Drupal After Dark

Join us for another LA Drupal meetup at the offices of at Oversee.net on November 16, 2010 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 a local bar or restaurant for a Drupal After Dark afterward.

This event is free – in fact, there will be raffle prizes and food and drinks will be provided – 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 35 people to sign up will get free parking and anyone who signs up after that can get discounted parking. 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. If you don't follow these instructions, 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.

Hi Everybody,
We had rain last Wednesday so we are starting on Wednesday October 13th at 7pm. I guess it is save to say that we meet every Wednesday unless it rains or there is a general LA Drupal meeting going on that day.
We now have a Drupal 7 beta release and the critical issues are down to 7 today.
Our first presentation will be by Christefano. The title is "Download your site from Drupal Gardens. Add some modules that are not available on Drupal Gardens yet. Views, Rules, and Commerce. Install everything locally and see where the pitfalls are"

Hi Drupal fans,

I am organizing a party for open source people at my current (awesome) employer, Borderstylo.

details here:
http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/441/detail/

Please let me know who is planning to show up since space is limited.

Thanks!

The next LA Drupal meetup in West Los Angeles is on October 26, 2010. Join us! At this meetup there will be several presentations as well as time for open discussions and job announcements. Several of us may be going to a local bar or restaurant afterward.

Please note that this is a dog-friendly venue and that the owners have their dogs here every day. If this is an issue for you, be sure to bring any necessary medication. We are always looking for venues for LA Drupal events, so please contact the LA Drupal managers if you'd like to become a venue sponsor.

Attending the LA Drupal meetups is one of the best ways to meet and talk with other Drupaleros and we encourage you to attend as many meetings as you can, including the LA Drupal events in Downtown LA, in the San Gabriel Valley and elsewhere on the Westside. Whether it's about finding solutions to problems you've been having, sharing something you've learned or just meeting interesting like-minded people, the LA Drupal meetups are an essential resource for Drupal professionals and hobbyists alike.

This event is free – in fact, there will be raffle prizes and food and drinks will be provided – and no RSVP is required. To have last-minute details (if there are any) sent to you before the meeting, however, sign up by logging in and clicking the Sign up button below.

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.

Design for Drupal comes to LA! The first annual Drupal Design Camp LA conference is officially scheduled for February 5-6, 2011, in Los Angeles, California.

Registration for Drupal Design Camp LA is done at http://2011.ddcla.org and you're welcome to sign up. Registering for the conference is as simple as signing up for an account. We'll be launching the full site soon with information about the venue, local hotels, restaurants and coffeeshops, and begin accepting session proposals.

The Drupal Design Camp LA conference follows in the footsteps of the Drupal Design Camps at Standford, in Boston and in Prague, which have successfully brought designers, themers, developers, information architects and usability engineers together. These conferences are just like DrupalCamps but offer sessions and presentations specifically about design and theming topics such as grid design, usability testing, sustainable, additive approaches to theming and so on.

What's Design for Drupal?

Translating a design into a Drupal "theme" is often a high barrier and it has been difficult and costly for many designers to have a "design-driven approach" to Drupal. Feedback from the design community has often focused on the difficulties of designing for the Drupal theme system, which combines several programming disciplines and languages, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP.

Design for Drupal is a relatively new movement in the Drupal community to help make Drupal more friendly and approachable to designers, information architects and usability engineers, and in general anyone who is interested in customizing Drupal's output to the web page. At its core, Design for Drupal is about inviting the larger design community together to be a part of the Drupal community and enabling designers, usability engineers, developers, information architects and themers to coordinate efforts, come up with creative ideas and work towards making Drupal easier to use and look beautiful.

The Drupal 7 critical issues are now below 20. Even there is no beta release yet it seams we have a very stable alpha. Starting October 6th 2010 we will start a weekly Hollywood Drupal workshop (Wednesdays) which will focus on Drupal 7. Like the name says, it's in Hollywood in my back yard.

