Design for Drupal comes to LA!
Lee Vodra
scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, February 5 & 6, 2011, in Los Angeles,
California.
It's free! Sign up!
Registration for Drupal Design Camp LA is done at http://ddcla.org and
you're welcome to sign up. Registering for the conference is as simple
as signing up for an account. We'll be launching the full site soon with
information about the venue, local hotels, restaurants and coffeeshops,
and begin accepting session proposals. We ask that you sign up so that
we can estimate how much food to purchase.
The Drupal Design Camp LA conference follows in the footsteps of the
Drupal Design Camps at Stanford, in Boston and in Prague, which have
successfully brought designers, themers, developers, information
architects and usability engineers together. These conferences are just
like DrupalCamps but offer sessions and presentations specifically about
design and theming topics such as grid design, usability testing,
sustainable, additive approaches to theming and so on.
What's Design for Drupal?
Translating a design into a Drupal "theme" is often a high barrier and
it has been difficult and costly for many designers to have a
"design-driven approach" to Drupal. Feedback from the design community
has often focused on the difficulties of designing for the Drupal theme
system, which combines several programming disciplines and languages,
including HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP.
Design for Drupal is a relatively new movement in the Drupal community
to help make Drupal more friendly and approachable to designers,
information architects and usability engineers, and in general anyone
who is interested in customizing Drupal's output to the web page. At its
core, Design for Drupal is about inviting the larger design community
together to be a part of the Drupal community and enabling designers,
usability engineers, developers, information architects and themers to
coordinate efforts, come up with creative ideas and work towards making
Drupal easier to use and look beautiful.
Location
Drupal Design Camp LA 2011 is being hosted by the Spring Arts Tower in
Downtown Los Angeles. The same venue where the Drupal Everywhere: Making
Mobile Websites with Drupal event was held in November, 2010, the Spring
Arts Tower is an office building for more than a hundred creative
companies and independent artists, designers, architects, photographers,
painters, production companies and ad agencies.
It is located at 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013, and is easily
accessible by public transportation and there is affordable all-day
public parking in several nearby parking lots.
Formerly the Los Angeles headquarters of the Citizens National Bank and
then the Crocker Bank, the Spring Arts Tower is a Nationally Registered
Historic Building and features original Art Deco designs, art nouveau
details, sculptured brass, acres of fine Italian marble, Batcheldor
tile, California alder and tiger oak. There are ten vaults located on
four floors. It is a host to LA Fashion Week and the Downtown Art Walk,
and is a frequent filming location for countless television shows
including 24, Numb3rs and Heroes, and movies such as Rush Hour, Meet the
Fockers and Spiderman 3.
Sponsors and individual contributors
With help from our generous sponsors and help from individual
contributors, we are working on making Drupal Design Camp LA a free
event. This conference is, however, organized entirely by volunteers and
there are costs involved in running the conference, from paying for our
venue and organizing food to printing schedules and providing services
to the deaf and hearing-impaired members of our community.
Please contact the LA Drupal managers if you'd like to discuss
sponsorship opportunities. Sponsorships are immensely appreciated and
all contributions go directly towards funding conference operation
costs. Any funds not used for the camp will donated to the the LA Drupal
Association for other events and infrastructure, promotion and
distribution needs. Thank you!