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Table of Content

• Tools
  • Operating System
  • Office, Collaboration & Cloud
  • Collaborative Decision Making
  • Social Intranet
  • E-mail
  • Project Management
  • Messaging
    • Video Conferencing
  • Publishing
  • Broadcasting & Streaming
  • CMS (Content Management System)
  • ERP/CRM
  • Data
    • Data Management
    • Visualisation
    • Geo
    • Healthcare
• Guides
  • Wordpress
  • Lists
• Thanks

Tools

Operating System

• Ubuntu - Very user-friendly distribution of GNU/Linux for desktop computers

Office, Collaboration & Cloud

• LibreOffice - Full, open source office suite
• Nextcloud - Awesome self-hosted full GSuite alternative with encryption and collaboration suite
• Syncthing - Torrent-like federated cloud storage (and collaboration suite)
• Doodle - Collaborative meeting/event scheduler (Freemium & Commercial)

Collaborative Decision Making

• Loomio - Free and open-source collaborative decision making and forum software
• Consul - Free and open-source collaborative decision making and budgeting software used by many government bodies all around the world.
• Decidim - free open-source participatory democracy for cities and organizations

Social Intranet

• HumHub - Semi open-source social intranet software
• Elgg - Well documented, free and open-source social intranet software

E-mail

• Google for Nonprofits - Google's services for nonprofits including Gsuite(Freemium)
• Yandex.Mail for Domian - Free Yandex Mail service up to 1000 inboxes(Freemium)

Project Management

• Trello - Easy to use, kanban style collaborative project management system(Freemium & Commercial)
• Taiga - Open source project management project software
• OpenProject - Open soruce project management software written with Ruby
• Redmine - Fully-featured, free and open-source project management software written in Ruby on Rails

Messaging

• Slack for Nonprofits - 85% discount on Slack plans(Freemium & Commercial)
• Mattermost - Semi open-source Slack alternative
• Riot - Open source, secure, decentarilized chat system
• Ring - Open source, secure Skype replacement

Video Conferencing

• Jitsi - Jitsi is a set of open-source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure videoconferencing solutions.

Publishing

• Scribus - Fully featured, free and open-source desktop publishing tool

Broadcasting & Streaming

• OBS - Free and open source video recording and live streaming tool.

CMS (Content Management System)

• Wordpress - World's most famous open source CMS
• Drupal - Open-source security-first approach CMS
• Joomla! - An award-winning free and open source CMS
• TYPO3 - Fully featured and reliable, free, open source enterprise CMS

ERP/CRM

• CiviCRM - Open source CRM system for NGOs works on Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla
• Odoo - Semi-open source ERP(Commercial Software)
• ERPNext - Open source fully featured ERP written in Python
• Tendenci - Free and open-source fully featured association management software including membership management, recurring donations, event management, website builder, human resources management and many more

Data

• HDX - Humanitarian Data Exchange
• Open Data Kit - Open Data Kit community produces free and open-source software for collecting, managing, and using data in resource-constrained environments.
• Ona - Open source data collection platform
• KoBoToolbox - Open source data collection toolset

Data Management

• Casebox - Open source case management and organization-wide collaboration software
• Nuxeo - Semi open-source content management system for business applications
• Primero - Primero is an open-source application designed to help child protection workers and social workers in humanitarian and development contexts manage data on vulnerable children and survivors of violence.

Visualisation

• Redash - Open-source business intelligence & data visualizer
• Metabase - Data Visualizer with wide support for many databases
• Google DataStuido - Google's data visualization platform(Freemium & Commercial)
• Tableau Public - Free Tableau services for public(Freemium)

Geo

• Ushahidi - Awesome geo data content managment & collection system
• Sahana EDEN - Open source disaster management software
• MissingMaps
  • MapSwipe - Open source mobile apps for missingmaps project
• OpenMapKit - Open Data Collection Platform
• OpenStreetMaps - Open source extensive mapping solutions
• Cadasta - An open and flexible suite of mobile and web based tools designed to help users collect, manage, and store land and resource rights data
• GeoNode - Free and open-source geospatial content management system written in Django

Healthcare

• HospitalRun - Free and open-source healthcare/hospital management software
• OpenMRS - Free and open-source medical record system

Guides

Wordpress

• NonprofitWP - Complete wordpress guide for nonprofits
• awesome-wordpress - Yet another awesome project for Wordpress

Lists

• HFOSS - Yet another curated list of Humanitarian Free Open Source Softwares

Thanks

• Awesome Project - For this awesome project
• awesome-postgres - For their contribution guidelines
• P2P Foundation - For the motto