On Saturday 01 February 2003 8:11 pm, someone claiming to be Christian Stimming wrote: > Gee. I haven't practiced my written English in a long time now. These press > notes/ announcement is a rough translation from my German version. The > German version will focus much more on the HBCI stuff which isn't really > applicable to any other place in the world except Germany, so the German > press notes will definitely be different from the English ones. > > This proposal is meant to stimulate some people into writing something much > better. I wanted to show how press notes might look like (i.e. several > paragraphs of text in a row) as well as how a personal quote might be > included -- please anybody feel free to suggest something better, and also > somebody else might insert his/her quote there. Comments are absolutetly > invited and welcome. >
Looks good to me, I added a couple suggestions below, but I imagine someone else may have better input... > > *** DRAFT *** > > February xx, 2003 (The INTERNET) The GnuCash Development Team > <http://www.gnucash.org> proudly announces the release of GnuCash 1.8, > the GNU personal finance manager. > > GnuCash features a full account hierarchy manager, a checkbook-like > register GUI to enter transactions, and an exhaustive set of reports > to visualize the state of your finances. New features in this release > include scheduled transactions, small business features, OFX import > and HBCI (the German online banking system) support. The user > interface is designed to be simple and easy to use, but it is backed > with double-entry accounting principles to ensure balanced books. > > "You don't need Windows any longer. GnuCash comes with all finance > manager features I need, and in Germany I even can manage all my > online banking tasks through GnuCash, " says Christian Stimming of the > developer team. "Even better: In GnuCash I have the first HBCI > software that can really be checked for potential back doors, since > its GPL license gives me true access to the source code." > > With respect to OFX import, GnuCash is the first free software > application to support the Open Financial Exchange protocol that many > banks and financial services are moving to use. The development of OFX > and HBCI support has also resulted in an improved transaction matching > and completion system during transaction import. > > In Small Business Accounting, GnuCash now can be used for Customer and > Vendor tracking, Invoicing and Bill Payment, and using different Tax > and Billing Terms in a small business. > > For new users, an account hierarchy creation druid helps to get > started. An account heirarchy creation druid helps new users get started. > Existing financial data from e.g. Quicken or MS Money can > easily be imported by the QIF importer. A brand new user help > has been written which focuses on how to do tasks in conjunction with > a Tutorial and Concepts guide that gives the user background > information on using GnuCash. Brand new help documentation, in conjunction with a Tutorial and Concepts guide, has been written which focuses on how to do tasks that gives the new user background information on using GnuCash. > > GnuCash is available for free under the GNU General Public License > (GPL) from the GnuCash server <http://www.gnucash.org> and its > mirrors. Thanks go to all the translators, testers, and bug reporters > who made this release possible. > > > Downloading and Compiling GnuCash > > The source packages for GnuCash are available for free download at > http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash . GnuCash 1.8 requires the Gnome > 1.4 platform, Guppi, guile, slib, and g-wrap. If you are upgrading > from GnuCash 1.6, you should be done by upgrading g-wrap to 1.3.4. If you are upgrading from GnuCash 1.6, all that should be required is an upgrade of g-wrap to 1.3.4. > ...The detailed requirements can be found at > <http://www.gnucash.org/en/required.phtml>. > > Contact > > Send email to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > For subscription information, see <http://www.gnucash.org/en/lists.phtml>. > > Regards, Tim -- RedHat Psyche 8.0, stock kernel, KDE 3.1.CVS, Xfree86 4.2.1 9:00pm up 2 days, 23:30, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 It's what you learn after you know it all that counts _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
