Hi everyone,
as this is the first post to the blog, here’s some general information about the project. First of all, the project is called CMapp, which stands for Contract Management Application (not to be confused with the infamous CMApp trojan ). CMapp has been in existence since August 2005 and is currently in version 0.2 (version 0.1 can be downloaded from Sourceforge but this is not recommended as it is a buggy release and is quite unfinished). OK – so much to the quick description – CMapp lives at http://cmapp.sourceforge.net and can be downloaded either from the Snapshot Repository on the homepage or, much better, from CVS.
CMapp intends to fill a gap in open source applications – there are only a couple of open source document management applications and none of them seem particularly suited to multi-user environments. CMapp intends to appeal to enterprises as well as to smaller businesses and individuals, which made it necessary to incorporate a database infrastructure (MySQL) as well as a server side language (PHP). Use of a server/client environment means that CMapp needs only be installed once (preferably on an Apache 2 server running on linux) and all users access it through their web browsers.
More information on CMapp is available from the homepage (there is even some developer’s documentation available, though this has to be expanded upon). If you are interested in finding out more, or, better still, in helping out, have a look at the Sourceforge project page and think about signing up on the mailing list.
Hope to hear from you soon
Ciaran
CMapp Maintainer
