Our Mission

We are pleased to announce this Open Source project to support all universities, institutes, faculties and students. We separate our mission in two kind of activities: one for developers and the other for end users.

Developers:
Developers are programmers that want to contribute building architecture, APIs and reference implementation for OpenUSS. OpenUSS should be built component oriented with the newest software technologies that available at the software market. It is also important to use available Open Source Software in all parts of this system, because we don't want to reinvent the wheel two times. For interested developers please look at the developers' page of this site.

Users:
Users are universities, faculties, institutes and students, which use OpenUSS as their publishing and information center system (portal). They should have an easy system to deal with lectures, documents and exercises. Besides the portal should be the communication center for all kind of such organisation's members. Universities, faculties and intitutes which don't have a capability to run the system can use the reference implementation and outsource it to OpenUSS. This is important because many faculties don't have the know how and a possibility to set up such a publishing system. To all users please refer the users' page of this site.

We will offer this system as an Open Source Software. For the licence please look at our license policy. The success of this system depends on all the developers' and users' activities.