Open Source Projects to Watch

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Web Applications

Photo & Media Gallery

• Gallery, gallery trac
• Coppermine
• zenPhoto

Digital Asset Management

• ResourceSpace (PHP)
• phraseanet.com
• FocusOpen (.NET)

Wiki

• MediaWiki

CMS

• WordPress
  • BuddyPress for WordPress MU
  • P2 Theme for WordPress
• Drupal
• Joomla
• XOOPS
• Concrete5
• RadiantCMS
• SilverStripe

Shopping/eCommerce

• Magento
• CubeCart
• TomatoCart
• OpenCart
• PrestaShop
• FoxyCart
• osCommerce
• zen-cart
• OXID eSales (Germany-based)

CRM/Virtual Office

• SugarCRM
• vTiger
• Feng Office (previously, OpenGoo)
• Group-Office
• ProjectPier
• argentuminvoice.com
• ofuz.com
• cFTP
• Open Atrium, very promising as an group intranet site, and support collaborative document authoring, nice clean interface

Resource Booking/Reservation

• Meeting Room Booking System
• phpScheduleIt

Project Management

• KForge (Python)
• Project HQ (Python)
• Collabtive
• Codendi
• TaskJuggler
• dotProject
• Project.net (commercial open source)
• Achievo

Groupware

• eGroupware

Online Chat

• HelpCenterLive
• Crafty Syntax Live Help

Document Management

• KnowledgeTree

HR/Recruiting/Applicant Tracking

• Applicant Tracking System
• OrangeHRM

Software Development / But Tracking / Support

• Mantis
• phpsupporttickets.com
• osTicket
• Trellis Desk
• Hesk
• OTRS (Perl)

LMS

• moodle
• atutor
• eFront

Forum

• phpBB
• SMF
• Unclassified Newsboard

FAQ

• phpMyFAQ

Mailing List

• phplist
• dadamail

Surveys

• LimeSurvey

Analytics

• Piwik
• PhpMyVisites
• ClickHeat

RSS

• Gregarius

Desktop Applications

Design & Media Tools

• GIMP (raster)
• InkScape (vector)
• Blender (3D)
• Sweet Home 3D
• Audacity (sound)
• DVD Creation
• FontForge
• BonkEnc (audio extraction, encoding/conversion)
• DVD Flick (DVD Authoring and Burning)
• VLC Player
• DVDStyler (DVD menu creation)
• VirtualDub
• PDFCreator

Office Productivity

• OpenOffice
• KOffice
• GantProject
• OpenWorkBench
• OpenProj
• XMind
• FreeMind

Operating System & Utilities

• Ubuntu
• Android
• TouCan (backup)
• CloneZilla

Communications & Network

• Pigin
• NMap
• NMapWin

Database

• MySQL
• PhpMyAdmin
• PostgreSQL
• PhpPgAdmin
• SQLLite
• Firebird

Software & Web Development & Testing

• HTTrack
• NetBeans
• Aptana Studio
• Eclipse
• HTTPUnit
• Selenium
• JUnit
• fileZilla
• Tortoise SVN
• Subversion
• XAMPP
• WAMP
• WimpServer
• Ruby on Rails
• NSIS (installer builder)
• Dia
• WinSCP
• PuTTY
• WinMerge
• WinM5Sum
• 7-Zip
• DeltaCopy – Rsync for Windows
• cwRsync – Rsync for Windows on sourceForge
• duplicity
• FullSync
• AstroGrep
• dnGrep
• RegEx Builder

Web Application Components

• extplorer

Langauge Frameworks

• Kohana
• YII
• CodeIgnitor
• CakePHP
• Symphony
• Zend
• Sapphire

PHP Classes

• SwiftMailer
• Simple Pie
• MagPie RSS
• XMLize
• Snoopy XML parser

JavaScript Classes

• SWFObject

Open Source Resources

• SourceForge
• Ohloh
• GitHub

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