Philip Tellis wrote:
Sometime Today, Kenneth Gonsalves assembled some asciibets to say:
solution: go to this segment - doctors, lawyers, chartered accountants, middle level management, teachers, lecturers, small business men. Just for an experience of what this means, lurk on
well, we're lucky to have Shahrukh (doc), Saswata (CA), and numerous teachers/professors (Jitendra, Nagarjuna) and small businessmen (too many to list) on this list
I have been talking of GNU/Linux based accounting software for a long time on the group. I am not a developer (unless you bring VB.Net to Linux -- that will take a long time to do) but I can help developers with domain knowledge. I said this many times. But nothing happened. There are good FLOSS web-based accounting softwares that we just need to modify to suite indian rules and way of working. Not one person came forward to work on it. The talk is a waste of time.
Venky pointed me to RedHat Student program where many accounting software projects are being done and suggested i join as a mentor. I looked at the projects on the site, most of them were from Engineering college students just doing it for college credits, none of them looked serious.........they were either redefining the wheel or completely lacked focus.
May be I dont know how to be a mentor, may be they need someone like me to redifine the project, but how do i know that any of those projects are serious ?
(Sorry Venky, perhaps I should have got back to you on this)
So, Philip, count resources only if you (or the community) can make use of it. Otherwise, we are just having a fun chat.
Regards Saswata