Work Breakdown Structure, Gantt and Budget Template

While the quest for My Event continues I thought I’d share with you a super useful template for managing events.The template is based on Openproj
What is Openproj?
As for its website
“OpenProj is a free, open-source desktop alternative to Microsoft Project. OpenProj has been downloaded over 150,000 times in the first weeks since it was released and [...]

My Event the complete, free and open event management software

Sounds good right? Well we are working to make it happen.
Sourceforge has approved the project and we know have a space, a forum and several other tools to start working.
I invite you to have your say at the official My Event page
I already got positive feedback and I feel very motivated to [...]

The need for an Open Source Event Management software

I get tons of email asking me for a suggestion for a complete event management open-source software.
I must say I am a bit embarrassed with the subject because there is no complete solution for planning. There are a lot of good project management, paper submission, accounting, CRM, office suites softwares.
But not event management.
Event planning is [...]

Gantt chart video tutorial

I realize coming up with a Gantt chart could be a bit of an hassle if you are starting from zero.
I previously posted on how to make a Gantt chart, nonetheless I found also few videos on Youtube on how to create one in the easy to use Excel (pretty similar for those using Calc):

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If [...]

Toward a definition of Open Source Event Managemenent

What is open-source anyway? Well, have a look here . Now that we’ve defined the movement let’s try to make it more relevant.
The OS methodology has been applied over the years in different contexts, software being the most successful. But those more up to date would definitely know about the openCola, beer, etc.
I’ve talked before [...]