Drupal After Dark

Holy Cow! There is a meetup in Old Town Pasadena this Monday and there hasn't been an event created! Please join us for another Old Town Pasadena Drupal Meetup! The meetup will be held on Monday, May 2, 2011 from 7-9pm. Everyone is invited. Please bring laptops and chargers if you would like to follow along. There will be time for discussion and job announcements.

Please RSVP by signing up below so we know how many to accommodate. Depending on the turn out we may need people to bring chairs. If you can't attend this month's meetup but would like to come to one in the future, we will be hosting meetups on the first Monday of each month.

   Address: 1 S Fair Oaks Ave., Suite 202, Pasadena, CA 91105

   Parking: There is free parking after 8pm if you can find a spot on the street. There is also a parking garage across the street. First hour and a half is free and $2/hour after that.

Save the date! On Friday, May 6, Droplabs is kicking into open beta and throwing what's shaping up to be an extraordinary event, in conjunction with Toyshoppe Systems, another company at Big Art Labs. All of Big Art will turn out, so we thought it would be a great opportunity for the Drupal community to mingle with the Big Art community at the beginning of Drupal's first hacker / co-working space.

It's potluck barbecue, with a great big bonfire, so bring something to throw on the grill, something to drink, and something to munch on. Evenings have been a bit cool, so unless you're super warm blooded, you might find that you need a jacket.

Droplabs' open beta is just that: we're opening up to the community, and not charging until we officially launch in June. We want to give you an opportunity to try it out for free and see how you use it, tell us what you want or don't want, and generally feel free to hang out as much or as little as you want. You know, open beta. Bring your laptop. Show up. Use the space. Interact with your fellow Drupaleros and see how much joy you can bring to your Drupal practice.

We have some furniture, and before we invest in more, we want to see what the needs of the community actually are. (We'll also gladly accept furniture donations.)

Interested in Pressflow, Varnish, Pantheon 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 on the Westside at the Venice Grind between 5-8pm on Thursday, April 28, 2011. Afterward, we might go for dinner somewhere nearby or a stiff drink across the street at the Good Hurt. 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!).

You are invited to the next DTLA (Downtown Los Angeles) Drupal meetup on April 19, 2011, We're meeting at the offices of at Oversee.net on April 19, 2011 in Downtown Los Angeles. There will be several presentations as well as open discussions, job announcements and time for networking.

Join us for a Drupal After Dark afterward at Weiland's Brewery Underground. Plus, Weiland's will validate your parking to reduce your parking to just $3, so come by any time after 4pm for food, a drink or just to get your parking validated.

How to prepare for the meetup

Just bring your laptop, a power adapter and any other cables you usually use. Food, drinks and wireless Internet are being provided by our sponsor. Thanks, Oversee!

This event is free and no RSVP is required. To breeze through security, however, you can sign up by logging in and clicking the Sign up button below. All who sign up will also have instructions and last-minute details (if there are any) emailed to them before the meeting.

Be sure to update your profile with your full name so that a name badge will be ready for you at the front desk. To do this, log in and click My Account → Edit → Personal and fill in the "Real name" field. This is optional, but it makes things much easier for the event organizers and our venue sponsor. In any case, please be prepared to show a valid photo ID at the front desk.

We want your feedback!

During the meetup, we'll be gathered in the #drupal-la IRC channel and all are welcome to join us. The event organizers will also be checking Twitter for feedback and questions that mention @ladrupal or use the #ladrupal hashtag.

A Drupal meetup in Old Town Pasadena! The meetup will be held on Monday, April 4, 2011 from 7-9pm. Everyone is invited. Please bring laptops and chargers if you would like to follow along. There will be time for discussion and job announcements.

Please RSVP by signing up below so we know how many to accommodate. Depending on the turn out we may need people to bring chairs. If you can't attend this month's meetup but would like to come to one in the future, we will be hosting meetups on the first Monday of each month.

   Address: 1 S Fair Oaks Ave., Suite 202, Pasadena, CA 91105

   Parking: There is free parking after 8pm if you can find a spot on the street. There is also a parking garage across the street. First hour and a half is free and $2/hour after that.

