SCALE 8x (SoCal Linux Expo)
The 8th annual So Cal Linux Expo will be February 19-21, 2010. SCALE returns to the Westin LAX for the 8th year of the premier community Open Source show. See Conference Info for more information! http://www.socallinuxexpo.org
LA Drupal will be hosting a Drupal table, with volunteers, freebies, and info.
Emma Jane Hogbin will be presenting - http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale8x/presentations/looking-beautiful-print
The premier Open Source conference in the U.S., now in its 8th year, has content for everyone! If you're looking to learn, choose talks from a developer's track, a beginner track, or one of the three general interest tracks.
Read moreLA Drupal User Group Meeting - Organic Groups case study & more about Drupal 7
LA Drupal is one of the world's largest Drupal user groups and meets monthly. Top talent and great community members share their Drupal knowledge. Perfect for all levels - newbies to elites.
When? Tuesday, Jan. 26th, 2010 (from 7:30pm - 9:30pm)
Where? Causecast.org offices - 1558 10th St. (Unit D), Santa Monica, CA 90401 (entrance is on Colorado; park on the street).
Free Beer & Pizza provided by our host: www.causecast.org
Book Raffles, every attendee has a chance to win!
TOPICS
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SANDCamp 2010
If you've never been to a Drupalcamp before, just reading up on some basic information can get you up to speed. Firstly, we love to show support to people who are new to Drupal, it's how we keep our community thriving. You can expect to get lots of help and guidance from Drupal veterans who want to help you get familiar with Drupal. Lots of first timers actually get up and propose their own session idea even if they've never been to a camp before.
Read moreLA Drupal December User Group Celebration
More details to come, but our venue sponsor Causecast.org has agreed to allow LA Drupal a night of celebrating. Every monthly meeting is a celebration of Drupal, but for December we will be celebrating our local community - so if you would like to help sponsor drinks, raffle prizes, and/or food then please contact the LA Drupal organizers for full details.
For this end of the year meeting we will not have any formal presentations, but instead only 5-minute Lightning Talks: come show off your latest favorite module, show off your latest Drupal work, show off a site you cannot live without that runs on Drupal. People who finish on time get an extra raffle ticket for Drupal related prizes.
We do not plan to have formal setting available as the entire night will be filled with music, networking, and our random 5-minute Drupal Lightning Talks, so be sure to wear comfortable shoes. Invite your co-workers. Many regional Drupal groups are invited so expect a good crowd.
When? Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 - 7:30PM-10PM
Where? 1558 10th St. (Unit D), Santa Monica, CA 90401
RAFFLE EVERY HOUR OF THE EVENT FOR ATTENDEES
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120+ Security Based Modules? Really?
I have to admit, Im overwhelmed about the amount of Drupal modules created that deal with security. It seems many are for keeping specific module types from doing insecure things or providing holes in security. So, what about a basic install with Views, CCK, Pathauto, Forums, Blogs, and little else. What are the most useful security modules out there?
-overwhelmed by modules
Mary
LA Drupal User Group Meeting (September 29th)
LA Drupal is one of the world's largest Drupal user group & networks. Come join the conversation with over fifty local LA Drupal members.
WHEN? Tuesday, Sept. 29th, 2009 - 7:30PM-9:30PM
WHERE? 1558 10th St. - Unit D, Santa Monica, CA 90401 (Entrance is on Colorado Ave.; venue & food sponsor: Causecast.org) (map)
Book Raffles sponsored by Apress and Wrox publishing.
LA Drupal meets at least once a month, bringing together professional and upcoming talent from the world of Drupal. This month our meeting will include the following agenda:
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Mobile Drupal Sites - a discussion on Drupal sites going mobile. Tom Boone, an LA Drupal member, will be spearheading this talk and you should bring your mobile-Drupal questions.
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Drush on Windows - the uber-popular command line tool, Drush, runs on any platform. Last month Chris Charlton showed Drush on Mac OS X (Unix), and Nickolas will be showing Windows users this month how to reduce Drupal updates from hours & minutes to seconds!
