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title: Origin Eight Releases New Community Portal
description: We've started a new Open Atrium portal at http://portal.origineight.net/ . This will be organized into various sub-groups/projects -- some private, some public. An example of a public group is the one that Seth created for the Origin Eight developers at http://portal.origineight.net/developers/.
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# [Origin Eight Releases New Community Portal](https://cta.o8.agency/blog/-origin-eight-releases-new-community-portal)

 Written by [Origin Eight](https://cta.o8.agency/blog/author/origin-eight) | Oct 25, 2018 2:07:02 PM

We've started a new [Open Atrium](http://openatrium.com/) portal at [http://portal.origineight.net/](http://portal.origineight.net/) . This will be organized into various sub-groups/projects -- some private, some public. An example of a public group is the one that Seth created for the Origin Eight developers at [http://portal.origineight.net/developers/](http://portal.origineight.net/developers/).

We will use this portal as a place for the following: 

(1) **A "client portal" for our clients,** where each client has their own \*private\* Open Atrium group (via Organic Groups). This will provide a space to: 

- **Compile project-specific documentation** that has a longer lifetime and greater organization than Basecamp conversations and text documents
- **Open support tickets via the built-in ticketing system**. Clients can assign a support ticket to the project manager for their particular project, and that project manager can then route and reassign (rather than sending a support email, which is harder to route and track). Clients could even use the request tracker internally.
- **Empower clients to add their own internal dates/milestones** to a project/group calendar so that we can keep track of these, and communicate with us and each other in a common space.
- **Create client-specific user accounts with "account preferences." **For example, we can integrate a Mailchimp newsletter with a client's user account, and let them manage their subscription(s) via their account tab. Also, especially in the case of hosting, we can provide company-wide notifications to all users for things such as scheduled server maintenance.

(2) **A portal for Origin Eight for our own, non-client-facing projects and activities**. This will provide a space for the following:

- **A wiki** (called a "Notebook") for us to edit and share resources. For example, Seth created a "Mobile" notebook, under which he created a sub-page called "Responsive Design" in the Origin Eight Developers group here: [http://portal.origineight.net/developers/notebook](http://portal.origineight.net/developers/notebook)
- **A case tracker** for any open source projects we get involved in (I'd like us to start sponsoring and maintaining a few modules, etc).
- **Public blogging** (i.e. this is how I solved X task) -- we will house such blog entries from our development efforts at [http://portal.origineight.net/developers/blog](http://portal.origineight.net/developers/blog).

We are excited about this! Should be fun and fruitful for us and our clients in the long-run.

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