OpenLucius

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OpenLucius 3.0 (Drupal 11)

OpenLucius aims to be a lean and fast social productivity platform, ready to use after installation. The goal is to be easy-to-use software, for use cases:

• Social intranet
• Internal online community
• Project teams
• Team collaboration
• Knowledge management
• Document management
• Collaborate with clients / external people

Out-of-the-box functionality

As of October 2026, these core main functions work out of the box:

• Groups & Members
• Social network / Social Posts
• Messages
• Files and Folders
• Document management
• Notebooks
• Activity streams
• Comments everywhere
• Attachments everywhere
• Likes everywhere
• Non-intrusive notifications
• Activity badges
• Rich html emails

Summary of intentions

• Be an all-in-one, group based toolkit for communication, collaboration, documentation -and culture building. For both formal and informal activity.
• To use both internal and external (such as working with clients and freelancers)
• To facilitate keeping all communication, documentation and projects bundled instead of fragmented in email, spreadsheets, word docs, etc.
• To facilitate a scalable organization, where people can easily catch up without being disturbed and new people can easily be added to a group (department/team/project/…).
• Be easy to use for all levels of digital people.

Performance & scalability

• We kept the codebase as lean as possible, so future updates (minor and major) will be as painless as possible.
• Easy management / updates, preferably for as far as Drupal goes in the future.
• Goal is also to facilitate an optimal developer -and site builder experience for building add-on modules.

Easy installation

Code is managed with Composer. For local development DDEV is recommended.

1. composer create-project lucius-digital/openlucius-project:3.0.0-beta2 MY_PROJECT_FOLDER
2. cd MY_PROJECT_FOLDER && ddev config && ddev launch
3. Walk through the basic site configuration steps, just like vanilla Drupal.
4. Ready. No additional configuration needed.

Version information

Proudly built by

Lucius Digital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

OpenLucius 1 (Drupal 7)

Quotes from the Drupal community

• "let me first say openlucius is amazing out of the box, I mostly love the simplicity" -- GiorgosK - https://www.drupal.org/node/2847782
• "Thanks for OpenLucius! It's fantastic. Good feature set, easy to install, easy to use. It even has user documentation!" - mathieso - https://www.drupal.org/node/2691549
• "BTW The latest update 7.x-1.6 is fantastic. Well done!" -- MrPaulDriver - https://www.drupal.org/node/2580009#comment-11830727
• "I've just installed this for a client and so far it looks great. Thanks!" -- Kristi Wachter (https://www.drupal.org/node/2646414)
• "We've been testing out OpenLucius for a while and it's been great. Thanks for all the hard work you put into this" -- dela.deyoungster (https://www.drupal.org/node/2846509#comment-11888914)
• "Please note, that I found the drupal profile Open lucius, and I found it really amazing." -- Igor Krutak (per email)
• "Den som väntar på något gott....." as we say in sweden or "he who waits for something good can never wait to long" - frber23
• Big thank you for this distro,it´s truly fantastic." -- frber23 (https://www.drupal.org/u/frber23) (per email)
• "I found your distribution and so far it looks really promising." -- igorik (https://www.drupal.org/node/2580009)
• "First of all, great project! I'm working with a nonprofit client that is moving to Open Lucius for their planning and bug-tracking work" -- Ivan Boothe2 (rootwork) (https://www.drupal.org/node/2628970)
• "Hi! I have been trying Openlucius now for a while and are most impressive. Even a Drupa novice like me can put up a collabarationsite with eas." -- Fredrik Bergström (per e-mail)
• "wow! Wow! WOw! WOW! :) This is great, thanks! :)" -- István Kurucz (nevergone) (https://www.drupal.org/node/2505715#comment-10403565)
• "@OpenLucius Just tried OpenLucius Project Management Tool. It's really nice!" -- @valderama (Tweet)
• "@OpenLucius #API offers #opensource communication platform for bizapps bit.ly/1I8ZOYu" -- @ProgrammableWeb (Tweet)
• "Thanks for your awesome project ;)" Tweet by @Thiago Régis
• "First of all congratulations for this great product, works incredible..." - castillo felipe (per email)
• "great distribution..." - fcastle
• Hi, We really like your platform and are planning to use Open Lucius as a platform for our ambassadors to communicate and collaborate on projects, [...] - Eamon
• The #Drupal 'Open Lucius' distribution looks really interesting [...] well done @joris_lucius - Mark Conroy by Tweet
• @OpenLucius Awesome! platform.Great work. We are using it! - @AudibleCode - https://twitter.com/audiblecode/status/712632194162884612
• (Dutch) "Ik heb net jullie platform gedownload en getest. Prachtig! [...] Prachtig systeem hebben jullie gemaakt!" - Roger Lenoir
• "First and foremost, I have really enjoyed trying out OpenLucius" [...] "Team collaboration and project tracking has not been a particular Drupal strength but you are making great progress with OpenLucius." - James Hoskins, Digital Marcoms Manager
• Thanks for all your hard work on this @joris_lucius. It's a wonderful distribution. - dela.deyoungster
• "Love the Kanban view. I was very surprised by how fast it loads." -- José - https://www.drupal.org/node/2847865"
• "Searching for some tool to facilitate group collaboration on top of Drupal, I stumbled into your awesome OpenLucius project." - Norbert, Atelier für Gestaltung - per email