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A PMflex-based software solution for Germany's Federal Ministry for Digital and State Modernization (BMDS): Hackathon insights and outlook

A PMflex-based software solution for Germany's Federal Ministry for Digital and State Modernization (BMDS): Hackathon insights and outlook

What does a software solution look like that enables employees in the German federal administration to successfully prioritize, manage, implement, and report on strategic initiatives?…
Empowering the Public Sector with OpenProject: An Open Source alternative for project management

Empowering the Public Sector with OpenProject: An Open Source alternative for project management

At a time when digital sovereignty and transparency are essential for governmental institutions, OpenProject offers secure, open source project management and team collaboration software tailored to public…
Strong open source Jira and Confluence alternative: OpenProject and XWiki join forces

Strong open source Jira and Confluence alternative: OpenProject and XWiki join forces

We are delighted to announce our official partnership with XWiki. This adds another important milestone on our journey to establish a fully open, transparent, and data-sovereign ecosystem as a genuine…
Hacking Borders: Our participation in Hack Days 2025 in Paris

Hacking Borders: Our participation in Hack Days 2025 in Paris

Last month, we wrote a blog post about our participation in Hack Days 2025, a hackathon organized by the digital directorate of the French government, DINUM (direction interministérielle du numérique)…
The best open source alternative to Monday.com

The best open source alternative to Monday.com

If you are looking for a project management software and compare different solutions, you will eventually stumble upon Monday.com. We took a closer look at the software and compared it with the free open…
Accessibility at OpenProject: real progress, real impact

Accessibility at OpenProject: real progress, real impact

Do you know why we forked Redmine back in 2012? The reason was accessibility. At the time, Deutsche Telekom hired us to remove various barriers in Redmine. When the Redmine maintainers showed no interest…
For a sovereign digital Europe: OpenProject at HackDays Paris

For a sovereign digital Europe: OpenProject at HackDays Paris

How can open source tools from across Europe work better together? That’s the question OpenProject will explore at HackDays Paris, a hackathon organized by the French government’s DINUM, from June 2–4…
Top 5 open source project management software 2025

Top 5 open source project management software 2025

Finding the best project management software suited for your organization is a challenging task. We have put together the important criteria to help you make that choice. As an open source software, we…
Lasers in the micrometer range: OpenProject at 3D-Micromac in Chemnitz

Lasers in the micrometer range: OpenProject at 3D-Micromac in Chemnitz

Lasers are now the tool of choice when it comes to processing or creating very, very small structures. In areas below 5 micrometers, the selection of suitable tools is very small and the quality requirements…
How Chemnitz, European Capital of Culture 2025, manages hundreds of projects for the Digital Agenda with OpenProject

How Chemnitz, European Capital of Culture 2025, manages hundreds of projects for the Digital Agenda with OpenProject

Not just anyone can become a European Capital of Culture. Since 1985, the European Union has awarded this title to cities whose applications were convincing in six criteria of a multi-year selection process…
The future of project management is open source

The future of project management is open source

The time of closed, proprietary software is coming to an end. The future belongs to open source solutions. More and more organizations, especially in the public sector, are realizing the benefits and making…