Fedena

Fedena is an open source school management software based on Ruby on Rails framework. It is a web 2.0 web application being developed by an Indian/international team. Fedena is currently in closed beta. A demo and public beta will be available in first quarter of 2010.

Features

Developed on ruby on rails frame work with MVC architecture. The application is composed of a basic module which satisfies all the necessary requirements of a simple SIS. There are lot of add on modules which can be installed easily to extend the power and usability.

Basic System Modules

The basic system of fedena contains modules related to Admission, Student Details, Manage Users, Manage News, Examination, Timetable and Attendance.

Add on Modules

Add on modules are being developed by fedena developers as well as contributors worldwide. It includes Finance, Human Resource, Hostel Management, Placement Management etc.

Value Added Services

The system also provides support to SMS services by integrating an SMS gateway. Also the fees and donations can be collected online by integrating a payment gateway.

Integration with other services

Development community is planning integration with the opensource learning management systems like moodle.

Background

Origins

The fedena project is owned by Foradian Technologies, an internet engineering company based out of India.

Fedena was initially named as 'foredu', as it was the first educational software from foradian technologies. But the domain name was already taken and the development team thought of something unique and web 2.0 and they selected 'fedena'. It means the coolest thing alive, usually meaning something come from royalty or from wealth. The name fedena is also motivated from Athena, the greek goddess of wisdom. Athena appears attended by an owl. So the creative team of fedena selected owl as the symbol and derived the logo from the face of an owl. Owl is also the symbol of wisdom and knowledge in many mythologies and beliefs.

Deployment and development

Fedena started the development in June 2009 and it is currently in closed beta. The basic modules development is completed. Finance and Human Resource modules are being developed right now. Public demo will be available in November. The golden release with source code is planned on March 2010.

See also

  • Student Information System
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Web 2.0
  • Opensource
  • Model View Controller

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