Another Drupal meetup in Old Town Pasadena. The meetup will be held on Monday, March 7, 2011 from 7-9pm. Everyone is invited. Please bring laptops and chargers if you would like to follow along. There will be time for discussion and job announcements.

Please RSVP by signing up below so we know how many to accommodate. Depending on the turn out we may need people to bring chairs. If you can't attend this month's meetup but would like to come to one in the future, we will be hosting meetups on the first Monday of each month.

   Address: 1 S Fair Oaks Ave., Suite 202, Pasadena, CA 91105

   Parking: There is free parking after 8pm if you can find a spot on the street. There is also a parking garage across the street. First hour and a half is free and $2/hour after that.

We'll be launching the Drupal Design Camp LA site this week and I'm inviting all of you to my place for a final sprint. Top Notch Themes is done with the theme for the site and all we need in order to finish testing is for us to have some content up on the site.

Can anyone think of other things they want on the site, like a #ddcla feed or member discussion forums? This sprint is the last chance for brainstorming and implementing new functionality.

I've also posted a few placeholder pages on the dev site that we can fill in during the sprint:

• About DDCLA (what to expect at the conference)
• Where to stay (hotels near the venue that have shuttles from LAX)
• Where to eat (restaurants and cafes near the venue)
• Our Sponsors (sponsor pages with logos)

Meanwhile, it turns out that the http://designfordrupal.com domain was once used for sending spam and I'm moving everything over to http://www.ddcla.org instead. The Git repo will stay in the same place, though, and I'll make sure *.designfordrupal.com redirects to the right place, so this will be a seamless switch.

Our next LA Drupal meetup on the Westside is on January 25, 2011 at the corporate headquarters of at Media Temple in Culver City, CA. The meetup begins at 7:30pm but the doors open a little earlier at 7pm.

If you'd like to give a presentation, announce a job position or ask any questions of the group, please leave a comment below and plan to come a few minutes early. If presenting, be sure to bring your laptop (and power and display cables) and whatever else you need.

This event is free - in fact, there will be raffle prizes and food and drinks will be provided - and no RSVP is required. Those who sign up, however, will have last-minute details (if there are any) sent to them before the meeting. It's also good to know how many to expect so that we can arrange adequate seating, food, drinks, and so on, so please sign up by RSVPing here on Meetup.com or logging in at http://groups.drupal.org/la and clicking the Sign up button on that event announcement.

We're teaming up with Lullabot on Friday, January 21st and we're having a night of fun and collaboration during Webchick's Drupal 7 Tour in Los Angeles!

This event (unlike the Drupal 7 Tour itself, which is $395) is free to all Drupal community members.

Would you like to be a sponsor?

There is a $85 bartender fee if we are to have a cash bar. If you or your company would like to sponsor this event, please contact Christefano.

Thank you!

Join us for a DTLA (Downtown Los Angeles) Drupal meetup to talk about Drupal at the offices of at Oversee.net on March 15, 2011 in Downtown Los Angeles. There will be several presentations as well as open discussions, job announcements and time for networking. Several of us may be going to Weiland's Brewery Underground for a Drupal After Dark afterward.

The meetup begins at 7:30pm but the doors open a little earlier at 7pm for Users Helping Users, which is a chance for members of the community to help and be helped by others with whatever questions and problems they're having with Drupal.

Logistics

This event is free and no RSVP is required. To breeze through security and get free or discounted parking, however, you can sign up by logging in and clicking the Sign up button below.

The first 15 people to sign up will get free parking and anyone who signs up after that can get discounted, validated parking at any of the restaurants in the building. Preference is given to those who carpool. All who sign up will also have instructions and last-minute details (if there are any) sent to them before the meeting.

Be sure to update your profile with your full name so that a name badge will be ready for you at the front desk. To do this, log in and click My Account → Edit → Personal and fill in the "Real name" field. This is optional, but it makes things much easier for the event organizers and our venue sponsor. In any case, please be prepared to show a valid photo ID at the front desk.