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I recently received a direct tweet from the folks at Development Seed with notice about the beta release of Open Atrium. Having been quite interested in seeing what they've got, I quickly downloaded a copy and got it up and running.
I decided to record the process and provide my first impressions. Bear in mind, these are first impressions and I'm not an expert (by any means) about their system. I dug into the system as a developer and skimmed through it.
If you're interested in finding out more about the actual feature set, they've got a video on this page.
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A few things seem a bit wrong with your presentation.
First, that admin theme is not an Open Atrium thing, it's also shipped on by default in Acquia and is available using the admin module (http://drupal.org/project/admin). It will be shipped with D7, as you mention.
Also, the features module is a standard module (http://drupal.org/project/features) not by Development Seed. It simply packages up groups of configuration for other modules into a new module so you can easily install/uninstall them. It's mostly useful for situations like in OA where you have multiple sites that need to share a common bunch of configuration options, to avoid either doing this programmatically within the .install of a particular module, or forcing users to do this manually via the UI.
As for making your local Drupal go faster, try using a PHP accelerator (we like APC) and the cacherouter (http://drupal.org/project/cacherouter) module with either memcache or APC cache backends, you'll get a noticeable speed improvement.
no, the presentation is absolutely correct about the theme and the modules. Please check the info.
The only small things I have noticed, that the advanced_help is not part of the OA package, and there is no pingback (and no plans to include a pingback) in OA. It only checks drupal.org as any standard Drupal install. The connection at install seems to me (from the video) that it is the standard mail sending after the core modules are installed. The checking on the features page is a status calculation in order to check if the given feature is a default or is it modified. It is strange that most of the features are overridden.
But this missing pingback might be actually a bug, as Drupal won't be able to tell you when there is a new atrium release, or when there is a new release for a module in the "custom" directory.
Very nice insight presentation, the git part was really surprising. Thanks for sharing.
Yeah, it's just the standard Drupal help and not Advanced Help. That's what I get for shooting something within a few minutes of installing. :)
JFYI, Features module is Development Seed's contribution.
Yeah, I wasn't too clear about when I was talking about features specific to OA versus the Features module. It implements both.
The 'admin theme' is the admin module (http://drupal.org/project/admin) , which was implemented based on the D7UX guidelines by Young Hahn of Development Seed. It is not included with acquia (that would be http://drupal.org/admin_menu), and this module is the basis of the patch that made it into D7 (although the D7 implementation is not as complete)
The features, context and spaces modules were all developed by Development Seed.
Open Atrium is the public release of our intranet, which has been one of the major drivers in the development of the features module.
Funny story, I had downloaded the admin module but hadn't taken the time to look at it yet.
Way to go yhahn and Development Seed!
Hi. speaking of which mayby you want to look at this funny compilation videos sometimes. After a long day work for example :) Regards!
Thanks for another great Petrowsky video. Please do a Ubercart video tutorial next.
Yep, that one is coming. In fact, I've recently been setting up a few new sites with Ubercart, so my learning will translate into a few videos.
Great! Very good news, hope to see your Ubercart tutorials soon.
Great! I have a question about the payment aspects of a site: when you enable taxes, is there anything special to get them paid to the government? or the bank/paypal takes care automatically about that?
Thanks for your excellent videos, I really enjoy them a lot.
jedihe
Thanks for another great video! Really looking forward to seeing the Ubercart videos.
Hi Matt - can you also let me / all your readers know if you find a solution to the slow running drupal when using your local machine, its driving me nuts!
Cheers
Sam
thx for the video
I needed an intranet and team portal package like this.
Cheers from france