eXo Platform, a digital collaboration platform for business portals and social intranets, provides collaborative solutions to enhance productivity and teamwork.
Need a team chat application as a part of your collaboration tool suite? Here are four open source chat applications that will help your team stay connected.
Over the last decade, open source software (OSS) has experienced a rise as rapid and in many ways, as transformational as the Personal Computing revolution. Ten years ago, OSS was a playground for…
Public key crypto for everyone, publicly auditable proofs of identity. Keybase is a new and free security app for mobile phones and computers. For the geeks among us: it's open source and powered by public-key cryptography. Keybase is for anyone. Imagine a Slack for the whole world, except end-to-end encrypted across all your devices. Or a Team Dropbox where the server can't leak your files or be hacked.
Project management with collaborators,
project sharing with the public
The Open Science Framework (OSF) supports the entire research lifecycle: planning, execution, reporting, archiving, and discovery.
The Kolab Groupware Solution offers flexible Personal Information Management (PIM) for professional deployments in companies of almost any size. But since it is Free Software, it can also be used by individual users who care about being in control of their personal information.
Substance is a fully web-based document authoring and publishing platform. With Substance, writers, journalists, scientists and everyone else who's interested in publishing can use an open platform for writing and sharing articles.
Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research
World Community Grid's mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity. Donate the time your computer is turned on, but is idle, to projects that benefit humanity! We provide the secure software that does it all for free, and you become part of a community that is helping to change the world. Once you install the software, you will be participating in World Community Grid.
New free software, launched by Oxford University scientists, gives researchers the tools they need to collaborate more efficiently and quickly with colleagues scattered around the world and working in a variety of different research areas. The colwiz (‘collective wizdom’) R&D platform manages the entire research lifecycle from an initial idea
MobWrite converts forms and web applications into collaborative environments. Create a simple single-user system, add one line of JavaScript, and instantly get a collaborative system. Demos Each of these demos is globally collaborative, meaning everyone is sharing the same space. With luck there will be someone else using these demos with whom you can play. If not, open the demos in two different windows and collaborate with yourself. Editor A simple collaborative plain-text editor. MobWrite is extremely good at resolving collisions which other systems would fail on. Form This form demonstrates collaboration with all the standard HTML form elements. Note that the onchange event is called remotely when the checkbox is ticked, thus allowing forms to react normally to changes. Spreadsheet This 50-cell spreadsheet is an abuse of MobWrite (there are more efficient ways of synchronizing grids of data). But it shows what can be done.
gnizr™ (gə-nīzər) is an open source application for social bookmarking and web mashup. It is easy to use gnizr to create a personalized del.icio.us-like portal for a group of friends and colleagues to store, classify and share information, and to mash-it-up with information about location. It's free.
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