Open Source Survey Tools: LimeSurvey
SOS Open Source last week evaluated LimeSurvey, the PHP open source survey web application to create on line surveys, translated in many languages and downloaded over 485.000 times. »
Open Source Project Management Tools
SOS Open Source has been used to find and select open source web-based project management with issue-tracking and time-tracking tools to manage multiple IT projects, possibly localized in Italian (or at least open for internazionalization and localization).
The pre-selection of project management programs started by focusing on some of the most famous web-based ones, excluding the following (for the following reasons):
- Kforge, Project HQ, ProjectPier because maintained by a small group;
- Collabtive, Feng Project, because too young (less than 3 years old);
Launchpad and Trac were eventually added to the final list of candidates (see below) »
SOS Open Source
SOS Open Source – an automated methodology to find and evaluate open source software – gathers and analyzes data about open source projects, providing a synthetic representation of all selected candidates and also a graphical tool to compare them.
The general lack of information about open source alternatives requires the use of ad-hoc methodologies and tools to fastly identify projects matching set quality goals, focusing functional requirements‘ tests only on the most promising candidates. »
