We're having another Drupal organizers meetup on Tuesday, April 22, 2014 between 7-9pm. Join us earlier between 6-7pm at Droplabs for drinks, snacks and casual networking! Attendees who wish to attend this event remotely are welcome to join us via Zoom video conference.
In the spirit and tradition of our user group and events, this meetup is open to all Greater Los Angeles Drupal members and is an excellent opportunity for anyone who's interested in getting involved or is just interested in meeting everyone and observing our open governance model.
Join us in person at Droplabs or remotely at 7pm via Zoom video conference!
Agenda
Our current agenda for this meeting is listed below. If you have any additions, please post them in the comments below.
1. Introductions and meeting overview
2. Review of our agenda items from last time
3. Any new organizers? Who's dropped off?
4. Overview of new sponsors and resources
5. Review of our online infrastructure — Drupal.LA, Drupal Groups, Meetup.com, etc.
6. Proposal: Quarterly Event Schedule
7. Scheduling the rest of 2014
8. Anything else? Post a comment below.
Join Us on Zoom and Twitter!
To join the meeting from a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android device, go to https://zoom.us/j/434708243, or go to https://zoom.us/join and enter meeting ID: 434 708 243
You may also join from dial-in phone line:
Dial: +1 (415) 762-9988 or +1 (646) 568-7788
Meeting ID: 434 708 243
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International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference
During the meetup, the event organizers will be monitoring Twitter for feedback and questions that mention @GLADrupal.
Location and Directions
This event is hosted by Droplabs (@Droplabs), a collaborative coworking space, computer lab and classroom in Downtown Los Angeles.
Droplabs
651 Clover St.
Los Angeles, CA 90031
We're quickly gaining a reputation for being the only coworking space around with a with a low-cost business model: come work here and use our tables, chairs, WiFi and conference room with a low, daily or monthly membership fee and only pay more for the extras, such as 24/7 access, equipment rental and a locker for your belongings.
Droplabs is in the Mission Junction neighborhood of Los Angeles at Big Art Labs, just 1 mile down Main St. from Philippes (the first-ever venue for Drupal meetups in Southern California!) and Union Station. We're one block west of The Brewery, the largest live-and-work artists' colony in the world.
Free parking in our large parking lot is first-come, first-served. After parking in the lot, follow the yellow signs that point to Droplabs. (If our lot is full, you can park for free on Clover St.)
Droplabs is a brief walk from the Main St. / Lamar St. stop on the the Metro Local 76 bus line. This is also the Lincoln Heights / Chinatown DASH stop.
To carpool or catch the Droplabs shuttle from Union Station, post below in the comments.
What to Bring
Just bring your laptop, your business cards or whatever else you need. You're also welcome to bring some light food, sodas or beers to share with others at the meetup.
Please note that our guest wireless network is limited to 1Mb per client, so bring your MiFi router or a phone you can tether with if for some reason you need a lot of bandwidth. Access to our high-speed network is included with a Droplabs membership.
About Greater Los Angeles Drupal
With several weekly and monthly events, the Greater Los Angeles Area is one the most active areas for Drupal in the world.
Formerly named Downtown Los Angeles Drupal, we've been meeting regularly in and around Downtown Los Angeles, California, since early 2010, and now organize a large number of events in the area. Our signature events include the Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp (GLADCamp, the Drupal Job Fairs and the Downtown Drupal, San Gabriel Valley Drupal, Hollywood Drupal and High Performance Drupal meetups.
Our members and organizers have produced hundreds of Drupal events, including job fairs, meetups and workshops, conferences, paid trainings, coworking days, study group sessions, movie outings, FREE tutoring sessions from Drupal professionals, and website barnraisings to benefit non-profits and members of our community.
Attending Drupal events in the Greater Los Angeles Area is one of the best ways to meet and talk with other Drupaleros and we encourage you to attend as many meetings and special events as you'd like. Whether it's to find solutions to problems you've been having, sharing something you've learned or just meeting interesting like-minded people, the Greater Los Angeles Drupal events are an essential resource for Drupal professionals and hobbyists alike.
If you aren't already a member of Greater Los Angeles Drupal, it's easy to join our community. Our community calendar is on our "Events" tab on our home page at http://groups.drupal.org/node/219129
We proudly participate in the California Drupal Travelers Program, which aims to connect businesses and community members who are visiting the area with our local community and events. Inquire within by contacting any of the Greater Los Angeles Drupal organizers, or by joining the global Drupal Hospitality Network.
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This is a friendly reminder
This is a friendly reminder that tonight's meetup starts promptly at 7pm.
Here's our agenda for the evening:
https://groups.drupal.org/node/418538#agenda
Our shared notes for this meeting are in Google Docs:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18TK1baQTb73OFn-CG7ee9jMjK-aVbtPKVH01...
To attend via Zoom video conference, see:
https://groups.drupal.org/node/418538#join-online
We've had a pretty big number of RSVPs and an even larger number of participants in the Doodle poll. I can't wait to see everyone at Droplabs and / or on the Zoom video conference!
Meeting notes and recap
This was a good meeting with over a dozen participants. Thanks to everyone who attended!
Our meeting notes in the Google Doc don't really show what happened, so I'll write this up for anyone who is interested.
We had intros, discussed the new "show and tell" meeting format for the Downtown Drupal meetup, talked about the upcoming Drupal boot camp at Droplabs (which just turned 3!), and featured all of our new sponsors and shared assets and resources, including our new Zoom account.
The Zoom video conferencing didn't work out too well but Paul and I figured out what went wrong so it doesn't happen again (neither of us had logged in as the meeting host, so the meeting was cut short prematurely).
Here's info about two of the biggest agenda items:
First, we agreed that it's just too difficult to find the GLAD site here on Drupal Groups (everyone either uses a search engine or types in the old, inaccurate 'dtla' path alias) and we'll be consolidating our efforts on Drupal.LA.
The Drupal.LA website will be our main "launching point" that everyone can go to and have a kind of dashboard of activity, including discussions on Drupal Groups, videos on Vimeo, bits of news on Twitter and Facebook, etc.
Second, we came to an agreement that while we will have quarterly events, we'll be waiting this quarter out and our first Commerce Camp in Q3. The dates are still being worked out and I've already begun coordinating with Commerce Guys.
From experience I can say that scheduling events in Q3 and Q4 are tricky (we're rubbing up against DrupalCamp LA, BADCamp and the holidays in November / December) and we may need an additional planning meeting to figure everything out.
The only item on the agenda that wasn't discussed was #3, which was about who's new and who's dropped off the organizers list. I'd like to do a roll call at our next organizers meeting and revise our organizers list so it accurately represents the group leadership.
What's next? The action items I gathered were: