Open Source, Contributed by Organizations or Campuses, and Programs and Projects
The Fluid Project
| Title: | The Fluid Project (ID: CSD5044) | | Source: | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (08/13/2007) | | Type: | Programs and Projects | | Abstract: | The Fluid Project is an international community of academic institutions, community source software projects and corporations working together to address the precarious values of usability, accessibility, internationalization, quality assurance and security within academic software projects.
Fluid combines both design and technology to create a living library of sharable user interface components that can be reused across community source projects. These components are built specifically to support flexibility and customization while maintaining a high standard of design quality. The Fluid framework will enable designers and developers to build user interfaces that can more readily accommodate the diverse personal and institutional needs found within community source projects.
Fluid will encourage user-centered design practices within community source software. To this end, we are creating a designer's toolkit that will offer useful design, accessibility, and usability strategies and documentation. Members of the Fluid team are available to provide usability and accessibility support within the Sakai, uPortal, Kuali Student, and Moodle communities. | | View this resource: | |
The Kuali Project
| Title: | The Kuali Project (ID: CSD3386) | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2004) | | Type: | Programs and Projects | | Abstract: | The Kuali Project will create software that provides a comprehensive suite of functionality to serve the financial systems needs of all Carnegie Class institutions. It will include such functional elements as Flexible Chart of Accounts, General Ledger, General Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Capital Asset Management, Pre and Post-Award Administration, Purchasing, Accounts Payable, Cash Receipting and Disbursement, Travel Requisition and Reimbursement, Auxiliary Accounting, Web-based e-Commerce, Budget Construction and Administration. The design will be an enhancement of the proven functionality of Indiana University's Financial Information System. A critical element of the system is the XML-based EDEN© workflow for routing and approval of financial transactions. Extensive data warehousing and decision support tools will be an integral part of the system with full compliance for FASB and GASB reporting. | | View this resource: | |
The Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI)
| Title: | The Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) (ID: CSD1585) | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2001) | | Type: | Programs and Projects | | Abstract: | The Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) addresses what is perceived by many in higher education as a critical need: meaningful, coherent, modular, easy-to-use, web-based environments for assembling, delivering and accessing educational resources and activities. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and its primary partner, Stanford University, are lead planners in the OKI Project. The initiative is sponsored by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. | | View this resource: | |
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