On 1/23/06, Tim Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a software developer with C++ experience and I am interested in > starting a tax software product for the Gnome platform. This would be an > extensible form generator/processor that would rely on other "tax experts" > (of which I am not) to refresh the forms using graphical editors to do so. > The 0.1 release would focus on allowing the user to fill out simple forms > with simple calculations... working up to a 1.0 release that include a rules > engine to look for optimizations/corrections to particular forms. The > ultimate goal allowing the user to eFile (electronically). Has there been > any talk of such an application? Who should I talk to to get the ball > rolling on this?
I wasn't aware of anyone having started a tax software product, but a quick google search turns up: http://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/ http://www.octave.org/octave-lists/archive/octave-sources.2005/msg00005.html The first link looks like it points to a project that is further along and more extensive, while the latter email is nice in that it has multiple links to other projects giving a feel for what exists. You may want to consider contacting and working with one of them, in particular also writing a decent GUI (meaning a Gnome app, of course ;-) for them. _______________________________________________ gnome-love mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love
