Re: Proposed: Funding Open Source Accounting software

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From: Ean Schuessler <ean(at)brainfood(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: Proposed: Funding Open Source Accounting software
Date: 2014-02-16 18:03:03
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----- "Anthony Towns" <aj(at)erisian(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:

> 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.

That's an interesting piece of software. Does SPI use ledger-cli?

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From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)postgresql(dot)org>
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Subject: Re: Proposed: Funding Open Source Accounting software
Date: 2014-02-17 03:03:33
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On 02/16/2014 01:03 PM, Ean Schuessler wrote:
> ----- "Anthony Towns" <aj(at)erisian(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> That's an interesting piece of software. Does SPI use ledger-cli?

Not at this time, but if what comes out of NPOAcct uses it, we probably
will.

--Josh Berkus


From: Anthony Towns <aj(at)erisian(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Ean Schuessler <ean(at)debian(dot)org>
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Subject: Re: Proposed: Funding Open Source Accounting software
Date: 2014-02-17 11:04:30
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On 17 February 2014 04:03, Ean Schuessler <ean(at)brainfood(dot)com> wrote:
> That's an interesting piece of software. Does SPI use ledger-cli?

Oh, huh, I saw 'ledger-CLI' but read it as SQL-Ledger apparently. Joey
Hess has used hledegr and blogged about it previously:

https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/hledger/

and there's also:

http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ledger___double_entry_accounting_using_text_based_storage_format.html

Cheers,
aj

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