20 miles+ from High Desert

San Diego's SANDcamp (SANDcamp.org) is fast approaching. Join in on the three days Drupal camp from Thu Feb 16th thru Saturday Feb 18th. The website is open for session submission and training proposals (event registration will open in a few weeks).

SANDcamp is San Diego's three day tech conference for developers, designers, themers, site builders, business owners, students and anyone else I forgot to include that are interested in the Drupal (Drupal.org) open source content management system for websites.

For complete information visit SANDcamp.org/about-sandcamp.

Welcome to the Devops World of Tomorrow, today! Self-driving browsers, automation of menial tasks like testing, rocket-like scalability: DevOps technology can give us access to a brighter future for developers and business owners alike. In this summit, we’ll discuss topics like automated testing, Docker, and continuous integration.

We’ll also explore how these technologies can benefit organizations like yours, and why you should invest in them. Anyone who is looking to save time, money, and work - with happier development teams - should attend, to enter the DevOps future.

Drupal 7 Site Building Bootcamp

REGISTER AT:
http://bit.ly/1e7aKRG

Trainer: Douglas C. Hoffman

Register for this training

The Drupal (www.drupal.org) open-source content management system (CMS) is changing the way web sites are developed and deployed on the Internet. This course will examine Drupal web site architecture, design and site building. By the end of the course, students will be able to design, develop and deploy Drupal web sites.

The focus of this course will be the basic "Drupal out of the box" fundamentals including:

Drupal installation

We'll be at GLADCamp, the Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp, on March 7th, 8th & 9th, and to celebrate we're offering an Early Bird discount of 50% OFF this training until March 1, 2014! Use coupon code GLADCAMP2014 during checkout to receive your discount.

About Drupal Development Best Practices

This one-day workshop gives you a comprehensive tutorial on the right way to manage your Drupal website. You'll learn about version control for your code and ways to manage changes in your data. You'll also see how the Features module can enable you to keep your configuration changes in version control.

We cover industry-approved deployment strategies that let you move smoothly through development, testing and live environments. You'll get a high-level overview of how to modify the way your site looks by sub-theming, preventing hours of frustration should your original theme be updated.

What you will learn

• Using version control with Drupal;
• Maintaining development, testing and production environments;
• Managing configuration changes using the Features module;
• Creating a basic sub-theme;
• Creating a basic module;
• Understanding Drupal’s API and the hook system;
• Using Drush, the command-line power tool for Drupal;
• Dozens of tips, tricks and stories from the developers at Exaltation of Larks.

We're scheduling an extra special Drupal event this Saturday, January 25, 2014, and you're invited!

This is a mega event with four separate activities, including code sprints and expert Drupal mentoring. Join us for any or all of the following, including the Drupal Sprint Weekend: Los Angeles; having a GLADCamp.org website sprint; open lab hours for attendees of the module development boot camp; and a FREE video learning and mentoring workshop using Build a Module.com videos.

Agenda

For any changes to our agenda for the event, stay tuned to this meetup announcement or click the "Sign up" button at https://groups.drupal.org/node/399498#signup (or both!) to be notified when the agenda has been updated.

Drupal Sprint Weekend

The annual Global Drupal Sprint Weekend is upon us and anyone interested in learning more about Drupal core and how the Drupal software project is managed and developed will be guided and mentored in the Drupal Way.

We'll help you select tickets in the core issue queue at https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal to work on so that together as a group we can move Drupal 8 closer to a release date. See https://groups.drupal.org/node/332998 for more details.

GLADCamp.org Code Sprint

Thanks to an amazing team and help from our design and development partners, the GLADCamp.org website is now up! Before we open user registrations and session submissions, the website needs help from volunteers in our community.

We'll be updating the GLADCamp.org website, including descriptions of the non-profit summit and venue and hotel information, and cataloging any remaining bugs in the issue queue at https://drupal.org/project/issues/gladcamp  

Open Lab Hours for the Module Development Boot Camp

This weekend is the last best chance for attendees of the Module Development Boot Camp to participate in open lab hours at Droplabs. The boot camp instructors will be on hand to help boot camp attendees finish their class projects and get them published to Drupal.org.

FREE video learning and mentoring with Build a Module.com videos

That's right, we're also doing a mentored Drupal training! If you're interested in learning more about Drupal, site building, theming, module development, change management, or anything else, come with your laptop or tablet and a pair of headphones. The staff at Droplabs will set you up with a day pass to Build a Module.com and help create a video playlist for you to gently climb the Drupal learning curve at your own pace.

Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp (GLADCamp) is a free, 3-day conference for All Things Drupal on March 7th, 8th & 9th, 2014, at the Hilton Pasadena & Convention Center in Pasadena, California.

We're planning a conference that's packed with 3 full days of activities, including sessions, presentations, trainings, topic-based summits, a job fair, a barn raising to benefit a local non-profit, receptions, and more!

Our community members are also planning their own events to coincide with the conference, including client meetings and company retreats.