| Project | Benefits | Status |
Updated |
SF |
|---|
| Aethera |
sponsored by theKompany.com, used to be called Magellan.
| version beta4 | 20011031 |
Y |
| AmphetaDesk
| desktop news delivery, Mac & Windows versions. Written in Perl and XML. | version 0.92 | 20011109 |
Y |
| Amphora Light |
uses postgres, sendmail, from Estonia. Commercial version available. | version 1.0 |
20010506 |
| Annotator
| an older reference implementation in Java includes client and server software | version 1.0b | 20010926 |
| Anteil
| established OpenSource Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software, PHP4, Mysql, Apache | version 1.1.1 | 20011031 |
| Ants |
"aims to provide a generic multi-user collaborative framework" and a nice
research base, includes J2EE support | version
Alpha 3 | 20010803 |
| Apache |
HTTP Web Server, "59% of the web sites on the Internet are using Apache". Run by the Apache Software Foundation | version 1.3.22
2.0.16 beta | 20011030 |
| Babylon |
Java chat client/server | version 1.4
beta 2.0 | 20010506 |
| Bazaar |
" It started life as a plain web board conferencing system (WWWThreads now UBB/InfoPop) but has rapidly evolved into an integrated information system." | version 7.04 | 20030103 | Y |
| BBDB |
Big Brother DataBase: for Emacs, "contact management utility"/annotation tool. "embodies that property known as intertwingularity" (also see Intertwingle design document) | version 2.32 | 20010926 |
Y |
| bk2site |
"will transform your Netscape bookmarks file into a yahoo-like website with slashdot-like news" | version 1.1.8 | 20011209 |
Y |
| Centauri | java OGS implementation | design stage |
20010506 |
| CGI::wiki | Perl module wiki that powers several other popular wikis such as kwiki
| version 0.51 | 20040321 |
| Chandler | Mitchell Kapor's Open Source Application Foundation efforts. Like a super-PIM, with "Agenda's soul," interfacing or replacing current interfaces for email, contacts, calendar, web docs, IM, blogs and more on the client side. "Intelligent agent" capabilities and synchronized content servers as well. Nice TWiki site. Python WxWindows implementation. | 0.3 |
20040305 |
| Citadel/UX | An efficient
BBS implementation, updated for Unix, uses Berkeley DB and still uses both a
text and a web interface. In use since 1981, home of
the Uncensored BBS.
| version 6.21 | 20040521 |
| CivicSpace | "empowers
collective action inside communities and cohesively connects remote groups of supporters." Based on Drupal, written in PHP, excellent standards and weblog support, requires one of several databases, GPL.
| version 0.7 | 20041001 |
| CL-HTTP | Common
Lisp Hypermedia server, runs on Mac, Windows, Unix. Development dates back to at least 1995.
| version 70.23 | 20011220 |
| CLiki | Common
Lisp implementation of a wiki clone
| version 0.3 | 20011220 |
| Collabrador |
"web-based collaboration and datasharing tool", Silicon Research Center
| design stage | 20010506 |
| Compiere |
"ERP/CRM [...] customer management, supply chain and accounting" Popular sf.net site. | version 2.3.1 | 20011101 |
Y |
| Coranto |
originally a rewrite of NewsPro, reborn | version 1.24 | 20040928 |
| CritLink | A very early web
annotation software in perl used as a service | version | 20010926 |
| CVW | Collaborative
Virtual Workspace, java and palm chat clients, shared whiteboard, audio & video
conferencing, new patch for multi-server use | version 4.0 | 20011001 |
Y |
| Cyrus IMAPd | A member project of Carnegie Mellon's Cyrus project and an important piece of email infrastructure.
