From Taiga to Tenzu

Once upon a time, there was a Spanish company called Kaleidos, heavily invested in opensource.

To unleash its employees' creativity, twice a year they let them develop a project of their choice for a week (the initiative was named PiWeek).

One year, a prototype stands out, a project management software. The company decides to continue developing it in-house. In 2014, Taiga become accessible to everyone.

A few years later, Taiga proved to be a great success. Building on their experience, the Kaleidos team wanted to design a new, more modern and inclusive Taiga.

At the same time, a new project emerged from their bi-annual hackathon: it's Penpot, an opensource design software that reconciles the needs of developers and designers.

This second project was a resounding success, unfortunately leaving no room for the rewrite of Taiga, who had already shown promising beginnings.

Kaleidos then set about finding a team with the same passion, who would share its values and commitment to opensource, while having the time and resources to invest fully in this new project, which had temporarily taken the name of "Taiga Next".

BIRU, a group of fervent Taiga users, had been working for several months on an update to Taiga in the latest version of Angular.

When they reached out to Kaleidos about their initiative, the Spanish team told them they were looking for a new owner.

After discussing it internally, the French SCOP decided to make an official application and, after being chosen, to put all their energy into this opensource project.

It was then renamed Tenzu; although it has similarities with Taiga and draws on the experience accumulated via the latter, it is a new software in its own right.

The founders of BIRU had long wanted to share their knowledge of IT project management and have plenty of ideas in mind for a software that will add value across the entire decision-making chain.