LA Drupal events
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Dec 16, 2008: LA Drupal December 2008 meeting at Rich Media Institute
No RSVP required, but desired. No cost to attend.
TOPICS:
TBD.
NOTE: We're meeting earlier than normal for the month of December.
TOPICS:
TBD.
NOTE: We're meeting earlier than normal for the month of December.
Categories: LA Drupal
Nov 25, 2008: LA Drupal November 2008 meeting at Rich Media Institute
No RSVP required, but desired. No cost to attend.
TOPICS:
TBD. (more info coming soon)
TOPICS:
TBD. (more info coming soon)
Categories: LA Drupal
Mar 4, 2009: DrupalCon DC 2009 at Washington Convention Center
About DrupalCon in DC
DrupalCon is the official Drupal unconference that attracts the most talented open source developers and innovative web shops in the world and brings them together to share knowledge, make decisions on the future of Drupal, and get to know each other in person.
It's also the premiere opportunity for Drupal users to learn what they can do with Drupal, find partners for future projects, and meet the people behind the code.
In this agenda you can see what the conference will focus on, and as you can see it's designed for both developers and Drupal users. The first three days of the conference will be about learning, while the last day will be about doing - that's when we'll all work together to push code and documentation forward.
DrupalCon is a volunteer run, nonprofit conference. Thanks to everyone who's helped and to our fantastic sponsors, who are letting us keep ticket prices low by paying for more than half of this event!
About DrupalDrupal is a wildly popular, open source content management system that powers websites for everyone from presidential candidates to pop stars to newspapers to neighborhood community groups. It's used by thousands of individuals and organizations around the world.
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Sep 30, 2008: LA Drupal September User Group Meeting at Rich Media Institute
Topics
Using Drupal: Stand Up To Cancer
The wonderful national campaign against cancer uses Drupal for their website, and they even use CCK! Come see how the campaign uses Drupal for the web site and internal organization.
Rain Breaw is the technical supervisor (film industry title that comes closest to "webmaster") of the Stand Up To Cancer website - standup2cancer.org. Launched on May 28, 2008, this website was built for two purposes: 1) to advertise the televised fundraising special that aired on ABC, CBS and NBC on Sept. 5; and 2) to assist the special in its goal of raising millions of dollars for cancer research. SU2C built two major donation-driven interfaces into the website in an effort to increase donations, The Constellation, and the Team Challenge. With a long-term goals of becoming a community environment for those impacted by cancer (everyone), a reporting mechanism for the spending of donation dollars, and a continued donation engine in mind, SU2C also built (and continues to improve) a TV channel, a magazine, a user forum, and other tools into the site.
SU2C's model is to direct 100% of public funds raised to actual cancer research. All labor costs for development of the website and show were underwritten, all tools were donated, and all services were deeply discounted. SU2C initially chose Drupal for its website not out of experience or interest, but because it seemed to be the best affordable option given the extremely limited timeframe SU2C faced (the website was conceived, built and launched in less than 5 months). While Drupal made it possible to launch this complex site in a short period of time, the limited experience of the various parties involved in this project led to unique challenges.
Rain (www.rainbreaw.com) is an independent film director/producer and co-founder of the web and internet media development company, SunRain Productions (www.sunrainproductions.com). Stand Up To Cancer is a detour in Rain's career of which she is quite proud.
Plus...
In addition to our presentation(s) of the night we have open-mic opportunities for those who have general Drupal questions or need help, time for those who are hiring or looking for consultants, upcoming Drupal training announcements, raffle prizes for attendees, and as always, the end of the meeting networking session with the fun and knowledgeable LA Drupal crowd.
Using Drupal: Stand Up To Cancer
The wonderful national campaign against cancer uses Drupal for their website, and they even use CCK! Come see how the campaign uses Drupal for the web site and internal organization.
Rain Breaw is the technical supervisor (film industry title that comes closest to "webmaster") of the Stand Up To Cancer website - standup2cancer.org. Launched on May 28, 2008, this website was built for two purposes: 1) to advertise the televised fundraising special that aired on ABC, CBS and NBC on Sept. 5; and 2) to assist the special in its goal of raising millions of dollars for cancer research. SU2C built two major donation-driven interfaces into the website in an effort to increase donations, The Constellation, and the Team Challenge. With a long-term goals of becoming a community environment for those impacted by cancer (everyone), a reporting mechanism for the spending of donation dollars, and a continued donation engine in mind, SU2C also built (and continues to improve) a TV channel, a magazine, a user forum, and other tools into the site.
SU2C's model is to direct 100% of public funds raised to actual cancer research. All labor costs for development of the website and show were underwritten, all tools were donated, and all services were deeply discounted. SU2C initially chose Drupal for its website not out of experience or interest, but because it seemed to be the best affordable option given the extremely limited timeframe SU2C faced (the website was conceived, built and launched in less than 5 months). While Drupal made it possible to launch this complex site in a short period of time, the limited experience of the various parties involved in this project led to unique challenges.
