About

This Weblog is intended to document the project work of “ALI” the Alumni System of the Department of Business Informatics at University of Cooperative Education Ravensburg.

ALI is the reference project of the open-source alumni networking platform “Alumni on Rails“, developed by students. Alumni on Rails is non-commercial and available under the GPL license.

Alumni on Rails is developed using the Ruby on Rails framework.

The system’s guiding principle shall be: “networking is the game”.
In detail, the key targets of the system are the following:

• Promote recent events, fairs and seminars
• Private and business contacts in an environment of trust
• Connection between students, their fellow students and alumni
• Sustainable connection between the department administration and alumni
• Helping students and alumni to find job opportunities and evaluated further education possibilities. -> career development
• Provide students with the ability to benefit of the experience of alumni
• Finding experts

The first live system has been launched in June. The open source project “alumni on rails” is available for download since 01/11/2007