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  • Feb 5, 2010

    Helping field offices collect data and produce reports

    We just deployed a custom micro-distribution of Open Atrium for the Pan American Health Organization's (PAHO) Emergency Operations Center network, the World Health Organization's main arm in the region. This Spanish-only package ships with custom...
  • The new Boxes modules provides custom blocks that play nicely with Spaces and Ctools

    Earlier this week I added the Boxes module, which provides custom blocks that play nicely with Spaces and Ctools, to Drupal.org. I initially wrote the module for recent work we did on the World Bank's Open Atrium-based intranet, and at first I wasn'...
  • Details on the new Aegir alpha release, how to install it, and what’s coming next

    Last week the Aegir project released the latest alpha in the 0.4 release cycle. The most important features of this release are compatibility oriented, and we now have working support for Drupal 7 installs and upgrades, as well as support for...
  • Jan 12, 2010

    New processes, the Beta 4 release, and what’s coming in the stable release

    In a few weeks we will release the next beta of Open Atrium. This will be our fourth beta, and it will have a bit more meat than some of the other releases, which I'll go into later in this post. So far Open Atrium has been downloaded more than 80,...
  • Dec 3, 2009

    Big growth in buy in and use of the Communicate collaboration system

    Yesterday Eric joined Ric Castro, an information officer at the World Bank, in a presentation on how to make social software work for your team at the Potomac Forum. Ric manages Communicate, the Open Atrium powered hub that 1,000+ people use at the...
  • Dec 1, 2009

    Sessions on the latest Open Atrium developments and how Features will change your development workflow

    Eric and Jeff will present two separate sessions on Open Atrium and Features at next week's Do It With Drupal conference. The Open Atrium session will show the latest that Atrium has to offer and give you the scoop on what's coming in the next few...
  • Open Atrium reviewed as a tool for group communication and collaboration

    UPDATE: The full article is now available online. Open Atrium is featured in the December issue of Linux Magazine as a tool that facilitates group communication and collaboration. In the five page article, Marcel Gagné looks at how Open Atrium can...
  • Nov 4, 2009

    Conference tomorrow will feature open source solutions for government

    Eric and Tom are both presenting tomorrow (Thursday the 5th) at GOSCON, the Government Open Source Conference, which will be happening downtown in Washington, DC. They should bring an interesting international development angle to the conversation...
  • Oct 27, 2009

    Making it easier to build and release Drupal applications

    Last week we released Managing News, a news and data aggregation engine that's built on Drupal. This is the second Drupal-based product we've released, and we did something different with this one - we used Drush Make. When you release a product,...
  • Oct 6, 2009

    A new translation process for Open Atrium and integration with Localize Drupal

    The Open Atrium translation infrastructure (and Drupal translations in general) are progressing quickly. For Open Atrium to be well translated we first need Drupal's modules to be translated, so I am splitting efforts at the moment between helping...