DrupalCon Paris has been great so far. There is a lot of fantastic work being done by the community as always, some really interesting conversations, and of course it’s great to catch up with everyone in person.

A lot of people have been talking to me about Open Atrium, our open source intranet package based on Drupal. We were excited to be able to launch a new version (beta 2) of Open Atrium before the conference so we could get some solid feedback on recent improvements covered in this release, and so far we haven’t been disappointed. It’s really exciting to see the community’s interest in Open Atrium and to hear about the ways that people are extending the core package with other features.

Tomorrow I’ll be presenting on Open Atrium at 9:00 am in the Adenauer room, so if you’re in Paris and interested, please stop by. In this session, I’ll run through how Open Atrium works, what it offers to users, and talk about the process we undertook building a stand alone product using Drupal. I’ll also talk about decentralized features in Drupal, (check out the Features module and this blog post if you’re not familiar with it), and what can be achieved by taking this approach. Lastly, I’ll touch on Feature servers, which provides the infrastructure that makes it easy to share features between many sites.

If you’re not in Paris or can’t make it tomorrow, the crew at DrupalCon Paris will be recording the session and posting it to the conference website in the next few days. Once it’s up, we’ll also link to it from here as well.