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Collaborative software or groupware is designed to help people working on a common task to attain their goals. Groupware often regroups multiple services such as file sharing, calendar/events management, address books… in a single, integrated application.

Zimbra Collaboration

Email, calendar, collaboration server with Web interface and lots of integrations.
  • Source Code: GitHub
  • License: GPL-2.0 / CPAL-1.0
  • Tech Stack: Java

egroupware

Software suite including calendars, address books, notepad, project management tools, client relationship management tools (CRM), knowledge management tools, a wiki and a CMS.
  • Source Code: GitHub
  • License: GPL-2.0
  • Tech Stack: PHP

SOGo

SOGo offers multiple ways to access the calendaring and messaging data. CalDAV, CardDAV, GroupDAV, as well as ActiveSync, including native Outlook compatibility and Web interface.

Tine

Software for digital collaboration in companies and organizations. From powerful groupware functionalities to clever add-ons, tine combines everything to make daily team collaboration easier.
  • Source Code: GitHub
  • License: AGPL-3.0
  • Tech Stack: Docker

Group Office

Enterprise CRM and groupware tool. Share projects, calendars, files and e-mail online with co-workers and clients.
  • Source Code: GitHub
  • License: AGPL-3.0
  • Tech Stack: PHP

Lightweight Groupware

Citadel

Groupware including email, calendar/scheduling, address books, forums, mailing lists, IM, wiki and blog engines, RSS aggregation and more.
  • Source Code: citadel.org
  • License: GPL-3.0
  • Tech Stack: C, Docker, Shell

Modern Collaboration Platforms

Colanode

Collaboration suite with real-time messaging, rich text pages, file management, and dynamic databases - built for offline work (alternative to Slack, Notion).
  • Source Code: GitHub
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Tech Stack: K8S, Docker

Cozy Cloud

Personal cloud where you can manage and sync your files, notes, contacts, passwords, and documents.
  • Source Code: GitHub | Clients
  • License: GPL-3.0
  • Tech Stack: Nodejs

Tracim

Collaborative Platform for team collaboration: file, threads, notes, agenda, etc.
  • Source Code: GitHub
  • License: AGPL-3.0 / LGPL-3.0 / MIT
  • Tech Stack: Python

Educational Collaboration Tools

The following tools are designed for educational settings and have French documentation.

Digipad

An online self-hosted application for creating collaborative digital notepads (Documentation in french).
  • Source Code: Codeberg
  • License: AGPL-3.0
  • Tech Stack: Nodejs

Digistorm

Create collaborative surveys, quizzes, brainstorms, and word clouds (documentation in French).

Digiwall

Create multimedia collaborative walls for in-person or remote work (documentation in French).
  • Source Code: Codeberg
  • License: AGPL-3.0
  • Tech Stack: Nodejs

Video Conferencing Groupware

Openmeetings

Video conferencing, instant messaging, whiteboard, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools using API functions of the Red5 Streaming Server for Remoting and Streaming.
  • Source Code: GitHub
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Tech Stack: Java

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