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Open Position at rSmart: Kuali Financial Consultant

Job Title: Kuali Financial Consultant
Department: Professional Services
Reports To: Karen Crawford

Webinar: Kuali open source financial system solutions from Sun and rSmart

11/12/2008 - 10:00am
11/12/2008 - 11:00am
US/Arizona
Location: 
Phoenix, AZ.

Join us November 12, 2008 at 9:00 A.M. PST

Together, rSmart and Sun are developing Kuali software-based solutions that are optimized to run on the Solaris™ Operating System (Solaris OS), and open source software, including: MySQL™ open source database, GlassFish™ application server, OpenSSO, and project Open Enterprise Service Bus (Open ESB). As a result of this initiative, colleges and universities can benefit from open solutions with the enterprise-grade support and expertise of rSmart and Sun.

Space is limited!

Register today!

Meet Dave Lyons, “Dean of Financial VPs”

Few financial officers have had as much impact on accounting practice in higher education as Dave Lyons. In 1969, while serving as Comptroller of the University of Rochester, Dave designed the first automated financial records system ever created specifically for higher ed. This system (which was developed by Information Associates and was initially known as FAS, then FRS, and finally FRS Plus) introduced financial offices to Dave’s simple yet elegant approach to the chart of accounts. Based on six-digit account codes with attributes, his approach was novel and controversial at first but was soon successfully adopted by financial offices here and abroad.  

Collaborative Software Development - A Must to Explore

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Collaborative development of non-strategic applications.  It's a mouth full and probably the biggest opportunity for the CIO to reduce the costs and increase the value of IT within their organizations.  There have been a number of successful collaborative software development initiatives using an open source development model.  Some examples: of course there is Linux which is governed by what was the Open Source Development Lab in Beaverton, Oregon (now The Linux Foundation ), and the Eclipse Foundation an organization providing a universal tool set for development of open source software, and one of my favorites the Kuali Foundation a consortium of Universities that are developing, sustaining and evolving a comprehensive suite of admin

rSmart participating in roundtable discussion at 20th Annual WCET Conference

11/05/2008 - 8:30am
11/08/2008 - 12:00pm
US/Arizona
Location: 
Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort, Phoenix, AZ
WCET is holding its 20th annual conference in Phoenix at the Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort on November 5-8, 2008.  This conference will celebrate e-learning's major contributions over the last two decades and its bright potential for further transforming higher education in the year

Lee Belarmino

VP for IT
San Joaquin Delta Community College
“rSmart is the only partner out there capable of taking an institution through all the steps of Kuali adoption.”

Troy Fluharty

Associate Controller
Colorado State University
“Our institution's understanding of Kuali has been greatly facilitated as a result of our work with rSmart.”

Michele Norin

CIO
University of Arizona
“The business units recognize that with Kuali, we will meet their specific needs like never before.”

Dennis Dougherty

SVP for Finance & CFO
USC
“Kuali is the most important activity in higher education today.”

San Joaquin Delta College: Higher Education Means Higher Standards

San Joaquin Delta College is part of the California Community College education system, the largest system of higher education in the world. An award-winning technological innovation leader in the California education community, Delta was one of a group of institutions commissioned by the Foundation for California Community Colleges to evaluate enterprise resource planning systems to determine which might best meet their needs.

University of Arizona: The Implementation of Innovation

As a leading public research institution, the University of Arizona must comply with significant and complex accounting and reporting requirements imposed by granting and government agencies. A number of years ago, the U of A recognized that their current system was not meeting departmental and institutional needs, and a change was required. Indiana University approached U of A about joining a consortium composed of innovation leaders in the higher education community, for the purpose of developing a software program called Kuali, an ERP system built to specifically address the business needs of higher education.

The OPEN Forum

12/07/2008 - 9:00am
12/09/2008 - 5:00pm
US/Pacific
Location: 
Palm Springs, CA

 

The OPEN Forum

 

rSmart is sponsoring The OPEN Forum which aims to provide an opportunity for leaders and decision makers from colleges and universities to come together to enhance their understanding and vision for openness across higher education.

Impediments to widespread adoption of open source in education

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I'm in seat 14E (middle seat because I forgot to check in online yesterday) on my way to Chicago. I'm headed to the NACUBO conference where I'll be speaking about the Kuali community with Kathleen McNeely (AVP at Indiana University and Kuali Financial System's business leader), and Rich Andrews, Controller at UC Irvine (an investing and implementing institution).

Architecting an open source software ecosystem

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I'm en route to Paris for the 9th Sakai conference Saturday morning writing on the plane. Before boarding I ran across an interesting and very relevant post about the French government support for open source.

The post describes a competitiveness cluster in Paris called SYSTEM@TIC PARIS-REGION, that has established a working group on open source (Logiciel Libre) who's goal is to "help structure the open source ecosystem in the Paris area."

