PRE: Over the past two years, the University of Arizona and several other higher-education institutions have been involved in a project known as Kuali Financial Systems. The goal is to produce a Enterprise Financial System, built by higher-ed, and for higher-ed, available as community source (see below for license details).
This is the phase 1 release, and we have another 1-2 years to do the phase 2 modules. A special thanks to Warner Onstine and Leo Przybylski, who along with myself have comprised the UA development contribution to the project. --------------------------------- This past weekend, on Saturday, 14 October, 2006, the official phase-1 release of Kuali Financial Systems (KFS) was made available to the world. We've been working on this for the last two years, with a number of other higher-ed institutions and one commercial organization. The University of Arizona developers involved in this are myself, Leo Przybylski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, and Warner Onstine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I'd like to invite you to read more about this project at the Kuali.org website: http://www.kuali.org/ Note that this website now encompasses the full umbrella of Kuali-branded projects. What we released today was the KFS (Financials) and a version of KEW (Kuali Enterprise Workflow) for the Financials. You can jump right to the Financials portion of the website here: http://www.kuali.org/communities/kfs/ Further, for those of you interested in the technical aspects of this project, you can jump right to the download (binaries, source, or both) here: http://www.kuali.org/resources/kfs1-0.shtml This project was built as a web application running in Tomcat, and using a number of open-source frameworks and libraries (Spring, Struts, OJB, lots of Apache stuff, others). The project is released under an Educational Community License (BSD-style license): https://test.kuali.org/confluence/display/KULDOC/The+Kuali+Foundation+EC L which is an OSI approved open-source license: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl1.php I encourage anyone who has an interest to browse the websites, download the app, and play with it. If you have questions of any sort about this, please feel free to email them to me, and I'll be delighted to answer them. Thanks, andrew ------------------------------------ Andrew Hollamon Computing Manager, Kuali Project Financial Services Office University of Arizona 520-626-7693 office 520-626-3072 front-desk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
