This is Forrest saying Hi to All from Malaysia.

I just like the community spirit of this wonderful and useful app.

I get to know aC from Emily’s eHub

All my best wishes to the journey of aC

Hey, Kelly from Los Angeles.

I’m a frelance graphic designer, using it to help me manage all my projects. I’m only using it for myself right now, but will probably open it up to clients after .7.

I can’t remember where aC popped up from, I read a ton of stuff in RSS every day.

I’m loving the tagging right now, and really looking forward to versioning and rss feeds (I’m an rss junkie).

I got behind TextPattern back in the day, and this has a very similar vibe behind it, so I’m happy to use it and contribute whatever little I can.

Hi,

I have setup a test drive of active-collab to checkout whether it could work with our webconferencing solution.

I like your app, but I feel the design could be improved. But this is something that is always easy to do (the hard stuff is building the whole thing).

I am really interested to see whether we could both pieces (webconference solution http://www.e-presenter.biz) and your collaboration solution together.

The e:presenter is build with a complete different technology (.net), but maybe there are some opportunities here.

1. My name is Lopo and I’m from Portugal.
2. I’m using aC for my projects and also in the project partnership. In the palnning is using it for other F/OSS project’s management. It helps although a few little thingies are missing ;)
3. I heard of aC on the web
4. What I love most is the simplicity and what I miss most is the plugin and API and a few little things I already mentioned in the forums. 5. These, mainly the API, will allow to interface this with vTiger and WebERP to proper costumer management.
5. Thanks a lot for your efforts. Have along and prosperous life :)

My name is Halmat and I’m from London, UK. I’m using activeCollab for my own freelancing work and for working as web designer in a small company fitness company.

Hello all, My name is Jason and I am from Ohio, USA.

We have a test system setup up right now running on IIS 6.0, PHP 5, and MySQL 5. We are a .NET design shop so we don’t have much experience with PHP/MySQL and it took us a bit to get everything working on Windows Server, but it is running and the bugs we have found are being addressed in 0.7.

Heard about aC on an RSS feed, don’t remember which one. The thing we like best is the simplicity. The other apps we used had too much. aC seems to have just enough features and a simple to use interface. Good job! Don’t add too many features and if you do make them modular so they can be disabled. Simple is good.

Keep up the good work. I wish we could contribute more, but our programming skills are in MS languages. Anything beyond basic scripting in PHP is out of our scope. We will be able to add themes when support for simple themes is working or we may even look into creating a .NET port if anyone is interested.

Thank you again for the hard work! Great app!

Hello everyone, My name is mano from the emerald city Seattle

Heard about AC VIA Techcrunch
What I like most about AC besides it being open source is the good foundation it has which will allow for many diffrent scenarios
of use.

The future looks pretty exciting ! Thanks for all your great worked it is appreciated :)

* Ken from Newark, NJ.
* I’m using activeCollab in three categories of work, but to accomplish the same thing. In my home life, side work, and now my day-job, I’m using aC to track my projects and store thoughts. It’s essentially replaced Backpack and Basecamp for me.
* I came over from Digg.
* Loving: tagging, markdown, unlimited messages and task lists. Missing: fun GUI from Backpack/Basecamp. Not Groking: forms—how do they work exactly?
* THANK YOU for building this project. I needed this about three years ago. :) Also, a future thought might be to use aC to put a public face on a project. In other words, would it be possible to use it to build a public wiki or website? Not critical, but maybe fun.

1. Simon from Plymouth, United Kingdom (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=plymouth)

2. I am a freelance web developer and and currently testing the application but as soon as 0.7 arrives I will be letting my clients loose on it.

3. I heard about activeCollab on a freelancers discussion list I belong to at http://workalone.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/wauk_workalone.co.uk

4. The main missing feature for me is the ability for my clients to assign tasks to me and to be able to create new projects themselves without my intervention.

