What is GroupServer?
GroupServer is an open source web application designed for building and managing online communities. It provides tools to help groups have collaborative conversations, share files and documents, post news updates, organize events and coordinate schedules.
Some key features of GroupServer include:
- Discussion forums - Build public, private or hidden conversation groups with topic-based discussion forums.
- Mailing lists - Create announcement and discussion mailing list groups.
- File sharing - Upload documents, images or other files to share within your groups.
- News posts - Allow group members to post news updates.
- Events calendar - Manage upcoming events, schedule group meetings.
- Flexible privacy - Make groups open, closed or hidden with granular privacy controls.
- Group homepage - Customizable homepage for each group's activity.
- Email notifications - Notify group members of new posts, files and events.
- RSS/Atom feeds - Subscribe to group updates via RSS or Atom feeds.
- Creative Commons content - Allow groups to share content under CC licenses.
GroupServer is built using the open source Zope application server and Python programming language. It can be self-hosted on your own servers or used as a hosted groupware service. The software is released under the GNU General Public License.