In this chapter, we started out talking about what Drupal is and what it includes. At its core, Drupal includes user authentication, content publishing, statistics and logging, and blog functionality. Drupal is an open source content management framework that can be downloaded for free from the Drupal website. We covered installation profiles that are prepackaged Drupal distributions that can be used to install Drupal for specific applications, including the following:
Conference organizing
Education sites
Church sites
Intranets
The next section talked about Open Atrium and the rich features that are included with the distribution. Open Atrium provides departments and organizations the ability to create team spaces for individual work groups and includes the following features:
Blog
Calendar
Group dashboard
Document library
Shoutbox
Case tracker
We then covered who should use Open Atrium and how it can easily be implemented for any team or working group for project management and communications within each group.
In the following chapter, we will learn how to create the foundation to install Open Atrium, by learning how to setup a web server and where we can go for more information for hosting our Open Atrium website.