---
title: "Jeff Miccolis and Alex Barth on Open Atrium and the Features Module"
url: "/podcasts/drupal-voices/jeff-miccolis-and-alex-barth-on-open-atrium-and-the-features-module"
type: episode
date: 2009-10-27
updated: 2014-04-09
---

# Jeff Miccolis and Alex Barth on Open Atrium and the Features Module

#  Jeff Miccolis and Alex Barth on Open Atrium and the Features Module 

  

*Podcast episode player*

[Jeff Miccolis](https://developmentseed.org/team/jeff-miccolis/) and [Alex Barth](https://developmentseed.org/team/alex-barth/) talk about the latest work on their [Open Atrium](http://openatrium.com/) distribution, and the [Features module.](http://drupal.org/project/features)

[Development Seed](https://developmentseed.org/) has been on the cutting edge of dealing with making deployment of module configurations easier from different development environments, and there was a lot of buzz about the [Features module](http://drupal.org/project/features) and exportable configurations at DrupalCon Paris. Alex and Jeff led a popular Birds of a Feather session on the topic, and Alex talks a bit about what was covered.

A lot has happened since DrupalCon DC where there were a number of deployment discussions about different solutions ranging from [Context & Spaces modules,](https://www.lullabot.com/drupal-voices/drupal-voices-11-young-hahn-context-spaces-modules) [Patterns module](https://www.lullabot.com/drupal-voices/drupal-voices-10-chris-bryant-patterns-module) and the [Deploy module.](https://www.lullabot.com/drupal-voices/drupal-voices-09-greg-dunlap-deploy-module) This write-up ["Deployment and migration: hot at DrupalCon DC"](https://greenash.net.au/posts/thoughts/deployment-and-migration-hot-at-drupalcon-dc) gives the most comprehensive overview of the different options that were discussed at the time.

As [Young Hahn concluded](https://www.lullabot.com/drupal-voices/drupal-voices-11-young-hahn-context-spaces-modules), the missing gap that needed filling was pushing for modules to make their configurations exportable, which is what has been happening a lot more especially with the help of the [Chaos tool suite](http://drupal.org/project/ctools) (aka CTools). So keep an eye out for more modules providing exportable configurations, more features, and eventually more products and [easier ways of making Drupal distributions.](https://developmentseed.org/blog/2009/oct/27/drupal-distributions-drush-make)

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