Feng Office Community Edition (formerly ''OpenGoo'') is an

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developed and supported by

Feng Office Feng Office is a software development company known for developing Feng Office Collaboration Platform and associated services: * Feng Sky is Feng Office on Demand provided as SaaS * Feng Onsite is a Feng Office platform installed on external se ...

and the OpenGoo community. It is a fully featured

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with a similar set of features as other online office suites, like

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, LibreOffice Online and

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. The application can be downloaded and installed on a server. Feng Office could also be categorized as

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and as

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software.

Features

Feng Office Community Edition main features include

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and

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. Text documents and presentations can be created and edited

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. Files can be uploaded, organized and shared, independent of

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. Organization of the information in Feng Office Community Edition is done using

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and tags. The application presents the information stored using different

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such as lists,

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and

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views.

Licensing

Feng Office Community Edition is distributed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 only.

Technology used

Feng Office uses

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(

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) and

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technology. Several open source projects served as a basis for development. ActiveCollab's last open sourced release was used as the initial

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. It includes

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for online document editing.

System requirements

The server could run on any operating system. The system needs the following packages: *

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2.0+ *

5.0+ *

4.1+ (

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support recommended) On the client side, the user is only required to use a modern

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History

OpenGoo started as a degree project at the faculty of Engineering of the

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. The project was presented and championed by Software Engineer Conrado Viña. Software Engineers Marcos Saiz and Ignacio de Soto developed the first prototype as their thesis. Professors Eduardo Fernández and Tomás Laurenzo served as tutors. Conrado, Ignacio and Marcos founded the OpenGoo community and remain active members and core developers. The thesis was approved with the highest score. In 2008, Viña joined the Uruguayan software development company Moove It. Currently there is a second project for OpenGoo at the same university being developed by students Fernando Rodríguez, Ignacio Vázquez and Juan Pedro del Campo. Their project aims to build an open source

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-based

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. In December 2009 the OpenGoo name was changed to Feng Office Community Edition.

Notes

References

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External links

Feng Office site

Fengoffice opensource site

Sourceforge Project site
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