DotProject
Encyclopedia
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.
Additional features:
, 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
. A fork called web2project
http://www.web2project.net was initiated at the same time.
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
Project management
Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals. A project is a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end , undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value...
application. It is open-source software, free for any use and is maintained by an open community of volunteer programmers.
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 ACLAccess control listAn access control list , with respect to a computer file system, is a list of permissions attached to an object. An ACL specifies which users or system processes are granted access to objects, as well as what operations are allowed on given objects. Each entry in a typical ACL specifies a subject...
- Reporting
- History of all activities
- Calendar
History
dotProject was originally developed by Will Ezell at dotmarketing, Inc. to be an open source replacement for Microsoft ProjectMicrosoft Project
Microsoft Project is a project management software program, developed and sold by Microsoft, which is designed to assist a project manager in developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads.The application creates critical path...
, 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
SourceForge
SourceForge Enterprise Edition is a collaborative revision control and software development management system. It provides a front-end to a range of software development lifecycle services and integrates with a number of free software / open source software applications .While originally itself...
in October 2001.
The project stalled in late 2002 with the original author and team moving on to dotCMS
DotCMS
dotCMS is a free software / open source web content management system for building/managing websites, content and content driven web applications. dotCMS includes features such as support for virtual hosting, WebDav , structured content, clustering and can run on multiple databases PostgreSQL,...
. 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
Zend Framework
Zend Framework is an open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 5 and licensed under the New BSD License.-Licensing:...
, with version 3 of dotProject (dP3) the expected target release to be utilising the Zend Framework
Zend Framework
Zend Framework is an open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 5 and licensed under the New BSD License.-Licensing:...
. A fork called web2project
Web2project
web2project 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.-Structures and Features:...
http://www.web2project.net was initiated at the same time.
Support and Community
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
See also
- Project managementProject managementProject management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals. A project is a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end , undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value...
- List of project management software