Collaborative software (also referred to as groupware or workgroup support systems) is software designed to help people involved in a common task achieve their goals. Collaborative software is the basis for computer supported cooperative work. Such software systems as email, calendaring, text chat, and wikis belong in this category. It has been suggested that Metcalfe's law, "the more people who use something, the more valuable it becomes", applies to such software. The more general term social software applies to systems used outside the workplace, for example, online dating services and social networks like Friendster and Facebook. The study of computer-supported collaboration includes the study of this software and social phenomena associated with it.

Currently there is only four (segregated) applications one application installed on this particular website. Since they are segregated, you will need to login to each application separately. However, you can reuse the same username/password credentials in each application. If the need is demonstrated, and the resources are available, more may be added. The separate applications are being removed in favor of one integrated application that is currently undergoing testing and implementation. These applications are provided via free/open source software. Free software or software libre is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with minimal restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things. In practice, for software to be distributed as free software, the human readable form of the program (the "source code") must be made available to the recipient along with a notice granting the above permissions. Such a notice is a "free software license", or, in theory, could be a notice saying that the source code is released into the public domain.