Re: [IxDA Discuss] alternate to Basecamp?

2009-03-11 Thread Gaurav Mathur
Try OpenGoo, a simple yet powerful tool. http://www.opengoo.org/ Great for small to medium sized offices but you need to maintain it yourself on your server. Gaurav Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to th

Re: [IxDA Discuss] alternate to Basecamp?

2009-03-10 Thread Barbara Ballard
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Will Evans wrote: > There is a web based application whose name escapes me right now but I heard > about it through twitter - something about 5 minutes before 5pm, or some > such thing that at least seemed like the user experience was better, more > thought through

Re: [IxDA Discuss] alternate to Basecamp?

2009-03-10 Thread Will Evans
There is a web based application whose name escapes me right now but I heard about it through twitter - something about 5 minutes before 5pm, or some such thing that at least seemed like the user experience was better, more thought through than the developer-designed Basecamp. If that jogs

Re: [IxDA Discuss] alternate to Basecamp?

2009-03-10 Thread Dustin DiTommaso
The Behance action method also has a cool iphone app which so far has been great for aligning my personal tasks. I haven't used it much for delegation or team tracking yet. http://www.actionmethod.com/iPhone_Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] alternate to Basecamp?

2009-03-09 Thread Nasir Barday
ProjectPier is an open-source branch of the now-commercialized activeCollab, originally conceived as a Basecamp alternative. I'm trying out installations of ProjectPier for IxDA's project management and for another project as well. It's only been a few weeks, but the initial experience has been goo

Re: [IxDA Discuss] alternate to Basecamp?

2009-03-09 Thread Andrea Lewis
I second 'votes for Google Sites my only warning, there is a file storage limit for individual accounts of 100MB (if you have Gmail/Google Enterprise, I think you get a bit more space). I have used Basecamp many times and it usually became a gloried file-storage system, not much information sh

Re: [IxDA Discuss] alternate to Basecamp?

2009-03-09 Thread eva kaniasty
Try google sites. Also, Backpack, which is also made by 37signals, is more along the lines of what you're looking for. -eva On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Heather Anderson < heather.ander...@disney.com> wrote: > www.actionmethod.com is similar to basecamp, but with more designer > feel to it

Re: [IxDA Discuss] alternate to Basecamp?

2009-03-09 Thread Heather Anderson
www.actionmethod.com is similar to basecamp, but with more designer feel to it and greater functionality. The other one, which I think might suit you best, is Google Sites: http://sites.google.com/ Here you can insert docs, presentations, spreadsheets, images, photo slide shows, forms, etc... an

Re: [IxDA Discuss] alternate to Basecamp?

2009-03-09 Thread Adrian Howard
On 9 Mar 2009, at 15:20, Hope Turner wrote: My company is looking for an alternate solution for posting files to share with our clients. Currently we're using Basecamp and it is good, but has it’s limitations. We like the ‘forum’ nature of it but it good do with some tweaks. I think the bigges

Re: [IxDA Discuss] alternate to Basecamp?

2009-03-09 Thread Keith Kmett
We have been evaluating Redmine, http://www.redmine.org/ It can integrate with e-mail and SVN and has a similar interface as Basecamp. So far it is a good project management tool and issue tracker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org

Re: [IxDA Discuss] alternate to Basecamp?

2009-03-09 Thread Brian Hoadley
Have you tried Huddle? You can find it at http://www.huddle.net. I'm trialing it now. Can't vouch just yet, but it came highly recommended and I like it so far. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39672

[IxDA Discuss] alternate to Basecamp?

2009-03-09 Thread Hope Turner
My company is looking for an alternate solution for posting files to share with our clients. Currently we're using Basecamp and it is good, but has it’s limitations. We like the ‘forum’ nature of it but it good do with some tweaks. I think the biggest downfall (forgive me if I’m wrong, I have only