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MyBalsamiq. Versioning Revision history lets you view the decision making process with each iteration and review. Discussion Groups Every project is also an email list, so you can communicate on and off-site. Skype Integration If your team is on Skype, call them up, or start individual or group chats right from the Project Members Menu. Clients & Contractors Create an extranet and invite staff, contractors, and clients to view and collaborate on projects. Access Control Simple access controls to create private projects, or open them up to guests. Plans for Every Size Org Start with a Personal plan or work your way up to an unlimited Enterprise site. JISC Support: Home. Project management guidelines - under review. 100% Open. Project Realise - FAQ.

Creating an Idea, Incubated Idea or Project Openness Rating Idea and project management Legal issues Access information Supplying information Who can join in projects? REALISE project management Do I have to choose a project name? The 'Project Name' gives identity to the project just the same as branding a product. How do I create an idea? Navigate to the Ideas Lab and chose an idea title and select 'submit' idea. How do I create an incubated idea? An incubated idea is developed from a current idea. How do I create a project?

Projects are created from incubated ideas once they have an 'openness rating' of 75% or more. What is a Project URL? A URL is a web address seen in the address bar of most browsers. Why do I need to leave a contact name? When choosing to get fully involved in an open community its useful for everyone in the community to know who you are. Why do I need to leave a contact e-mail? What is the openness rating? The openness rating is a measure to indicate how open your project is. Project Realise. OSS Watch - How to build an open source community. By Matthew Mascord on 4 January 2008, last updated Introduction Community is vital to an open source project. An active and supportive community is the heart of the project. However, having an open source licence is not enough to bring users and developers to your project and build a community. Why do open source projects begin? Open source software projects are not really any different from other kinds of software projects in how they are initiated.

What is a community and why do open source projects want to build them? Communities are simply groups of individuals sharing common interests. Although there are some rewards in closed-source projects, there is a clear limit on the types of reward-earning contributions that can be made by community members. Typical paths for open source communities At their outset, open source communities may be extremely small, perhaps with one or two developers and hardly any users.

Opening up a project in this way can add whole new sets of complexities. OSS Watch - Creating a project on SourceForge. By Sander van der Waal on 2 February 2010, last updated Introduction In the early stages of an open source software project, there is much to do in order to lay strong foundations for the project. Some of the most important decisions relate to how that project will be managed, including where to host the version control system, how to set up the mailing lists, and so on.

A project hosting website can help you with many of these decisions by providing these and other basic features, as well as several more advanced features, that will help you to manage your project efficiently. Many hosting websites offer their services free of charge to software projects that are released under an open source licence.

SourceForge is one of the best-known hosting sites for free and open source software development projects. SourceForge offers the basic hosting services that any open source software project needs, such as mailing lists, a version control system and an issue tracker. Creating the project.