Comments on: A Free Software / Open Source Basecamp?

By: Polymorph: Helping Businesses Catch the Cluetrain

Polymorph: Helping Businesses Catch the Cluetrain — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:55:15 +0000

[...] example, some time ago I wrote a simple post about how I was looking for a Free Software/Open Source analog for Basecamp. A few years later, this is one of the most visited posts on my blog — I guess that many [...]

By: jcran

jcran — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:30:05 +0000

trac (http://trac.edgewall.org/) is a great open-source alternative!

By: Editor @ WhyBaseCampSux.org

Editor @ WhyBaseCampSux.org — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:21:40 +0000

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.

By: Ryan Cross

Ryan Cross — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:31:41 +0000

For those looking at activeCollab, please check out ProjectPier (http://www.projectpier.org) it is an open source project that will continue to be open source, unlike activeCollab.

By: George Kowalski

George Kowalski — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:38:14 +0000

Active Collab is no longer open source , nor free

By: Jonathan Evatt

Jonathan Evatt — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:56:06 +0000

What about activecollab over at http://www.activecollab.com/ ?
Many consider it to be the "open source alternative to Basecamp".

Regards,
Jonathan

By: Camilo

Camilo — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:15:54 +0000

I am using dotproject right now - their latest release is from June 2006. In various respects more useful than basecamp, although never as appealing or UI pretty.

By: John Cowles

John Cowles — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 10:47:56 +0000

We've used dotproject for a while but it needs some serious standards work doing to it. The last release was April last year so I suspect it has lost momentum. We have a client who is interested in using it as they see basecamp as a) expensive for their scale of requirement and b) somewhat limiting. If our clients go for it we'd almost certainly make our mods available to the community and the dotproject team.

By: Zak

Zak — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 00:41:00 +0000

Thanks Jim! I will check it out. Cheers! –zak

By: Jim Willis

Jim Willis — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 00:18:00 +0000

there doesn't seem to be too much headway over at Important Projects on this yet but in the meantime, it might be worth looking at dotProject.
I've written several hacks for it that allow for subscription of tasks (via RSS) and calendars (via ics), as well as a hack to allow for ldap authentication. They're not in any shape for public release but if anyone starts making headway on web 2.0-ifying dotProject, I'm happy to contribute the code we've written.