Kuali Foundation
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The Kuali Foundation is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) corporation that coordinates the development of free
Free software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
/open source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
administrative software under the Educational Community License
Educational Community License
The Educational Community License is a free and open source license based on the Apache license and created with the specific needs of the academic community in mind....
. The name "Kuali" came from the Malaysian word for wok
Wok
A wok is a versatile round-bottomed cooking vessel originating in China. It is used especially in East and Southeast Asia.Woks are most often used for stir frying, but can also be used in other Chinese cooking techniques, such as in steaming, deep frying, braising, stewing, smoking, or making soup...
. 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 Foundation is incorporated in the United States. Its members are colleges, universities, commercial firms, and interested organizations that share a common vision of open, modular, and distributed software systems.
Kuali initiatives
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:- 'Kuali Coeus (KC), a research administration system for higher education.
- Kuali Rice (Rice) (Software Development Simplified), a suite of middleware programs (workflow, messaging, identity management), interfaces and Web services around a service bus. With the Rice components, developers can more easily build and link applications as collections of modular, interconnected services.
- 'Kuali Student (KS), a student-centered web service architecture to provide students and administrators with tools to manage curriculum change and to develop individual Learning PlanLearning PlanA Learning Plan is a document that is used to plan learning, usually over an extended period of time....
s. The technologies suggested in the Phase I Recommendation, released in February 2008, include uPortalUPortaluPortal is a Java-based framework for creating enterprise web portals. It is sponsored by Jasig, a consortium of educational institutions and commercial affiliates sponsoring open source software projects focused on higher education. uPortal is open source under the Apache License 2.0...
, Apache DerbyApache DerbyApache Derby is a relational database management system developed by the Apache Software Foundation that can be embedded in Java programs and used for online transaction processing. It has a 2 MB disk-space footprint.Apache Derby is developed as an open source project under the Apache 2.0 license...
, DroolsDroolsDrools is a business rule management system with a forward chaining inference based rules engine, more correctly known as a production rule system, using an enhanced implementation of the Rete algorithm....
, Apache CXFApache CXFApache CXF is an open-source, fully featured Web services framework. It originated as the combination of two open-source projects: Celtix developed by IONA Technologies and XFire developed by a team hosted at Codehaus. These two projects were combined by people working together at the Apache...
, GlassFish MetroGlassFish MetroMetro is an opensource web service stack that is a part of the GlassFish project, though it can also be used in a stand-alone configuration. Components of metro include JAXB RI, JAX-WS RI, SAAJ RI, StAX and WSIT...
, Apache TomcatApache TomcatApache Tomcat is an open source web server and servlet container developed by the Apache Software Foundation...
, Open ESBOpen ESBOpen ESB is a Java based open source enterprise service bus. Open ESB can be used as a platform for both Enterprise Application Integration and SOA. Open ESB is built on open standards....
, Apache ServiceMixApache ServiceMixApache ServiceMix is an enterprise-class open-source distributed enterprise service bus and service-oriented architecture . It was built from the ground up on the semantics and APIs of the Java Business Integration specification JSR 208 and released under the Apache License...
, and Kuali Enterprise Workflow.
- 'Kuali OLE (OLE), open library environment.
- Kuali Ready (Ready), an above-campus solution for business continuity
Conferences
- Kuali Days
Hosted by Kuali in the fall, the meetings cover all the products developed or in development by the Kuali team. The link to the most recent Kuali Days meeting is here.
- Kuali Coeus User Conference hosted by Moderas
Saratoga Springs New York, July 25th to 27th. Click here for more information.
Progress
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 its next development project would be Kuali Research Administration.In November 2006, the rSmart Group announced that it was selling a pre-configured instance of the Kuali Financial System. The first implementation of this software, by Strathmore University
Strathmore University
Strathmore University is a private university based in Nairobi, Kenya. Strathmore College was started in 1961, as an Advanced level sixth form College offering science and arts subjects, by a group of professionals who formed a charitable educational trust...
in Kenya
Kenya
Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
, was announced in July 2007.
The second release of Kuali Financial was in November 2007. Release 3.0 was due out in December 2008 with modules for accounts receivable and capital assets, and a large number of enhancements.
In mid-2009, Colorado State University
Colorado State University
Colorado State University is a public research university located in Fort Collins, Colorado. The university is the state's land grant university, and the flagship university of the Colorado State University System.The enrollment is approximately 29,932 students, including resident and...
and San Joaquin Delta College
San Joaquin Delta College
San Joaquin Delta College is a community college in Stockton, California. It is the successor of the Stockton Junior College which was formed in 1935.Part of Disney's 1973 film The World's Greatest Athlete was shot here.-Description:...
went live with the first large-scale installations of full Kuali financial systems.
In early 2010, Florida State University announced that it would pull out of the project because of budget cuts.
Spring 2010 brought the public release of KC 2.0, and the first release of KS, made available only to the Kuali community. In addition, Rice 1.0.3 was released in the Spring of 2010, and Kuali Foundation membership grew to over 50 members.
In June 2010, Indiana University announced that it was joining the KS project as MIT was stepping down, although MIT remains a member of the Kuali Foundation and a strong partner in the Kuali Coeus project for research-administration.
Organization
The project was formally announced in August 2004; its initial members were Indiana UniversityIndiana University
Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...
, the University of Hawaii
University of Hawaii
The University of Hawaii System, formally the University of Hawaii and popularly known as UH, is a public, co-educational college and university system that confers associate, bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees through three university campuses, seven community college campuses, an employment...
, the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), and rSmart. Jennifer Foutty of Indiana University
Indiana University
Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...
is the foundation's Executive Director.
Those now participating in the Kuali Foundation include more than 20 institutions of high education, and the following commercial affiliates:
- Exeter
- HTC Global Services
- Huron Consulting
- IBMIBMInternational Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
- Innovativ Consulting Partners
- rSmart
- Syntel, Inc.
- Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- Sciquest
- VivanTech, Inc.
- Rimini Street
Commercial non-affiliates: