I’m working out of Development Seed’s main office here in Washington, DC for a few weeks, which gives me the opportunity to show off some of the cool stuff we’ve been working on at the Drupal Meetup tonight at Stetsons. I’ll talk about Aegir, a hosting system that streamlines deploying and upgrading multiple Drupal sites, and show its support of installation profiles and multiple languages.

I’ll also give an exclusive preview of one of the “secret” projects we’ve been working on – Atrium, an intranet package built with Drupal – and will show how Aegir ties into it. In this preview I’ll also show the new admin module for Drupal 6 that Young built for the Atrium release and talk some about the roadmap that we have for doing an open beta release of the package. Much of this has been kept under wraps, but since there are some key people in DC who are working with the Alpha release, we thought it would be fun to share with the group.

Here’s a quick look at Atrium with the admin module at work:

My presentation will build on the Install screencast I made a few weeks ago and explore some of the possibilities of what you can do once you have Aegir installed. To give people a sense of where the project is heading I’ll also discuss the progress that has been made towards porting the user interface to Drupal 6.0 and some of the future plans for the platform. The intended audience is anyone who needs to manage Drupal sites and doesn’t want to be tied down with all the unnecessary manual administration.