Meetup

Droplabs is teaming up with the Varnish Cache community on Thursday, June 16th and we're having a night of fun and collaboration during the worldwide Varnish 3 Release Party!

Modeled after the Drupal 7 Release Parties we had in January here in Los Angeles and around the world, we're celebrating the release of Varnish Cache 3, the first major release since version 2.0 was released in October 2008.

What's Varnish?

Varnish is a threaded HTTP accelerator and reverse proxy that's used extensively by high performance, enterprise Drupal sites. It is part of the Project Mercury community project and is also included with Pantheon and Acquia's Dev Cloud and Managed Cloud offerings.

At the party will be FREE coupon codes good for 3 months of free hosting with Acquia Dev Cloud. Beta codes for Pantheon will be raffled off at the Drupal meetup and job fair on June 21st, also at Droplabs.

What to bring

Big Art Labs, where Droplabs is located, is having a barbeque and party at the same time right outside our doors, and are featuring two unique art installations:

• The Dragon Oven is is a giant metal pizza oven shaped as a dragon. They'll have it onsite - so please bring pizza fixings: dough, sauce, cheese or any toppings you enjoy and we'll have fresh fired pizza. We'll set it up near the firepit.
• The Engine is an incredible 2000lb transportable steel sculpture that houses a rotating 17' screen and features a high-end audio/visual system. It's currently set up in SmashLabs (one our neighbors at Big Art Labs) on the main stage and we're planning on showing some cool animation shorts. Please bring your own if you'd like to screen them.

All of Big Art Labs is welcome at Droplabs and vice versa. We follow the rules and guidelines we inherit from Big Art Labs and we ask that the Varnish 3 Release Party attendees be respectful of our neighbors, bring something to share to throw on the grill and get ready to make your websites fly.

Just bring your laptop, your business cards or whatever else you need. We share a large parking lot with Big Art Labs and there's plenty of free parking. After you pull into the parking lot, park to the left of the entrance and follow the signs to Droplabs.

Please note that our guest wireless network is limited to 1Mb per client, so bring your MiFi router or a phone you can tether with if for some reason you need a lot of bandwidth. Access to our high-speed network is included with a Droplabs membership.

To get last-minute updates, follow @Droplabs on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Droplabs or find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/DroplabsLA

Last meet up we talked about universal design and how CSS media queries and responsive design could change how you create a Drupal theme. Take a second and consider the following:

The idea of adding more code-adding more to download-in order to optimize for mobile should be the first clue that it might not be the best solution.

This meetup we will talk about setting up a separate mobile website and how they can be a good thing.
Come to the Ninjitsu Web Development office on the 5th floor to see some mobile Drupal theming.

Views in Drupal 7.

Presented by Mario (philosurfer)

Sign up at http://www.meetup.com/ocdrupal/events/21716581/

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Venue Notes: For those who arrive after 7p (Presentation starts around 6:30-45p). You will need to find security to assist you with reaching the 4th floor as elevators only go to 4th with a keycard.

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Connect with OC DRUPAL, join our groups.drupal page if you haven't done so already. This is the place to start any discussion or ask support questions to the community.

http://groups.drupal.org/orange-county

A study group for Drupal 7 Development is being formed. As a study guide, the group will be using the book Pro Drupal 7 Development by Dave Reid, Todd Tomlinson and John VanDyk, published by Apress.

This study group was announced at the last Downtown Meetup at Oversee.net and it focuses primarily on programming and module development in Drupal 7. Books will be distributed at the first meeting of the group on June 20th. There is no fee for joining this group or for the book.

People that signed up already at the Downtown Meetup or on Twitter will have a book. If you are no longer interested in the group, or you can't make Monday night meetings in Downtown LA, please let me know as soon as possible by using my contact form at http://groups.drupal.org/user/269069/contact

The first meeting of the Pro Drupal 7 Development Study Group is Monday, June 20th at 7:00pm at Droplabs, just northeast of Chinatown. Space is limited to the first 15 people who sign up by clicking the Signup button below. Anyone who signs up after we've reached the 15-person limit will be placed on our waiting list.

Location

Droplabs
651 Clover St.
Los Angeles, CA 90031

Droplabs is in the Mission Junction neighborhood of Los Angeles at Big Art Labs, just 1 mile down Main St. from Philippes (the first-ever venue for LA Drupal meetups!) and Union Station. We're one block west of The Brewery, the largest live-and-work artists' colony in the world. As you enter the gate off of Clover we are in the right hand corner of Big Art Labs farthest from the street.

What to bring

Just bring your laptop, your business cards or whatever else you need. We share a large parking lot with Big Art Labs and there's plenty of free parking. After you pull into the parking lot, park to the left of the entrance and follow the signs to Droplabs.

Please note that our guest wireless network is limited to 1Mb per client, so bring your MiFi router or a phone you can tether with if for some reason you need a lot of bandwidth. Access to our high-speed network is included with a Droplabs membership.

To get last-minute updates, follow @Droplabs on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Droplabs or find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/DroplabsLA

About Droplabs

Droplabs is a collaborative Drupal event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles. Launched in 2011 by LA Drupal members for LA Drupal members, we are focused on serving the greater LA Drupal community, enriching the Drupal skills and lives of its members, and bringing joy to our Drupal practice.

We have been open to the public since May, 2011, and the use of our equipment and facilities, including conference room, tables and chairs, espresso machine and high-speed WiFi network, is free until our official launch. See http://groups.drupal.org/node/145934 for more details about our open beta period.

Hi All,

This is your LA Drupal friend Sae Rom/Palebunny delivering a public service announcement : Yes, there will be a meetup at Cafe Alibi in Pasadena- tonight!

This event has passed. See http://groups.drupal.org/node/275138 for information about the next job fair on January 28, 2012.

The next Downtown Los Angeles Drupal meetup is on June 21, 2011 and will be at Droplabs, a new Drupal event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles. You are invited for part or all of the 4-hour event, including a Drupal job fair at 6:00pm followed by a meetup with technical presentations, site showcases, open discussions and raffle prizes at 7:30pm.

The monthly Inland Empire Drupal meetup will be held on Thursday, June 9 from 7-9pm. This is a free event and everyone is invited - we have a large venue with plenty of space so if you're in the area please join us! If you'd like to follow along just bring your laptop / charger.

Location

A few of us at are staying late tomorrow evening at Droplabs to deploy a Drupal site. We'll be working with Git and a DV server at Media Temple and will set up dev, test and live sites. You're invited to attend, participate, ask questions and learn how to make this a highly repeatable process for you and your clients.

Mark your calendars for our LA Drupal meetup: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at the corporate headquarters of Media Temple in Culver City, CA.

Theme for the night: User Interface - Configuring *Friendly* and Client-Scalable Drupal Sites.

The meetup will begin at 7:00pm sharp, but the doors will open at 6:30pm if you want to come early and network or work with a community member on a Drupal related project!

This event is free!
And there will be raffle prizes, food and drink!!!

No RSVP is required, but if you signup you will receive any last minute details, and have our undying gratitude for helping us know how many to expect in order to arrange adequate seating, food, drinks, and so on. So… please sign up by clicking the Sign up button at the bottom of this announcement.

You are invited to the next DTLA (Downtown Los Angeles) Drupal meetup on May 17, 2011, We're meeting at the offices of at Oversee.net on May 17, 2011 in Downtown Los Angeles. There will be several presentations as well as open discussions, job announcements and time for networking.