OpenProject is a web-based
project management system for location-independent team collaboration.
This
free open-source application is released under the
GNU (General Public License) Version 3 (GPLv3) and is available as a community edition and a chargeable Enterprise Edition. Development is mostly done by OpenProject
GmbH.
In addition to numerous smaller OpenProject installations, there are some very large installations in global organizations with more than 2,500 projects.
Features
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Bug tracking
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Document management
A document management system (DMS) is usually a computerized system used to store, share, track and manage files or documents. Some systems include history tracking where a log of the various versions created and modified by different users is r ...
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Forum
Forum or The Forum (plural forums or fora) may refer to:
Common uses
*Forum (legal), designated space for public expression in the United States
*Forum (Roman), open public space within a Roman city
**Roman Forum, most famous example
*Internet ...
* Project news
* Project
timeline
A timeline is a display of a list of events in chronological order. It is typically a graphic design showing a long bar labelled with dates paralleling it, and usually contemporaneous events.
Timelines can use any suitable scale represen ...
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Issue tracking or issue management
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Project management
Project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints. This information is usually described in project documentation, created at the beginning of the development process. T ...
and
milestones
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Time tracking
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Wiki
A wiki ( ) is an online hypertext publication collaboratively edited and managed by its own audience, using a web browser. A typical wiki contains multiple pages for the subjects or scope of the project, and could be either open to the pu ...
OpenProject Foundation
The OpenProject Foundation was established by OpenProject's developers and users in October 2012. After founding the association in April 2013, it was registered (VR 32487) in June in the register of the
Amtsgericht
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(local court) of
Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf () is the fourth borough of Berlin, formed in an administrative reform with effect from 1 January 2001, by merging the former boroughs of Charlottenburg and Wilmersdorf.
Overview
Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf covers the w ...
(district of Berlin).
The association provides an organizational framework for technical decisions and the propagation, acceleration, and perpetuation of development by the worldwide community and by a full-time development team, funded by the members of the OpenProject Foundation.
The association aims at the following objectives:
# establishing and promoting an active and open community of developers, users, and companies for continuously developing the open-source project collaboration software OpenProject;
# defining and developing the project vision, the code of conduct, and principles of the application;
# creating development policies and ensuring their compliance;
# defining and evolving the development and quality assurance processes;
# providing the source code to the public;
# providing and operating the OpenProject platform.
The association does not pursue economic goals of its own.
History
OpenProject has been developed since 2010 along with its ancestor project
ChiliProject. The initial motivation for this fork was the OPF founding members' performance, security, and accessibility requirements, which could not be easily reached by plugins for either
Redmine
Redmine is a free and open source, web-based project management and issue tracking tool. It allows users to manage multiple projects and associated subprojects. It features per project wikis and forums, time tracking, and flexible, role-based acc ...
or ChiliProject.
Recent and further developments
The current release schedule and future development roadmap can be observed and discussed on the OpenProject development platform.
Besides the development of new functions, the following technical objectives are pursued in the context of refactoring:
* develop a new API v3;
* rebuild the work package module with
AngularJS
AngularJS is a discontinued free and open-source JavaScript-based web framework for developing single-page applications. It was maintained mainly by Google and a community of individuals and corporations. It aimed to simplify both the developm ...
as a
single-page application
A single-page application (SPA) is a web application or website that interacts with the user by dynamically rewriting the current web page with new data from the web server, instead of the default method of a web browser loading entire new pages. ...
;
* rebuild the
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language such as HTML or XML (including XML dialects such as SVG, MathML or XHTML). CSS is a cornerstone t ...
structure using the CSS framework
Foundation for Apps.
Awards
In August 2011, OpenProject won the first prize in the category "Best Practice" of the open source competition of the
Berlin Technology Foundation "Berlin's future is open".
In April 2018, OpenProject won the
INNOVATIONSPREIS-IT 2018 of the
Initiative Mittelstand in the category Open Source.
In October 2018, OpenProject won the
Open Source Business Award (OSBAR, "OpenSource-Oscar") in silver.
[https://award.osb-alliance.de/2018/10/09/vorstellung-der-projekte-teil-1/ ;
Bild: https://award.osb-alliance.de/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/19008_1034_OpenProject_Silber.jpg]
See also
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Comparison of project management software
The following is a comparison of project management software.
General information
Features
Monetary features
See also
* Kanban (development)
* Project management software
* Project planning
* Comparison of scrum software
* Comparison ...
References
External links
* {{Official website, https://www.openproject.org/
Bug and issue tracking software
Collaborative software
Cross-platform free software
Free project management software
Free software programmed in Ruby
Free wiki software