June meeting: Filedepot document management system for Drupal, and Open Atrium

Many of us hear the need for a document management system from clients, and the community at large, both for internal intranet sites or external sites on the internet.

For our next meeting, Blaine Lang will be providing a demo and overview of a recently released module called 'filedepot' that his company wrote. It provides an integrated document management solution for Drupal. He will also introduce Open Atrium, a Drupal distribution for collaboration and work groups.

The presentation will cover:

• How to install and configure the module
• Drupal integration points
• Basic user features
• How to create and manage document access permissions
• Document version control
• Notification and user preferences
• Desktop client for bulk uploading of documents
• Moderated document controls

Additionally, there has been a new release that includes Organic Groups and Open Atrium Integration so we can cover:

• Setting up and using Organic Groups
• Open Atrium Overview
• Installing the Filedepot Feature in Open Atrium
• What is a feature

Blaine is a partner and consultant with Nextide out of Mississauga and has been an Open Source contributor for nearly 10 years and working with Drupal for only the past 6 months. Nextide focuses on developing business applications in the area of collaboration and business process improvement but have developed applications that applications that range from a VoIP (voice over IP) portal to a custom scoring engine for running a $500,000 fishing tournament.