Open Source Alternative to 37Signals Basecamp
Though project management software is a commodity (if not customized), 37Signals’ Basecamp does a good job with the value add, though the web-based software is not sans problems (i.e . management notification of completed tasks and navigational quarks for starters). Enter ActiveCollab (in alpha), a free-open source PHP/MySQL alternative that is modeled closely after Basecamp and inspired from a blog post. You can install the platform on your own server and tweak it as you like, though it’s being reported that the alpha version is still buggy.
July 7th, 2006 at 2:36 pm
Bingo! Nice find Blake. We will be installing it shortly. We will let you know if it is any good.
October 29th, 2007 at 12:24 am
I’ve compiled quite a list of Basecamp Alternatives some of which are open-source at my Basecamp bitch site here:
http://www.whybasecampsux.org/#alternatives
Hope this helps those looking for project management solutions other than Basecamp.
April 4th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Wow! Hey Blake, I genuinely came across your blog as the top google search result for my query “basecamp alternative open source”. Small world. Not a bad post, either. Keep up the good work! :)
April 24th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Not free; not open source as of 2009 :( .
May 20th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Hey Harold,
I’ve launched an website called PM-Sherpa which helps people find the best project management tools and we’ve got a section for open source PM tools here:
http://pm-sherpa.com/attributes/opensource/
If anyone knows of ones we don’t list, just let us know…-
-Mike
November 12th, 2009 at 10:13 am
eGangLion.com is free project management software worth checking out.
March 7th, 2011 at 11:09 am
Here’s a new alternative to consider at Odysen, http://www.odysen.com.
Includes a suite of collaboration applications to manage internal and external content, such as actions, doc sharing, notes, events, as well as news and website sharing. Good for work and cheap enough to use as a private network.