Supporting Open Source Software for Education
Kuali Days 2010 marked a new stage of growth and success for the Kuali community. The event attracted close to 700 participants—record-breaking attendance for Kuali Days—from more than 100 organizations around the globe. Perhaps just as importantly, many of these participants came from institutions new to Kuali.
February 25, 2010
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Publication of Anna-Louise Jackson's insightful article, "Going for the Bold" (Business Officer Magazine, February 2010), confirms what the Kuali Community has long contended—that collaboratively developed administrative software provides enormous benefit to higher education institutions of all types and sizes.
After the scope of the Kuali Financial System (KFS) version 3.0 was defined, the early adopters--Colorado State University (CSU), the University of Arizona (UA), and San Joaquin Delta College--performed analyses to determine whether they required additional functionality in order to go live with the release. Working individually, each institution identified critical functions without which the software would not meet their needs.