Social Source Commons

Various Project Management Tools with varying levels of complexity and flavor inspired by an NTEN discussion.

This toolbox is a subset of the Managing Nonprofit Technology Projects Toolbox created at the Managing Nonprofit Technology Projects event in January 2008.

Anti-Spam software for POP clients.

Yosemite Backup Desktop for the PC Desktop is a comprehensive, cost-effective backup and recovery software product for users protecting a single PC desktop.

Anti-virus software for desktops and file servers.

Cyberduck is an open source FTP and SFTP client for Mac OS X. Cyberduck is easy to use and includes features such as uploading and downloading by drag and drop. It can also synchronise files and directories. Cyberduck includes a bookmark manager and supports the Mac OS X Keychain and Bonjour networking.

Virtual desktop creator

Web-based Ajax desktop space.

Web-based virtual desktop.

FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers. FireFTP is very simple to use and integrates into your web browser.

Macintosh or OSX based desktop software that can help non-profits realize their mission and goals.

We're looking for tools that real organizations are using now, and for tools that non-profits could be using that they might not realize are ready for prime time.

This toolbox is part of the NonProfit Open Source Initiative's Free and Open Source Software Primer Project. Our goal is to maintain a living list of free and open source software tools and applicacations that can help non-profits and other civil society groups realize their goals and mission.

We invite you to contribute to this toolbox, and to check out our other toolboxes and help us keep them relevant as well.

Comments? Questions? See a tool that really doesn't belong? You can discuss this toolbox on our website.

GanttProject is a tool for creating a project schedule by means of a Gantt chart and resource load chart. GanttProject allows you to break down your project into a tree of tasks and assign human resources that have to work on each task. You can also establish dependencies between tasks, like "this task can't start until this one is finished". GanttProject renders your project using two charts: Gantt chart for tasks and resource load chart for resources. You may print the charts, generate PDF and HTML reports, exchange data with Microsoft(R) Project(TM) and spreadsheet applications.

The Gmail Notifier is an application that alerts you when you have new Gmail messages. It displays an icon in your system tray to let you know if you have unread Gmail messages.

Fast file search for Windows computers.

HomePortals is a free-form environment that allows you to create different kinds of web pages and web applications by combining the functionality of pre-existing components.

Desktop application for browsing, email, chat, and online news

NoteZilla lets you create virtual sticky notes on your Windows Desktop.

Open Source Widget that puts Pandora on your desktop and out of your browsing experience. Allows seamless streaming whether firefox is open or not

Personalized home page

Personalized home page

Online collaboration software and desktop

Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout.

Web-based desktop software.

Sylpheed is a lightweight open source email and news client offering quick response, easy configuration and an abundance of features. Sylpheed is free software licensed under the GPL. It's a good choice for if you have limited computing power and don't need all the features of Thunderbird.

Mobile and desktop application for posting to Twitter.

Anti-virus software for desktop computers.

Personalized home page

WinSCP (Windows Secure CoPY) is an open source SFTP and FTP client for Microsoft Windows. Its main function is secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer. WinSCP offers basic file manager functionality for uploading and downloading files from a server.

Web-based operating system.