| version 2.1.10 | 20021129 |
| Dancer IRCd |
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) daemon for OpenProjects.net,
an IRC network used by many other open source projects, planning future replacement Corridor
"distributed, MUD-like interaction service" | version 1.0.11 | 20011030 |
Y |
| DAV | "[GNU/Linux] file system driver that allows you to mount a WebDAV server as a disk drive", should support Delta-V A nice complement to the Subversion project | version 0.2.3 | 20011030 |
Y |
| DexMail |
web based IMAP email interface using LDAP & PHP | version 0.1.5 | 20011108 |
Y |
| D3E | Digital Document Discourse Environment Publisher's Toolkit. Transforms HTML publications into framed discussions. Uses customized Phorum or Hypernews | version 5.0 | 20011105 |
| diva | "visualizing and interacting with dynamic information spaces", Silicon Research Center | version 0.3 | 20010506 |
| DragonCom |
nascent clone of Slash. Uses Java & MySQL. | | 20011208 |
Y |
| Drupal | "content management platform", | version 4.4.2 | 20041001 |
| Dspace |
Higher educational CMS system, powers MIT's digital research respository. They also have an interesting FAQ. | | 20030105 |
Y |
| Edit This Page PHP |
one file PHP (v4 or v5) wiki type text-only implementation. Uses version control, RSS & Trackbacks. | version 0.5b | 20040427 |
Y |
| eGroupWare | PHP suite "flexible pluggable framework [for] hosting applications", a capable fork of phpGroupWare | version 1.0.00.005 | 20040928 |
Y |
| Eridu | "web based groupware" | version 0.9 | 20010726 |
Y |
| Everything | software that powers Everything2.com, from the creators of Slash; includes voting. Here's a FAQ. | "Pre- 1.0" | 20010910 |
| Evolution | interesting SOAP based collaboration server (embedded?); Bonobo use (release note); email & PIM | beta | 20010506 |
| Fetchmail |
"remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility", model for Eric Raymond's writings, useful with Mutt MUA & Procmail email filter/LDA. | version 5.9.3 | 20011030 |
| Freenet | P-to-P java, to "allow the free flow of information and ideas on the Internet", completely anonymous global load balancing system | version 0.4 | 20011216 |
Y |
| FUTURe | "an application that will deal with time management, not only for an individual but also for groups/projects. It is inspired by Tools for Thought by Howard Rheingold" | version 0.72 | 20010506 |
| Gale | IM system. | version 0.99 | 20011223 |
| Gaim | multi-protocol IM client. I use this for AIM, ICQ, IRC & MSN. Popular sf.net site. | version 0.44 | 20011101 |
Y |
| Gatman | groupware and network management, written in Java. Bootstrapped from real sysadmin work in Hamburg, Germany | version 0.1.6 | 20021216 |
Y |
| geekLog | weblog php4, mySQL. Website has comparison article describing other web log software. | version 1.3 | 20011220 |
Y |
| Gibbon |
Point of Sale for interfacing with other packages like Interchange, Kontor, SQL-Ledger, phpShop or GNU Enterprise. | version 0.4 | 20011109 |
Y |
| Glasscode | Java based weblog | version 1.2 | 20010509 |
| glue | GNU Links Users Everywhere. Quiet project since March 2000. See also GLUE. XML, WebDAV, and RTSP | design stage | 20011105 |
Y |
| Enterprise Project | GNU's ground-up business platform solution, includes GNU Enterprise Application Server. Also encompasses the following application areas:
Accounting, Budgeting, Customer Relations, E-Commerce, Human Resources, Project Management, Research and Development, Supply Chain & Reporting.
| | 20011109 |
| GracefulTavi | Based on WikiTikiTavi and ZWiki. | version 1.01 | 20040331 |
Y |
| GreyMatter | weblog software (regularly-updated news- or journal-type sites); includes voting, template based, no database required | version 1.21b | 20010910 |
| gZigZag | Ted Nelson's new software, see Udanax for previous work. | version 0.6.3 | 20040423 |
Y |
| KnownSpace Hydrogen | "KnownSpace is a free, portable, and open-source data management system built in Java to serve as a common platform for worldwide research and collaboration in artificial intelligence, networking, and user interfaces." Helium is a defunct email client project. Uses an Apache-style license. | version 20030108 | 20040409 |
