-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
>>>>> "Taj" == Sirtaj Singh Kang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Taj> On Sunday 23 October 2005 19:30, vivek khurana wrote: [snip]
Taj> Firstly I think this email is unnecessarily aggressive,
Taj> though I'll assume that it wasn't meant to be so.
>> Why avsap then? If we have to make accounting web based (which
>> i think is useless) we should consider all the available
>> options like sql ledger, weberp etc. If this proposal is
>> accepted, we will institutionalize the method of maintaining
>> accounts on web. So we have to ensure that someone from
>> governing body takes on this charge.
>> Sorry, to say Keneth but this time I also feel that you are
>> trying to make a sales pitch for avsap. Please
Taj> It sounds to me like a) he is giving the software away for
Taj> free and b) he is willing to take care of the hosting and
Taj> security for free. So other than promoting free software he
Taj> has written, how is this a "sales" pitch?
Agreed.
Taj> Anyway I understand if you folks don't want to do web-based
Taj> accounting for ILUGD (I've personally no opinion on the
Taj> matter since I'm not on the board). Also, it makes perfect
Taj> sense to perform the necessary due diligence before picking
Taj> one of the web-based accounting apps. But to belittle someone
Taj> who has written one and is offering hosting, even before the
Taj> due diligence has taken place, just doesn't seem right to me.
When Kenneth has brought this up with me on IRC I'd given one and only
one reason for not looking at web-based accounting: security. I
personally believe that financial data is too sensitive to make
editable on the 'net. I'd be happy to be proved wrong on this point.
Apart from this one objection I'd love to use Kenneth's package --
it's FOSS, it's written by an Indian, it's multilingual (supports
Indic languages) and it's exactly what any person who's interested in
promoting FOSS in India would need to use to, uh, showcase the power
of FOSS and the presence of India on the FOSS map.
BTW, it may surprise you to know that you don't need to be on the
Board (or even to /know/ that there's a Board) to have an opinion :)
Regards,
- -- Raju
- --
Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/
GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F
It is the mind that moves
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/>
iD8DBQFDW8wOyWjQ78xo0X8RAhMSAJ94usxGaa3XyD7m/rBI6Wg2T9FyWACfftXK
VEz2O+13WpWEnzN0z/WoeKU=
=xKW6
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
_______________________________________________
ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected]
http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
