The Open Source kanban (built with Meteor).
Lauri Ojansivu
README.md
Wekan - Open Source kanban
Translate Wekan at Transifex
Translations to non-English languages are accepted only at Transifex using webbrowser. New English strings of new features can be added as PRs to edge branch file wekan/i18n/en.i18n.json .
Wekan feature requests and bugs
Please add most of your questions as GitHub issue: Wekan feature requests and bugs. It's better than at chat where details get lost when chat scrolls up.
Chat
- Most Wekan community and developers are here. Works on webbrowser
and PWA app that can be added as icon on Android and bookmark on iOS, used like native app.
FAQ
NOTE:
- Please read the FAQ first
- Please don't feed the trolls and spammers that are mentioned in the FAQ :)
About Wekan
Wekan is an completely Open Source and Free software collaborative kanban board application with MIT license.
Whether you’re maintaining a personal todo list, planning your holidays with some friends, or working in a team on your next revolutionary idea, Kanban boards are an unbeatable tool to keep your things organized. They give you a visual overview of the current state of your project, and make you productive by allowing you to focus on the few items that matter the most.
Since Wekan is a free software, you don’t have to trust us with your data and can install Wekan on your own computer or server. In fact we encourage you to do that by providing one-click installation on various platforms.
- Wekan is used in most countries of the world.
- Wekan largest user has 13k users using Wekan in their company.
- Wekan has been translated to about 50 languages.
- Features: Wekan has real-time user interface.
- Platforms: Wekan supports many platforms. Wekan is critical part of new platforms Wekan is currently being integrated to.
Requirements
- 64bit: Linux Snap or Sandstorm / Mac / Windows. More Platforms, bundle for RasPi3 ARM and other CPUs where Node.js and MongoDB exists.
- 1 GB RAM minimum free for Wekan. Production server should have minimum total 4 GB RAM.
For thousands of users, for example with Docker: 3 frontend servers,
each having 2 CPU and 2 wekan-app containers. One backend wekan-db server with many CPUs.
- Enough disk space and alerts about low disk space. If you run out disk space, MongoDB database gets corrupted.
- SECURITY: Updating to newest Wekan version very often. Please check you do not have automatic updates of Sandstorm or Snap turned off. Old versions have security issues because of old versions Node.js etc. Only newest Wekan is supported. Wekan on Sandstorm is not usually affected by any Standalone Wekan (Snap/Docker/Source) security issues.
- Reporting all new bugs immediately. New features and fixes are added to Wekan many times a day.
- Backups of Wekan database once a day miminum. Bugs, updates, users deleting list or card, harddrive full, harddrive crash etc can eat your data. There is no undo yet. Some bug can cause Wekan board to not load at all, requiring manual fixing of database content.
Roadmap and Demo
Roadmap - Public read-only board at Wekan demo.
- There is many companies and individuals contributing code to Wekan, to add features and bugfixes many times a day.
- Please add Add new Feature Requests and Bug Reports immediately.
- Commercial Support.
We also welcome sponsors for features and bugfixes. By working directly with Wekan you get the benefit of active maintenance and new features added by growing Wekan developer community.
Screenshot
More screenshots at Features page
License
Wekan is released under the very permissive MIT license, and made with Meteor.
