hitobito
Manage complex group hierarchies with members, events and a lot more.
Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.
Commit activity more than 83% of tracked projects; popularity more than 23%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 479 |
|---|---|
| Latest release | 2.10.0 · 7 Jul 2026 |
| Repo updated | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Built with | Ruby |
Is hitobito actively maintained?
Development is ongoing. The repository recorded 1238 commits over the same window, and the last three months alone account for 282 of them.
The most recent tagged release, 2.10.0, is about 3 months old.
hitobito ranks #7 of 21 in Polls and Events, placing it mid-table for maintenance activity.
What hitobito actually does
Hitobito is an open-source application designed to handle complex group hierarchies, membership lists, and event organization. It provides tools for structuring multiple interconnected groups and managing the people within them. The codebase is written in Ruby and licensed under the AGPL-3.0.
Best fit: Organisations or large community networks that need to model intricate hierarchies of subgroups, manage memberships, and coordinate internal events.
Worth knowing: The AGPL-3.0 licence carries strict copyleft implications if you modify and distribute the software over a network, which may not suit all institutional policies.
Deployment notes
As a Ruby application, it typically requires a persistent relational database, a web server such as Puma, and a reverse proxy like Nginx to handle TLS termination.
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