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Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

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I've been looking for a competitive open source alternative to Jira for a non-profit I volunteer at because they cannot afford to pay for any cloud service and Trello has its limitations. Does Plane offer all pro features for open source instances as well? Does it support login via Google or other identity providers?

Edit: I should clarify, supporting open source is the best possible model for price pressure and innovation, especially in the cloud hosting space, but I also wanted to let other non-profits know about the discount if Jira is too expensive per-user due to volunteers, etc.

FYI, Atlassian has a non-profits license. While the cloud version only has a discount so you still have to pay per user, the on-prem version is free. Best part about running on-prem under this license is that a lot of on-prem extensions have opted in to atlassian marketplace licensing and offer free plans for non-profits. While this would be expensive to do in the cloud, because the plugins run on your server, it’s basically free for everyone involved. The downside is you still have to manage and renew licenses, and don’t expect too much support given the free price.

> Atlassian also offers free Data Center (self-managed) licenses for registered charitable non-profit organizations that are non-government, non-academic, non-commercial in nature, non-political, and have no religious affiliation.

More at https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/purchase-licensing#trial... under the faq question about non-profit pricing…

Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

#12

I've been looking for a competitive open source alternative to Jira for a non-profit I volunteer at because they cannot afford to pay for any cloud service and Trello has its limitations. Does Plane offer all pro features for open source instances as well? Does it support login via Google or other identity providers?

Check out Youtrack - not open source, but free if you have 10 or fewer users.

Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

#13

I've been looking for a competitive open source alternative to Jira for a non-profit I volunteer at because they cannot afford to pay for any cloud service and Trello has its limitations. Does Plane offer all pro features for open source instances as well? Does it support login via Google or other identity providers?

Edit: I should clarify, supporting open source is the best possible model for price pressure and innovation, especially in the cloud hosting space, but I also wanted to let other non-profits know about the discount if Jira is too expensive per-user due to volunteers, etc. FYI, Atlassian has a non-profits license. While the cloud version only has a discount so you still have to pay per user, the on-prem version is fre…

unfortunately, we are a buddhist organization so we do not qualify.

Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

#14

I love seeing competition for Jira, because it needs to die, but I think you need to do a better job explaining your value prop. Your first bullet list of features doesn't really make it sound all that different. Why would I have a better time using this than Jira, bearing in mind that I'd be giving up custom workflows and probably a lot of integrations? (No shade intended. If you can answer that concisely, put that…

Thanks for the feedback! We will definitely work on it.

Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

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I've been looking for a competitive open source alternative to Jira for a non-profit I volunteer at because they cannot afford to pay for any cloud service and Trello has its limitations. Does Plane offer all pro features for open source instances as well? Does it support login via Google or other identity providers?

Check out Youtrack - not open source, but free if you have 10 or fewer users.

we are trying to work with ~35 volunteers for this purpose, but i will check it out nonetheless.

Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

#17

Can it auto-delete issues untouched for the last 30 days? Idk if jira can, but this would be the single biggest productivity boost to any organization forced to use this sort of software.

for jira (and I assume many other similar products), it is definitely possible

Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

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I've been looking for a competitive open source alternative to Jira for a non-profit I volunteer at because they cannot afford to pay for any cloud service and Trello has its limitations. Does Plane offer all pro features for open source instances as well? Does it support login via Google or other identity providers?

Check out Taiga: https://www.taiga.io/

By the creators of Penpot, free plan is basically only missing premium support. Not sure about the login though...there seem to be some plugins for it, not sure how that works with the hosted version?

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