Feng Office Community Edition (formerly ''OpenGoo'') is an open-source software, open-source collaboration platform developed and supported by Feng Office and the OpenGoo community. It is a fully featured online office suite with a similar set of features as Office suite#Online office suites, other online office suites, like G Suite, Microsoft Office Live, Zimbra, Collabora Online, LibreOffice Online and Zoho Office Suite. The application can be downloaded and installed on a server. Feng Office could also be categorized as collaborative software and as personal information manager software.

Features

Feng Office Community Edition main features include project management, document management, contact management, e-mail and time management. Text documents and presentations can be created and edited online. Files can be uploaded, organized and shared, independent of file formats. Organization of the information in Feng Office Community Edition is done using Workspace#Online applications, workspaces and Tag (metadata), tags. The application presents the information stored using different User interface, interfaces such as lists, Dashboards (management information systems), dashboards and calendar views.

Licensing

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

Technology used

Feng Office uses PHP, JavaScript, AJAX (ExtJS) and MySQL technology. Several open source projects served as a basis for development. Active Collab, ActiveCollab's last open sourced release was used as the initial code base. It includes CKEditor for online document editing.

System requirements

The server could run on any operating system. The system needs the following packages: * Apache HTTP Server 2.0+ * PHP 5.0+ * MySQL 4.1+ (InnoDB support recommended) On the client side, the user is only required to use a modern Web browser.

History

OpenGoo started as a degree project at the faculty of Engineering of the University of the Republic, Uruguay. 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 World Wide Web, Web-based spreadsheet. In December 2009 the OpenGoo name was changed to Feng Office Community Edition.

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External links

Feng Office site

Fengoffice opensource site

Sourceforge Project site
Collaborative software Web applications Personal information managers Free groupware Free project management software Open-source office suites Online office suites Free content management systems Software using the GNU AGPL license