Kuali Foundation
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The Kuali Foundation coordinates the development of free/open source administrative software under the Educational Community License. The name "Kuali" came from the Malaysian word for wok. At a time when many colleges and universities are paying tens of millions of dollars for administrative systems, the notion of a wok -- a humble, but essential dish -- seemed appropriate.
The Kuali Foundation is incorporated in the United States as a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) corporation. Its members are colleges, universities, commercial firms, and interested organizations that share a common vision of open, modular, and distributed software systems. Jennifer Foutty of Indiana University is the foundation's Executive Director.[1]
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[edit] Kuali communities
The goal of Kuali is to bring the proven functionality of legacy applications to the ease and universality of online services. The Foundation is working on the following initiatives:
[edit] Kuali Financial Systems (KFS)
[edit] Kuali Research Administration (KRA)
[edit] Kuali Endowment Module (KEM)
[edit] Kuali Rice (Software Development Simplified)
[edit] Kuali Student (KS)
The Kuali Student Services System is an ongoing project to develop a student-centered web service architecture that will provide students and administrators with tools to manage curriculum change and to develop individual learning plans.[2] The technologies suggested in the Phase I Recommendation (released 2008-02-14) include uPortal, Apache Derby, Drools, Apache CXF, GlassFish Metro, Apache Tomcat, Open ESB, Apache ServiceMix, and Kuali Enterprise Workflow.[3]
[edit] Progress
The project was formally announced in August 2004; its initial non-profit members were Indiana University, the University of Hawaii, and the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO).[4]
In October 2006, the Foundation announced the first release of the open source Kuali Financial System (KFS). KFS was funded in part by a USD 2.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It also announced that the its next development project would be Kuali Research Administration.[5]
In November 2006, the rSmart Group announced that it was selling a pre-configured instance of the Kuali Financial System.[6] The first implementation of this software, by Strathmore University in Kenya, was announced in July 2007.[7]
The second release of Kuali Financial was in November 2007. Release 3.0 is due out in December 2008 with modules for accounts receivable and capital assets, and a large number of enhancements.[8]
[edit] Participants
The Kuali Foundation is made up of the following educational and commercial partners:[9]
[edit] Foundation Partners
- Australian National University
- Boston University
- Bradley University
- Colorado State University
- Cornell University
- Florida State University
- Indiana University
- Iowa State University
- Marist College
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Michigan State University
- Pennsylvania State University
- San Joaquin Delta Community College
- University of Arizona
- University of British Columbia
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of California, Davis
- University of California, Irvine
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- University of Hawaii
- University of Maryland
- University of Southern California
[edit] Commercial Affiliates
- Exeter
- Huron Consulting
- IBM
- rSmart
- Syntel, Inc.
- Sun Microsystems, Inc.
[edit] References
- ^ Kuali Foundation website.
- ^ Kuali Student Services System (KS).
- ^ KS Phase I Recommendations.
- ^ "Higher Education Open Source Financial System Project Launches", press release, University Information Services, Indiana University, August 31, 2004, accessed September 6, 2007
- ^ "Kuali Foundation releases open source financial system, launches a research administration system project, announces new board members and corporate partners", press release, University Information Services, Indiana University, October 25, 2006, accessed September 6, 2007
- ^ "rSmart Launches Kuali Financial System Appliance", press release, November 15, 20061, accessed September 6, 2007
- ^ "Strathmore University is First 'Live' Implementation of Kuali Financial System", press release, rSmart Group, July 6, 2007
- ^ John Cox, "Universities build open-source enterprise applications: Several universities have teamed together to build mission-critical software, which has long been the domain of proprietary apps, on open-source platforms", InfoWorld, March 27, 2008
- ^ Kuali Foundation website.
