Open Atrium 2 at Drupal Government Days

Version 2.0Overview

Drupal Government Days

Monday, August 19, 2013

Software Architect, Phase2

Email: [email protected]

Mike Potter

Drupal.org: mpotter

Open Atrium 2 Lead Architect


mailto:[email protected]


Overview of Open Atrium 2.0


Open Atrium is a collaboration platform designed to help organizations manage

their communications, teams, and knowledge.

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What is Open Atrium?


Who is Open Atrium For?

Open Atrium 2.0 is for organizations with

teams, clients, or affiliates who need a

common platform to communicate,

collaborate, and manage knowledge.


What does Open Atrium DO?

Atrium has native features to support knowledge management,

collaboration, and communication.

But through its pluggable framework, can also be extended to

integrate with enterprise-level applications focusing on project

tracking (like JIRA), time tracking (like Harvest, AtTask, or

OpenAir), wikis (like Confluence), and asset management (like

Alfresco and Sharepoint).


Use Cases

• Intranet

• Microsites

• Project Collaboration

• Discussion Forums

• Basic Document Management

• ... combinations of the above


What You (may) Know about Atrium 1.0

• Written by Development Seed, acquired by Phase2

• Used by P2 and Dev Seed on some larger intranet projects (White House, etc)

• Useful as a project management tool

• Sometimes used for intranets or web portals

• Antiquated in its features, and extensibility

• Theme and Features were locked down.

• Used Drupal 6, approaching end-of-life.


How Open Atrium 2.0 is Different

• Drupal 7 framework-based, flexible with no single use case

• Can be added to existing sites or used as a complete solution “out of the box”

• Focus on Data Privacy and Access Control.

• Panopoly-based for custom layout and ease-of-use

• Plugin-based for extensibility

• Theme is light, flexible, responsive (Bootstrap-based)


Open Atrium 2.0Features


Features of Open Atrium 2.0• Security and Data Privacy for individuals, teams, and organizations

• Hierarchical Information Architecture with groups and subgroups

• Discussions: moderated public and private

• Knowledge Management: file storage, collaboration, access

• Event Management: events, location support, calendars

• Simple multi-site or “microsite” implementation

• Mobile ready: responsive themes and layouts

• Pluggable functionality to connect to enterprise-level applications (custom work, but done as plugins)

• Customizable Layout


Security and Data Privacy

• Access Control for

• Organizational Groups

• Teams (within a space)

• Individual Users

• Can mix public and private spaces, sub-spaces, sections

• Integrates with Identity Management systems (LDAP)


Hierarchical Information Architecture

• Supports a full hierarchy of Groups and Spaces (subgroups)

• Supports multiple parents

• Can control Permission inheritance

Schools

Home

School of Physical Sciences

Department of Chemistry

Department of Physics

School of Humanities

Department of English

General Information

Open DiscussionFaculty DiscussionEvent CalendarSpecial Projects


User Interface

• Bootstrap theme

• Hierarchical breadcrumb navigator

• Contextual Content Creation

• Favorites, Search, User dashboard

• Responsive, Mobile ready

• Enhanced UI for Space Admins


Customizable Layout

• Based on Panopoly

• Panelizer, In-Place-Editor

• 31 responsive layouts

• Drag/drop widgets

• Widget Styles

• Widget customization


User Identity Management

• oa_ldap optional module on drupal.org

• LDAP authentication via username or email address

• Group/Space permission provisioning

• Changes in Open Atrium 2 can be written back to LDAP

• Supports “mixed mode” with LDAP and local Drupal users


Discussions

• Public and Private forums

• Notifications

• Follow/Subscribe

• Full Media support

• WYSIWYG & Markdown

• Email reply support


Knowledge Management

• Wiki functionality

• Full Media support

• Menu hierarchy

• Public and Private

• Notifications


Event Management

• Repeating events

• Color coding

• FullCalendar js support

• GeoCoder, GeoField location

• AddThisEvent support

• iCal Import


What about CaseTracker?

• No CaseTracker in Open Atrium 2 Core.

• Clients have a wide range of Issue-Tracking needs.

• CaseTracker module not ready for D7 when OA2 started.

• OA2 Work Tracker module available on drupal.orgfrom David Snopek

• OA2 designed to as a pluggable framework to integrate with your existing Enterprise tools (JIRA, etc).


Migrating from Open Atrium 1.x

• No magic way to upgrade sites from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7

• Will create scripts for the Migrate module to help with data

• OA2 only ships with limited Plugins: Discussions, Documents, Events

• CaseTracker/Issues/Tasks from community


BETA Release!• Open Atrium 2 BETA release on Drupal.org!

http://drupal.org/project/openatrium




What does “BETA” mean?

• Minimum viable functionality completed.

• Stability and compatibility moving forward.

• Functional testing in place.

• Initial documentation released.

• Intended for site builders.

• Viable for early adopter sites.

http://www.phase2technology.com/blog/beta-time-for-open-atrium-2/




Roadmap for Open Atrium 2

• Creating “default tutorial content” to guide new users.

• Improving mobile responsiveness.

• Creating Migrate scripts for some OA1 data migration.

• Cleaning and polishing.

• Public Release in Q4 2013!


Take it for a spin!

getpantheon.comMonday, August 19, 2013

Resources for learning more

• Official Product Documentation:products.phase2technology.com

• Webinars linked to drupal.org/project/openatrium

• #open_atrium IRC room to help each other!

• Contact [email protected] more in-depth training needs.


Email: [email protected]

Connect with us:

IRC: #open-atrium

Twitter: @openatrium








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