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Open Source Project Management Links To Research

I was about 30 minutes down a rabbit trail that was derailing my David Allen's Getting Weekly Review when I ran into this article that I pulled out of Global Services Media back in March 2006, and since this relates to a #1 crisis currently at work I came over to my computer to type in the URLs into my task list. 

Then I thought, since I'm already chasing rabbits, lets make a blog post.

Some open source tools for project management to check out:

• Dot project (dotproject.net): web-based project mgmt
• Netoffice (netoffice.sourceforge.net): dashboard type project mgmt tool [looks like this one may have died]
• Eventum (dev.mysql.com/downloads/other/eventum): bug and issue tracker
• Bonita (bonita.objectweb.org): workflow system
• Subversion (subversion.tigris.org): version control for code and docs
• Mailman (gnu.org/software/mailman): for sending out mailing list emails and archives

There are probably now a ton of other options. If you have suggestions, then let me know.

But now is the time for the end of this rabbit trail ...

Open Source Rapid Prototyping - PDF, Nagios, & VMWARE

The combo of open source and virtual machines is really providing some powerful options for rapid evaluation and prototyping. 

Here is an example ... "Want to do some network management?" ... then download the $10 PDF of "Network Monitoring with Nagios", then get the VMWARE Player, and then check out the Nagios appliance deployment for VMWARE. 

In a couple of clicks, your up and running and ready to do some network management.  If you like what you see, a couple of file transfers, and some more clicks, and you can be in production mode. Nice.

Thanks to a recent HomeNetworkHelp.info podcast for getting my thoughts moving in this direction.

VMWARE Player + OpenSuse = Easy Linux?!?

Kreg Steppe @ Technorama who is member with me in FriendsInTech.com noted that there is now a release of KDE 3.5 on SUSE Linux 10 for the free Vmware Player.  According to Kreg, "... Just download it, unzip and use .."