MCEA Technology Workshop

The Minnesota Community Education Association will be putting on a technology workshop this April.  It is designed to showcase and compare the current and upcoming facility management, school age child care, and course enrichment software.

We will be showing our current production build of aroralite as well as a few new features and proof of concept demos.  If you have been interested in seeing our product this will give you a good chance to see a brief overview.  MCEA has also set up specific rooms before and after the demos for specific questions and answers related to your organzation.

If you would like to attend please send an email to jjohnson@chisagolakes.k12.mn.us to request a registration form.

The dates and locations are:

Thursday, April 3rd
Elk River Educational Technology Center
1230 School Street
Elk River, MN (map)

Friday, April 4
Shakopee High School
Door A – Second Floor Lecture Hall
100 17th Ave. West
Shakopee, MN (map)

Our Nintendo Wii Has Arrived!

We finally have in our possession the Ninendo Wii we will be giving away at the NCEA conference.  So stop by our booth, check out the next generation in community education software and enter to win a wii.  We might even set it up so people can play.  Awesome give away = Awesome software?  Yeah, that's a true story.

For more information about the NCEA conference check out our dedicated page for the conference.

We got our report card today...

Just in time for the national convention too!  A few weeks ago our pilot district decided that having a third party industry consultant come review the software and processes would be a good idea.  Bryant Avey from InterNuntius, Inc. came to our office and reviewed the latest version of Arora.  Well... we got the results from the review today (summarized):

"Arux Software is a start-up company, and the AroraCE package is their first software product; however, the system is both well designed and well developed.  AroraCE is easy to use, contains all the major requirements of enterprise software systems, and has a number of features and functions missing in many million-dollar software systems."

"The AroraCE software package is a robust, full- featured software system.  The technologies, software development, and business practices employed by Arux Software are solid and comply with industry standards and best practices.  Additionally, since Arux is utilizing a Best of Breed approach, their technology and software will not be at risk of becoming obsolete, legacy, or unsupportable for many years."

"In conclusion, both Arux Software and the AroraCE system, provide an excellent solution for Community Education’s business systems requirements."

In the email to the director:

"It was a pleasure working with you and with Arux on this software.  You should be very proud of what you’ve accomplished with them." 

If you would like more information on Arora or additional references please feel free to contact us.

NCEA Conference 2007

For this years National Community Education Conference in downtown Minneapolis we will be unveiling and demoing Arora.  It will give everyone a chance to see how different and unique Arora really is.  We will be posting up a time table of when we will be doing our different demos shortly.

Also, we will be raffling off a Nintendo wii!  So come check out the booth and see for yourself why Arora is the future. 

For more information on the conference we will be providing details as well as a wrap up with all our videos and slide show slides HERE.

Trac and Anonymous svn access for Whippet

Finally, after months of having whippet in a mostly working state and using it on for this site, we have set up access for devlopers to get it. Please note that whippet still does not have a release. This is just access to the source code for developers to play with. We currently do not have a road map for actually releasing a working stable version of Whippet yet, but we be fomulating one within the next few weeks.

You can access the Trac here: http://whippet.trac.aruxsoftware.com

or you can browse svn: http://svn.aruxsoftware.com/whippet