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Firebug Lite - All web developers & designers are now relying on the Firebug extension for Firefox web browsers to help debug their JavaScript & CSS. For years Firebug has offered a version that works in any other web browser, allowing us to debug CSS reliably in Safari, Opera, or Internet Explorer! Firebug Lite is free, and there's even a Drupal module for it. This lightning talk is by Chris Charlton and will show you how Firebug Lite (module) works cross-browser in just seconds!
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Bad Camp 2009 - some of us locals are going to the "Bay Area" Drupal camp next month. Highlights of the camp can be shown/discussed.
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DrupalCon San Francisco 2010 - that's right, the next official Drupal conference will be in San Francisco, California. Yup, just North of us. If there are details to share with us locals, then we'll hear it. Otherwise, get ready for it come April 2010.
Lightning Talks - come prepared to talk for 5 min. about something you'd like to share with the Drupal group. Finished a new Drupal site? Find a cool new module? Keep it succinct - you get stopped at five minutes - but we'll be nice about it.
Read moreAdobe MAX 2009 conference (Oct. 4-7; Los Angeles, CA)
Adobe's annual MAX conference comes to Los Angeles, CA from October 4-7th.
Over 200 sessions. Topics include Drupal, Web CMS, PHP, Dreamweaver, Flash, Flex, Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator, Adobe AIR, PDF / Acrobat, mobile, video, and many more technologies.
Adobe MAX 2009 conference in Los Angeles, California
Adobe's annual MAX conference is taking place this October 4-7th in Los Angeles, CA. I will be presenting three Drupal related sessions at this conference for Adobe. Most of my sessions show people how to customize Drupal 6 through themes, modules, and its administration. My sessions are 1-1.5hrs, with one session being a lab (BYOL: Bring Your Own Laptop Lab).
Adobe MAX is a paid conference, and has something like over 200 sessions. Early bird discount still available (as of this writing).
My sessions are:
- Customizing Drupal Using Dreamweaver - skill: Beginner - Learn how to install Drupal, a robust, full-featured web content management system, and publish your first pages. You'll be guided through common designer workflows using Drupal and learn how to customize Drupal theme templates. When this lab is complete, you'll be able to take your new skills back to work and be more productive.
- Exploring Web Content Management Systems from a Designer's Perspective - skill: Beginner - Watch an expert guide you through a selection of today's popular web content management systems and learn which one is right for you. This session will include detailed demonstrations of WordPress, Drupal, and the Adobe InContext Editing service in action, covering installation and publishing.
- Learn to Rock Drupal Using Dreamweaver - skill: Beginner - Explore the functionality of Drupal from a designer's perspective while learning about the most common workflows. Learn how to integrate Drupal with Dreamweaver and how to use Creative Suite 4 Web Premium to customize Drupal theme templates.
I have presented at MAX before, and attended twice. This conference is huge. Last year 5,000 attendees ran around chatting Flash, Flex, AIR, Photoshop, After Effects, everything Adobe. One of the new things Adobe has done at MAX is run un-conferences inside the main conference building. Last year there were four un-conferences going on all week inside MAX, adding to the already hundreds of sessions. This year I am involved with the Web CMS theme of the conference, promoting Drupal & PHP. Some of you know my Drupal Dreamweaver extensions and Theme Starter desktop software, so I am glad to be exclusively covering Drupal in my talks this year. One session covers the different approaches in Web CMS software like Wordpress & Drupal. For that session I will be sharing the stage for that session with a Wordpress counterpart. I hope that session turns into a feature flinging match as it'll help me get caught up with Wordpress limitations.
I'd like to promote the MAX conference to the Drupal community, and at the same time ask who is already planning to attend. We can meet up and rep Drupal together.
