NPJ (Net Project Journal Software) - open source CMS software distributed under the GNU GPL. Written in PHP, uses MySQL database. The scope of NPJ use is - people communication and collaboration organization, regardless of their geographical location, NPJ can also be effectively used for blogs and news resources.
The current version NPJ 1.9 released in June 2005.
Once installed on the server NPJ formes a node, which can be integrated into NPJ-Network with other NPJ nodes.
On each NPJ node, the following possibilities are available:
creation of new users / accounts (containing personal journal (or blog), and document storage)
user profiles customization with avatars
creation of posts and documents in each journal
the possibility of combining communication feeds
version control of users' documents
flexible access rights configuration for messages and documents:
the possibility to define up to 4 groups of your confidents that can read the message
full-fledged documents' ACL system (for each document there are up to 8 different "actions", which you can permit separately)
communities and working groups establishment
community descriptions are intended for global communications on a theme
communities allow only posts publishing
working groups are intended to work together on some issue or topic
working groups allow to create documents and build a hierarchy of relationships in the workgroup
association of communication feeds, such as:
personal feed
correspondents feed
community feed
all users cumulated feed
headings feed
announcements feed
etc.
wiki-markings, plain-text and WYSIWYG-editor
record headings tree-index
full-text search (with certain limitations)
subscription to any clusters, documents, feeds, etc.
documents and posts publishing via email
comments response ability via email
RSS-feed for any data
events and documents announcement
introduction to fine-tune the documents dynamic elements - "Actions", such as:
tapes of new messages and lists of recent documents changes
lists of documents in certain clusters or subsections
links to the current document and the current document table of contents
text or other document table of contents
lists of users and other actions described in the documentation
support of a unified element addressing scheme of system
After the integration of your node in NPJ-Network you get the following additional features:
ability to identify users from other NPJ-sites at your node (not compatible with OpenID)
the opportunity for your users to be identified at other NPJ-sites (not compatible with OpenID)
replication of new messages and comments from other NPJ-sites to yours
the possibility of replication of messages and comments from your node to other nodes
Articles about NPJ
NPJ - эффективное средство для ведения проектов и документации (Russian)
NPJ - an effective means to conduct projects and documentation (Google-translated English)
