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Rapla is a resource management system, originally intended for use in university administration. Its flexibility allows to be just as easily used in personal, non-profit and business applications.

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Rapla treats everything as a resource that can be attached to an event.

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This simple model and easy definition of resource types makes it straightforward to set up Rapla for a variety of scenarios including:

Education | Allocating a lecturer teaching a module to a room containing equipment supported by a technician.

Conference Management | Assigning delegates to sessions in which speakers make presentations requiring equipment and support.

Rowing | Reserving a shell, blades and cox box for a crew, a coxswain and a coach.

Theatre | Managing rehearsal and performance spaces, actors, directors, crew, suppliers, builders and marketers for productions.

Rapla’s responsive interface makes it easy to detect and avoid resource conflicts and manage complex patterns of repeating events. Its flexible architecture makes it easy to deploy as:

• a standalone application
• a piece of groupware with a shared database
• a java servlet web application

This open source software was originally developed as part of a practical course in the Department of Computer Science III at the University of Bonn, Germany. It is now a sourceforge project.