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The Kuali Foundation is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) corporation that develops open source enterprise resource planning software for higher education institutions. Kuali modules include Student, Financial, Human Resources, Research Administration, and Library. Founding partners are Indiana University, The University of Arizona, the University of Hawaii, Michigan State University, San Joaquin Delta Community College, Cornell University, NACUBO, and the rSmart Group. ==History== Around 2003, Indiana University administrators were considering alternatives for replacing the existing financial information system. They looked at retooling the current financial system or buying vendor software. In 2004, Indiana University chief information officer Brad Wheeler wrote a paper about the state of open and community source software development in education.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Open Source 2007: How did this happen? )〕 This paper helped coalesce a movement among higher ed institutions to create a community source enterprise resource planning software suite. Beginning with MIT computer scientist and free-software pioneer Richard Stallman, open source solutions disrupted traditional notions of property and came to embody the right to share and distribute. Wheeler's preliminary work assessed higher education's readiness for a community source financial system project and its applicability across colleges and universities through a planning grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) in 2004. In March 2005, after more than a year of evaluation, partner coalescing, and preparatory work, the Kuali Financial System (KFS) received a $2.5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to help complete the software development.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Financial-Software Project Gets $2.5-million and New Members )〕 Colorado State University and San Joaquin Delta College became the first to host large-scale installations of the full KFS in 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kuali: The next open source movement )〕 Kuali modules now include Student, Financial, Human Resources, Research Administration, and Library. Due to increasing budgetary strain in higher ed,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Is Your College Going Broke? The Most And Least Financially Fit Schools In America )〕 community source solutions saw a quick rise in popularity, and Kuali membership swelled.〔 By 2014, Kuali had demonstrated open-source ERP systems could be built and operated, with total Kuali membership approaching 100 institutions. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kuali Foundation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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