Friday, September 14, 2007

Open Solutions for Education

In the time since I left IBM, I have joined and invested in a small startup called Open Solutions for Education or OS4ED. ( http://os4ed.com) The mission of our little philanthropic venture is to produce quality open source alternatives to costly K-12 administrative software. The business model is like most open source models: Give it away for free and make your living from fees for maintenance services, training, customizations, etc.

Yesterday we released our new SIS, openCentre, and opened the demo site. I encourage you all to visit and try it out. The demo is located at http://demo.os4ed.com. You can log in using these credentials:

Administrator - User Name = admin, password=admin
Teacher - User Name=teacher, password=teacher
Parent - User Name=parent, password=parent

We also have an alpha version data warehouse and are set to release an add-on module for critical communications called EasyCom. We are excited about our efforts and hope you find our SW fits your needs. Enjoy!