High Performance Drupal Meetup
Details
The next High Performance Drupal meetup is on Tuesday, June 18, 2013, between 7-9pm Pacific (10-12pm Eastern). We're meeting at Filter Digital (http://www.filterdigital.com/), a digital solutions agency in Culver City. Those interested in attending this meetup remotely are welcome to join us via WebEx (http://groups.drupal.org/node/289083#join-online).
Our meetups follow a basic format and start off with Drupal news and announcements, local job announcements, raffle prizes and full-length presentations. As always, we'll also have community Q&A, during which time anyone in attendance can ask questions, divine answers from the crowd and give brief, 5-10 minute-long presentations known as lightning talks. We'll finish off the night with more networking and a Drupal After Dark (http://groups.drupal.org/node/289083#drupal-after-dark) at 9:00pm.
We're soliciting presentations and lightning talks for this meetup. If there's a topic that you'd like give a presentation on, please leave a comment below. Likewise, if there's a topic that you'd like to learn more about, you're welcome to make a request in the comments below. Thank you!
Thank You to Our Sponsors! http://groups.drupal.org/files/filterdigital-72x72.gif (http://www.filterdigital.com/)Light food and refreshments will be served throughout the evening courtesy of our food, drinks and venue sponsor, Filter Digital (http://www.filterdigital.com/), a digital solutions agency. Filter Digital's client list spans global brands and Fortune 100 companies to startups and boutique firms. Let us help you create a digital solution that fits your needs!
https://groups.drupal.org/files/dl_scale_logo2.png (http://droplabs.net/)Our organizing sponsor for this meetup is Droplabs (http://droplabs.net/) (@Droplabs (https://twitter.com/Droplabs)), a collaborative classroom and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles. We're the leading low-cost coworking space in the Greater Los Angeles Area and have shared and private workspaces that are uniquely designed for entrepreneurs, freelancers and remote workers.
http://groups.drupal.org/files/larks-90-82.png (http://www.larks.la/)Our video conferencing and raffle prize sponsor for this event is Exaltation of Larks (http://www.larks.la/), a Drupal strategy, consulting, development and training company with a team of Drupal experts in Los Angeles. Follow us at @LarksLA (https://twitter.com/LarksLA) to learn more about our services, including custom website development, managed Drupal hosting, and long term support and maintenance.
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. Feel free to bring a camera if you have one.
Light food and refreshments will be served throughout the evening by Filter Digital. Please sign up by clicking the Sign up (http://groups.drupal.org/node/263288#signup) button below to help us get a head count. Food is not guaranteed for those who don't sign up.
Do you have a job announcement? Bring a copy of your job description and several business cards for our "take a card, leave a card" table.
Join us on WebEx and Twitter! WebEx
To join the meeting, use the following URL and / or meeting number:
URL: https://meetings.webex.com/collabs/#/meetings/detail?uuid=M1G6KV2NUIRNFPTT2W0YDWFDCU-2J4J
Short URL: http://ex.tl/Znw
Meeting number: 191 577 591
To check to see that your WebEx software is installed and up to date, see http://www.webex.com/test-meeting.html
During the meetup, the event organizers will be monitoring Twitter for feedback and questions that mention @GLADrupal (https://twitter.com/GLADrupal).
Agenda Our meetups follow a basic format and start off with Drupal news and announcements, local job announcements, raffle prizes and full-length presentations. As always, we'll also have community Q&A, during which time anyone in attendance can ask questions, divine answers from the crowd and give brief, 5-10 minute-long presentations known as lightning talks. We'll finish off the night with more networking and a Drupal After Dark (http://groups.drupal.org/node/289083#drupalafterdark) at 9:00pm.
For any changes to our agenda, stay tuned to this meetup announcement or click the Sign up (http://groups.drupal.org/node/289083#signup) button below (or both!) to be notified when the agenda has been updated.
6:55pm
Start of WebEx Meeting (http://groups.drupal.org/node/289083#join-online)
7:00pm
Introductions
News & Upcoming Events
• Drupal Commerce Meetup (June 24, 2013);
• Drupal Module Development Boot Camp (July 8, 2013);
• DrupalCamp LA (July 13-14, 2013);
• Drupal TV Code Sprint (July 14, 2013);
• Drupal Design Camp LA (August, 2013);
• Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp (March, 2014);
• California Drupal Travelers Program
• Interesting events listed at http://groups.drupal.org/events
Job Announcements
Raffle Prizes!
