Free alternative to Basecamp

I had been looking around for quite a while to find an alternative to basecamp, the perfectly written collaboration tool. I wanted to find an open source version so that it could be managed on my own server and so we wouldn’t have to pay a subscription. Basecamp doesn’t seem that difficult to make, I’m no PHP expert but I’d say with a couple of clever programmers (say people like wordpress and drupal developers) it could be easily achieved. I came across activeCollab which is exactly what I wanted; open source, very easy to set up and use. The problem is activeCollab is PHP5 only, and the host I wanted to use only has PHP4.something, damn!
Then, just by chance, I came across this little gem: phpCollab

Sure it doesn’t have as many features as activeCollab or indeed Basecamp, but it is lightweight and free. The code is easy to play with, and it’s certainly worth keeping an eye on.


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