dotProject
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dotProject | |
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Developed by | Adam Donnison, Karen Chisholm, Gregor Erhardt, Ivan Peevski, Eamon Brosnan, Benjamin Young |
Latest release | dotProject 2.1.1 / November 2007 |
OS | Any |
Platform | PHP |
Genre | Project management |
License | v1.x was BSD, v2.x is GPL v2 |
Website | www.dotproject.net |
dotProject is a web-based, multi-user, multi-language Project Management application. It is an open-source software and free for any uses and is maintained by an open community of volunteer programmers.
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[edit] Structures and Features
Basic data elements and management functions include:
- Projects and Tasks
- Companies, Departments and Contacts
- ToDo lists
- Resources (rooms, equipment et al)
Additional features:
- Forums
- Gantt charts (as of version 2.0 the task dependencies feature is not complete)
- Access control via ACL
- Reporting
- History of all activities
- Calendar
[edit] Support and Community
While day to day support is provided free by volunteers in both the forumsand via online documentation, optional commercial support is offered from the core development team Priority Support Forums.
As of October 2007, there were over 10,000 active users in the dotProject forums and an average of 500-700 downloads each day Sourceforge Stats.
[edit] Criticism
While dotProject is often named among the leading free web-based project management applications it is also often criticised for its unstructured and ugly user interface.[citation needed]