7:30
Featured Presentations (http://groups.drupal.org/node/289083#presentations)
Lightning Talks (http://groups.drupal.org/node/289083#presentations)
More Raffle Prizes!
9:00pm
Wrap-up, Clean-up and Close-up
Drupal After Dark & Networking (http://groups.drupal.org/node/289083#drupal-after-dark)
Featured Presentations & Lightning Talks We're soliciting presentations and lightning talks for this meetup. If there's a topic that you'd like give a presentation on, please leave a comment below. Likewise, if there's a topic that you'd like to learn more about, you're welcome to make a request in the comments below. Thank you!
Raffle prizes! Collect them all! Must be present to win! Raffle prizes at this meetup have been provided by Exaltation of Larks (http://www.larks.la/). Our raffle prizes often include discount codes, magazines, DVDs, books and tickets to attend professional, paid Drupal trainings. Some raffle prizes may be available to remote attendees (at the discretion of the meetup organizers and raffle prize sponsors).
We are always grateful to our sponsors for their continued support. If you have any items you'd like to donate to the raffle, please contact any of the organizers at the meetup. Thank you!
Drupal After Dark Even if you can't make it to the meetup, you're welcome to join us for a Drupal After Dark. After we finish our meeting and help clean up, a group of us will go to a nearby restaurant or pub.
Stay tuned to the comments below for suggestions for our Drupal After Dark location.
Location & Directions Filter Digital
5782 W. Jefferson Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90016
Filter Digital is located next to Corbis on West Jefferson St. and is the brick building running along side of the large concrete building. When parking, please choose from one of the many unmarked spaces in the lot.
FROM THE NORTH:
Head South on S. La Cienega Blvd. (Note, this is what Fairfax eventually turns into). Continue on S. La Cienega until you reach the intersection of S. La Cienega and Jefferson Blvd. Quickly after that you will see the See's Candy store on your right. Turn right (on Corbett) as if turning into their parking lot. Continue down that lane all the way to the end. You will see a sign that says 5788 on the left. There take a right into our parking lot and park anywhere. To find our office, just take a right at the cafe tables.
FROM THE SOUTH:
Head North on S. La Cienega Blvd. Continue North on S. La Cienega through the intersection of S. La Cienega and Rodeo Rd. You will see Target on your left and The Chinese Laundry shoe outlet. Quickly after The Chinese Laundry turn left (on Corbett) as if turning into the See's Candy store. Continue down that lane all the way to the end. You will see a sign that says 5788 on the left. There take a right into our parking lot and park anywhere. To find our office, just take a right at the cafe tables.
FROM THE EAST:
Head West on W. Jefferson Blvd. Continue on S. La Cienega until you reach the intersection of S. La Cienega and Jefferson Blvd. There, take a left to head South on S. La Cienega Blvd. Quickly after that you will see the See's Candy store on your right. Turn right (on Corbett) as if turning into their parking lot. Continue down that lane all the way to the end. You will see a sign that says 5788 on the left. There take a right into our parking lot and park anywhere. To find our office, just take a right at the cafe tables.
FROM THE WEST:
Head East on National Blvd. When you reach the intersection of National Blvd and Jefferson, continue going straight into our parking lot (You'll notice a metal marquee with both "Possible Worldwide" and "Filter" listed). Park anywhere, then head to the building with the jagged roof and take a right. To find our office, just take a right at the cafe tables.
About High Performance Drupal What is the High Performance Drupal meetup about? The "high performance" part of the name is a catch-all to describe Drupal scalability, performance and benchmarking but we also discuss devops, hosting, infrastructure, deployment, monitoring and highly repeatable processes.
Also, this meetup has been held at coffeeshops in the past and the addition of caffeine makes our meetings feel as if they go faster and faster as the night goes on.
We've been meeting regularly since April, 2011, in a variety of locations in and around Los Angeles, including Mar Vista, Santa Monica, Culver City and Downtown Los Angeles. Would you like to host this meetup in your area? Please contact any of the organizers at the meetup.
Sign Up! Sign up at https://groups.drupal.org/node/301783#signup to receive the meetup's date, time, location and WebEx instructions by email. An automatic email reminder will also be sent 1 day before the event.