Software Overview
There's a lot of open source software available for helping a place like Free Geek run. Here are the choices we made:
Off the shelf software choices
- Base Distribution -- Debian
- Wiki -- MediaWiki
- Issue Tracker -- RT
- Mailing List software -- Mailman
- Web mail -- Squirrelmail
- IMAP -- Courier
- Web server -- Apache
- Database server -- PostgreSQL
Custom software
- FGdb -- The database we use for maintaining gizmo inventory, contact information, volunteer work, and sales and donation receipts. Written in PHP against a PostgreSQL database backend.
- FGdiag -- Scripts that our volunteers use to test incoming gizmos. Written in python. (Also updates FGdb.)
- FreekBox -- Our customization of debian that we load on computers we give away.