Long Beach meetup :: Contribute & Learn Drupal Together :: Wed Jan 4th, 2012
Long Beach: we're bigger than Atlanta, Miami, New Orleans, Cleavland, Oakland, Pittsburgh, Cincinatti, to name a few. So it's no surprise we've got some great talent in the area. Do you live here or nearby? Do you know Drupal or want to learn? Come join us for a totally free & fun evening of Drupal sharing, learning, networking, and open source goodness: Wednesday, Jan 4, 2012 for our first meetup of 2012 (OMGOMGOMG)!_
| MEETUP | INFORMATION |
|---|---|
| Monthly muse: | Come learn a work-flow that allows you to contribute to Drupal core in 30min or less! |
| When: | Wednesday, Jan 4, 2012 :: 7:00pm - 10:00pm Doors open between 5p - 6p, come early to help setup & chat. RSVP by clicking sign-up or follow @LADrupal on twitter for details. |
| Where: | LA NET 4182 N. Viking Way, Suite 214 Long Beach, CA 90808 Note: Enter main entrance on Viking Way, up the stairs and then to the right. |
| Venue: | Free Parking, Free Wi-Fi, power, etc. Thanks to our generous host: LA Net |
| Online: | IRC channel: #drupal-la |
| Agenda: | This is a working meetup. Come teach others to contribute by letting them watch you. Come learn by watching and participating. Post issue suggestions in comments below. At our last meetup, we went through the process and RTBC'd one lingering issue. This meetup we'll split into at least two working groups and hope to RTBC much more. |
| Raffle: | We'll have prizes at meetups with attendance of 15 (or more). Based on attendance last month, a raffle seems likely. We have coupons and DVD's from the awesome Drupal training people at www.BuildAModule.com -- with over 500 Drupal specific videos available for streaming, download, or on DVD. |
| Free Food & Drink: | Provided for anyone that RSVP's. Thanks to our sponsor and local Drupal shop:  media done right Also, special thanks to Stauffer New Media Development for co-sponsoring food & drink at the meetup in December! |
Long Beach Drupal meetup :: Wed Dec 7th, 2011
Are you in Long Beach or nearby? Do you know Drupal or want to learn more? Come join us for a totally free & fun evening of Drupal sharing, learning, networking, and open source goodness: Wednesday, Dec 7, 2011 at the kickoff of our monthly meetups every first Wednesday of the month in Long Beach.
| MEETUP | INFORMATION |
|---|---|
| Monthly muse: | Contributing to Drupal, plus 2011 end of year party! |
| When: | Wednesday, Dec 7, 2011 :: 7:00pm - 9:00pm Doors open close to 6p. RSVP for details. |
| Where: | LA NET 4182 N. Viking Way, Suite 214 Long Beach, CA 90808 Note: Enter main entrance on Viking Way, up the stairs and then to the right. |
| Venue: | Free Parking, Free Wi-Fi, power, etc. thanks to our generous host: LA Net |
| Agenda: | Loose yet professional. From the time the doors open until 8pm we'll be contributing to Drupal together. Chatter and collaboration while we contribute is encouraged and some of us might focus on solving problems we're encountering on personal projects. From around 8pm - 9pm ... well, that's still open. Come hang and contribute in the LBC with other local Drupal & tech geeks. Collaborate. Network. Play Patch Bingo or Work on Novice Issues. Come get/give help with GIT, Drush, Drupal, LAMP, and environments. Bring your questions and ideas. |
| Raffle: | Prizes at meetups with attendance of 15 (or more). If we hit that mark this month, we have coupons from the awesome Drupal training people at www.BuildAModule.com -- with over 500 Drupal specific videos available for streaming, download, or on DVD. |
| Free Food & Drink: | Provided for anyone that RSVP's. Thanks to our sponsor and local Drupal shop: media done right |
Conference Organizing Distribution (COD) code sprint on October 8 & 9, 2011 in Downtown Los Angeles #CODD7
Join members of the Los Angeles Drupal user group in the Drupal community's second code sprint for updating COD (Conference Organizing Distribution) to Drupal 7. This is a joint event produced by LA Drupal's Pro Drupal 7 Development book study group and Droplabs, a Drupal coworking / hackerspace in Downtown Los Angeles.
Join us in person or online!
During the code sprint, we'll be gathered in the #drupal-cod IRC channel and all are welcome to join us. The event organizers and attendees will also be checking Twitter for feedback and questions that mention @UseCOD or use the #CODD7 hashtag.
About COD, the Conference Organizing Distribution
COD is used for building conference and event websites. It's built on Drupal, the highly-regarded open-source web framework and content management system, and each component is independent of each other. This means you can disable the features you don't need, whether it's selling tickets or listing sponsors or allowing session voting.
