--- Satya ilugbom@thesatya.com wrote:
If by who is going to walk the walk, you mean who is going to actually write code, I have said more than once that I will -- if a domain expert will tell me what's needed.
Awesome. A single day has seen a 100% increase in the team size. Our resident CA on ILUG is around and committed. He will definitely jump in formally as soon as he gets around to reading this. And we need not just CAs. Accountants, business people, troublemongers, testers, jholers, etc too who can give practical inputs on their requirements. While current Packages dwell into the inventory aspects, not all needs of inventory management are met. Not all needs of reporting are met. Such individuals can provide valuable input for that too.
Is there any way the other LUGs can be spoken to? Pune and Bangalore? I am pretty confident that there are many enthusiasts like yourself around who have done a lot of coding. So someone needs to take the best of all and put it together. I think it's the last mile that needs the walking.
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-abhishek
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Abhishek Daga wrote:
--- Satya ilugbom@thesatya.com wrote:
If by who is going to walk the walk, you mean who is going to actually write code, I have said more than once that I will -- if a domain expert will tell me what's needed.
Awesome. A single day has seen a 100% increase in the team size. Our resident CA on ILUG is around and committed. He will definitely jump in formally as soon as he gets around to reading this. And we need not just CAs. Accountants, business people, troublemongers, testers, jholers, etc too who can give practical inputs on their requirements. While current Packages dwell into the inventory aspects, not all needs of inventory management are met. Not all needs of reporting are met. Such individuals can provide valuable input for that too.
Accounting or programming is not my field but I personally feel that if any software project is to be kicked off then instead of waiting for people to say 'yes' and find the time to meet etc., you can do what Linux Tarvolds did. He posted his kernel core to the community and one by one they gave feedback and their own patches and contributions.
So first form an internet message group that can send heavy attachments without any limits. Then Satya can post his domain free accounting package code which will be tried and tested by those on the message group. Then feedback and patches will keep coming from domain guys and other experts and the code will grow in size and functionality, all without moving from one place to another.
If a platform independent accounting package is required, how about creating a bootable 'accounting only' operating system that will also have the ability to convert data to different known file formats. It could also be a live cd that can read/write to any existing file system partition.
Just a suggestion! All the best.
Regards,
Rony.
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what Linux Tarvolds did. He posted his kernel core to the community
It's Linus not Linux.
If a platform independent accounting package is required, how about creating a bootable 'accounting only' operating system that will also have the ability to convert data to different known file formats. It could also be a live cd that can read/write to any existing file system partition.
There isnt a need to create a complete accounting OS for this purpose! I would recommend using Java if we need platform independence. But beware we would need REAL java experts. The program development cycle for Java platform takes a lot more time than on .NET...
Regards, Dinesh.
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Sometime on Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 10:47:45AM +0000, Dinesh Joshi said:
If a platform independent accounting package is required, how about creating a bootable 'accounting only' operating system that will also have the ability to convert data to different known file formats. It could also be a live cd that can read/write to any existing file system partition.
There isnt a need to create a complete accounting OS for this purpose! I would recommend using Java if we need platform independence. But beware we would need REAL java experts. The program development cycle for Java platform takes a lot more time than on .NET...
Why not an Accounting distro? I can volunteer for remastering an "Accounting Only" live cd distribution. But using Java should be a strict no. That would mean getting rid of older machines and getting new Pentium 4 boxes. Plus Swing does not come with favourable distribution license.
Anurag
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