Collabtive

Website: http://collabtive.o-dyn.de
License: GPL

Collabtive is a web-based project management software that is being published as Open Source software. It strives to provide an Open Source alternative to proprietary tools like Basecamp or ActiveCollab.

History

Collabtive was started by Philipp Kiszka and Marcus Fröhner in November 2007. Their main design goals included simplicity, clean design and visual beauty.

Characteristics

Collabtive is written in PHP5 and uses an ajax-based user interface. It is multilanguage capable, supporting more than 20 languages. Collabtive integrates with other webservices via an XML API. It also provides importing functionality for data from other applications. It allows to work with To-do lists, Milestones, Files, and to track the time worked on specific tasks.

Features

Main features

* To-do lists
* Milestones
* Messaging / Instant Messaging
* Calendaring
* File management
* Role based user permissions
* Timetracking
* Tagging
* Search
* Reporting (Excel, PDF)
* Exporting (ZIP, XML, RSS, iCal, vCard)
* Importing from Basecamp XML
* Multilanguage

Requirements

Server-side:

* PHP 5.1
* MySQL 4.1 or 5.x

Client-side:

* JS/DOM (tested with Mozilla Firefox 2 and 3, IE7/8, Safari, Opera 9)
* Cookies

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