Y |
| ht://Dig | Web search engine software | version 3.2.0b3 | 20010726 |
| Horde IMP | Wonderful PHP web interface to IMAP mail, also a member of the Horde project which includes Kronolith and Turba. | version 3.1 | 20021129 |
| ht://Dig | Web search engine software | version 3.2.0b3 | 20010726 |
Y |
| HyperMail | Web mail archive software | version 2.1.2 | 20011030 |
| Hypernews | Web discussions. Development started in 1994, sponsored by NCSA. Perl5 | version 1.10.13 | 20011105 |
| Interchange | e-commerce server platform, sponsored by RedHat | version 4.8.2 | 20011109 |
| ISAAC | NCSA developed, real time focus | active Aug 1996 -
Sep 2000 | 20010506 |
| JabaDex | java pim | version 0.9.10
8/99 | 20010506 | |
| Jabber | "A powerful platform for XML messaging and presence" Servers (including jabberd) and clients available. Protocols are on IETF standards tracks. A separate but related company is jabber.com. | Jabberd
version 1.4.3
or 2.0s2 | 20040521 | |
| Jake |
Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment for "finding, managing, and linking online journals" | version 0.5.2 | 20010726 |
Y |
| JavaGroups |
java transport protocol, reliable IP multicast | version 0.9.9.9 | 20010506 |
Y |
| JWAA |
Java Web Application Architecture | version 1.3 | 20011116 |
| Jazz |
Java 2 toolkit for zoomable interfaces, successor to Pad++, from the University of Maryland HCI Lab | version 1.2
| 20011017 | |
| Jive Software |
Java based forums software | stable version 1.2.4
2.0beta
| 20010724 | |
| Jetspeed |
Java & XML "Enterprise Information Portal... makes network resources (applications, databases and so forth) available to end-users", an Apache Jakarta project with these specs & dependencies | version 1.3a2 | 20011217 |
| Kantor |
ERP software suite, three tier Java architecture, Postgress. Interfaces to Gibbon Point of Sale software project | version 2001-02-07 | 20011109 |
Y |
| KOM 2000 |
forum and chat software, faxed copyright required | version 4
| 20010805 | |
| konspire | "distributed file-sharing system featuring fast, exhaustive searches and modest network bandwidth requirements" | version 1.0a | 20010506 |
Y |
| KwikiKwiki | Very extensible Perl module wiki, used by O'Reilly Media (among others) and is a basis for Socialtext's Workspace. Socialtext's description of kwiki. | version 0.33 | 20040928 |
|
| Land Down Under | PHP/MySQL software | version 525 | 20030418 |
|
| Lucid | Software that powers Memes.net and graphs.memes.net, PHP based | version 0.101 | 20010915 |
Y |
| Lxr | originally GNU/Linux cross-reference, publishes source code as HTML for browsing, allows lookup of code calls and variables, presently used to browse the code of Mozilla, FreeBSD and the linux kernel | version 0.9 | 20011027 |
Y |
| Magi | Endeavors, WAP, WebDAV, SyncML, Java, Jini, m-commerce | version 2.0 | 20010506 | |
| Mahogany | A very well respected graphical cross-platform email client. Extensible with Python. Has 4+ years of development. | version 0.63 | 20010908 |
Y |
| Mailman |
GNU's "manage electronic mail discussion lists", requires C & Python 1.5. Includes web archive features. | version 2.0.6 | 20011030 |
Y |
| MCal |
Modular Calendar Access Library, "C library for accessing calendars" | version 0.6 | 20011031 |
Y |
| MediaWiki |
PHP, powers WikiPedia (they used UseModWiki before that) | release 1.2.0rc4 | 20040321 |
Y |
| MHonArc |
"Email to HTML converter", requires Perl | version 2.5.0 | 20011030 |
| MoinMoin |
Wiki system based on Python developed in Germany | version 1.2 | 20040303 |
Y |
| MoreGroupware |
Web based PHP4 groupware "contact management, webmail, calendar" modules, used daily by German company MoreLogs. | version 0.4.4 | 20011030 |
| Mozilla | successor to
Netscape Communicator and Microsft's Internet Explorer, now OEOne calendar integration announced 10/01, old Zulu calendar project | version 0.9.5 | 20011130 |
| Mutt |
