Free/Libre/Open Source Software Solutions (FLOSS)

FLOSS Wiki Software Solutions

Collaboration Content Management Digital Asset Management Project Management Social Networking

Please note: This is a work in progress. Please feel free to contribute.

Collaboration

• ownCloud - Something like an open source Dropbox.com
  • Community: Active, http://owncloud.org/dev/
  • License: AGPL
  • Technology: Requires PHP version and a webserver
  • Features: Files, Synchronization, WebDAV, Calendars, Contacts, Gallery, Media Player, Sharing, Text Editor
  • Use Cases and Examples

Constituent Relationship Management (CRM)

Tools

• CiviCRM is a FLO constituent relationship management system (CRM) designed specifically for organization and community service organizations that integrate with Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress. There are easy to deploy plug-ins for event ticketing, case management, fundraising, email marketing, reporting, and more.
• PHPlist is a simple email marketing and newsletters application.

Techniques

CiviCRM has a tremendous amount of features and there are many great resources about how to use many of them. One important feature set is the ability to categorize people in different ways. CiviCRM has three ways to do this: (1) groups, (2) tags, (3) fields. Groups are directly connected to CiviCRM’s emailing function, so you’d create groups for all your different email newsletters and assign people to the groups from which they’d like to receive correspondence. There is no limit to the amount of groups of which a person can be a part. You can also assign people tags which enable you to sort people using any terminology you like. For example, one could search a group for people who have the tags ‘volunteer’ ‘gardening’ to find volunteers who’d be interested in gardening. You can also add your own fields to people’s profiles, allow you to add whatever information you’d like. The options are truly endless.

Content Management (CMS)

• Drupal - A framework for building dynamic web sites offering a broad range of features and services including.
  • Community: Active, http://drupal.org/community
  • License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
  • Technology: PHP. A Drupal installation is generally comprised of a mix of core and contributed modules.
  • Features: User administration, publishing workflow, discussion capabilities, news aggregation, metadata functionalities using controlled vocabularies and XML publishing for content sharing purposes.
  • Use Cases and Examples:

• WordPress - WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. We like to say that WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
  • Community: Active, http://codex.wordpress.org/Codex:Community_Portal
  • License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
  • Technology: PHP. A WordPress installation is generally comprised of a mix of core and plugins.
  • Features: Full standards compliance, Easy installation and upgrades, No rebuilding, XML-RPC interface, Workflow, Intelligent text formatting, Cross-blog communication tools, Multiple authors.
  • Use Cases and Examples:

• Joomla - Joomla is one of the world’ s most popular open source CMS (content management system).
  • Community: Active. http://community.joomla.org/
  • License: GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPL)
  • Technology: PHP and MySQL
  • Features: User Management, Media Manager, Language Manager, Banner Management, Contact Management, Polls, Search, Web Link Management, Content Management, Syndication and Newsfeed Management, Menu Manager, Template Management, Integrated Help System
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• ModX - MODX Evolution entered stable production release in 2005. Now, 100,000+ Sites. MODX Revolution, released 2010, is a more scalable, configurable and feature-rich framework.
  • Community: Active. http://modx.com/community/
  • License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
  • Technology: PHP 5.1
  • Features:
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• MediaWiki - One of the best-known wiki softwares, it allows everyone to edit the content using a simplified markup.
  • Community: Hyper-active.
  • License: GPL
  • Technology: PHP, various DB engines, extensive optimisations for large-scale server farms, mobile app (2-line change to interface with any other mediawiki mobile frontend.)
  • Features: User management, media management, i8ln, templating, simplified markup, managed html sanitization, extensible (500+ exstensions including full-site RDF), API interfaces (JSON, rawfm, XML, PHP (serialized, txt, dmp, and dbg), YAML, & wddx), multiple namespaced feeds.

Events Software

• http://www.completevent.com/
• http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ocs
• http://www.openconf.com/demo/
• http://usecod.com/

Project Management

• Acheivo - Project and resource management tool.
  • Community: Semi-active
  • License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
  • Technology: PHP, MySQL and Apache
  • Features: Time Registration, Project Management, Customer Relationship Management, Human Resource Management, Scheduling
  • Use Cases and Examples:

• Collabtive - The project was started in November 2007. It is Open Source software and provides an alternative to proprietary tools like Basecamp.
  • Community: Active http://collabtive.o-dyn.de/forum/
  • License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
  • Technology: PHP and JavaScript
  • Features: Unlimited projects, milestones, tasklists, and tasks; Unlimited members with user profiles; Role-based permission management; Messaging and instant messaging; File management; Timetracking; Multi-language
  • Use Cases and Examples:

• DotProject

• OpenAtrium

• PHPCollab

• ProjectPier - Free, Open-Source, PHP application for managing tasks, projects and teams. Very similar to Basecamp.
  • Community: Active http://www.projectpier.org/forum
  • License: GNU Affero General Public License
  • Technology: PHP5, MySQL with InnoDB support, web server
  • Features: Projects, Milestones, Messages, Tasklists, Tasks and Files.
  • Use Cases and Examples:

Social Networks

• Diaspora
• Elgg