Comments on: Open Source Collaboration Tools

Question: Open Source Collaboration Tools

Leonard — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 16:18:14 -0800

I need a package to facilitate collaboration among a group of people spread across the Internet/globe. Ideally it would track staff, projects, to-do lists and contacts. Open source (PHP/mySQL) would be ideal. Any suggestions?

By: SpecialK

SpecialK — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 16:19:59 -0800

Well, there's BaseCamp by 37signals.
I'm also releasing a package that'll do that, but more for organizations that have to track and bill for time-spent on particular pieces of applications, in about a month and a half.

By: SpecialK

SpecialK — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 16:20:25 -0800

(I don't think you'll find one that's *good* that's open-source. Most of the good ones that are easy to use are proprietary and/or cost.)

By: mrbill

mrbill — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 16:25:21 -0800

There's PHPGroupWare.

For task management, I'm all about Alex King's Tasks Pro (link is to multi-user version; I purchased Tasks 2.0, the single-user product).

By: SpecialK

SpecialK — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 16:27:31 -0800

Gah, I tried phpgroupware and hated it.

Tasks Pro looks interesting.

By: wackybrit

wackybrit — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 16:47:28 -0800

Not open source, but BaseCamp might work if you don't mind a hosted service.

By: wackybrit

wackybrit — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 16:48:56 -0800

Oops, sorry Special ;-) me=dumb

By: pwb503

pwb503 — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 21:43:21 -0800

It isn't open source, and I'm not sure if it would do everything you're looking for but I'd suggest checking out Web Collaborator.

pwb.

By: Leonard

Leonard — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 03:38:37 -0800

Thanks everyone. Basecamp looks like exactly the thing.
Has anyone used seriously?

By: andrew cooke

andrew cooke — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 03:54:22 -0800

basecamp has been discussed here before.

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 06:15:17 -0800

wiki's are good for this kind of thing.
talk to dash_slot- about how he found the experience of managing / collaborating with wikis over the web.

By: andrew cooke

andrew cooke — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 06:24:30 -0800

ewwww. not everyone likes wikis. we lose a lot in ours - it's got lots of info, but is an unstructured mess. maybe we're not using it right?