RockDrupal: Music and Drupal collide. This event is our way of promoting Drupal in the Arts starting with music. Each performance at this RockDrupal night will be provided by local musicians involved with or using Drupal today. Some are Drupal user group members and all this is for a good cause.

This is a time to come down, hang out, and have fun. Bring your music friends down to explain why Drupal is a great platform for their sites. A portion of the proceeds from each RockDrupal event will be donated to both to the LA Drupal user group and the Drupal Association.

WHEN: October 10, 2010 starting at 7pm
TICKET PRICE: $5 (must be 21 years or older)

The Blue Cafe - http://www.bluecafelive.com/hb/hb.htm
17208 Pacific Coast Hwy
Huntington Beach, CA 92649
(562) 592-1302

Follow this event on Twitter: @rockdrupal

Movies + Park + Food trucks

The Outdoor Cinema Food Fest (OCFF) a combination event featuring a movie, a street food festival and outdoor picnic -- no basket required! The movies are shown on the largest outdoor movie screen on the West Coast (standing three stories tall and 52 feet wide), and on Saturday, September 18th we're seeing Ferris Bueller's Day Off on the big screen. The movie starts at 8:30pm but coming early is recommended.

Tickets are $8 each (group packages are 4 tickets for $20), so be sure to order yours and bring some extra cash for the food trucks. Bringing outside food and drinks is now allowed! Also, bring warm clothing and either chairs (no chairs over 6" tall, please) or a blanket to lay out on the grass. Dogs are also allowed.

For truck updates and any other last-minute news, follow @outdoorcinemafo on Twitter. The trucks we saw last time included @kabobnroll, @greenzonwheelz, @followthevan, @nanaqueens, @nomnomtruck, @cubancafemobile, @vizzitruck, @dosatruck, @komodofood, @unclelausbbq, @frysmith, @SweetEsBakeShop, @SliceTruck and @TheGreasyWiener.

What's Drupal After Dark?

Drupal After Dark meetups have traditionally been social occasions where food and drinks are involved (and alcohol is an option). In the past we've met at places including the Good Hurt and Don Antonio's on the Westside and Masa in Echo Park and good times have been had by all. Attendees are expected to abide by both the Outdoor Cinema Food Fest policies and the laws of the State of California.

Brewpal in the LBC = Long Beach, Micro Brew, Drupal, free wifi

A few of us local to the LBC are going to meetup at Belmont Brewing Company. The Belmont Brewing Company opened in 1990 and is Southern California's oldest operating brewpub. They have a good menu typical of a brewpub, as well as a full bar with guest beer & wine. Please come prepared to pay for what you order and with an appetite to eat, drink, and share Drupal.

Directions: http://j.mp/9XFh9i (note: yahoo! #netneutrality #donoevil? )

The next LA Drupal meetup in West Los Angeles is on August 31, 2010. Join us! At this meetup there will be several presentations as well as time for open discussions and job announcements. Several of us may be going to a local bar or restaurant afterward.

Please note that this is a dog-friendly venue and that the owners have their dogs here every day. If this is an issue for you, be sure to bring any necessary medication. We are always looking for venues for LA Drupal events, so please contact the LA Drupal managers if you'd like to become a venue sponsor.

Attending the LA Drupal meetups is one of the best ways to meet and talk with other Drupaleros and we encourage you to attend as many meetings as you can, including the LA Drupal events in Downtown LA, in the San Gabriel Valley and elsewhere on the Westside. Whether it's about finding solutions to problems you've been having, sharing something you've learned or just meeting interesting like-minded people, the LA Drupal meetups are an essential resource for Drupal professionals and hobbyists alike.

This event is free – in fact, there will be raffle prizes and food and drinks will be provided – and no RSVP is required. To have last-minute details (if there are any) sent to you before the meeting, however, sign up by logging in and clicking the Sign up button below.

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.