Basecamp (software)

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Basecamp
A message view, seen within Basecamp
Developer:	37signals
OS:	Cross-platform
Use:	Project management
Website:	www.basecamphq.com

Basecamp is a web-based project-management tool developed by 37signals. The Ruby on Rails framework was extracted from the Basecamp project.

Contents 1 Features 2 Basecamp API 3 See also 4 External links 4.1 Basecamp website 4.2 Other

[edit] Features

The primary features of Basecamp include:

• To-do lists
• Writeboards (essentially small-scale Wikis)
• Milestone management
• Messaging system
• File sharing
• Real-time chat with Campfire integration
• Time tracking

[edit] Basecamp API

A Basecamp API, created by 37signals, allows developers intergrate Basecamp into their applications. It allows applications to access and modify Basecamp data, and is implemented as Vanilla XML over HTTP. It also accepts requests in the YAML format but responses are given in XML. One example of the API in use is a Mac OS X Dashboard widget.

[edit] See also

• Project management software
• List of project management software
• Project management

[edit] External links

[edit] Basecamp website

• Basecamp home page
• Basecamp tour
• Basecamp help site Everything Basecamp

[edit] Other

• Criticism of Basecamp
• ActiveCollab - Free, open source clone in development
• Goplan - A competing product from Webreakstuff