OpenGoo is an Open Source Web Office software that allows a group of people to collaborate by sharing information over the Internet. It is a complete solution for every organization to create, collaborate, share and publish all its internal and external documents (kind of Microsoft Office but on the web).
Members of an organization can create and collaborate on:
- Text documents
- Presentations
- Task Lists
- E-mails
- Calendars
- Web Links and
- Contacts
OpenGoo provides you with all the tools to manage the work of all the divisions of your company. You can plan and manage all your projects, easily following the status of every task, set milestones, pending tasks, personal notes etc.
OpenGoo can run on XAMPP installations. It can be installed, configured and used with Firefox 2+ and Internet Explorer 7+. It currently requires:
You might want to check out a demo of Opengoo here.
Step by Step Installation Guide
Here, I’m test installing Opengoo on localhost using XAMPP (an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use – just download, extract and start.).
Before installing OpenGoo make sure that your server matches these requirements:
- OpenGoo needs PHP5, not PHP4. If your server is running PHP4 you will get an error message during the installation process saying: Installation error: in order to run OpenGoo you need PHP5. Your current PHP version is: 4.x.x.
- OpenGoo consumes about 10 MB of memory. If your server is set to the standard memory limit of 8 MB you may get an error message during the installation process saying: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted. This can be solved by setting memory_limit=32 in php.ini.
- OpenGoo nees a MySQL database server with InnoDB support.
Installation
- Download OpenGoo from Opengoo.org.
- Unpack the downloaded archive on your local harddrive and upload the files to your web server using an FTP client like FileZilla.
- Create a new MySQL database for OpenGoo using your preferred database administration tool like phpMyAdmin.
- Direct your browser to http://www.yourdomain.com/some_directory/opengoo/public/install and follow the installation procedure.
Step1
The installation wizard should look as follows,
To proceed, click the “Next” button.
Step 2
Now the installer checks your web server environment for,
- The PHP version installed (must be version 5.x)
- Some necessary PHP extensions and the access rights (writable) of some directories within the OpenGoo installation folder
If you get green messages as shown in the screenshot above then everything should be fine. Click the “Next” button to proceed.
Step 3
Here you enter the parameters of the MySQL database where OpenGoo will store its data.
Step 4
This step is to tell you what happened during the installation process and that Opengoo has been installed successfully.
Click the “Finish” button to quit the installer.
Creating an admin user
Right after the installer quits you are prompted to create a user account with administration privileges for your new OpenGoo installation.
Note: Please note down the username and the password of this account. Without this information you won’t be able to log into your OpenGoo installation.
To create more user accounts, you can use the administration panel within OpenGoo.
The company name you enter here is the owner company of your OpenGoo installation. This can be an organization or a group of people as well. You can change this fields later if necessary.
Dashboard
The dashboard would be your one stop place to manage your personal notes, tasks, documents and workspaces. You can share events, links, documents etc. with other people and assign specific tasks to team members. Opengoo in short, is a perfect solution for every organization to create, collaborate, share and publish all its internal and external documents.
OpenGoo has plenty of competition in this field among the most powerful being Google Docs, Zoho, WebEx WebOffice, ThinkFree, Microsoft Ofifce Live Workspace (not to mention the omni-present Microsoft Office, desktop version and OpenOffice, the open-source desktop application).
Download it here or try the demo here.
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