Version 2.0Overview
Drupal Government Days
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Software Architect, Phase2
Email: [email protected]
Mike Potter
Drupal.org: mpotter
Open Atrium 2 Lead Architect
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Overview of Open Atrium 2.0
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Open Atrium is a collaboration platform designed to help organizations manage
their communications, teams, and knowledge.
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What is Open Atrium?
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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.
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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).
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Use Cases
• Intranet
• Microsites
• Project Collaboration
• Discussion Forums
• Basic Document Management
• ... combinations of the above
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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.
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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)
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Open Atrium 2.0Features
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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
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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)
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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
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User Interface
• Bootstrap theme
• Hierarchical breadcrumb navigator
• Contextual Content Creation
• Favorites, Search, User dashboard
• Responsive, Mobile ready
• Enhanced UI for Space Admins
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Customizable Layout
• Based on Panopoly
• Panelizer, In-Place-Editor
• 31 responsive layouts
• Drag/drop widgets
• Widget Styles
• Widget customization
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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
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Discussions
• Public and Private forums
• Notifications
• Follow/Subscribe
• Full Media support
• WYSIWYG & Markdown
• Email reply support
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Knowledge Management
• Wiki functionality
• Full Media support
• Menu hierarchy
• Public and Private
• Notifications
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Event Management
• Repeating events
• Color coding
• FullCalendar js support
• GeoCoder, GeoField location
• AddThisEvent support
• iCal Import
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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).
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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
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BETA Release!• Open Atrium 2 BETA release on Drupal.org!
http://drupal.org/project/openatrium
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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/
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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!
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Take it for a spin!
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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.
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Email: [email protected]
Connect with us:
IRC: #open-atrium
Twitter: @openatrium
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