Code sprint or workshop

Come contribute! The 4th Monday (change this month due to Drupalcon to) 4th Wednesday in Long Beach we're holding meetups 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 either contributed patches or helped somehow in the process. As a result we've already helped get code committed to Drupal core! Want to help? Can't code? no problem. There truly is something for everyone to do. We'll help teach you.

OC DRUPAL - CoWorking Friday

join us to partake in the coworking movement

we will be participating in the coworking Fridays in corralation with the http://groups.drupal.org/coworking event on Feb. 24th at CollabSpace OC from 4-8pm. join us when you can!

Follow @DrupalCoworking on Twitter!
To those new to coworking, here is how Wikipedia describes it:

Come contribute! The 4th Monday in Long Beach we're holding meetups 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 either contributed patches or helped somehow in the process. As a result we've already helped get code committed to Drupal core! Want to help? Can't code? no problem. There truly is something for everyone to do. We'll help teach you.

Can you teach or learn how to contribute to Drupal? Then please join us! The first two meetups were fantastic! During each we either contributed patches or helped the RTBC process. As a result we've already helped get code committed to Drupal core! Want to help? Can't code? no problem. There is truly something for everyone. We'll help teach you.

December 29, 2011 is Leave GoDaddy Day and we're celebrating the occasion with a domain transfer and website migration workshop at Droplabs. You're invited!

What's Leave GoDaddy Day, you say? In simplest terms, we're participating in a global event with thousands of others and are moving GoDaddy-registered domains and GoDaddy-hosted websites to other registrars and webhosts.

This impromptu workshop is being organized by individuals who have done this migration already. If you've been inclined to do the same but wanted a helpful hand, this event is for you. Drop in any time between 11am and 4pm. We'll also be in the #droplabs IRC channel during the workshop and will provide emotional and technical support as needed.

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!

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.

A barn raising is an event during which a community comes together to assemble a barn for one or more of its households, particularly in 18th- and 19th-century rural North America. (Wikipedia)

The same can be done for websites.

SCALE (Southern California Linux Expo) is going to be a little earlier next year and this has moved forward the CFP (Call for Papers). We will be building the SCALE site on Drupal 7 this year. In the past, the CFP was on a separate non-Drupal framework and importing the data was the source of some headaches. I hope by bringing the CFP into Drupal from the start, we can improve on that situation.

Drupal Patch Bingo is a code sprint at Droplabs from 6-10pm on Saturday, August 20, 2011. You're invited!

Wait, what's Drupal Patch Bingo? Glad you asked! We're combining a code sprint with the universal accessibility and old fashioned charm of a 5x5 bingo game board. Teams with equal numbers of Drupal newcomers and Drupal veterans will be using the Drupal core patch bingo feature on Drupal.org to:

• Find outstanding issues in the Drupal core issue queue
• Score points by rolling patches and marking issues as RTBC (reviewed & tested by the community)
• Win prizes, bragging rights and more!

We're looking for volunteer contestants and judges, so sign up by clicking the Sign up button below! RSVPs are not required, but signing up makes it much easier for the event coordinators to arrange adequate tables and seating and contact you with last-minute updates (if there are any).

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.

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