The unix email reader (MUA) of choice, provides maximum functionality. Features include color support, threading, IMAP and completely remappable key bindings. See Fetchmail |
version 1.2.5
dev 1.3.23 | 20011123 |
| Neomail | web-based Perl "mail client [...] does not require a POP3 server, or any shell access [...] interfaces directly with user mail spools." | version 1.25 | 20010726 |
Y |
| NewsPro | "CGI/Perl script used to update a news page on a Web site", uses text files, next version named Coranto | version 3.8 | 20010910 |
| Nexist | Java, topic map based | alpha code | 20010506 |
Y |
| OGS | Open Groupware Standard. This group emerged from the Evolution, phpGroupWare and OpenOffice mail lists. Aims to create an XML based groupware standard protocol. phpGroupWare is first implementation. | draft specifications | 20011030 |
| OHS | successor to
Douglas Engelbart's earlier Augment & NLS systems | design stage | 20010506 | Y |
| OpenFlock | barren websites, "Group Calendaring" server, new Group Calendaring Transport Protocol | | 20011031 |
| Open For Business | "J2EE business software" uses JBoss, Apache Jakarta, EJB, MySQL, NetBeans XML for workflow, content management, etc. for GNU/Linux and Windows. Popular sf.net site. |
version 1.0
beta 1 | 20011101 |
Y |
| OpenH323 | "full
featured, interoperable, Open Source implementation of the ITU H.323
teleconferencing protocol" | version 1.1 | 20010506 |
| OpenOffice.org | Open
Source successor to Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 5.2. This is the code base for much of
Sun's StarOffice 6.0 | build 632 | 20010618 |
| Orchard | "provide a simple, consistent interface over a wide variety of data models, or 'node sets', including, as examples, XML, RSS, SVG, MP3, MPEG, CDDB, etc., regardless of their on-disk storage format" also related projects | version pre-1.0 | 20010929 |
Y |
| Outreach | developed by Lanifex "to support communication with customers during project implementations", integrates with DMO for data centers, project management tool. | version 0.94 beta | 20020514 |
Y |
| OverApps | "designed for use by groups, small and medium sized businesses, associations, etc who are looking to set up an Intranet site", runs on Windows, Active Server Pages | version 1.11.2 | 20011210 |
| Owl | "multi user document repository (knowledgebase) system", php, mySQL | version 20010612 | 20010910 |
Y |
| Phorum | PHP based, web based discussion software | version 3.2.10 | 20010726 |
Y |
| phpBB | PHP based, "alternative to Infopop's UBB" bulletin board customizable for user and admin | version 1.4 | 20010726 |
Y |
| phpCampaignToolz | PHP & MySQL based, to create "more effective online campaigns" | version 0.3.1 | 20011227 |
Y |
| PhpCollab | Project management focused, inspired by the now defunct Macromedia Sitespring. | version 2.3 | 20030104 |
Y |
| phpGroupWare | "multi-user groupware suite written in PHP" | version 0.9.16.003 | 20040916 |
Y |
| phpNuke | "news automated system" using php3, Apache and mySQL | version 5.2 | 20010910 | |
| PHProjekt | modular application suite for teams and companies, requires PHP4 and one of six databases, supports 26 languages | version 4.2 | 20040928 |
N |
| PHPshop | business application development platform, PHP. | version 0.9.0 | 20011109 |
Y |
| phpWebLog | weblog software | version 0.5.2 | 20010726 |
Y |
| phpWiki | "WikiWikiWeb clone in PHP" run as an application on these sites | version 1.3.1 | 20011217 |
Y |
| Plink | java,
"adds link targets to XHTML (and perhaps XML)
documents" | version 0.9.1 | 20010506 |
| PostNuke | "Weblog / Content Management System (CMS)" forked project of phpNuke "focusing on style, appearance and functionality." Using PHP4, Apache, CSS and mySQL. Popular sf.net site. | version 0.64 | 20011101 |
Y |
| Purple |
perl, XML, XSLT, tools to create HTML documents with "purple" number paragraph anchors.
| version 0.2 | 20010506 |
| QtTudo |
ERP and administrative accounting package from Germany, C++ | version 0.2.1 | 20011031 |
Y |
| ReefKnot |
"iCal (RFC 2445) compliant toolkit in Perl. This toolkit will then be used to develop at least one server and one client as reference implementations.