Overall considering this is a early release that I have been playing with I think it is a great application and some great potential with the ability to still improve. Best of all I like the fact that it is opensource which means that you actually listen to the feedback from your users and consider implementing common requirements from your user community.

Hello : françois from France,

* I’ve just met aC and found that it can help me a lot in my web projects

* I heard about aC when I was searching a collaborative tool to work with Textpattern or SPIP (CMS)

* I’m new with this kind of tool and I must admit that I don’t understand all the features of aC : so my request will be a tutoriel !!! and the internationnalisation (that will be in the future versions)

* For now : very great tool and thank for your job

I’m Nathan from Philadelphia, PA USA. We’re using aC to manage 6 projects right now, and have opened it to some clients and contractors. It’s already been a great help, just in terms of document sharing. We recently mapped out one project fully, using milestones and tasks, and are beginning to use it that way as well.

I heard about aC in a post on Tech Crunch.

Most useful so far has been document sharing, in a clean, attractive format that’s easy for clients to use. Looking forward to having that be a little more powerful, including revisions and folders.

Really looking forward to time tracking and an API. My first use for an API would be to hook into a del.icio.us list so a project can keep a shared bookmark set and view them from within aC. Also had one user already asking me for RSS feed.

Another thing I’d really like would be if aC could manage an email discussion list. Since it already knows the email addresses of everyone on the project, I’d like to send email to projectname@mydomain.com and have it bounce to all project participants, as well as being archived under a tab within aC. I guess it could be done just by displaying an RSS feed from an RSS-enabled webmail account, but tighter integration would be nice. Might get the time to implement that ourselves. We’ll have to see.

Overall, I really, really appreciate the project and am looking forward to seeing (and hopefully helping) it grow!

Hello. My name is jonas… I think weazer sang about me once, but I could be wrong.

I profess to be a Interactive Designer / Developer, and others perhaps would tell you the same. -But that might be just a sick rumor.

I just installed active collab for web projects. I did a search for “basecamp clones” and this is what came up. Currently for project management, I use just a plain old phpbb board, and post the clients name as a category. Seems to work well, but I am open to other project management tools. I have tried out several (like basecamp and dotprojects.)

What I would like to see is simple, clean, easy to use UI that is intuitive and easy to get around it. I would also like to see some ajax driven components to it as well. I am willing to help out with the UI if interested, as that is what I do. So far, it isn’t bad, but I think there can be better improvements. – For example, instead of recent activities listed at the front of a project, have a to do list listed – with perhapes the assigned persons name beside the task. I think perhaps something that outlines the overall project into groups, tasks and milestones: like a flochart diagram or a hiererchal outline…

Again, just some thoughts.

I currently use discussion boards to post complayouts, logo comps etc for my clients and they give me feedback right on the thread. I works out great. I’ll even give you access to the forums if you are interested in seeing how it works.

For Active Collab I would not like to see it be another basecamp, but a project management tool that kicks basecamps @$$.

nabeel, 20 univeristy student, but doing web programming for one of the school’s divisions

using it to keep track of my to-do lists on some of the big projects…i forget easily ;) so it helps keep track of things i need to do. also people looking at the projects, when they see something, they can easily log in a task as a suggestion and it gets put into the right place (woo for forms! haha)

saw it on digg actually, while looking for a good project manager

features..hm, its shaping up really nicely. would be nice to mark tasks as doen etc without having the leave the page (more ajax etc), but otherwise, it hink i posted a nice “feature” suggestion list not too long ago :)

Hello all,
I’m Robert Shedd, from just outside of Philadelphia, PA, USA. I’m using aC to manage projects within my web development consulting firm – we switched over from using tools like PHPCollab and Basecamp. I’m getting things setup and plan to open it to contractors and clients soon, probably on our next large project. I found it via Digg and TechCrunch and have effectively used it to supplant my Basecamp setup. I’ve been quite pleased with the setup, though, as was mentioned above, I do miss some of the AJAX enhancements that Basecamp had. They helped to streamline the workflow. I’m looking forward to the new file management capacity that’s coming in the next version. The API should be great, too. I also liked the suggestion above about using aC to manage email discussions – this would be helpful, to archive all of a project’s email communication into the project, so that it would be more searchable as part of the ongoing project record. Something like a Google Groups setup… Additionally, if people could suggest features/additions/etc. to the project and then have links in the email to automatically take action on the aspects suggested – i.e. create a task from this email…

We’re looking forward to seeing where the development effort goes next!

