Drupal After Dark

We've planned a site visit to Big Art Labs on February 1, 2012, at 4pm, to determine if it will work as the venue for the Drupal Design Camp we're planning for May, 2012.

Does Big Art Labs sound familiar? If you've been to any of the meetups, job fairs, free coworking days or launch parties at Droplabs, then you've already been to Big Art Labs. Please be sure to arrive at Droplabs on time. We will be going on a tour of Big Art Labs' facilities promptly at 4pm.

In the tradition of 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.

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.

The next Downtown LA Drupal meetup is on February 21, 2012 and will be at Droplabs, a Drupal event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles. Created by LA Drupal members for the LA Drupal community, Droplabs is the host of LA Drupal's monthly Downtown LA meetup, the weekly Pro Drupal 7 Development book study group and special events like LA Drupal's job fairs.

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.

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.

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.

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

The High Performance Drupal meetup now meets on the 1st Tuesday of the month. We're meeting again on February 7, 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.

Thank you to our sponsors!

Light food and refreshments will be served throughout the evening courtesy of our food, drink and venue sponsor, Filter Digital, a digital solutions agency.

Our client list spans global brands and Fortune 100 companies to startups and boutique firms. Let us help you create a digital solution that fits your needs!

Our projector for the evening is being provided by Exaltation of Larks, a Drupal strategy, consulting, development and training company with a team of Drupal experts in Los Angeles.

We like doing hard things on the web and excel at creating and maintaining exceptional Drupal sites with unexceptional budgets.

Are you helping Volunteer at SCaLE? (Or want to meet those of us that are for dinner & some drinks near LAX?)

This is an invite for some fun after a day of sharing FOSS and spreading the word about Drupal. More details to be posted -- and open to suggestions.

A Few More Details

9pm-midnight! iXsystems, CityGrid, Media Temple, and Google are all sponsoring this big event.

There is over thirteen thousand square feet down in the Plaza
Ballroom, and it's not all filled yet. people asked for a few

PLEASE R.S.V.P on Meetup.com/ocdrupal/events/47410102/

Mario (philosurfer) providing a short presentation on:

Drupal Theming
- creating a subtheme
- template_suggestions
- adding CSS and JS the Drupal way
- debugging theme issues

Overview of installing Drush (open discussion)

More presenters are welcome
- Lightning Talks
- Present a Module
- Job Openings

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Drupal After Dark at Classic Q for those interested.

Presentation starts at 6:45p - 8:30/45p.
Drupal After Dark immediate after.

The High Performance Drupal meetup now meets on the 1st Tuesday of the month.

Interested in Pressflow, APC, Varnish and memcache? Want to jump from shared or "grid" hosting to VPS or dedicated hosting but aren't sure what to do? Do you just want to get more out of what you currently have and take your Drupal site to the next level?

Meet with friends, have coffee and talk about Drupal performance, scalability and DevOps on the Westside at the Venice Grind between 5-8pm on Tuesday, January 3, 2012. In the past, we've gone to dinner afterward at nearby restaurants including El Agave and Mitsuwa. You're invited!

To get last-minute updates, sign up by clicking the Signup button below or stay tuned to the comments on this page (or both!).

Join us for an evening of Drupal sharing, learning, and open source goodness - new venue - new meetup date - new open lab & mentor time - now doors open earlier - Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at the Santa Monica Public Library (main branch). Note that our new venue will have tables and chairs perfect for laptops, lab time, and great way for mentorship/breakout groups. The library is our new monthly venue; expect the next few regular monthly meetups to take place here on the second Tuesday.

• PRESENTATION (General Audience): TBA (to be announced)
• PRESENTATION (Advanced): Powerful Drupal Administration Using Drush part 2, by Chris Charlton
• Talks and topics: BadCamp 2011 recap, Lightning Talks, LA Drupal speed-networking, info on DrupalCon Denver 2012.
• Open lab time from 6pm-7pm.
• Wi-fi and raffle prizes!!!

