OpenProject

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OpenProject
Initial release1.0.0 / 4 October 2012;11 years ago (2012-10-04)
Stable release
13.4.0 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 20 March 2024;7 days ago (20 March 2024)
Repository
Written in Ruby on Rails, Angular
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Project management software
License GNU General Public License v3
Website www.openproject.org

OpenProject is project management software for cloud and on-premises based companies with a focus on transparency and data sovereignty. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] OpenProject is open source software, released under the GNU (General Public License) Version 3 (GPLv3). OpenProject is available as a free, community edition and a commercial, enterprise edition.

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Uses

Users can create and track projects, timelines, tasks, work packages, calendars, meetings, and more through a configurable and flexible system.

External reviews of OpenProject can be viewed on YouTube.

Development

Development is mostly done by OpenProject GmbH. The current release schedule and future development roadmap can be observed and discussed on the OpenProject development platform.

OpenProject is developed and has a robust open source community of contributors on GitHub. To learn more about their top contributors and the frequency of code commits, as well as their community standards and code of conduct.

OpenProject Foundation

The OpenProject Foundation was established by OpenProject's developers and users in October 2012. [7] After founding the association in April 2013, it was registered (VR 32487) in the Amtsgericht (local court) of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (district of Berlin) in June of the same year.

The association provides an organizational framework for technical decisions and the propagation, acceleration, and perpetuation of development by the worldwide community and by a full-time development team, funded by the members of the OpenProject Foundation.

The association aims at the following objectives: [8]

  1. Establishing and promoting an active and open community of developers, users, and companies for continuously developing the open-source project collaboration software OpenProject
  2. Defining and developing the project vision, the code of conduct, and principles of the application
  3. Creating development policies and ensuring their compliance
  4. Defining and evolving the development and quality assurance processes
  5. Providing the source code to the public
  6. Providing and operating the OpenProject platform

The association does not pursue economic goals of its own.

History

OpenProject has been developed since 2010 along with its ancestor project ChiliProject. [9] The initial motivation for this fork was the OPF founding members' performance, security, and accessibility requirements, which could not be easily reached by plugins for either Redmine or ChiliProject.

Awards

In August 2011, OpenProject won the first prize in the category "Best Practice" of the open source competition of the Berlin Technology Foundation "Berlin's future is open". [10] [11]

In April 2018, OpenProject won the INNOVATIONSPREIS-IT 2018 of the Initiative Mittelstand in the category Open Source. [12]

In October 2018, OpenProject won the Open Source Business Award (OSBAR, "OpenSource-Oscar") in silver. [13]

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  9. ↑ "ChiliProject - The difference between Chiliproject and OpenProject.org - ChiliProject". chiliproject.org. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  10. ↑ "Berlins Zukunft ist "offen": Ideen- und Best-Practice-Wettbewerb zu Open Source/Open Standards". berlin.de. Archived from the original on 19 October 2020. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
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  12. ↑ https://imittelstand.de/themen/topthema_111879.html; interview: https://www.imittelstand.de/themen/topthema_111918.html
  13. ↑ https://award.osb-alliance.de/2018/10/09/vorstellung-der-projekte-teil-1/ Archived 2019-06-07 at the Wayback Machine ; Bild: https://award.osb-alliance.de/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/19008_1034_OpenProject_Silber.jpg Archived 2019-06-07 at the Wayback Machine
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