BaseCamp , Active Collab –> RailsCollab

AFTER trying out many of Projects Management system , and of course some online ones as the Famous BaseCamp by the famous 37 singles , and got amazed by how interactive usable creative BaseCamp was , i got ” months ago ” ActiveCollab , and as the some people suggest , it’s a free open alternative for BaseCamp …
ActiveCollab Dashboard
The ActiveCollab , is developed by the developer of simple PHP framework , who has an interesting concept about his framework , ” This framework isn’t designed to build websites for you. There are
plenty out there that already try to do that. It’s designed to help you build websites. ”
I Used Activecollab and still using it , it’s simple easy to use and featured more than any other Groupware i ever used ..
Why ActiveCollab :

Simple easy install , mostly without problems 80% ..
Simple easy navigation ..
Interface : simple , usable …. other wise , other groupware out of simple interface
Milestone , Tasks , Documents handling were pretty good
People Privilege was really powerful and simple

ActiveCollab got new opponent …, James S Urquhart clones the ActiveCollab to Rubyonrails called : RailsCollab .
RailsCollab Dashboard
why so ? :
James S Urquhart :

I didn’t like PHP
I was a bit of a novice at programming in Ruby
My experience of dealing with the Ruby on Rails framework was sketchy to say the least
ActiveCollab’s PHP framework was similar to Ruby on Rails
Open source is great, lots of people will be interested in working on it with me

Curse of the Open Source Excitement ( Open Source Excitement Syndrome ) :
Excitement to Join an Open source Project sometimes is an excitement and joy of the monument , so 2 people only joined the Project and James did all the work ..

again : Hell NO :
James S Urquhart :
“Will i ever do such a stupid thing like this again? I can conclusively say…. hell, no!”

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