I recently discovered an open source project management tool, activeCollab, from Brian Lamb’s del.icio.us feed. As usual, when I follow a breadcrumb at Abject Learning I am not disappointed.
UMW’s Department of Information technology has been using Basecamp sporadically for a little while now, and DTLT has been using it lately to manage the Student Academy of Information Technologies (there are some really exciting presentations this year so there will be more to blog on this shortly). I think we all agree that this is a very useful tool for more involved projects with various players. So, when I saw activeCollab I was intrigued, when I downloaded and installed it I was quite impressed. This open source, web-based application makes no qualms about presenting itself as a no-frills Basecamp knock-off. There are no wiki-inspired Writeboards and the slick javascript is kept to a minimum, but it does just about everything Basecamp does without the monthly costs. It allows for unlimited projects, unlimited users, multiple admins, etc. So how about that- the nuts and bolts of the best of web-based project management applications for the price of a LAMP environment you are probably already paying for! Moreover, it was a cinch to set up -just keep in mind you need Apache 2.0, PHP 5.1+ and MySQL 4.1+.
free rocks.