Love to hear the amazing ways this project is being used.

I had a different interpretation of this project when I heard about. After I installed it, I was disappointed. Nevertheless, I played around and I loved it.

Now I have five internet projects i want to do. This is the best way to get organized.

I never thought this project could be used for home stuff or school stuff. Now I am in love with aC just for broadening my scope.

I would like to help out with this project, but dont know where to get started.

Aniket here from Mumbai, India

Am currently testing aC on my laptop and using it to track my everyday tasks. We want something simple that lets us track projects easily. aC seems to work well.

Just 2 small feature that would make it really great.. 1. ability to specify how much of a task is completed and 2. the ability to set a deadline for a task

Hello!
Martin Smith – East Yorkshire UK. Trying to get ActiveCollab adopted by the company I work for… no luck yet :( Denis Radenkovic (38one.com) pointed me in your direction. Can’t wait for Time Tracking :) I think that’ll be the point when my boss finally concedes to using ActiveCollab.

Hello from Switzerland! My name is Serge, and I lurk as CitizenK in the forums.

aC hit my radar from del.icio.us, probably from its ‘popular’ page, but I don’t remember it exactly since this was quite some time ago (aC was still in its pre-0.6 days IIRC).

Does aC help me? You bet it does! As an indipendent web developer and freelance journalist, I use it both privately and professionaly to keep track of many projects. I opened it to some selected friends, too, and my private aC installation is now used by a music band to organise their concerts, by a theatre (not a cinema) for their representations and by a future local association to help itself getting started.

Where aC really shines, however, is in quite a big project I’m currently involved in. We used it very confidently (and not at all officially) for the refection of the Swiss Federal Administration’s website (www.admin.ch/index.html?lang=en). When migrating an old, hand-maintained, half-a-million pages site to a CMS, aC has litterally saved our souls many times over! So much so, that we use a tad bit less unofficially for the migration of the Federal Office for the Environment’s website too (www.umwelt-schweiz.ch/buwal/eng/index.html). I would be very surprised if aC will eventually be adopted by the administration, however our small team makes quite a good publicity of our ‘secret weapon’, so who knows? For know, we enjoy the efficiency and the edge it gives us.

As for features, one of the main advantages and attractions of aC is its versatility hidden behind an apparent semplicity. Keep it unbloated, and it will rise and shine!
For personalisation needs, a rock-solid API and a plugin system will give anybody the possibility to transform its aC installation in a jack-of-all-trades if he/she wishes so, or to keep it simple and mean. When those planned features eventually will appear, I’m sure aC will really take off.

Thank you Ilija for your fantastic work!

Hi from Jim in Minnesota, US!! Stumbled onto ActiveCollab a couple weeks ago. So far I’m totally impressed. I’m using it to manage 6 smaller development projects as well as a bunch of personal stuff. Please continue to focus on quality, consistency, and usability.

I really like what this project is right now—but I’m WAY excited about what it could be. Keep up the great work!!

ActiveCollab has just robbed Basecamp of my business.
I have anywhere from 10-50 active projects at any given time. ActiveCollab makes it so easy to manage it all, and keep clients informed.

