Software

We want to collect recommended Ubuntu applications for all kinds of jobs. If you add an application, please also share how you are using it and relevant links to its homepage, how to set it up and so on.

NGO specific

general SOHO requirements

Software Categories

Team Organisation / Information Services

Category

What

Software

More info

Status / Comments

Organisation of Team Info

Moin Moin Wiki (Docs)

http://moinmo.in/

used for wiki.ubuntu.com - python

Team Mailing lists

Mailman (Docs)

http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/

powers lists.ubuntu.com

Project management

Planner

http://live.gnome.org/Planner

Office Productivity

Category

What

Software

More info

Status / Comments

Productivity Suite

OpenOffice.org (Docs)

http://openoffice.org

equivalent of Word/Excel/PowerPoint

Finance/Accounting

GnuCash (Docs)

http://www.gnucash.org/

equivalent of Quicken

E-mail/Calendar

Evolution (Docs)

http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/

equivalent of Outlook

Desktop Publishing

Scribus (Docs)

http://www.scribus.net/

equivalent of Publisher

Graphics Editor

The GIMP (Docs)

http://www.gimp.org/

equivalent of Photoshop

Design/Drawing

Inkscape (Docs)

http://www.inkscape.org/

equivalent of Illustrator

Web

Category

What

Software

More info

Status / Comments

Content Management

Drupal (Docs)

http://drupal.org

Open source web content management platform

Others

For further information on choosing software to meet your needs, check out the following sites:

Things to Investigate / Work in Progress

  • Useful software
    • finance/accounting
    • project management/team collaboration

    • frontlinesms link

  • Software that is currently being packaged: NGO/ApplicationPackaging

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NGO/Software (last edited 2009-12-08 15:27:01 by i59F73B54)