Sitting around at lunch today, The Developer Formerly Named Monkey and I were trying to come up with a list of good open-source or free software that would help a developer, or small team, set up and manage a project.

Here’s a list of stuff that we’ve come up with so far:

The only softie that we couldn’t come up with was a good diagramming tool (for flowcharting, etc). We looked at Dia, but it didn’t seem strong enough for daily use. It had kind of a klunky feel to it. Still looking…