Customizing dotProject files
dotProject is the most promising open-source (and free) project management software that I’ve found so far.
There are many small changes that needed to be made to the dotProject interface in order for it to work for my team, though. Chief among them was that all projects be numbered. The “short name” field just wasn’t sufficient to uniquely identify projects. We use project numbers in our workflow, in documents, email, and file systems. The number needs to combine the month and year the project was started with a 4-digit unique number.