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A curated list of FOSS (Free and Open-source Software), freemium tools and guides for NGOs

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Table of Content

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

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

Lists

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

Thanks