UFI/learndirect - Migrating to Open Source
Simon Mather, Head of Software Engineering
Ufi was created in 1998 with a mission to provide educational services to hard to reach learners. The *learndirect* system is believed to be the largest online learning system in the world and is at the heart of the Ufi operation. In 2005 Ufi commited to a multi-million pound project to breath new life into this key service and elected to migrate learndirect from a Microsoft to an open source Java platform as part of the work.
During this presentation Simon will describe how Ufi have undertaken this programme of work over the last two and half years, the contribution open source software has made, and the part this has played in modernising the organisation.