It has been an important few weeks for Kuali Student. KS Insider provides a brief wrap up of recent events, including the release of Milestone 1 for R1, a look at the success of Kuali Days VIII, Foundation news and some valuable insights from across the pond. Note: Links may require login to KS Confluence and appropriate permissions.
Expect more from Kuali Days VIII in forthcoming posts, including outcomes form the Kuali Student Board meeting and impacts on Release 1.0 and 1.x.
Project news
Milestone 1 Released
From conference attendees to project members to the Implementer Users Group (IUG), there was a warm reception for Milestone 1 of Release 1. Congratulations to project team members who put in all the hours to get M1 released. The project team looks forward to feedback on M1 from the IUG.
KS a hit at Kuali Days
With a record-setting 570 attendees from more than 60 institutions at Kuali Days VIII, there was significant interest in the recent progress and on-going development of Kuali Student with several institutions planning to closely track the project’s progress and seek opportunities to participate.
Additionally, almost 400 attendees sat in on the eight KS sessions. Thanks to project members Rajiv Kaushik, Carol Bershad, Leo Fernig, Norm Wright, Scott Thorne, Wil Johnson, and William Washington for presenting. Also, a special thanks for guests Jim Farmer, Ian Boston, Amyas Phillips, and Andre Ostiguy for participating in the panels about Kuali Student and the international community.
All of the Kuali Days VIII presentations are available on the KS wiki.
A KD8 review from Cambridge
Cambridge University’s Ian Boston, the technical director of the Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies (CARET) and lead architect for the Sakai 3, attended Kuali Days and provides some unique insights on Kuali and Kuali Student. Check his Notes from Kuali Days VIII.
Kuali Rice Roadmap Introduced
Kuali Rice received tremendous interest at Kuali Days VIII around the newly completed roadmap, which outlines the release plans and future directions for the Rice middleware. Review the Kuali Rice Roadmap.
A funding model for Rice was also proposed that would lower the bar for schools to join the Kuali Foundation and use Rice in their future technology plans. Those plans are not yet approved.
Kuali Foundation Grows
In Foundation news, the Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE) (pronounced Oh-LAY) project was launched to develop software created specifically for the complex business management and workflow operations of academic and research libraries. The Foundation will also soon launch Kuali Ready, a disaster recovery, business continuity, Software as a Service (SaaS) project. Read more about OLE.
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