Meetup

Pulp What? Well, we lost our venue host last month... and the value of meetups is typically the networking ... so lets skip the presentations this month and jump straight to the networking. In short, we're going to hangout, talk Drupal, talk tech, get to know each other, etc.

The Long Beach Web & App dev Professionals (WAPRO) group meets monthly to showcase our cool tech projects, share best practices, network with each other, help newcomers, and the values of open source software (F/OSS). We strive to do this in a professional, relaxed, respectful, and open venue for all people in our community. Website: http://wapro.lbtech.org/about

TALKS THIS MONTH

• Mariano Crivello - Digital Effin Strategy

There is no Pizza N Drupal study group this month. This event is just here as a placeholder for anyone who was planning to come out of habit. We'll be back in March!

Session Leaders Needed! Volunteer in the comments or get in touch with an organizer.

Join us February 10, 2015 for a night of how-to sessions about the essential Views module in Drupal. There will be material for all levels: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced users.

Based on the feedback from last month's meetup and our successful meetup structure from last year, we are going to continue our site building series with 3 short (approximately 20 minute) how-to sessions from community members who are open to showing their process in building Views. We'll have 3 talks:

• a UI (views_ui) demo for a basic view that demonstrates display modes (ex: node v fields v rss), filters, sorting (presenter needed!)
• Oliver Seldman @otseld will present on Intermediate Views Configuration (in D8), where he'll touch on contextual filters (arguments) and relationships, while giving a general walkthrough of the Views UI in D8 (most of which is applicable in D7 as well).
• a code demo showing how to call a view directly in a theme or custom module with $view->execute(); for example (presenter needed!)

We'll update this event with presenter information when it is available. Also, if there is time, we'll have some lightning talks at this meetup as well!

The Long Beach Web & App dev Professionals (WAPRO) group meets monthly to showcase our cool tech projects, share best practices, network with each other, help newcomers, and the values of open source software (F/OSS). We strive to do this in a professional, relaxed, respectful, and open venue for all people in our community. Website: http://wapro.lbtech.org/about

TALKS THIS MONTH

• Aaron Pederson - Let's talk about SASS
• Mariano Crivello - Digital Effin Strategy

The 1st Tuesday of the month is here again and it's time for another Downtown Drupal Meetup! Join us via webcast on Tuesday, February 3, 2015 between 7-9pm Pacific. This meetup is free.

Are you new to Drupal or the Downtown Drupal meetup? Come learn about Drupal and how others like yourself are using it for their project, business or organization. We promise not to talk down to you. Those who would like to attend remotely are welcome to join us via webcast.

Tonight we're doing something a little different and will be dedicating the entire meetup to a Drupal Clinic, also known as Users Helping Users. This 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.

Please note that while Users Helping Users is not designed to be a replacement for bona fide consulting from a Drupal professional that there are plenty of Drupal experts and professionals who attend our meetups and sometimes they need help, too!

• Are you currently having a problem that you need help with?
• Do you have a presentation or job announcement that you'd like to share with the group?
• Is there a topic about anything you'd like to see a presentation on?
• Did you recently attend a great Drupal or tech event that you want to tell us about?
• Did you solve a problem recently and now have a solution to share with the group?

If you said "Yes!" to any of these questions, this meetup is for you.

It is January and we are back to our 4th Thursday for the meetup. We will be meeting this month on January 22 at Pasadena Media. Pasadena Media is located at 150 South Los Robles Avenue #101, Pasadena, CA 91101. We will meet at 6:00 pm. Remember the entrance for Pasadena Media is on El Dorado street not Los Robles. This is the North side of the office building next to the Pasadena Hilton.

First off, happy new year! We've all hopefully had a chance to enjoy a few extra days off and what better way to start off 2015 with not one but TWO presentations! And in looking forward, they are both going to be about Drupal 8.

Join us January 13, 2015 for a presentations from Steven Rifkin about Headless Drupal and Ashok Modi about Configuration Management.

Steven has been working with Drupal 8 for quite some time and he plans to explore more on using Basic Auth and the new REST and services API.

Ashok Modi has been playing around with Drupal 8 and he plans to show how the new configuration management api works from the UI and via the command line.

Steven Rifkin is a LA Drupal Group member since 2010. He is a master of the full stack and his company (Crifkin Amalgamated LLC) currently builds out server infrastructure and does custom development for large businesses.

Ashok is a LA Drupal Group member since 2009. He has been using Drupal since 2006.

RSVP and Updates: LBTEch post
LADrupal meetup.com

The Long Beach Web Professionals group meets monthly to showcase our cool tech projects, share best practices, network with each other, help newcomers, and the values of open source software (F/OSS). We strive to do this in a professional, relaxed, respectful, and open venue for all people in our community.

TALKS THIS MONTH

• Frank Anderson - How to not use Drupal + custom PHP = Highly available, Highly customizable, and Fast!

Join us on Monday, January 26th @ 7pm, for the first Drupal study groupal of 2015!

Note: the time really is 7PM as usual. The event node uses a later start time so it will stay listed after it starts.

Location

2920 W. Olive Avenue, Suite 110
Burbank, CA 91505
818 562 7004

http://goo.gl/maps/ep1gI
(Parking is on the street.)

Venue provided by Uzi @ Medium Digital Studio.
Pizza provided by The Cherry Hill Company.