... the knowledge management aspects describ ed.In summary, our research approach follow these steps:1. A literature survey about knowledge management in general.Keywords: knowledge management, knowledge ... as knowledge repositories, in which knowledge can be stored. Among the most commonly used is paperdo cuments, documents in management systems, groupware software, expert and knowledge based systems ... open source and knowledge management had to be explored.Therefore, the most critical part of this thesis is the literature survey, covering gen-eral knowledge management, knowledge management in...