KS Insider 43: Happy Holidays and more

With Holiday break nearly upon us, we have some important progress dates, and information on Rice, SIS market trends, and the KS wiki.  Note: Links may require login to KS Confluence and appropriate permissions.

Project news

Winter break and KS Progress

Winter break will begin soon for most of the Founder and Partner institutions. As such, Kuali Student will also be on break from Dec. 24 to Jan. 4.

R1 Milestone 2 is in Quality Assurance and  will be released to IUG Dec 23. R1 Milestone 3 (Data Orchestration, Program Proposal, LO, Workflow Authorization, Manage Org) goes into code freeze today, Dec. 18.

Rice Collaboration

The Rice project team has a Rice Collaboration group starting up.  This group is similar in nature to our KS IUG group.  You can find out more about the group and its purpose on their wiki page.  The Rice Collaboration group held their first meeting on Dec. 7. Here are the meeting minutes.

The group has an email distribution list that they use to correspond, and you can self-subscribe to this list by following these instructions.  For those with a logon to the Kuali Collaboration site on Sakai, just logon, navigate to Memberships, then click on Joinable Sites, then select, KR ICG. Of note, this email distribution list is often used by other Kuali developers for general technical questions. You may find it a useful source of information.

SIS Market Trends Report Published

The Tambellini Group has published a new research report: “Student Information Systems U.S. Higher Education Market Share, Insights and Trends: 2004-2008.”

Available via eduWorld1 Daily News and Insights, the report looks at Student Information Systems (SIS) purchases made by U.S. higher education institutions over a 5-year period.

“According to Tambellini, SIS systems are expensive and she believes that universities will be looking to maintain their current systems in the coming years, adding applications that work with and enhance what they already have,” the accompanying press release states.

Review of the eduWorld1 content requires a free subscription.

Subscribing to KS Wiki

A bot hit Confluence in early December and created hundreds of fake users that were infiltrating the wiki. Fortunately, the Kuali configuration manager were able to delete all of the fictitious users.  They are researching methods to strengthen the Captcha on Confluence, but in the meantime self-subscribe has been disabled.

As a result, any new KS wiki access requests must be submitted via email request to access[at]kuali.org. All other Kuali collaboration tools remain self-subscribe. Please visit the Toolset page for more information.