This is the first post about an ongoing computer group project – in this case, it’s a CLASSE service for managing projects at the lab. This service may be available for all lab users in the future.

For a while now, we’ve been looking for a software package to help us manage complex long-term projects. Among our requirements are that it be low-cost, low-maintenance, easy to use, and easy to control access to. Several options that we considered — Microsoft Project, GLPI, Basecamp — failed on one or more of these criteria.

The best option we have found so far is a web-based project management platform called activeCollab. You can read about it on their website: https://www.activecollab.com/features.html. While  we’re not using all the Cloud features, we are using an onsite version. At the moment, we are evaluating the system and considering a workflow for everyone at the lab.

We imagine two use cases for this sort of tool.

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