Acunote

Acunote for Google Summer of Code Projects

This year once again Pluron, Inc. is proud to offer unlimited unrestricted free access to Acunote for all Google Summer of Code program participants. Look at the official announcement on our company blog or visit our open source page to find out more.

Acunote Community Forum

We're launching the Acunote community forum at http://forum.acunote.com. We hope it will help you share your Acunote experience, talk about your thoughts and ideas on making Acunote better, find out the best ways to manage your projects with Acunote and discuss Scrum and other Agile methodologies and Agile Project Managment in general.

Acunote Launch Announcement

We are launching Acunote http://acunote.com, an Agile Project Management web application we've developed in Pluron, Inc. Pluron is a young Silicon Valley startup. We started out by making a product we wanted to use ourselves. We then worked hard to enhance it for our alpha users. Now, we are opening it to you.

Our users feedback is what shapes the product. We'll be continuing to engage Agile community and enhance Acunote based on your feedback. To help us do it, we are looking to hire an Agile Evangelist, please see below.

• General

  • Hosted web application, built using Ruby on Rails.

  • Lightweight by design -- we provide the tools, you bring your process. Ideally suited for Scrum, XP and other Agile methodologies.

• Features

  • All the basics -- sprints/iterations, backlog, tasks and burndown.

  • Flexible task hierarchies -- use them for user stories, story-trees, tasks, sub-tasks, bugs, etc. Never commit, mold your task list to your needs as your needs evolve.

  • 0-click analytics -- multiple burndown charts, per-team/user/tag progress report, when-will-I-be-done forecasting, hierarchy-based roll-up progress charts for parent tasks.

  • Integration with your existing bugtracker -- Bugzilla, Mantis, Trac, JIRA are supported.

  • Integration with Subversion (yes, over the network -- http, https, svn protocols) and Perforce.

  • Full peer code review functionality -- since with integrate with your SCM, you can review a changeset and comment on any line with a single click. From that point Acunote will manage this comment as a task.

  • Tags -- because relational is good. Define your own workflow and analyze it with tag-based analytics.

  • CSV export/import. Full-roundtrip change merging -- export, modify tasks in Excel, import and have Acunote reconcile the changes.

  • Timeline -- you did it, we track it. Find out what happened in your organization, filter and subscribe to RSS feeds to stay in touch.

  • Collaboration -- comment, discuss and email.

  • Full-text search

• Usability

  • Powerful AJAX task list interface. Create, estimate, decompose, edit, complete, reorder and filter tasks on a single page. Edit task description, status, owner and estimate with 1 click. Bottom line -- you can enter and keep track of a full project plan with fewer actions than in Excel.

  • Keyboard shortcuts -- if it's in Acunote, it either already has a shortcut or soon will. Vi/Emacs/Gmail users should feel right at home.

• Pricing

  • Free and non-crippled for groups of 5 people and under.

  • Paid plans run $7-10/user per month.

  • Always free for open source, non-profits and academia. We are proud to offer Acunote for Google Summer of Code.

• Jobs

  • We are looking for an Agile Evangelist. This person will be an advocate of Agile community in our company, and be an advocate of our company in Agile community. A multi-functional role combining product management, marketing, coaching, PR and business development. Ideally located in Silicon Valley.

  • We are aggressively growing our development team in Ukraine. If you are a star developer, designer or QA, give us a shout.

• More info

  • http://acunote.com/
  • http://acunote.com/promo/screencast -- screencast by our lead developer
  • http://blog.acunote.com/ -- product blog
  • http://blog.pluron.com/ -- Nimble Method (company blog)

Acunote for Google Summer of Code projects

We in Pluron are great believers in open source. We develop and deploy with open source tools on open source platforms and we were always keen to give something back to the community. We've been sponsoring KDE developer for almost a year, we've released Mediacloth and ActiveReC++. But of course that's not everything we can do.

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Acunote was always free for people working on open source projects but not surprisingly in most cases they don't need need a project management tool ;) Nevertheless we found the case when Acunote is a great match for open source projects.

There is Summer of Code program Google is running for the third time now. Students who participate in this program write open source but have their own designated projects with a deadline and a mentor assigned. The mentor needs to keep track of student's progress and has to review his code. And this is when Acunote becomes useful for both mentors and students because of its strong task management and code inspection capabilities.

Having noted that we set up a special Summer of Code signup page to let people see an example of using Acunote for SoC project, subscribe and get their free and unrestricted Acunote SoC accounts. Currently 12 Summer of Code projects already signed up and we of course would like to see even more of them using Acunote this summer.

So, if you are a student working on Summer of Code project or a mentor keeping an eye on such project, try Acunote and get a lightweight and cool software project management tool for free.

Welcome

Acunote is an Agile project management tool built on the lightweight Scrum process using Ruby on Rails framework.  Please come in and take a look!