DrupalCamp LA: One Week Away!

DrupalCamp LA is only a week away! With over 50 sessions published this is clearly the Drupal weekend for you!

Some exciting news to share with everyone: In addition to our SATURDAY NIGHT PRIVATE PARTY sponsored by MediaTemple, the S.E.O company Volacci is offering all-day training Friday before our camp at an amazing special price for camp attendees! We also need all our session presenters to get ready before the camp (info below).

More details below, and online at: http://2010.drupalcampla.com

Presenters: get your laptops ready before the camp

Each person planning to present needs to make sure their laptop is ready for our video recording system, provided by UC Irvine. Details here: http://2010.drupalcampla.com/information/presenters

Each room has a laptop connection with VGA+audio hookup and ethernet. If you have a Mac you must bring your VGA dongle!

We record screencasts of all the camp presentations, directly from your computer screen and audio from the room microphones. UCI licenses Camtasia Relay software for this making it easy for everyone. Just install the recording client on your laptop and run it before you start your presentation. You can even run it directly from a USB flash drive. It works on Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows (no word on Linux yet).

Please visit our presenter info page for links and instructions of where and how to download the screencast software: http://2010.drupalcampla.com/information/presenters

Drupal S.E.O. Pre-Camp Training with Volacci

Volacci will be holding a full day of Drupal S.E.O. training on Friday, August 6th.

Volacci’s own Josh Ward will conduct this interactive training day covering essential Drupal SEO tools such as: On-Page Optimization, Keyword Research, Conversion Optimization, Sitemaps, Robots and RSS.

The Volacci SEO team will walk you through recommended Drupal SEO
modules, configurations, and content you need. Breakfast and Lunch will be provided for who attend. Special ticket prices for camp attendees. Order tickets today as there are only 20 seats available!

Order your ticket today: http://volaccitrainingseo.eventbrite.com/

Breakfast from 8AM-10AM. During morning registration.

DrupalCamp LA will be providing quick breakfasts each morning at the camp. We are having the local engineering students from UCI hand out both coffee and breakfast bites like bagels, muffins, fruit, and cream cheese. Its first come, first serve.

Saturday Nighttime Event sponsored by MediaTemple

MediaTemple is sponsoring a private party for DrupalCamp attendees at the Anthill Pub, Saturday night from 7PM-Midnight. The Pub will have their kitchen open for dinner so you will be able to purchase something to eat while hanging out. You’ll want to bring cash; so take note of the ATM machines next to the Pub. http://2010.drupalcampla.com/information/eatdrink

Drupalchix Social

Come and visit, network and unwind at the DrupalChix Social. This is an opportunity to meet other Drupalchix, exchange ideas and information and socialize in a casual atmosphere. This event will be Saturday after main drupalcamp sessions.

http://2010.drupalcampla.com/sessions/drupalchix-social

Raffle Prizes for Camp Attendees

We have awesome raffle prizes for our camp attendees this year. Tons books that cover Drupal, PHP, MySQL, CSS, Web Standards, and more. We’d like to thank our book sponsors: Apress, O’Reilly, and Packt Pub.

This year we have two special large prizes from Adobe and Zend, each are code editing platforms that are perfect for working with Drupal:

– Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 (for Windows), valued at $399.
– Zend Studio (for Mac/Windows/Linux), valued at $439.

Bring cash for lunch, parking, and new camp t-shirts!

New camp t-shirts will be on sale at the camp for only $10 (a 50% discount for camp attendees); available in sizes for both men and women; high quality cotton.

Parking costs $8/day. Lunch will cost $9/day on campus, otherwise you can go get lunch off campus at a restaurant nearby. http://2010.drupalcampla.com/information/eatdrink

Camp is free, RSVP is required

Did you updated your profile to mark what days you will be attending? RSVP by logging in and updating your profile today. Remember, attending the camp is free but registering with an RSVP is required.

LOGIN NOW – http://2010.drupalcampla.com

NOTE: If you registered last year then your account is waiting for you to login and update your profile to pick what days you will be attending, otherwise we have you marked as not attending.

The camp will have air conditioning thanks to our sponsors, so don’t worry about the Summer heat that weekend. Bring cash for a new $10 camp t-shirt you won’t want to pass up (50% off the online price). Cash is also good to have on hand for your lunch and parking. If this is news to you then you need to catch up on the info we have posted online for the camp. And, yes, there are some ATMs on campus. If you are coming from out of town then check out the housing details on our camp site to stay on or near campus like the other fellow DrupalCampers. For all the camp details please visit: http://2010.drupalcampla.com/information

Volunteering

This is a community event. We need volunteers to help setup in the morning, help through the day, and help with cleanup at the end. Its not hard labor and its needed so please consider volunteering. Details are available at: http://2010.drupalcampla.com/information/volunteers

Are you presenting? Then get ready before the camp

We ask all those who plan to or already have submitted a session to please read the info online about what we need you to install on your machines to perfectly record your session to later share as a video with camp attendees and Drupal community members worldwide. http://2010.drupalcampla.com/information/presenters

Sponsors

We could not pull this event off without the support of the community and our wonderful sponsors and we still need your help! Please consider sponsoring; info available at: http://2010.drupalcampla.com/sponsorship – we need your help.

Sponsored by:

WARNER MUSIC GROUP – http://wmg.com

Sponsor support provided by:

MediaTemple – http://mediatemple.net

Achieve Internet – http://achieveinternet.com

Volacci – http://volacci.com

Stauffer New Media Development – http://stauffer.com

Tropo – http://tropo.com

Monstrositee – http://vintagecotton.com

Additional sponsor support provided by:

Commerce Guys – http://commerceguys.com

We also appreciate the help of our other supporting and community sponsors. Please check out the full list at http://2010.drupalcampla.com/sponsors

If you would like to help our camp be its best then please consider sponsoring – info available at: http://2010.drupalcampla.com/sponsorship – we can use your help.

Upcoming LA Drupal Meetups

LA Drupal (and neighboring groups) host multiple meetups every month. Here are the upcoming meetup dates. Check http://groups.drupal.org/la for details.

– August 17 – Downtown L.A. – http://groups.drupal.org/node/83809
– August 31 – Culver City – link coming soon