---
title: "Alex Karshakevich on Open Band's module stack"
url: "/podcasts/drupal-voices/alex-karshakevich-on-open-bands-module-stack"
type: episode
date: 2009-04-28
updated: 2014-04-09
---

# Alex Karshakevich on Open Band's module stack

#  Alex Karshakevich on Open Band's module stack 

  

*Podcast episode player*

Alex Karshakevich of [Open Band Labs](https://www.openbandlabs.com/) talks about the distributed collaboration tool that they host and provide for enterprises. Open Band's Drupalcon presentation was entitled ["Powering collaboration in a distributed enterprise".](http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/powering-collaboration-distributed-enterprise)

Alex talks about some of the [200+ modules](http://drupal.org/user/325708) that they use on their robust communications platform as well as some of their test-driven development and test-driven integration.

**Modules mentioned:**  
[RDF](http://drupal.org/project/rdf)  
[File Framework](http://drupal.org/project/fileframework)  
[Webmail Plus](http://drupal.org/project/webmail_plus)  
[XMPP framework](http://drupal.org/project/xmppframework) + [eJabberd configuration](https://ejabberd.im/)  
[XMPP client](http://drupal.org/project/xmppclient)  
[a suite of OpenID modules](http://drupal.org/user/70179)  
[Distributed Search](http://drupal.org/project/distributed_search)  
[LDAP provisioning](http://drupal.org/project/ldap_provisioning)  
[LDAP integration](http://drupal.org/project/ldap_integration)  
[ApacheSolr](http://drupal.org/project/apachesolr) + [Solr configuration](https://solr.apache.org/)  
[Sign Up](http://drupal.org/project/signup)  
[Project](http://drupal.org/project/project)  
[Views](http://drupal.org/project/views)  
[CCK](http://drupal.org/project/cck)  
[Location](http://drupal.org/project/location)  
[Feed API](http://drupal.org/project/feedapi)

**For more information:**   
[Open Band Labs](https://www.openbandlabs.com/)  
[Interview with Ivan Labra](https://www.lullabot.com/drupal-voices/drupal-voices-19-ivan-labra-semantic-web-identity)  
[Placeholder for OpenBand Install profile](http://drupal.org/project/openband)

**Module lists from associated developers:** [OpenBand Labs](http://drupal.org/user/325708), [miglius](http://drupal.org/user/18741), [darren.ferguson](http://drupal.org/user/70179), [geodaniel](http://drupal.org/user/37266), [scripthead](http://drupal.org/user/184047), [Chris Johnson](http://drupal.org/user/2794), [alex.k](http://drupal.org/user/183217), [bhuga](http://drupal.org/user/186547), [yarimbiyik](http://drupal.org/user/181064) & [arto](http://drupal.org/user/26089)

[Download](https://www.lullabot.com/audio/download/527/DrupalVoices022.mp3)