Collabtive Gives You Local Control Over Project Management [Downloads]

10 Jan 2010

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Web Server w/ PHP: If you’re not too keen on hosting your team’s projects on a 3rd party server—or pay the high fees associated with commercial project management tools—Collabtive is an open-source project management suite you can host yourself.

You’ll need a web server to host it on that has PHP on it, or if you want to use it on your local Windows machine you can install WAMP (we showed you how to install WAMP to host your own WordPress install and set up your own personal Wikipedia).

Once you have Collabtive up and running—you can try out their demo before you dive into downloading and installing it—you’ll be able to create projects and tasks, assign due dates to them, survey your project progress from the dashboard and calendar, and review project milestones. Because you run Collabtive on your own server, it’s possible to not only backup data from within Collabtive, but backup the entire installation down to the last script—a kind of security you simply don’t have when using a tool on 3rd-party servers.

Collabtive is open source and works wherever PHP does. Have a collaborative tool you love? Let’s hear about it in the comments.

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Tags: Collabtive, commercial project management, mdash, open source project, party servers, php, project, project management tools, project milestones, Server

3 Responses to Collabtive Gives You Local Control Over Project Management [Downloads]

Euan R

March 14th, 2010 at 4:37 pm

Here's a good one. "Optical tweezers."

Some of this article is fairly technical in nature, so I don't expect you to fully understand all of what's in it, but there should be some good links at the bottom of the page.

Basically what happens here is you use a laser to trap transparent particles in the beam. Often the particles are biological in nature, for example cells. The cells can then be manipulated and probed whilst remaining still, but can also be kept alive as you're not removing them.

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