Read moreCamp/Conference formula for Drupal
With over 500 camp attendees and 60+ session proposals, us organizers of Drupal Camp LA needed a Drupal site that was built for organizers and attendees, with lessons learned from 3+ DrupalCons & 2+ DrupalCamps. Here is our formula for our awesome camp site.
"DrupalCampLA.com was built on Drupal 6 using core & contributed modules to handle event registration, sponsorship management, featured speakers, user bio's, and session proposals. The website features an attendee driven event schedule where members propose sessions and only registered members pick which sessions they'd like to see (in the BarCamp style). Planning the schedule for the day of events has been made flexible enough to allow organizers to maintain a master schedule with ease. Not to mention that all attendees get their own schedule view with the sessions they pick."
"The web site was based on the latest Drupal 6.x release and utilized many of the current generation modules such as CCK for content customization, imagefield and imagecache to handle imaging Views & custom theming built on Zen for content presentation." (A full list of the modules used is in the case study - http://drupal.org/node/519100 )
The download link is available in the case study post - http://drupal.org/node/519100 and has been made available by LA Drupal & This By Them.
Read moreLA Drupal User Group Meeting (August 25th, 2009)
L.A. Drupal - Los Angeles' Professional Drupal Network & User Group
When? Tuesday, August 25th, 7:30PM-9:30PM
Where? 1558 10th St. - Unit D, Santa Monica, CA 90401 (Door entrance is on Colorado; Venue Sponsor: CauseCast.org) (map)
Whats an LA Drupal meetup like? Fun & Interesting!
LA Drupal meetups are free and open to anyone interested in Drupal from beginner to guru, but you have to bring a fun attitude and be willing to share or learn.
We have areas for networking, general topics, and more advanced learning and sharing. Presentations and a big breakout session at the end to chat and network.
We like to highlight and encourage folks with cool local projects to present at upcoming meetings. In the past year we've had presenters from Warner Brothers Records; hosting over a hundred artist sites on Drupal, StandUp2Cancer.org - over a million hits in one day during the airing of the show, and local shops such as www.ThisByThem.com, www.openChimp.com, www.chillco.com, www.exaltations.net, www.IJHANA.com, www.WorkHabit.com, www.AchieveInternet.com, and others. Topics have included How to build your first Drupal Module, Using Views 1 & Views 2, Panels module, Drush module, Theming, and Scaling Drupal & Cloud computing among others.
Have a topic you'd like to see? Add it here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/9220
Agenda
Free Beer & Pizza provided by our host: www.causecast.org
Book Raffle - come win a Drupal related book!
Topics for the night:
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Group discussion of mobile site development in Drupal. Tom Boone will speak briefly about his own recent experience creating a mobile version of a site and find out what others in the group have done so far in this area, to cover what tools/modules are available, what approaches work best in specific situations, what problems remain to be solved.
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Drush 2.0 for Beginners - Tired of using FTP to update Drupal core and all the modules you use? Time to learn Drush. Chris Charlton will be giving a gentle intro to the community winning software known as Drush (Drupal-shell). Drush literally will save you hours every week managing all your Drupal sites. Drush is not a module, but instead a command-line "Terminal" application, where in one single command can update your Drupal core and ALL modules in under 1 minute! Chris will cover the basics of getting Drush running on a Mac/Unix/Linux environment. You can install Drush locally (great idea!) or on a web server (another great idea!).
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Drupal Camp LA 2009 community recamp - we'll have a chunk of time where camp attendees can voice their favorite moments of the camp. Did you attend? Did you just love a certain session or two? If so, come voice the goods from the largest West coast Drupal event.
Main Presentation Area
Main presentation area holds up to 80 people and is geared towards general interest topics, especially geared towards people who are new to Drupal or the Topic(s) being presented. It is also a forum for sharing, asking questions.
Lightning Talks - come prepared to talk for 5 min. about something you'd like to share with the Drupal group. Finished a new Drupal site? Find a cool new module? Keep it succinct - you get stopped at five minutes - but we'll be nice about it.
Q & A followed by Job Announcements.
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