OpenBand

Drupal is a collaboration framework. It started as a simple system for managing conversations and files between friends in school, and has maintained that spirit through its many evolutions. But, as most things do, Drupal reached an age of maturity—it was time for the CMS to graduate and expand.

It’s DruaplCon time, and this year, Openband team members are presenting two discussions. Darren Ferguson is talking about his XMPP Framework, the suite of modules that enables Drupal-hosted user-to-user chatting, multi-user chatting and real-time chat translation. Ben Lavender, Chris Johnson and Dan Karran are discussing our solutions for the unique challenges posed by enterprise-size systems and the hurdles still needing jumping.

It’s not often we’re able to get all of our team members from Openband and our collaboration partners together for a combined productivity sprint. In fact, DrupalCons probably make up half of the time we all (person-to-person) get to actually see each other in a given year. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that we capitalize on any chance possible to push as much work into our meet-ups as possible.