Be Cool

Hello From Frank in Tucson Arizona,
I am the IT/everything person for a small but growing multidiscplinary healthcare organization. I started out as the massage therapist and gradually became more and more of a geek. My underlying genetic predisposition finally won out. I use Basecamp at work and would like to switch to aC (which I found on del.icio.us/popular) but my users are not ready for another change yet.
I am also a meditation geek and am developing a realtime online meditation environment called metagami.org (not live yet). I am implementing aC on my website for a community board of directors I sit on.
After struggling to learn Basecamp, aC was a cinch. I do not know how it is for new users.
I have no feature suggestions yet.. just gratitude. Thanks Very very much!

Hi,

I’m Simon Wakeman – marketing, PR and internet professional from Whitstable, Kent in south-east England.

I use ActiveCollab to keep track of a large number of consultancy projects at once. I used to use Basecamp but much prefer a solution I can host.

I heard about Active Collab from a google search.

The current functionality is great and does most things I need. I think for future the ability to write plug-ins would be great – this would allow integration with best-of-breed solutions that would add to the functionality of ActiveCollab – for example basecamp has writeboards (collaborative writing tool) – to be able to plug in Writely or something similar would be very useful.

Thanks for this tool – I’ve always wondered why it hadn’t been done, and now you’ve done it with style

cheers,
Simon

I use aC for my small web development company, it really helps with communicating with clients, who for some reason all seem to be from the UK, so there is a 5 hour time difference with us.

Hi everybody,

My name is Carlos Paramio, and I’m a spanish freelance, web development expert. I use activeCollab for the projects of my own studio: Evolve (http://www.evolve.st/). I knew about it through barrapunto, an open source (and other topics) related blog.

I’ve translated all the strings for activeCollab 0.6 to spanish. If anybody is interested, he/she could write me at info [dot] evolve [at] gmail [dot] com, and I will sent him/her. This is because Ilija is working on a new way for localization to work, so this language translation will not be “officially released” ;-) I hope can help on translation of 0.7 release.

Regards,
Carlos

Hello All,

Great job Ilija. I’m Travell Perkins, from a _Big_Bank_ in Boston. I work in the software development group and we are a big user of Rational/IBM. With VMware server, a dual cpu box with a gig of RAM, rPath LAMP server stripped down, XAMPP, Subversion, and activeCollab I accomplished the following:
– All random email attachments of email stopped in the group – Use of the inferior Rational tool stopped – A failing year old application got reimplemented in 1 month – Biz stakeholders download demo builds from activeCollab

Its like the IBM “take control” ads without the IBM price tag. I’m working on the next generation of a 4 year old Swing/J2EE RIA framework that will be released to open source very soon, www.swervespot.org, I hope to use activeCollab in some way.

A couple nice o haves:
– Make admin more granular (I assign admin rights to my project managers, so whole projects “could” get wiped given the right circumstances)
– Allow a place to override the names of labels (that with a sound plugin api could make activeCollab the end all be all)
– Find a small AJAX library that does the div replacement trick and call it a day
– Add a simple document centric XML:80 interface so big places don’t get scared by using it
– Percentage/Velocity based time tracking to go along with tasks would be really great
– Figure out a good way to make some cheddar cheese off this thang

-T

Hello Friends,
I am Arun,from INDIA, we are using active collab as our project managment tool for our parent company in US.

I came to know about activecollab from my project manager,he asked me to to install a new instance of it.

As I am a very new person to this field I find great difficulty in installing.How ever the forum and Illija is helping me a lot.

Regards
Arun

I’m Rob, I’m a software/web applications developer in Boston, MA.

I’m currently evaluating active collab for my company (and personal) use – it looks like it fits the bill for most of the requirements that we’ve got so far.

When researching basecamp, I noticed activeCollab being mentioned a lot, so I checked it out.

I’m using the 0.7 beta, I find the file management system to be a vast improvement – it was one of the areas that I noticed that I’d probably have to customize, you basically did what I would have done. I’m not sure about features that might be missing – perhaps being able to set up a default landing page for client login (instead of seeing a list of tasks/milestones, recent events, etc.), also a tutorial on creating skins/template for aC would be über.

