I've been a Drupal user since the days of 4.x, and I've seen the project and its contributions grow immensely throughout the years. I've had a wide range of successes (and disasters, sometimes Drupal is not the answer for everything) implementing the fantastic opensource CMS for various organisations and campaigns.
This is the first time in a while I've been genuinely excited about where Drupal-inspired creativity can go.
The savvy folk at Development Seed, a well-known Drupal-focused agency who I believe were behind the interesting Features contribution, have announced the imminent public beta release of Open Atrium, an opensource package with a Drupal base, designed for intranet communication and collaboration.
It isn't that hard to build an intranet in Drupal - I've done it before - but what really excites me with this project is that it's harnessing one of the more recent phenomenons to hit social web technologes - microblogging.
It's early days without knowing too much detail (I wonder how they did the Shoutbox EDIT: Looks like it might be the contrib module? Unsure, would've been great to see a Laconica implementation), and with no public demo that I know about. Nonetheless this couldn't come at a better time as I'll have the opportunity to overhaul the intranet communication systems at $work, who are not only a Drupal-thusiastic bunch but also keen on making use of micro-blogging technology both for PR but also for inhouse departments to keep up to date with each other.
The project will be released on GitHub in mid-July.. looking forward to getting cloning! In the meantime, keep up to date with the progress on Twitter.
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