Drupal After Dark

Join us Tuesday, September 11th, 2012 at Coloft for presentations on The Drupal Spark Initiative by Ashok Modi of CalArts and Semantic Web Building by Jody Lynn of Zivtech

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"! Plus the event is FREE!!!!

The next High Performance Drupal meetup is on Tuesday, September 4, 2012 and will be at Droplabs, your FREE Drupal event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles. Those interested in attending this meetup remotely are welcome to join us via WebEx.

At this meetup, we'll have an introduction to SPDY, the low latency network protocol developed (and trademarked) by Google. SPDY support is included in some browsers, including Firefox and Chrome, and available for web servers like nginx, Apache, and even IIS.

This presentation, by Christefano Reyes (@christefano) of Exaltation of Larks (@LarksLA), will bring you up to speed on what SPDY is and what it means for high performance websites. We'll see it used in a live environment and hear about some gotchas to be aware of.

We're soliciting additional presentations for this meetup. If there's a topic that you'd like give a presentation on, please leave a comment in the comments below. Likewise, if there's a topic that you'd like to learn more about, you're welcome to make a request in the comments below.

Thank You to Our Sponsors!

The projector, raffle prizes and video conferencing support for this event are being provided by Exaltation of Larks, a Drupal strategy, consulting, development and training company with a team of Drupal experts in Los Angeles.

We create fun websites, mobile apps, virtual worlds and e-commerce sites. Follow us at @LarksLA to learn more about our Drupal services and upcoming trainings.

Drupal meetups are officially back in the San Gabriel Valley and are now on the 4th Thursday of each month. Following our reboot of the SGV Drupal group with our Reboot and Drupal After Dark at Intelligentsia on May 17th, we're meeting this time at Il Fornaio in Old Town Pasadena on Thursday, August 23, 2012 from 6:30-8:30pm. Join us!

Those interested in participating remotely during the featured presentations are welcome to join us via WebEx.

Thank You to Our Sponsors!

The projector, raffle prizes and video conferencing support for this event are being provided by Exaltation of Larks, a Drupal strategy, consulting, development and training company with a team of Drupal experts in Los Angeles. Follow us at @LarksLA to learn more about our Drupal services and upcoming trainings.

The next general Downtown Los Angeles Drupal meetup is on Tuesday, August 21, 2012 and will be at Droplabs, your FREE Drupal event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles. Those interested in attending this meetup remotely are welcome to join us via WebEx.

Our featured presentation is Drupal at Sea with Princess Cruises, by Nate Craddock (@darthmario). We'll be hearing how how Drupal is used at Princess Cruises and on its new ship, Royal Princess, which is coming in June, 2013.

Meanwhile, Droplabs hosted its third code sprint and barn raising for the Arroyo S.E.C.O. Network of Time Banks on August 17 & 18, 2012. We'll have a repeat of the How to Create a Project on Drupal.org presentation from that barn raising and briefly discuss how the code sprint and barn raising went.

Thank You to Our Sponsors!

The projector, raffle prizes and video conferencing support for this event are being provided by Exaltation of Larks, a Drupal strategy, consulting, development and training company with a team of Drupal experts in Los Angeles.

We create fun websites, mobile apps, virtual worlds and e-commerce sites. Follow us at @LarksLA to learn more about our Drupal services and upcoming trainings.

We're excited to announce our new Frontend Drupal meetup, which meets on the 4th Tuesday of every month. This month, we're meeting at Filter Digital, a digital solutions agency in Culver City, between 7-9pm on August 28, 2012. This meetup focuses on design, usability, accessibility and theming, and as part of the Design 4 Drupal movement is about inviting the larger design community to become a part of the Drupal community.

This is looking to be a great kickoff for our series of Frontend Drupal meetups! At our inaugural session, we'll have a presentations about the Foundation framework by Ishmael Sanchez, another presentation on Adobe Edge by shaRon and a lightning talk on @fontyourface by joyseeker.

Our 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.

About Design 4 Drupal (D4D)

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 4 Drupal is an organized 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.

