Code sprint or workshop

Get ready for the fifth annual DrupalCamp LA this August 6-7th. Mark your calendars... this year is a milestone for us and we’re going all out!

Update: Videos posted at http://replay.uci.edu/clients/drupal

Drupal has changed, so we updated the camp accordingly. Join us for this jam-packed weekend of free Drupal community training - now with even more awesome sauce!

Event Highlights:

* Job Fair
* Drupal 7 Sessions
* Dedicated Beginners Track
* Step-By-Step Workshops
* Drupal Training Video Archives

Hi everyone,

SoftLayer has a new datacenter in San Jose, CA, and I'm moving our VPS (which they call a CCI, or cloud computing instance) that hosts musclebeach.ladrupal.org to it from their Seattle datacenter. I've talked with SoftLayer's support team about this process and everything is planned out and ready to go.

When is this maintenance window?

The Sacramento Drupal Users Group is pleased to announce the first ever Drupal Camp Sacramento Area.

This auspicious event will be two days full of sessions, BoFs, code sprinting, and engagement. Registration is now open and session proposals are now being accepted.

Important Information:
Dates: Saturday and Sunday, May 28-29, 2011
Location: University of California, Davis
Cost: FREE!
Registration and more info: http://sacdrupal.org

As announced on the Drupal.org front page and at http://drupal.org/node/1121304, Drupal.org will be going down for scheduled maintenance for approximately 20 minutes at 11am local time on April 12, 2011. The official announcement is included below.

As announced on the Drupal.org front page at http://drupal.org/node/1068664, the groups.drupal.org front page at http://groups.drupal.org/node/129624 and at the Drupal meetups in and around Los Angeles this month, Drupal.org will be going down for scheduled maintenance today for approximately 12 hours. The official announcement is included below.

Interested in giving back to Drupal? We'll be doing it all day in Long Beach.

• Want to learn how?
• Do you already know how and would like to collaborate with others?

Special thanks to our hosts, LA Net, a community-based Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN) focused on health disparities reduction in Southern California.

We'll be launching the Drupal Design Camp LA site this week and I'm inviting all of you to my place for a final sprint. Top Notch Themes is done with the theme for the site and all we need in order to finish testing is for us to have some content up on the site.

Can anyone think of other things they want on the site, like a #ddcla feed or member discussion forums? This sprint is the last chance for brainstorming and implementing new functionality.

I've also posted a few placeholder pages on the dev site that we can fill in during the sprint:

• About DDCLA (what to expect at the conference)
• Where to stay (hotels near the venue that have shuttles from LAX)
• Where to eat (restaurants and cafes near the venue)
• Our Sponsors (sponsor pages with logos)

Meanwhile, it turns out that the http://designfordrupal.com domain was once used for sending spam and I'm moving everything over to http://www.ddcla.org instead. The Git repo will stay in the same place, though, and I'll make sure *.designfordrupal.com redirects to the right place, so this will be a seamless switch.

Drupal Design Camp LA is barely 60 days away and we're having a website sprint on Saturday, December 11th. It will be between 10am-4pm. We might go past 4pm if we're up for it, but please don't show up before 10am.

The plan for the day is to use the Conference Organizing Distribution to set up the site and then write content (venue information, hotel locations, etc.) and add any extra modules that make the cut. We'll also start talking about the volunteer task list for the camp.

Signups are disabled for this event. We're just going to show up, roll up our sleeves and have fun!

Location

We're meeting between 10am-4pm at 4402 West Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90019, which is right on the corner of Pico Blvd. at Windsor Blvd. The nearest major intersection is Pico Blvd. and La Brea Blvd.

Here's a photo from Google Street View that shows the front door. Windsor Blvd. has free on-street parking and Pico Blvd. has metered parking. Out of respect for our neighbors, please do not park on Victoria Park Dr.

This location is on the edge of Wilshire in Los Angeles, but it's also called Mid City and is right next to Victoria Park. Sheesh. If you have trouble finding the place, here's a photo from Google Street View. You can also call LA Drupal's hotline at 855-LADRUPAL (855-523-7872).

Lunch

Lunch will be potluck-style, so please bring enough food and drinks for yourself + one. We have a grill, a fantastic kitchen and a huge dining room table. BYOB if you'd like. Please post a comment below to let others know what you're bringing.

We are having another LAdrupal.org site build sprint, this time focused on the theme!

At the guidance of Helior and Michael Thorne, we are setting up the site to use Panels and Features, and packaging the views into their own elements so that many people can be involved in theming the site without stepping on each other's toes. This meeting will be the opportunity to get involved, learn what needs to be done, and also have the "what's next" conversation!

We are meeting at Benno's in Hollywood. Please RSVP in order to get the details.

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.

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.