Open Atrium - Team collaboration powered by Drupal

Remember back in the day, like summer 2 years ago, when I was an intern at Balboa Park Online Collaborative? Well, I wrote a quick review about Open Atrium as a possible solution for an intranet for teams and museum staff to collaborate within the park. It was to be an alternative to using BaseCamp, Unfuddle or FogBugs. At the time, the current version was the 1.0-beta2 release. And I didn't like it very much. I concluded that it wasn't able to do what we needed at the time.

Today, I took a second look. And to my surprise, the full 1.0 version is now the current version, released on July 18th, 2011. I've installed this new version and have been trying it all day. I like it. And throughout this week, I will be building it out to see how well I can use it this time around.

I am very pleasantly surprised as to how far Open Atrium has come in the last 2 years and highly recommend it as a valuable team collaboration tool.

August 28th, 2011