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.

Filter Digital's 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!

The projection equipment, raffle prizes and video conferencing support for this event are being provided by Exaltation of Larks, a Drupal strategy, consulting, development and training company with a team of Drupal experts in Los Angeles. We create fun websites, mobile apps, virtual worlds and e-commerce sites.

Follow us at @LarksLA to learn more about our Drupal services and upcoming trainings.

Join us Tuesday, August 14th, 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!) - doors open at 6p

• Main presentation: Drupalcamp LA case study
• Lightning Talks: (5min ea) Open Floor. Come share something cool, new, and Drupalie! (post a comment to lock in your spot now)
• The first to arrive will receive a free copy of the Drupal specific magazine: Drupal Watchdog -- normally $12/issue!
• Plus, Job announcements, Networking, Wi-fi and raffle prizes, including various Drupal books, DVD's, and subscriptions!

After tonight's San Gabriel Valley Drupal meetup in Old Town Pasadena, a few of us will be walking down to the ArcLight for a 9:30pm showing of The Dark Knight Rises.

Even if you can't make it to the meetup earlier, this is a great way to meet your fellow Drupal community friends and colleagues. Join us!

We're meeting at ArcLight Pasadena for the 9:30pm showing. Please get your tickets online in advance, as this showing will likely sell out.

If it's possible, we can all be seated together in the same row. Click the Sign up button below to receive an email with the organizer's phone number.

Drupal meetups are officially back in the San Gabriel Valley and are now on the 4th Thursday of each month. Following our reboot of the SGV Drupal group with our Reboot and Drupal After Dark at Intelligentsia on May 17th, we're meeting this time at Il Fornaio in Old Town Pasadena on Thursday, July 26, 2012 from 6:30-8:30pm. Join us!

Those interested in attending this meetup remotely are welcome to join us via WebEx.

The projector, raffle prizes and video conferencing support for this event are being provided by Exaltation of Larks, a Drupal strategy, consulting, development and training company with a team of Drupal experts in Los Angeles. Follow us at @LarksLA to learn more about our Drupal services and upcoming trainings.

The High Performance Drupal meetup is meeting once again on the 1st Tuesday of the month. Please join us on August 7, 2012 at Citrus Studios at the Yahoo! Center in Santa Monica. That's right, for the month of August, 2012, this meetup is in Santa Monica and not Downtown Los Angeles.

At this meetup, we're featuring a presentation by Alon Girmonsky of BlazeMeter, who is presenting on the Drupal integration with BlazeMeter, a self-service, load and performance testing cloud that's 100% compatible with Apache JMeter, the popular, open source performance testing framework.

We'll also hear from engineers at Riot Games (developer and publisher of the insanely popular League of Legends multiplayer online battle arena video game) about how and why they are using Drupal to power a number of their systems, from their marketing site and discussion forums to in-game announcements.

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. Those who sign up will also receive the FreeConferenceCall and WebEx conferencing information.

The next general Downtown Los Angeles Drupal meetup is on Tuesday, July 17, 2012 and will be at Droplabs, your FREE Drupal event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles. Those interested in attending this meetup remotely are welcome to join us via WebEx.

Featured presentations at this meetup include a case study by Steve Rifkin (@steverifkin) and Stacey Rifkin (@HardCards) on the Hard Cards marketing and e-commerce website, which uses Drupal, Ubercart, terrific design and IA, and custom theming to bring it all together. The presentation will focus on administering a Drupal site from a beginner's stand point and both the positive and negative experiences that come with that.

What are Hard Cards, you ask? In short, they're hysterical, 100% recycled greeting cards that will make you pee in your pants.

Thank You to Our Sponsors!

The projector, raffle prizes and video conferencing support for this event are being provided by Exaltation of Larks, a Drupal strategy, consulting, development and training company with a team of Drupal experts in Los Angeles. We create fun websites, mobile apps, virtual worlds and e-commerce sites. Follow us at @LarksLA to learn more about our Drupal services and upcoming trainings.