Social Source Commons

Various Project Management Tools with varying levels of complexity and flavor inspired by an NTEN discussion.

This toolbox is a subset of the Managing Nonprofit Technology Projects Toolbox created at the Managing Nonprofit Technology Projects event in January 2008.

Open Source platform for Enterprise Content Management (ECM), providing Document Management, Collaboration, Records Management, Knowledge Management, Web Content Management and Imaging.

An open source webmail program.

BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux, WinXX and MacOSX PCs and laptops to a server's disk. BackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain.

Use this page to make a panel for your web-page or blog that will display the status of a bill on OpenCongress.

Bricolage is a content management system geared towards organizations with a content workflow beyond simply "write then post".

Advanced features include configurable workflows, customizable document types, multisite management capabilities, and comprehensive Perl- and PHP-based templating support, Bricolage has been designed to scale to meet the demanding needs of large organizations.

Bricolage is designed to run independent of a web server and publish to a webserver.

CHASERS stands for Client Housing And Service Entry and Reporting System. It acts as a database program for a variety of client attributes. Originally used for the Downtown Emergency Services Center to assist the homeless, it can track clients, services and operations.

An open source content management system written in PHP with MySQL database concentrating on user-friendliness.

Dict.org is a hosted dictionary. It is based on the GPL software GCIDE.

Very extensible CMS platform based on PHP and used by many NGOs - "Community Plumbing"

Open source document management software. Includes document library, calendar, task management and Gantt Charts.

A Mac OS X application that allows the user to split .AVI files. It is released under the GNU GPL.

Fantasdic is a DICT client. It is multi-platform and written in the Ruby programming language. It retrieves definitions from the internet via the DICT protocol instead of from a file on the local hard drive.

FLOSS Manuals is a wiki-like platform for generating user manuals for free, libre, and open source software (FLOSS). The goal of the project is to make free software more accessible by providing clear documentation that accurately explains their purpose and use. The manuals on FLOSS Manuals are written by a community of people, who do a variety of things to keep the manuals as up to date and accurate as possible. The way in which FLOSS Manuals are written mirrors the way in which FLOSS (Free, libre open source) software itself is written: by a community who contribute to and maintain the content.

Free, Windows open source FTP client.

Gengo is a full featured plugin that provides multi-language blogging for WordPress 2.5+. It allows for an unlimited number of translations and summaries for any post and provides template tags to display language information. It allows you to edit translations side by side, detects and filters by language automatically when a visitor comes to your site and automatically generates semantic information for links and content blocks.

GNOME Subtitles is a subtitle editor for the GNOME desktop. It supports the most common text-based subtitle formats and allows for subtitle editing, translation and synchronization.

gtranslator is a GNOME2 application intended to make editing PO files
easy for language translators.

ImpressCMS is a community developed Content Management System for building and maintaining dynamic web sites.

ImpressCMS is designed for a wide range of users, from business to community users, from large enterprises to people who want a simple, easy to use blogging tool.

Ispell is a program that enables users to correct spelling and typographical errors in a file. When presented with a word that is not in the dictionary, Ispell attempts to find near misses that might include the word you meant.

jDictionary has an intuitive user interface and is able to upgrade itself, upgrade its plugins, and provide news and information about new plugins.

Open Source wiki, with available extensions, serving as a place for project collaboration and shared editing.

KBabel is a set of tools for editing and managing gettext PO files.

Open source document management software that allows you to share, store, edit and collaborate on documents meant for many members of an organization.

Launchpad Translations (codenamed "Rosetta") is a platform for open source application translation on the internet. It lets anybody help translate their favorite open source application into their favorite spoken language. Launchpad supports most localizable open-source applications.

An open source survey application, LimeSurvey is available in over 40 languages.

GNU/Linux operating system adapted for translators. Linguas OS is a remaster of PCFluxboxOS built for translators.

An open source web application firewall. Network based, http traffic logging with real-time monitoring and attack detection.

An open source content management system focused on enterprises.

The Okapi Framework is a set of interface specifications, format definitions, components and applications that provides an environment to build interoperable tools for the different steps of the translation and localization process.

A collaborative project to produce a free, multilingual resource in every language, with lexicological, terminological and thesaurus information.

Fully functional integrated web-based open source ERP (enterprise management system).

OpenDX is a full-featured software package for the visualization of scientific, engineering and analytical data: Its open system design is built on a standard interface environments. And its sophisticated data model provides users with flexibility in creating visualizations.

An Open Source, self hosted web office.

OpenPro ERP software is a complete web based software package. OpenPro Web Based ERP Software enables companies to manage all key business operations in a single, integrated system, which includes customer relationship management; supply chain, order management and fulfillment; inventory management; finance; general Ledger; payables; receivables ; ecommerce and Web site management; manufacturing; fixed assets; warranty management; and employee productivity. OpenPro Web Based ERP software is implemented traditionally at the customers site, or can be deployed as software as a service (SAAS).

PHP-Nuke is a Web Portal System or content management system. The goal of PHP-Nuke is to have an automated web site to distribute news and articles with users system.

Based off the WikiWikiWeb platform, PHPWiki is an open source collaborative website editing platform in PHP.

PmWiki is a wiki-based system for collaborative creation and maintenance of websites.

Pootle is a web portal that simplifies the translation process. It allows online translation, work assignment, gives statistics and allows volunteer contribution.

Project Open is a general-purpose project management system with a translation module. The source license is a GPL hybrid, and the translation module is FL (“Free License”), which is “pseudo FOSS”, with extensive limits on redistribution of code.

Ruby on Rails based Content Management System (CMS)

SIMILE is focused on developing robust, open source tools that empower users to access, manage, visualize and reuse digital assets. Learn more about the SIMILE project.

An open source web application server environment for developing web-database applications. Requires only knowledge of SQL and HTML.

A simple, free program that analyzes text files and returns statistics such as word frequency and concordance information.

Works with Microsoft Word, OpenOffice Documents as well as simple text files and many others.

These are the tools that I have to use in order to be the best SSC Community Manager that there is. Whether it be updating the WordPress blog with Cyberduck or chatting on Adium about Google Analytics, these tools help my world go 'round.

The Translate Toolkit is designed by localisers for localisers. Its aim is to make localisation easier and of higher quality. The toolkit can convert between various different translation formats and makes it possible to stay in one format across all localisation tasks.

TWiki is an enterprise wiki, enterprise collaboration platform and knowledge management system. It is a Structured Wiki, typically used to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool

A translation and localisation tool

Website Baker is a PHP-based content management system for creating websites.

A smattering of popular Wiki engines that allow you to create collaborative webpages and sites.

Based on a list maintained by TikiWiki.

The Wordforge Off-line Localization Editor, previously known as Pootling, is an intelligent, platform-independent offline localization tool developed specifically to allow translators to get the most out of the XLIFF file format.

The Worldwide Lexicon enables people to create translation communities around any website, blog or topic. WWL combines automatic machine translation with people, who edit and improve machine translations.

A Wiki supporting skins, APIs, RSS feeds, PDFs developed in Java.