Louisiana

I would like to invite you to submit a 60 minute proposal for our call for papers at DrupalCon New Orleans, which is the largest annual gathering of Drupal developers, business professionals, and technology enthusiasts in the world.

DrupalCon is the flagship event of the Drupal community, and will be held this year in the lovely city of New Orleans. Our event is held May 9-13, 2016 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. We anticipate as many as 3,500 Drupalistas will join us this week to help celebrate and grow the Drupal project.

We are two weeks away from Drupalcamp New Orleans on Saturday, March 29 at Launch Pad. Here are a few updates on the event:

• The session schedule will be finalized and announced this coming week. It's not too late to submit a session as we still have three open spots in the schedule. We are particularly interested in sessions for the Case Studies and Development and Theming tracks. Submit a session here: http://www.drupalcampnola.com/node/add/session

First, we are proud to announce that we have finalized plans for a free pre-camp Drupal training event, on Friday, March 28. Space is limited to 24 students. Reserve your spot here: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/drupalcamp-new-orleans-pre-camp-training-day...

Next, if you are looking for ways to help make the Camp successful, here are several options:

• If you haven't already registered for Drupalcamp New Orleans, please do so here http://www.eventbrite.com/e/drupalcamp-new-orleans-2014-tickets-10226464...

Thanks to Eric for his recap of Drupalcon Portland including demos of Drupal 8, configuration management and SASS.

We held the meetup on Google Hangout and will plan to continue supporting folks who can't join in person with a Hangout available at future meetups.

We are planning to move our next scheduled meetup up from the first Thursday of the month for July (because it falls on the fourth) to either June 20 or 27th and will have a presentation on Drupal Features. Stay tuned for more info.

Thanks to Kevin Basarab and the attendees for helping March's meetup stretch from Jacksonville to Lafayette. We used Google Hangout and had Kevin present on Contributing to Drupal.

We're looking forward to using Google Hangout for future meetups to help out those who live too far from New Orleans to be able to make the drive.

Here are some links and resources mentioned during tonight's meetup:

Drupal Ladder: http://drupalladder.org/

The Louisiana Drupal Users group will be starting up a monthly Drupal Co-Working Day, hosted by Entrepreneur Headquarters (http://www.thinkehq.com) in Baton Rouge, on the last Friday of every month. It will be an opportunity for Drupal developers to emerge from their home offices or office cubes and spend a workday among fellow Drupalists.

We'll get a meetup posting soon for RSVPs and stay tuned for more details. Until then, see these links for more information on Drupal Days:
http://www.mediacurrent.com/blog/drupal-coworking-friday-we-dont-have-wo...

Hello,

Tomorrow night kicks off a busy December for the Louisiana Drupal Users Group. We’ll have our monthly meetup in our new home at Loyola University. Please plan to join us and RSVP here http://www.meetup.com/louisianadrupal/events/39398482/

Next week is the Drupal on the Bayou conference at Harrahs in New Orleans. More info here http://www.meetup.com/louisianadrupal/events/41670382/ and at http://www.drupalonthebayou.com

Great news! The group's regular attendees have decided to go monthly in both New Orleans and Baton Rouge with our meetup schedule, rather than alternating.

New Orleans will meet on the regular first-Thursday-of-each-Month time slot, starting on November 3. Eric will be announcing the location soon.

Stay tuned for news on the timing and location of Baton Rouge meetups.

Productive session tonight at EHQ (http://thinkehq.com) at Perkins Rowe in Baton Rouge. Jeff and Brian from the group met with the team from RIO and a couple of volunteers from the local entrepreneur community for a planning and brainstorming session ahead of Saturday's Site Building Volunteer Day (http://www.meetup.com/louisianadrupal/events/19485551/).

For the planned site we determined:
- Working title/domain name & registered the domain
- Setup hosting account (post-event Brian went home and got the server, Drupal install and Drush config all complete already)

Louisiana’s new Regional Innovation Organization (RIO) will team up with volunteers from the Louisiana Drupal Users Group (LaDUG) on Saturday, July 9, to build a new web site to help create a stronger, more vibrant entrepreneurial community in South Louisiana.

The event will be held at Pleasant Hall on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge, with facilities and assistance being provided by LSU Continuing Education.