Free software implementation for IT-project management in public sector
The article discusses free project management system implementation for effective IT-project management in 
 public sector by the example of "E-government" project that is carried out in Chelyabinsk region. 
 "E-government" is a large-scale project. It includes multilevel structural organization and territory distribution, a large 
 number of information sources and consumers, a large number of various external systems with various information ex-change formats, functions and their difficult interrelations, absence of the full analogs that limit using of standard software 
 solutions. Project implementation in Chelyabinsk region consisted in using a functional model of E-government participants 
 effective interaction: “LANIT-Ural” company and Southern Ural State University (SUSU). They used Redmine free project
 management system for collaboration. 
 This approach to organization of interaction between project group members allows the integrator to involve additional 
 qualified staff from University teachers and also to develop and adapt students participating in the project toreal projects 
 conditions.