EGroupware

**EGroupware**
Original author(s)	Joesph Engo
Developer(s)	Stylite AG
Initial release	August 17, 2004 (1.0.0)
Stable release	23.1.20240430 (April 30, 2024; 6 months ago) [±]
Preview release	None [±]
Written in	PHP, JavaScript
Operating system	Cross-platform
Available in	Multi-lingual
Type	Enterprise management system
License(s)	GNU General Public License v2.0
Website	EGroupware.org

EGroupware is web-based open-source enterprise and group management software. It is available in a free Community Edition and a fee-based commercial "EGroupware Enterprise Line" edition.

Product history

EGroupware's roots are based in a project called "webdistro," written and released by developer Joesph Engo as a home network solution in 1999 or early 2000. That project grew in scope shortly afterwards, with developer Dan Kuykendall joining with Engo to expand the ideas of webdistro. By September 2000 the duo were hard at work on a new version of the project, renamed phpGroupWare, with a goal to "provide companies/universities/individuals with a complete, secure and flexible web-based groupware application and framework for building their own customer applications."^[2]

Around August or September 2003, unhappiness with the development status of phpGroupWare manifested itself in the form of a fork of the project as eGroupWare. That fork was spearheaded by developers Lars Kneschke, Reiner Jung, Ralf Becker, and Pim Snel, giving the following statement^[3]:

We are deeply displeased and frustrated about the way the project works at the moment and we have articulated this several times. We learned from the list, that not everyone shares that opinion, which is their full right. As we can't change the existing phpGroupWare project, we think that fork is necessary to create the project we want to be part of.

The team had hoped for a version 1.0 release of the software by October 2003^[3]; however, the first stable 1.0.0 release didn't arrive until August 17, 2004.^[1] A few months before the 1.0.0 release, eGroupWare was awarded the Project of the Month award for May 2004 on SourceForge.^[4]

On March 30, 2005, the lead developers of the project voted to put into action a "constitution" to clarify how the project's administration and decision making would be handled.^[5] Sometime in mid-2008 the developers quietly began to start referencing the project as "EGroupware."^[6]