Just like Drupal, COD is free and can be used by anyone. There is a very long list of sites that use COD, from the DrupalCon Chicago and DrupalCon London conferences to RIACon, Brisbane Innovation Camp, the Meego Conference, the Bay Area Drupal Camp, and our own Drupal Design Camp LA.
Here are just some of the great features in COD:
- Session submission, voting and moderation
- Session schedule grid
- Personalized attendee schedules
- Easy event registration and attendee management
- Community features (forums, friending, etc.)
- Easy sponsors management
We're already using COD on Drupal 6 for the Drupal Design Camp LA 2011 website and we plan to use COD on Drupal 7 for Drupal Design Camp LA 2012. COD is not yet ready for this but we're not afraid of rolling up our sleeves and getting our hands dirty.
Help us improve COD and you'll also be helping numerous Drupal contrib projects, including Location, Signup and Commerce, as well as other organizations and conferences, such as DrupalCon, SCALE 10x and DrupalCamps around the world including our own Drupal Design Camp LA.
COD on Drupal 7 Battleplans
- Find a venue (done! we're meeting at Droplabs)
- Gather interest and sponsorships
- Set up a hosting environment for group collaboration
- Add contributors to our version control system
- Download COD, set up the team with tools, including Quickstart
- Get up to speed on work that has already been done:
- San Diego COD sprint on May 7, 2011
- Notes on Lullabot's Etherpad instance at http://lullapad.com/h12fYizetk
- Upgrading COD to Drupal 7: Sprint 1 - San Diego
- COD roadmap
- Porting COD to Drupal 7
- COD on Drupal 7 How-to
- Debate Commerce vs. Ubercart 3 (just kidding: the COD roadmap lists Commerce)
- Code! Code! Code!
- Update the COD issue queue with current progress
- Write a summary for Planet Drupal to thank our sponsors and contributors, aid any future CODD7 sprints, etc.
Pre-sprint discussion and planning
We've already begun discussing and planning several parts of the code sprint during the first 15 minutes of each Pro Drupal 7 Development book study group meeting. To join the conversation, click the Signup button below, post a comment below, contact any of the event organizers at the top of this page or just drop by the Pro Drupal 7 Development study group some Monday night.
The attendance of the book study group is already capped for this book group cycle but you're more than welcome to drop by, talk with us and work on your projects at Droplabs alongside other Drupaleros.
Read moreladrupal.org discussion and code sprint
We discussed the ladrupal.org website at the organizers' meetup today and jromine said he'd like to see a code sprint for ladrupal.org at DrupalCamp LA. Who would like to talk about what, if anything, we want to do with the site and get together at the camp to do it?
There are a number of approaches we could take, from performing security upgrades and doing functional testing and fixes to descoping the site's features and relaunching in Drupal 7 — or completely decommissioning the site entirely and focusing on groups.drupal.org/la instead.
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Code Sprint
Based off the discussions from http://groups.drupal.org/node/160134, we are having a code sprint!
Who is this for?
Everyone who wants to play an active role in the Drupal community. If you want to learn code come and join us. If you want to learn how to compose better documentation and fix existing documentation that works as well. If you want to look over the shoulders to see what happens and see users helping users in action, join us as well!
If possible, please bring your laptop and (this one is a requirement) a lot of enthusiasm.
Location:
Read moreGit with Drupal 7 bootcamp and code sprint: June 12 at 10am-6pm in Marina del Rey, CA
We're pleased to announce Git with Drupal 7, a one-day LA Drupal event featuring both a git bootcamp followed by a Drupal 7 code sprint. Git with D7 is being sponsored by Exaltation of Larks, Ninjitsu Web, This by Them, WebEnabled and Acquia.
Attendance is limited to 30 people (but we only have about 15 chairs, so please bring one if you can). RSVPs are required so be sure to reserve your spot by clicking the Sign up button below. Anyone who wants to attend the code sprint but not the prerequisite git bootcamp must contact the organizers in advance.
Join us online for the Git bootcamp!
To make this event as accessible as possible, we're broadcasting the bootcamp via WebEx conference at https://acquiawebinars.webex.com. Please see the official announcement on Drupal.org for more details.
| When: Saturday, June 12, 2010 from 10am-6pm PDT |
| Where: Specialized Digital Solutions at 4136 Del Rey Ave., Marina del Rey, CA 90292 (look for Dogma / Guidance office signs) |
| Parking: Ample parking in the back Between Dogma and Guidance office buildings. |
During both the bootcamp and code sprint, we'll be gathered in the #drupal-la IRC channel and and all are welcome to join us. We also recorded the git bootcamp and posted the video online on blip.tv and on iTunes.
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