What is Going on with Kuali? Jennifer Foutty Executive Director, Kuali Foundation

What is Kuali? Open source administrative software For higher ed, by higher ed Enterprise-scale

Happy 5 th Birthday!

Chronicle of Higher Ed – Nov 2009

NACUBO Business Officer – Feb 2010

Kuali Organization

New Member Institutions University of Virginia North West University (South Africa) University of Illinois Brown University

Australian National University Boston University Bradley University Brown University Carnegie Mellon University Colorado State University Cornell University Indiana University Indiana University Foundation Iowa State University Marist College Massachusetts Institute of Technology Michigan State University NACUBO Naval Postgraduate School North West University (South Africa) Pennsylvania State University Research Foundation of the City of New York San Joaquin Delta Community College The University of Arizona University of British Columbia University of California- President's Office University of California-Berkeley University of California-Davis University of California-Irvine University of California-Santa Barbara University of California-San Diego University of Hawaii University of Illinois University of Maryland University of Southern California University of Toronto University of Vermont University of Virginia University of Washington West Virginia University Kuali Member Institutions

Kuali Commercial Affiliates New 2009

Kuali Days Attendance

New Meetings Approach 1.Kuali Days – Fall It becomes a user conference 2.Kuali Workshop – Spring For community F2F meetings only

New Kuali Projects

Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE) $2.38 Million Grant from Andrew Mellon Foundation

OLE Investors Indiana University Florida Consortium (FC) (University of Florida Lead) Lehigh University* Triangle Research Libraries Network* Duke University* North Carolina State University* University of Chicago* University of Maryland University of Michigan* University of Pennsylvania* * New to Kuali

Kuali Ready Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Planning SaaS Subscription

Kuali Ready Founders University of California Berkeley Indiana University University of British Columbia Penn State University University of Southern California Delta College California State University Tufts University University of Toronto

Implementations KFS – CSU: Big Bang on 7/1/09 – San Joaquin Delta: Phased beginning on 7/1/09 – IU: General Ledger, Labor Ledger in Feb 2009 Used to test year-end processing – Naval Postgraduate School: Sept 2009 – USC: some modules beginning Fall 2009

Implementations Rice – UC Davis: academic merit/promotion system – San Joaquin Delta: time workflow – Cornell: PDF workflow – IU: overall administrative workflow – Others ?? Inside community Outside community

Kuali Coeus: Upcoming Releases & Implementations NOTE: THESE DATES ARE TENTATIVE – Release 2.0 next month (all core functionality) – Coeus equivalency in the core by Dec 2010 – Full equivalency by Dec 2011 – Merging with Coeus organization as soon as possible – Implementation of one or more modules this year: UC Irvine, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Indiana, Colorado State, Arizona

Kuali Student Update Release 1.0 – Will be delivered as a ‘Founders’ Release – Schedule date is early April 2010 Release 2.0 – Delivers core functionality for records – Will likely be implemented by Berkeley, Maryland first – Planning underway about scope and timeline

We’ve done some things right Disparate institutions CAN agree on software design Distributed teams can build enterprise-scale software Commercial partners can get involved in this model It really does work! We can extend it to other models, such as Saas

We’ve had some issues The economy – On the upside, more interest – On the downside, one of our partners has been forced to withdraw – We are communicating that open source allows saved costs and control of destiny

We’ve had some issues Governance – We’ve made some tweaks in the projects – For example: Updated Rice charter to balance investing partner and application project influence Updated positions and governance may be forthcoming in Student to reflect the changes in the cycle of the project Updated Kuali Coeus timeline to facilitate merger with Coeus community

We’ve had some issues Implementations – On the upside, we have had successful implementations and will have many more this year – On the downside, resources of partners are stretched to continue to develop the code, while implementing the system on campus

We’ve had some issues Need to develop a new contribution model beyond our original approach

Contribution Model Purpose – Historically, Kuali has been “community source” – Want to begin leveraging resources more widely – Must maintain quality !! CFOs require that debits & credits balance – Want to learn from other open source models

Contribution Model Approach – Create an open and public web site for contributions – Use open tools to manage the process – Create ‘Levels of Trust’ for communication purposes – Code that is incorporated in an official release must meet Kuali standards – This is still under discussion and should be published later this year

Q&A / Discussion? Jennifer Foutty