Code sprint or workshop

Come contribute! The 4th Monday in Long Beach we have meetups ... (the 4th Monday to coincide with core office hours).

Join us in Long Beach or meet us online in our google+ hangout. The first few meetups have been fantastic! During each we've contributed patches and/or helped to give back. Want to help? There truly is something for everyone to do.

What is Drupal? For large and complex websites, nothing beats Drupal! Where do you start? What is the best way to organize your project to get the best chance of success?

This workshop will help you turn your ideas into a concrete todo list — whether you're building the site yourself, handing it off to a developer to build, or something in-between.

This is the workshop for you if:

• You're new to using Drupal and need a jumpstart in planning a large project
• You're investigating Drupal's viability for your next project
• You're wondering whether to invest time in learning Drupal
• You don't have the time to learn Drupal but will be involved in a Drupal project

Seating is limited. You'll have access to the experts at Exaltation of Larks — a Drupal strategy, consulting, development and training company in Los Angeles — learn about Drupal and have a fun day!

What to Bring

This is a lunch and learn-style workshop. Come during lunch and learn about Drupal! You don't need to bring a computer. Bring lunch!

This workshop is a fundraiser for Droplabs, where you can come and find help and resources for your Drupal project and cowork for free. You can donate cash at the time of the workshop, or conveniently pay using Paypal or Dwolla at http://droplabs.net

Suggested donation: $45.

No one will be turned away from this workshop. If you are unable to donate we ask that you volunteer some time helping Droplabs run more smoothly when you drop by and cowork.

Classroom space is limited, so please sign up early.

What is Drupal? For large and complex websites, nothing beats Drupal! Where do you start? What is the best way to organize your project to get the best chance of success?

This workshop will help you turn your ideas into a concrete todo list — whether you're building the site yourself, handing it off to a developer to build, or something in-between.

Join us at Droplabs on Friday & Saturday, June 15-16, 2012, for a Barn Raising and Code Sprint to benefit the Echo Park Time Bank and TimeBanks USA!

There's something for everyone at this two-day event and you're welcome to attend either or both days. If you're interested in learning more about Drupal and getting some practical hands-on experience, or if you're a Drupal power user and would like to help mentor others into using Drupal's best practices for site development, this is an excellent opportunity.

The Echo Park Time Bank is a non-profit community collective with a mission to facilitate the cooperative exchange of goods and services among its hundreds of members. Since September 2011, the Echo Park Time Bank has been using Drupal to manage their community website at http://arroyoseco.timebanks.org and its currency system.

At this barn raising, we'll be improving the online membership application and implementing a realname policy for usernames. The work we do will be shared with TimeBanks USA, which will directly benefit the 300+ time banks that have their own sites that use the same Drupal distribution.

This is our second barn raising for the time bank and directly builds upon the work we completed last time. See http://ex.tl/ZTT for more information about our last barn raising and code sprint.

Free Drupal Tutoring is available almost every Saturday at Droplabs in Downtown Los Angeles.

Join us at Droplabs on Friday & Saturday, April 27-28, 2012, for a Barn Raising and Code Sprint to benefit the Echo Park Time Bank and TimeBanks USA!

There's something for everyone at this two-day event and you're welcome to attend either or both days. If you're interested in learning more about the Features module and getting some practical hands-on experience, or if you're a Features power user and would like to help mentor others into using Drupal's best practices for site development, this is an excellent opportunity.

The Echo Park Time Bank is a non-profit community collective with a mission to facilitate the cooperative exchange of goods and services among its hundreds of members. Since September 2011, the Echo Park Time Bank has been using Drupal to manage their community website at http://arroyoseco.timebanks.org and its currency system.

We'll be using the Features module and configuration-in-code methodology to help make feature development, maintenance and updates to their site much easier. The Features that we create will be shared with TimeBanks USA, which will directly benefit the 300+ time banks that have their own sites that use the same Drupal distribution.

Join us for a VPS and Virtualmin Installfest at Droplabs on Saturday, April 21, 2012. We're going to discuss VPS (virtual private server) hosting, when and why you should be using it, and we'll have a brief presentation on Virtualmin, a free, open-source control panel.

The second part of the workshop is a hands-on installfest. We'll be getting as many people up and running with their own VPS servers, and optionally install Virtualmin for those who want it.

For any changes to our agenda, stay tuned to this workshop announcement or click the Sign up button below (or both!) to be notified when the agenda has been updated.

Agenda

   10:00am
   Projector and tables / chairs setup

   10:30am
   Introductions
   Presentation: Smart VPS Management for Smart People, by Christefano Reyes
   Questions and answers

   12:00pm
   Lunch! This is potluck-style, so please bring something for yourself and another

   12:30pm
   Hands-on VPS and Virtualmin Installfest

   2:30pm
   Wrap-up, clean-up and close-up

A Note About VPS Hosting

Please note that running ones own server isn't for the faint of heart. If you're happy with shared hosting or have limited time and resources, then this workshop is probably not for you.

This workshop is intended for people who want to further their knowledge and are ready for — or already have — VPS or dedicated hosting and all the power and performance options that come with that.

This evening's tutors are @christefano and cpjeeves, two of the developers and architects with Exaltation of Larks. This time block is devoted to you, so bring your questions and homework to work on. The tutors' time is on a first-come, first-served basis.

This is the second session for this tutoring series at Droplabs and we welcome your feedback. We'll try to introduce a Users Helping Users concept, so if you're of a certain level, are waiting for an answer, and can help another, please do so!

We're also pleased to announce that watching videos on Build a Module.com is FREE at Droplabs and that we'll be incorporating a mentored training approach at these open tutoring sessions.

Look forward to seeing you there.

DrupalCon Denver is going to come to a close, and its never been a DrupalCon without a code sprint to get things done! From 9am to 5pm tomorrow, there is going to be a code sprint happening at the Conference Center and the Hyatt Regency. I am definitely going to be participating (I'll be at the core office hours sprint) and it would be great to see others in LA represent!

For more information, check out http://denver2012.drupal.org/sprints.

This Friday, March 30, 2012, we're offering a 3-hour workshop on an introduction to the Drupal content management system and what you need to know when using Drupal for your next website. No prior experience with Drupal is necessary.

Jumpstart your project with a solid approach! We'll help you turn your ideas into concrete action items by guiding you through the steps to organize your project.

What is Drupal?

Drupal is a free and open source web development platform used by millions of sites on the web today. It is used by sites big and small to manage online communities and their content and can be customized for any device to match any visual design. Learn more at http://www.larks.la/about/what-is-drupal

This is a free workshop and seating is limited. You'll have access to the experts at Exaltation of Larks — a Drupal strategy, consulting, development and training company in Los Angeles — learn about Drupal, and have a fun time!

It is being held at Droplabs, a Drupal-friendly coworking and event space in Los Angeles, and is scheduled to coincide with Drupal Coworking Friday, also at Droplabs the same day.