Rain (www.rainbreaw.com) is an independent film director/producer and co-founder of the web and internet media development company, SunRain Productions (www.sunrainproductions.com). Stand Up To Cancer is a detour in Rain's career of which she is quite proud.
Plus...
In addition to our presentation(s) of the night we have open-mic opportunities for those who have general Drupal questions or need help, time for those who are hiring or looking for consultants, upcoming Drupal training announcements, raffle prizes for attendees, and as always, the end of the meeting networking session with the fun and knowledgeable LA Drupal crowd.
Categories: LA Drupal
Dec 10, 2008: Do It With Drupal at New Orleans Marriot
Build Websites With Drupal!
Study the techniques and technologies for building successful websites and online communities at the Do It With Drupal Seminar.
For three days in scenic New Orleans, you'll learn from some of this powerful free software's top developers, hear from community-building experts, examine successful Drupal sites, and meet other web professionals, developers, designers, and decision makers interested in expanding their Drupal knowledge.
This large-scale, 3-day learning event will take place December 10-12, 2008 at the New Orleans Marriott Hotel, located at the edge of the city's historic French Quarter. Attend sessions on the nuts-and-bolts of architecting and building Drupal sites. See dissections of some of the most popular Drupal sites out there. Learn important topics such as the processes for building and grow successful Drupal websites. The event is organized by Lullabot's team of experts and features some of the world's most well-respected Drupal developers, designers, and architects.
Study the techniques and technologies for building successful websites and online communities at the Do It With Drupal Seminar.
For three days in scenic New Orleans, you'll learn from some of this powerful free software's top developers, hear from community-building experts, examine successful Drupal sites, and meet other web professionals, developers, designers, and decision makers interested in expanding their Drupal knowledge.
This large-scale, 3-day learning event will take place December 10-12, 2008 at the New Orleans Marriott Hotel, located at the edge of the city's historic French Quarter. Attend sessions on the nuts-and-bolts of architecting and building Drupal sites. See dissections of some of the most popular Drupal sites out there. Learn important topics such as the processes for building and grow successful Drupal websites. The event is organized by Lullabot's team of experts and features some of the world's most well-respected Drupal developers, designers, and architects.
Categories: LA Drupal
Aug 26, 2008: LA Drupal August user group meeting at Rich Media Institute
We meet on the last Tuesday of the month in the Los Angeles area.
LA Drupal meets monthly and offers a nice place for members and new people to learn and talk about Drupal, a world popular content management system (CMS). RSVP is not required and attendance is free.
Topics
Drupal for Music Bands
Are you a musician or band member and heard of Drupal? Come watch a free panel discussion on how various LA Drupal members/agencies are helping the music world and local bands get sites online and actually manageable. This will be a panel style discussion bringing various panel members to talk about how Drupal can help the music scene anywhere by providing free websites that are enhanced with community modules and themes - and we're here to discuss that. Questions will be taken.
Presentation technical level: Beginner-Intermediate
DrupalCampLA 2008 Volunteer Info & Updates
Plan to help by volunteering at Drupal Camp LA this year? Attend the user group meeting if you're planning to the camp so we may meet you before hand.
Drupy - Drupal running on Python
Drupy is a Python port of the Drupal Content Management System. The project is not yet complete, but is moving at a fast pace towards an alpha release. Brendon Crawford will be presenting this preview of his talk planned for DrupalCampLA 2008.
The primary goals of the Drupy project are:
* Giving Drupal developers an easy transition into the Python language.
* Giving Python developers an easy transition into Drupal.
* Implementing any possible Python-specific optimizations to the core codebase.
Some of the ways which these goals are being accomplished are:
* Maintain full API compatibility with Drupal version 7.
* Implement all core code as fully namespaced and Object Oriented structures.
* Provide a comprehensive PHP function abstraction tookit for Python.
* Enable major core components to run in persistant memory via WSGI.
This presentation will cover:
* Current status and timelines of the Drupy project.
* Installing and running.
* Differences between Drupy and Drupal.
* Porting Drupal modules.
Brendon Crawford is a Venice native. He has been hacking away at PHP and JavaScript for the last 12 years, and Python for the last 5 years. He enjoys arguing in #drupal on Freenode (IRC).
Presentation technical level: Advanced
Plus...
In addition to our presentation(s) of the night we have open-mic opportunities for those who have general Drupal questions or need help, time for those who are hiring or looking for consultants, upcoming Drupal training announcements, updates about DrupalCamp LA 2008, raffle prizes for attendees, and as always, the end of the meeting networking session with the fun and knowledgeable LA Drupal crowd.
Categories: LA Drupal
