Re: address@hidden: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of gnumoney]

[Free Software Foundation]

>
> If it already is an official GNU package, it will be approved shortly.
> Otherwise it must be discussed on address@hidden for approval.
>
> Nic Ferrier <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License:
> Package: gnumoney
>
> Develop a web based accounting system for small to medium sized companies.
>
> I run a small company in the UK, developing free software. We have the
> core of a UK accounting system which I would like to offer to a wider
> audience and develop further:
>
> - adapt it to different national accounting requirements
> - add new features (inventory control, payroll)
> - fix bugs and polish existing features

It sounds like these sorts of features would fit well into GNUCash, the
existing GNU program for doing what Microsoft Money does.  Have you looked
at how you might integrate with GNUCash?  If it can't integrate with
GNUCash, I'd like to know what limits GNUCash has that make it impossible
to build your system on top of GNUCash.



> If you accept this as a project I would like to call it GNUmoney -
> pronouncing it \"new money\". This is a pun on MSMoney and a joke about
> social class, money and technology (at least here in the UK).

If we called it GNUMoney, we'd want to pronounce it "ga-new-mon-ey".  We
always pronounce GNU as "ga-new", never "new".



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