| Developer(s) | Adam Donnison, Karen Chisholm, Gregor Erhardt, Ivan Peevski, Eamon Brosnan, Benjamin Young |
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| Stable release | 2.1.5 / January 6, 2011 |
| Operating system | Any |
| Platform | PHP |
| Type | Project management |
| License | v1.x was BSD, v2.x is GPL v2 [1] |
| Website | http://www.dotproject.net/ |
dotProject is a web-based, multi-user, multi-language Project Management application. It is open-source software, free for any use and is maintained by an open community of volunteer programmers.
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Basic data elements and management functions include:
Additional features:
dotProject was originally developed by Will Ezell at dotmarketing, Inc. to be an open source replacement for Microsoft Project, having a very similar user interface, but extending to include project management functionality. Begun in 2000 the project was moved from dotmarketing.org to Sourceforge in October 2001.
The project stalled in late 2002 with the original author and team moving on to dotCMS. Two of the more active developers, Andrew Eddie and Adam Donnison applied for, and were subsequently granted, administration rights to the project. Andrew continued to work on the project until he moved on to Mambo and subsequently Joomla. Adam remains an administrator.
Starting in late 2007, the dotProject team began a major redevelopment using the Zend Framework, with version 3 of dotProject (dP3) the expected target release to be utilising the Zend Framework [2]. A fork called web2project [1] was initiated at the same time.
While day to day support is provided free by volunteers in both the forums and via online documentation, optional commercial support is offered from the core development team Priority Support Forums.
As of August 2008, there were over 11,500 registered users in the dotProject forums and an average of 500–700 downloads each day Sourceforge Stats.
There is also a book written on the subject of using dotProject for project management entitled: "Project Management with dotProject" by Lee Jordan. ISBN 1-84719-164-9