Open Atrium is an Open Source team intranet built using Drupal core, contributed modules and some custom modules. A decentralized features model that has emerged from to Atrium development. The focus of this model is to enable easy replication of complex configuration between sites.
Some of the highpoints are:
- Really nice user experience. The experience of creating, customizing and participating in collaborative groups has been free based down to its very essence, and then rearranged in a zen garden. My Organic groups module, and the rest of Drupal, is relegated to community plumbing. The administration theme is lovely as well.
- Likable graphic design. Lovely use of color and icons in the software. The marketing site has a terrific dinosaur look as well.
- Tight product definition. Open Atrium doesn’t do all that you will want from your intranet. It is still a baby. But it does enough and does it well. Everything else is easy added via a contrib module or by writing a custom feature.
- Multi-lingual with crowdsourced translations.
- A model Drupal install profile. Install profiles are often hailed as a solution to Drupal’s multiple personality disorder yet almost no one seems to use them. Development Seed has shown what can be done with profiles in Drupal 6, and they even made them so much better in Drupal 7.
- A living breathing example of features module and its integration with feature servers. Standardized packages of modules and configuration seem needed in Drupal. The fact that this could also solve a lot of our deployment headaches is a huge bonus. And features are integrated into update module - amazing!
More about Open Atrium can be found here:
- http://openatrium.com
- http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2009/jun/17/announcing-open-atrium-open-source-intranet-package-powered-drupal
If you are considering a collaborative Intranet - YOU MUST REVIEW Open Atrium. I am sure you would love it.
- Vinita Choudhary
CIGNEX Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