When: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 from 6:00-9:00pm

Where: Santa Monica Pubic Library (main branch; multipurpose room). 601 Santa Monica Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90401 (parking is $1/hr. under the library in a dedicated parking structure; we meet in the "multipurpose room")

After hours: After the meetup, it is typical for many of us to meet at a local restaurant or pub for additional Drupal networking. If you have a suggestion, please leave a comment.

AGENDA:

One presentation will be "Powerful Drupal Administration Using Drush part 2", presentation by Chris Charlton, Senior Consultant at Stauffer New Media Development


Long time LA DRUPAL luminary and author, Chris Charlton continues his new power tools series for Drupal & Drush that goes beyond the basics*. This is the second part of an ongoing series exclusive to LA DRUPAL monthly meetup audiences that will not be recorded.

Time to take things up a notch with your Drupal skills this year. Learn the higher level uses of Drush in this multi-part series and become the most efficient Drupal users in the world! If Drush is not yet a part of your Drupal workflow then you are behind and missing out. Do things faster and better with Drupal using Drush.



*Drush basics are covered in video screencasts available online recorded from our previous events.

Due to the holidays, the next Downtown LA Drupal meetup in December has been rescheduled to be on Friday, December 16, 2011. We're being hosted again by Droplabs, an event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles created by LA Drupal members for LA Drupal community. This time we're combining our meetup with a holiday party and food drive. You're invited!

LA Drupal meetups follow a basic format and start off with Drupal news and announcements, local job announcements, raffle prizes and presentations. We're forgoing full-length presentations this time and will be opening the floor to 5-10 minute-long presentations known as lightning talks. As always, we'll have our community Q&A, during which time anyone in attendance can ask questions and divine answers from the crowd. We'll finish off the night with more networking and a Drupal After Dark at 9:30pm.

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.

Agenda

   6:30pm
   Food drive for the LA Food Bank and Occupy Los Angeles
   Users Helping Users
   Projector and tables / chairs setup

   7:30-9:30pm
   Holiday party at Droplabs
   Introductions and job announcements
   Lightning talks and community questions and answers
   Raffle prizes! Collect them all! Must be present to win!

   9:30pm
   Wrap-up, Clean-up and Close-up
   Drupal After Dark and open networking

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.

The next Downtown LA Drupal meetup is on January 17, 2012 and will be at Droplabs, a Drupal event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles. Created by LA Drupal members for the LA Drupal community, Droplabs is the host of LA Drupal's monthly Downtown LA meetup, the weekly Pro Drupal 7 Development book study group and special events like the LA Drupal job fairs in June and November, 2011.

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.

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.

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.

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

Agenda

   6:30pm
   Users Helping Users
   Projector and tables / chairs setup

   7:30pm
   Introductions and job announcements
   News (SCALE 10x, Drupal Design Camp LA, DrupalCon Denver, etc.)
   Community questions and answers

   8:30pm
   Case study on Marketplace.org by Matt Berger, Paul Brent and Abhishek Taneja
   Lightning talks
   Raffle prizes!

   9:30pm
   Wrap-up, Clean-up and Close-up
   Drupal After Dark and networking session

Join your fellow Angelenos and LA Drupalero, for a Drupal After Dark and Game Night at Droplabs between 8-10pm on Friday, October 28, 2011. We're staying open late after a day of hacking and coworking on our Drupal projects and you're invited!

We have plenty of tables and chairs, so bring a friend and your favorite board game. If you're interested in coming, just post a comment below with an idea of what you'd like to bring.

Light food and refreshments will be served throughout the evening courtesy of our food and drink sponsor, Exaltation of Larks.

Agenda

Tonight's agenda is a little different. We'll be playing Cashflow the game where you win by creating virtual passive income. If you're interested, you can check out the game at http://www.richdad.com/about/cashflow.aspx You can also click the Sign up button below.