" includes Date::ICal Perl library. Last release 2001-12. | version 1.67 | 20040403 |
Y |
| ROADS |
expired project, "software tools to enable the set up and maintenance of Web based subject gateways" | version 2.4 | 20010803 |
| scoop |
"'collaborative media application'. It falls somewhere between a content management system, a web bulletin board system, and a weblog."; has run the site kuro5hin.org since Dec 1999 | version 0.8 | 20010910 |
Y |
| sips |
"weblog and link indexing system";php, no database required | version 0.3.0pl2 | 20010910 |
Y |
| Slash |
"Automated Story-telling Homepage" from SlashDot "News for nerds. Stuff that matters." Also see this list of related software/sites and Everything | version 1.0.11 | 20010506 |
| SnipSnap |
"a free and easy to install weblog and wiki tool written in Java." from Fraunhofer FIRST | version 0.5.1a | 20040427 |
| SourceForge |
The software behind sourceforge.net. The Free Software Foundation's Savannah is a branched implementation of the 2.0 code. Very interesting efforts includes sf-genericist, the Debian debian-sf project (itself derived from a 2.6 version of code from sf-genericist) and CoopX. Also see the sfdocs documentation project | version 2.6 | 20011105 |
Y |
| SQL-Ledger |
"double entry, accounting system", key to any collaboration within a business, supports many languages | version 1.6.9 | 20011031 |
Y |
| SquirrelMail |
PHP based email client built for "maximum compatibility across browsers" | version 1.06 | 20010726 |
Y |
| Subversion |
successor to CVS, internally has a tremendously flexible architecture and
property structure | milestone 5 | 20011123 |
| SubWiki |
Python script with Subversion back-end, CVS empty but subversion archive actively developed
| 0.1 dev | 20040322 |
| Synedra |
another successor to CVS, see subversion. Open sourcing by IBM 11/2001 | | 20011031 |
| swiki |
from Georgia Tech, uses squeak 3.2, Comanche 5.0 web server, wiki clone | version 1.3 | 20030118 |
| WikiTikiTavi |
looks like a nice implementation with UTF-8, XHTML/CSS and RSS. Uses LAMP platform (Apache, MySql, php4) GPL | version 0.25 | 20040223 |
Y |
| tforum |
"Easily as good as phpBB and probably better", PHP, MySql | version b0.92p4 | 20020514 |
| Thlnk.vim |
"plain text hyperlinking [...] plugin for the Vim text editor" | version 1.1 | 20020509 |
| Twig |
"intranet/groupware tool and application framework" | version 2.7.4 | 20011123 |
| Twiggi |
"web-based [IMAP] email client and contact manager solution for [GNU/Linux]...similar to Microsoft Outlook" php4, MySql | version 1.5.14 | 20011123 |
Y |
| TWiki | The most robust Wiki implemention around. Perl CGI. A great wiki branch. Mission is "web-based collaboration platform targeting the corporate intranet world" Features access, revision control, plugins and an active developer community. See this partial list of installations and this list of TWiki software competitor comparisons.
| 01-Dec-2001
Athens Release | 20020508 |
Y |
| thatWare |
"slashdot like engine" php3 | version 0.4.6 | 20010910 |
Y |
| TouchGraph GraphLayout |
Java applet for Graph Based Interface (GBI) web navigation. The Link Browser applet is also available. Related projects include GEF and OpenJGraph. | version 1.06 | 20011017 |
Y |
| TUTOS |
The Ultimate Team Organization Software "webbased groupware or ERP/CRM system" PHP based | all-20010831 | 20011105 |
Y |
| Udanax | Ted Nelson's Xanadu's open
source evolution, green and gold; see gZigZag for current work | release 1 | 20010506 |
| uPortal |
"portal under development by institutions of higher-education" uses J2EE & XML, funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | release 1.6
2.0 beta | 20011030 |
| UseModWiki |
nice feature set, single file Perl implementation, powers MeatBall Wiki meta-community, Emacs wiki and many others | release 1.0 | 20040321 |
| UWcal |
University of Washington "calendaring system for higher education", written in Java with uPortal integration. | version 1.3 | 20040427 |
| Venice |
"for supporting online communities and special interest groups", powers new Electric Minds site, uses Java Servlets, JSP, Apache & MySQL | version 0.1
CVS only | 20011030 |
Y |
| vital |
"communication and cooperation environment for ... learning
teams", VisualWorks Smalltalk, a CLear (Cooporative Learning)
project | version 1.4 | 20010506 |
| VNC | AT&T
developed Virtual Network Computer, screen sharing across platforms
| version 3.3.3 | 20010506 |
| W3pal | Browser, Editor, Navigator & Webbot, uses XGMML, LOGML & RGML. | | 20010915 |
| WebTrans | a document translation architecture in Java | version 0.9.5 | 20010506 |
Y |
| wiki | Many similar software packages including the twiki (on SourceForge) have been developed of this original editable web page software. One omission from the WikiEngines page is OurPlace. | (c) 1995 | 20010506 |
Y |
| XIWA | "web based accounting package" perl, Postgres | version 1.4.0 | 20011113 |
Y |
| XPlanner | "web-based project planning and tracking tool for eXtreme Programming (XP) teams", uses Java, JSP, Struts, and MySQL | version 0.5.3 | 20040427 |
Y |
| Zeno | "moderated discussion forums, shared workspaces and content management" German, English, Java, Apache. Hosted on Berlios (SourceForge software) | version 2.0 | 20020517 |
| Zwiki.org | Zope application server-based wiki, very interesting. | version 0.27.1 | 20040223 |
