Tag: open atrium

So today finally Project Flow & Tracker meets Open Atrium, and does so in style. My friends at Development Seed just told me about the new availability of the feature server code (w00t! out just a couple of days right here: http://code.developmentseed.org/featureserver/dashboard), not to mention a spanking new theme, singular,

“a minimal theme that can be rebranded quickly and simply using background images a la Twitter. The theme comes with several prepackaged backgrounds and site administrators are encouraged to upload their own.”

also out just a couple of days, and which can be found at http://code.developmentseed.org/singular/dashboard . Singular and depends on the base theme Tao:  http://code.developmentseed.org/singular/dashboard (also fresh meat!).

So we will be diving right in. Here are the steps we will be taking, so hang on to your mice, it’s going to be a fun ride:

• First steps with Open Atrium itself (OK, what is it?)
  • Installing
  • First login as admin
  • Creating a group
  • Creating a project and some project docs
  • Inviting some more team members
  • Working together
• Our bare bones “Feature Machine” morphs into the stylishly themed and branded AWebFactory Feature Server!
  • Feature Server
• We stick our feature onto our Feature Server
  • Sticking our feature on the feature server

  • Time to commit our work to bzr!

  • Theming
  • Branding
• Roadmap
  • Importing Project Flow & Tracker as a feature into our Open Atrium based PFT site
  • First steps for integration of PFT feature into Open Atrium
  • Bringing back the full PFT feature set.
  • Making PFT usable
  • Using PFT to develop PFT
  • Development environment

Based on the principles of ideas and architecture over coding, community based collaboration over individual and isolated effort, I have decided to redo my Project Flow & Tracker agile based project management tool based on the new Open Atrium “do-it-yourself project” kit. Not only do I get a huge kick in the butt for starters, but I can give back all the new functionality I develop as shareable features. Talk about win-win!