FOSS - Open Source Solutions The following packages have been tested and installed to ensure their successful deployment on our servers. If you interested in any of the following solutions, let us know and we will be happy to install it for you for a one-time fee of $300.If you know of another package you would like that is not on this list, let us know and we can setup a demo and ensure its reliability on our servers at no charge. Website Content Management - Drupal – “Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites.” – Drupal.org
- Features:
- Content Management Systems
- Blogs
- Collaborative authoring environments
- Forums
- Peer-to-peer networking
- Newsletters
- Pod casting
- Picture galleries
- File uploads and downloads
- And much more.
- Mambo – “Mambo is a full-featured content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Continue reading for a detailed feature list.” – Mamboserver.com
- Features:
- A large and healthy user and developer community.
- Provides a basic level of content approval for registered users.
- Online help.
- Page caching mechanism to improve performance on busy sites.
- Trash manager
- Advertising management (banners, etc).
- Media (images, documents) upload and management.
- Content display scheduling.
- Content syndication (RSS).
- Search engine friendly (SEF) URL's.
- Internationalization (interface translation).
- Content macro language (aka mambots).
- Advanced and separate system administration system.
- Advanced package/add-on/template deployment system.
- Simple but powerful template system (written mostly in HTML, no complex template syntax to learn, just a couple of PHP functions to include).
- Hierarchical user access groups.
- Basic visitor statistics.
- Multiple WYSIWYG content editor support
- Simple polls
- Content voting/rating system
- Joomla! – “Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications. Best of all, Joomla! is an open source solution that is freely available to everybody.” – Joomla.org
- Features:
- Dynamic form builders
- Business or organizational directories
- Document management
- Image and multimedia galleries
- E-commerce and shopping cart engines
- Forums and chat software
- Calendars
- Blogging software
- Directory services
- Email newsletters
- Data collection and reporting tools
- Banner advertising systems
- Subscription services
- And many, many more…
Blogs - WordPress – “WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.” – Wordpress.org
Forums - PhpBB – “Since its creation in 2000, phpBB™ has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution. Like its predecessors, phpBB™ 3.0 “Olympus” has an easy to use administration panel and a user friendly installation process, which allows you to have a forum set up in minutes.” – PhpBB.com
- BbPress – “bbPress is plain and simple forum software, plain and simple. It’s easy to use, easy to administrate, fast and clean. But don’t let its simplicity deceive you; underneath the gleam, it’s got some powerful features and is highly customizable.” – bbpress.org
- VBulletin – “vBulletin is a professional, affordable community forum solution. Thousands of clients, including many industry leading blue chip companies, have chosen vBulletin - It's the ideal choice for any size of community.” – vBulletin.com
- Owned License: $160 (one year free updates)
- Features:
- Fast and efficient database back end
- Template driven interface
- Powerful search engine
- Language system
- Custom user fields
- Extensive admin control panel
- Unlimited forums/posts
- Inline moderation
- Flexible plugin system
Image Galleries
- Gallery 2 – “Gallery is also the name of the main product, an online photo album organizer. Gallery gives you an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own website whether you're running a small personal site or a large community site.” – gallery.menalto.com
- Coppermine – “Coppermine is a multi-purpose fully-featured and integrated web picture gallery script written in PHP using GD or ImageMagick as image library with a MySQL backend.” – coppermine-gallery.net
Project Management
- dotProject – “dotProject is a web-based project management application, designed to provide project layout and control functions.” – docs.dotProject.net
- Features:
- User Management
- Email based trouble Ticket System, (Integrated voxel.net's ticketsmith)
- Client/Company Management
- Project listings
- Hierarchical Task List
- File Repository
- Contact List
- Calendar
- Discussion Forum
- Resource Based Permissions
Wikis
- DokuWiki – “DokuWiki is a standards compliant, simple to use Wiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. It is targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies. It has a simple but powerful syntax, which makes sure the data files remain readable outside the Wiki and eases the creation of structured texts. All data is stored in plain text files – no database is required.” – wiki.splitbrain.org
- MediaWiki – “MediaWiki is free server-based software which is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It's designed to be run on a large server farm for a website that gets millions of hits per day. MediaWiki is an extremely powerful, scaleable software and a feature-rich wiki implementation, that uses PHP to process and display data stored in its MySQL database.” – mediawiki.org
Calendars - VCalendar – “VCalendar (Virtual Calendar) is an open source Web calendar application for posting and maintaining events and schedules online, in calendar format. This is an excellent and free solution for use by online Web communities and any commercial and non-commercial organizations. Unlike any other online calendars, VCalendar comes with source code in multiple programming languages: PHP, ASP and ASP.NET (C#); with potential for adding more technologies in the future.” – ultraapps.com
- Features:
- Localization features, with initial Internationalization in English, Russian and German, with language selectable by end-users
- Dynamic CSS (stylesheet) styles, selectable by end-users
- Annual, monthly, weekly and daily calendar views
- Multiple categories for classifying calendar events
- Recurring and all-day events
- Role-based user permissions and calendar configuration
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