Re: Proposed: Funding Open Source Accounting software

From: Anthony Towns <aj(at)erisian(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: spi-general(at)lists(dot)spi-inc(dot)org
Subject: Re: Proposed: Funding Open Source Accounting software
Date: 2014-02-15 17:06:25
Message-ID: CAJS_LCX2S=1xfmj7k-YQ4VnTdoi4KC7JS1_oXuoy8a_HG=HCJA@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,

On 3 May 2013 04:21, Josh Berkus <josh(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
> The Software Freedom Conservancy is proposing to fund the efforts of a
> full-time software developer to create NPO accounting software which
> will be completely open source and free. SPI could really use such
> software.
> https://sfconservancy.org/campaign/
> As such, I propose that we fund this effort using $10,000 out of our
> general SPI funds. I think this is a good idea because: [...]

Did anything happen with this? I got the impression there was general
support for it on the list, but don't see a resolution to actually do
it on
http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/resolutions/

According to the link above, they got almost $54k of their desired
$75k and have started work. Looks like there's some preliminary
results available at http://npoacct.sfconservancy.org/

FWIW, at linux.conf.au last month, the Linux Australia council
reported donating $1300 to the project, matching their costs for the
proprietary cloud solution they're currently using.

Cheers,
aj

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Anthony Towns <aj(at)erisian(dot)com(dot)au>

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