The most important activity in higher education today

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If you've been waiting for a convenient way to keep up with the Kuali community check out the shiny new monthly newsletter. Subscribe by emailing Jennifer Foutty.

rSmart exhibiting at this year's EDUCAUSE Conference

10/28/2008 - 9:00am
10/31/2008 - 5:00pm
US/Arizona
Location: 
Orlando, FL.

Mark your calendar for the premier information technology event in higher education—EDUCAUSE 2008, October 28–31 in Orlando, Florida. The program, "Interaction, Ideas, Inspiration," will include preconference seminars; track and poster sessions; small group meetings; and corporate exhibits, presentations, and workshops. rSmart will be in Booth 942 during the conference in the exhibit hall.

This year's Educause 2008 conference features an unprecedented number of Sakai-related events.  Here are a few to put on your calendar. 

rSmart exhibiting and presenting at this year's NACUBO Conference

07/13/2008 - 8:00am
07/15/2008 - 5:00pm
US/Arizona
Location: 
Chicago, Ill.

Billing itself as the networking event of the year for business officers in higher education, this year's NACUBO meeting is scheduled to take place in Chicago, Illinois at the Chicago Hilton and Towers.

rSmart set to exhibit at the Campus Technology Conference

07/28/2008 - 5:23pm
07/31/2008 - 5:23pm
US/Arizona
Location: 
Boston, Ma.

Do you want to learn how to survive--and even thrive--in a Web 2.0 world? If you do, then come to the Westin Waterfront Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, for Campus Technology's 15th annual summer conference. This year's conference offers a blueprint for adapting to the new demands of Web 2.0 teaching and learning, both in and out of the classroom, and explores how educators are coping with the ever-increasing demands on their resources, skills and time. You'll come away armed with tricks, tips and techniques to survive and thrive

Kuali Days VII

11/18/2008 - 9:00am
11/19/2008 - 5:00pm
US/Pacific
Location: 
Marriott Hotel and Spa in Newport Beach, CA

rSmart will be presenting at this year's Kuali Days VII in Newport Beach, Ca.  Kuali Days VII will have a full agenda on Kuali Financial System, Kuali Coeus (the Research Administration system), Kuali Student System, and Kuali Rice (infrastructure and shared services such as workflow).  

Kuali Days VI in May 2008 was sold out. We encourage you to register early for Kuali Days VII and to make your travel plans as soon as possible.

 

Red Hat squashes patent... for the rest of us

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Red Hat settled a patent dispute this week that had potentially wide reaching impact to the open source community. Matt Asay points out nicely that Red Hat has demonstrated the open-source way to quash patent lawsuits. 

2008 NACUBO Innovation Award

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The National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) announced last week Indiana University is the recipient of the association’s 2008 Innovation Award. The NACUBO Awards program is focused on innovation in the management of college and university business and financial affairs.

“With the KUALI Financial System, Indiana University exemplifies how colleges and universities are working diligently to operate efficiently and to save money,” notes John Walda, president and CEO of NACUBO.

Smart Talk Newsletter May 2008

rSmart's Smart Talk Newsletter for May, 2008 (Volume 2, Issue 5) including news about rSmart's new corporate Web site, Kuali Days VI, CLE 2.5 documentation, CLE test procedures, and our regular Smart Tip, Upcoming Events and other items.

rSmart set to exhibit and present at TechEd 2008

04/14/2008 - 12:02am
04/16/2008 - 12:02am
Etc/GMT
Location: 
Ontario, Ca.

This year's Tech Ed conference will bring thousands of educators and administrators together in Ontario, CA, to share best practice solutions and cutting edge innovations for succeeding in today's educational environment while preparing for the classroom of tomorrow. rSmart will be in booth 930.

If you attend the conference, please join us for our vendor session on Wednesday, April 16, 8:00-9:00 AM, in room 201A. We'll be discussing  Sakai's value as a course management system for higher education and will provide a brief demonstration.

rSmart Webinar Series: An Introduction to Kuali Financial System and Release 2, featuring Dave Lyons

04/03/2008 - 2:39am
Etc/GMT
Location: 
Phoenix, AZ.

Finally, a financial system that was designed with you in mind!

Let's face it- No one knows your fund accounting and financial management needs better than you. That's why Kuali is the right financial system for higher education. Built by higher education, for higher education.

Today, KFS is evolving very fast. Keeping up with its progress is a challenge. This webinar will cover the following:

rSmart and Sun Microsystems to Offer Kuali-based Enterprise Solutions for Higher Education

Phoenix, Ariz. (February 27, 2008) –rSmart, the leading full-service provider of open source software solutions for education, today announced a new collaboration with Sun Microsystems. Together, the two companies will develop Kuali-based solutions that are certified to optimally run on Sun’s collection of systems and open source infrastructure software including Solaris™, MySQL, GlassFish™, OpenSSO and OpenESB. The first Kuali solution certified will be the Kuali Financial System (KFS) with other supported Kuali solutions to follow. The rSmart / Sun collaboration enables universities and colleges interested in deploying Kuali open source software to have full confidence in the solution’s ability to handle enterprise computing demands with ease.

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