital, a digital solutions agency in Culver City located just two blocks from Media Temple, a familiar venue of Drupal meetups on the Westside.

LA Drupal meetups follow a basic format and start off with Drupal news and announcements, local job announcements, raffle prizes and full-length presentations. As always, we'll also have community Q&A, during which time anyone in attendance can ask questions, divine answers from the crowd and give brief, 5-10 minute-long presentations known as lightning talks.

We'll finish off the night with more networking and a Drupal After Dark at 9:30pm.

For any changes to our agenda, stay tuned to this meetup announcement or click the Sign up button below (or both!) to be notified when the agenda has been updated.

About High Performance Drupal

What is the High Performance Drupal meetup about? The "high performance" part of the name is a catch-all to describe Drupal scalability, performance and benchmarking but we also discuss hosting, infrastructure, deployment, monitoring and highly repeatable processes. Also, this meetup has been held at coffeeshops in the past and the addition of caffeine makes our meetings feel as if they go faster and faster as the night goes on.

This is an LA Drupal meetup that focuses exclusively on advanced topics and there will not be a Users Helping Users portion to the evening.

Droplabs is happy to take part in Drupal Coworking Friday, a worldwide event spurred in part by the DrupalEasy Podcast #65 which featured Droplabs. We're in Downtown Los Angeles and are happy to host anyone in our local community or who is just passing through for some coworking on the last Friday of each month for some coworking. This event is free!

After a hiatus of several months, the Santa Barbara Drupal meetup is back! We are meeting in 2 weeks on Tuesday, Feb 28, 2011, at 6:00pm. The meeting is at a brand new location - the Santa Barbara Hackerspace, located at 158 Aero Camino, Suite A in Goleta. Join us!

This event is free and no RSVP is required, but if you plan to attend please do sign up by clicking the Sign up button below. Knowing how many people are interested in attending can help us better select good locations in the future. People who sign up will also have last minute details (if there are any) sent to them before the meeting.

Additionally, you can follow Santa Barbara Drupal on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sbdrupal

Join us Wednesday February 15th for our monthly OC Drupal Meetup.
Everyone is welcome.