Agreed with Travell Perkins – find yourself a way to make some change from this. It’s a great product so far, I’m still dumbfounded that it’s OSS. Well done!

Hi, I’m Denis, freelance web-developer from Ukraine, Kharkov.
I use activeCollab for my freelance projects. I found info about it at Google search. Things what I missed are RSS, time tracking and AJAX knickknacks :), also I think there is reason to add some AJAX based chat and invite feature. If you need some help you can ask, I have experience with building valid XHTML/CSS pages, programming PHP, haven’t a lot experience with OOP design, but I working on that :) My site available only in russian now.

Hi, I’m Joey, developer in Dallas. I followed a link from LifeHacker.

I’ve been keeping up with all the to-do list companies like BaseCamp, but today’s the first time I’ve even heard of aC. I set it up on my Powerbook and it’s sweet. Nice job. I’ll be using it to manage my personal projects and any freelance business I get. I’m sure it’ll help manage my tasks. I’ve been building my own solution, but it takes a while to get so many features. I’ll be usng aC and possibly integrating my app as a module.

I think the most useful features are just keeping track of tasks. And I would like to see easier access to my tasks.

I would like to help coding. I’ll send an email to Ilija with my contact information.

Good job guys.

My name is Joshua Olson. I live in Interlochen, MI and work from home.

I am using activeCollab to manage a complicated project I’ve recently been contracted to do and it helps a lot.

Not sure where I heard about aC, but I remembered it when I needed a free PM solution.

I like the current version. It is smooth and easy to use. Very intuitive UI compared to other similar products.

I would like to see the following at some point:
Dates for tasks (when due, when started, etc)
Timeline based on any given project’s tasks and milestones
Ability to skin (not a huge priority)
Ability to have company logo appear on all pages

That’s all I can think of. Great work. I will use this for a long time to come. You rule!

Hi there! Im from Ukraine. using script to collaborate with my partnerts. pretty good sollution you made, thnks.

Dates for tasks will be great feature :)

Hi,
My name is Leonardo I’m from Brazil working with SAP Business One implementation projects.

I’m just known AC and I’m really impressed ! In a couple of minutes I’ve stalled everything and it’s working fine! You did a great job, I have to say !

My plans are to use it to control my implementation projects and my team activities (15 people).

I found AC when looking to alternatives to BC.

A killer feature would be TIME TRACKING !

I have just set up AC for Common Ground Collective, a major relief organization in New Orleans.

There is still a lot of cleanup and support work to do here for survivors of Katrina, but as the immediacy of the work has diminished, there is a greater need for organization.

I am hoping that this will be a great tool to help the organization continue to grow and remain strong.

CommonGroundCollective

Ken here from Shanghai China. I got to know of aC from a friend’s recommendation. Initially I didn’t look at it because of the requirements, namely PHP5 and InnoDB.

I’m testing it for use at our design and development company SinoDot Our company had grown to from dealing with single project to multiple projects at the same time. We will be testingit internally and prehaps roll out to clients.

So far it look really good and I’m looking forward to make some contribution back to this project where possible.

Keep up the great work!

Hi, I am an attorney at a small law firm in Chicago, Lakeshore Law Group. The firm consists of two partners apart from myself.

I set up activeCollab on an internal server for us to use to manage our different cases. Each case or transaction is its own project, and certain internal administrative matters also get their own projects.

We are gradually phasing in aC, using it more exclusively as an alternative to the individual email/Outlook/Google-calendar mashup that we (and most other law firms) rely on.

Soon, we envision expanding our use of aC to include giving clients access to view progress on cases, monitor deadlines and court hearings, and add and reply to messages.

I have a working knowledge of php/mysql so setup was pretty straightforward.

The top priority items for me to see added into future versions of aC are time tracking, billing/invoicing, and calendar.