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Zim Wiki is simple. It is not a server solution, but as long as you have access to your "zim notebook" (e.g. LAN) you can use it. The nice thing is, everything is stored as a text file. It has some plugins, too, like TODOs or Versioning.

Remember the Milk (rememberthemilk.com) is a multi-platform task management system, and it allows you to assign tasks to other people (I don't know too much about how well it works as I haven't used that functionality much myself). See: http://www.rememberthemilk.com/help/answers/sending/sendtask.rtm

I'll just leave a list for you here. All of these do task management, have a contacts list and allow assignment and communication of things between people, and having a free version of some type. I've used all of them at least briefly, and I came away with a positive experience. I currently use Doit.im on a daily basis for myself personally, but ...

This may not resolve all your requirements if they very sophisticated but it is worth to consider full use of google calendar. Sometimes it is only matter of proper thinking what you want to achieve and structure your problem that it can be resolved in easy way. Google calendar has many advantages: It can be run on every platform Easy enough, so everyone ...

First, great spreadsheet; a great simple solution. I'm not sure my answer is an improvement, but as an alternative it might work for you. As to question #3 (and #1), I couldn't find a way (with preliminary research) to have it sync or automagically create an event in Gcal from the deadline (although these would be good "asks" for Google Spreadsheets since ...

I use AnyDO. As a task list app, it's brilliant, really. I have tried a lot of them but this is the one. Both cross platform/device and easy to use. That said I have never actually used it as a collaboration tool, but the features are there. I don't know if it will suit your needs but I think you should give it a try! You mentionned e-mail is not an ...

It appears you are mainly looking for ease of installation, and that you have a LAN, and that you see the need for growth into multi-user. So you might consider MediaWiki. It needs MySQL for a back-end, but if you're running a home server, it might be handy to have a multi-user relational database, anyway. It also needs a webserver, but again, if you're ...