Meetings Module

Posted by auzigog on Jul 27, 2010 in Features, GSoC 2010 | 0 comments

My work over the past two weeks has been focused on creating the Meetings module.

The motivation for this module came from the fact that most organizations I work with have a fair number of meetings to coordinate projects, but have no sane way of tracking them. Notes are always taken at the top of a google doc, agenda items are hard to gather in advance, and it is nearly impossible to find notes from the past.

Here is a screencast demonstrating most of these features.

The current release (alpha 2) is almost ready to be moved to a stable release. Current features include:

• Track date, time, location, agenda of individual meetings
• Take notes at a meeting
• Create repeating meetings
• Invite users to meetings
• Take attendance at meetings
• Organic Groups integration for invitations/attendance
• Views to show recent/upcoming meetings

If you have a few minutes to test out the current release of Meetings, I would really appreciate any feedback you have. You can post issues to the issue queue.

Open Atrium & Case Tracker for Drupal 7

Posted by auzigog on May 25, 2010 in Features, GSoC 2010 | 8 comments

As part of my continuing effort to narrow the scope of my project plan for the summer, I have been in contact with Jeff Miccolis from Development Seed, the maintainer of the Case Tracker module and one of the lead developers of Open Atrium.

He was able to fill me in on the early plans for Drupal 7 ports of Open Atrium (OA) and Case Tracker.

Open Atrium for Drupal 7

According to Jeff, the current plan is to get a stable 1.0 release of OA out the door before any big ports or feature additions.  He said that it was “close to impossible” that there will be a stable D7 release of OA before the end of the summer.

As much as I’d personally like to see a D7 release, it is understandably hard for the OA team to base their plans around an unpredictable roadmap for Drupal core. While it may make sense for some contrib modules to pledge to have a D7 version ready the day that D7 is released, OA is a complex piece of art and it will take more time for the D7 core and contrib code to be solid enough for a port to be feasible.

This opens some interesting question for Activism Labs, which are discussed below.