OpenProject

Judgement

What it is

Complete system

What it does

Project and portfolio management with work packages, Gantt charts, agile boards, time and cost tracking, wikis and meetings.

Adopt it when

An organisation, especially in the public sector or EU, needs classic project management with data sovereignty.

Watch out

Some features are Enterprise-only, and the Rails stack is heavy to self-host.

Ready for

Production-ready

Runs as

Self-hosted server and cloud service

Built with

Ruby, Rails, TypeScript, Angular and PostgreSQL

How established

Established: started 14 years ago, latest release v17.9.6.

What the license allows

Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: OpenProject → Ruby → GCC → LLVM project → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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