The Kuali Foundation employs staff to coordinate partner efforts and to manage and protect the Foundation’s intellectual property. The Kuali Foundation manages a growing portfolio of enterprise software applications for colleges and universities. A lightweight Foundation staff coordinates the activities of Foundation members for critical software development and coordination activities such as source code control, release engineering, packaging, documentation, project management, software testing and quality assurance, conference planning, and educating and assisting members of the Kuali Partners program.

Kuali Rice is a higher-education, community-source software project that is merely a spoke in the wheel of the larger Kuali Community. The Kuali Community is the hub of a wheel of a growing number of communities, each of which are made up of people and functions. Together they form a comprehensive suite of open, modular and distributed administrative software systems that bring the proven functionality of legacy applications to the ease and universality of online services. The Kuali Foundation serves them all, with specific responsibilities related to keeping the wheel in motion. Each individual community shares a similar organizational structure and some modular functionality while its components are able to stand alone to perform unique functions. While all are designed for seamless integration with each other, each project is made up of modules that offer a variety of implementation combinations to suit any Carnegie-class institution’s unique business needs.

Should you want to learn more detail about how the Rice community is organized, structured and operates you should reference the Rice Charter which is available for review in the Foundation archives.