‘Drupal’ posts

Drupal 7 Released – Global Launch Parties Friday

Posted by John Eckman on 05 Jan 2011

The highly anticipated release of Drupal 7.0 has finally arrived, and to celebrate release parties are being held across the globe. (Optaros is one of the sponsors of the Boston Drupal Users Group release party – see you there?) Check out the video tour below for an overview of the new release, and then go | View post »

Drupal communities at AIIM

Posted by John Eckman on 11 Oct 2010

Photo by galawebdesign – http://www.flickr.com/photos/galawebdesign/2315810343/in/pool-644862@N21/ It wasn’t so long ago that Drupalcon was in the upstairs rooms at the BCEC while AIIM met downstairs in the cavernous expo hall. The contrast between the suits and huge corporate sponsors at AIIM and the open source designer/developer culture of Drupalcon was pretty palpable that year, and the [...]

Drupal Alfresco Integration

Posted by Chris Fuller on 09 Jun 2010

Why and When? Choosing to use Drupal and Alfresco together makes the most sense in situations where companies can fully leverage the strengths of both platforms and have the resources to manage each effectively. This may be a result of one of the two systems already being in place in an organization. Maybe the enterprise | View post »

A Different Kind of Drupal Theming

Posted by on 19 Apr 2010

Here at Optaros, Jeff Robbins’ Drupal Song usually gets at least one play during the course of a Drupal project. In honor of Drupalcon 2010, I decided to finally record the remix I’ve been planning ever since I first read the name of this open-source CMS and thought it rhymed with the name of a | View post »

Drupal/Alfresco Webinar Redux

Posted by Chris Fuller on 21 Oct 2009

People want intranets that are fun and easy to use, full of compelling content relevant to their job, and enabled with social and community features to help them discover connections with other teams, projects, and colleagues. IT wants something that’s lightweight and flexible enough to respond to the needs of the business that won’t cost | View post »

Open Atrium and Alfresco via CMIS for Intranets

Posted by John Eckman on 12 Oct 2009

In this screencast, Jeff Potts demonstrates a quick, simple integration between Open Atrium (an open source framework for intranets and other collaborative team environments based on Drupal) and Alfresco, based on the CMIS standard. Do you see this integration being useful in your corporate intranet? What other features would you like to see added? Let | View post »

Drupal and Alfresco – a Recipe for Intranet Success

Posted by Chris Fuller on 02 Sep 2009

Drupal has been recognized for some time as a flexible platform for building lightweight social applications that go beyond “typical” consumer-facing websites, such as intranets for collaborative teams. There have been several projects over the past few years that have been aimed at making this type of Drupal deployment easier and more user-friendly, most notably, | View post »

Open Source and Design: Ideologies Clashing (SXSW Extended Content)

Posted by John Eckman on 17 Jun 2009

One of the panels I proposed for SXSW Interactive 2009 was on the intersection of open source and design: Thesis: Open Source and Design are fundamentally philosophically incompatible. Antithesis: Open Source and Design are profoundly similar in core beliefs and approaches. This talk works to articulate a meaningful synthesis between these two positions. The talk, [...]

Zeldman on the maturity of Open Source CMS

Posted by John Eckman on 20 Apr 2009

Quick excerpt from an interview with Jeffrey Zeldman which includes some discussion of the impact of Open Source, and particularly open source CMS’s, on the process of designing and building web applications: Although I think it’s important to draw a distinction between simple, relatively cheap licensing (the Expression Engine model) and Free and Open Source [...]

Open Source CMS Drupal Helps InfoWorld Pursue New Content Strategy

Posted by Chris Fuller on 15 Apr 2009

Like many media and publising brands, InfoWorld.com came to Optaros looking to for new and efficient ways to better expose and organize content and encourage reader participation. It’s no secret that traditional publishers are undergoing a sea change in their approach to garnering reader interest and eyeballs, while looking to cut costs and generate new | View post »