Teambox allows you to make your projects public.

This way, anybody can browse through them and access the documentation, discussion topics and tasks. Users can join the project at any time, and the content is indexed by search engines like Google.

You can turn any of your projects into a community project, and manage it from the familiar Teambox interface.

You can see an example of how these look like in our community site.

Features

By making your project public, you get out of the box:

• Public message boards, anybody can join or answer.
• Membership in the community. Users joining can receive future announcements.
• Pages become a very elegant public wiki.
• Tasks can be used for community engagement, managing feedback, public feature requests, etc.

Your projects will be listed on the public communities directory. For an example, visit our official community.

How to create a new public project

When creating a project, you’ll be asked if you want to make this project public or not. Simply check the box and you will make it a public project.

If you want to change the public/private setting for an existing project, go to Project Settings and change the preference there.

Activity on public projects

Users will be able to log into Teambox to do all the usual things they could do on a project. Conversations are accessible to the general public, in a simplified format.

Notifications will not be sent by email unless somebody explicitly mentions you. If you comment on a thread, you will receive subsequent notifications from it until you unsubscribe.

All the public project’s activity will be visible from your timeline.