Hi Hugh,

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Hugh Mayfield <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> My first post.  I have been looking for an accounts / ERP project to
> contribute to and LedgerSMB looks really promising.
>

Great news! Thanks for the complement. I'm curious with which other
projects you compared and what your reasons are to choose LedgerSMB over
the others. I hope you can share your ideas (maybe there's something to
learn there).


> I'm a Computer Science student and have also worked in purchasing and
> tax compliance.  I'm hoping that contributing to LedgerSMB will allow me
> to make use of my experience and also develop my programming, project
> management (possibly) and teamworking skills.
>

That's what Open Source software development did for me when I started
doing it (back in 2003). Hopefully, I'll be able to pass some of my
experience on to a new generation :-)

My first step I guess is to play with the software, read the
> documentation and try to get into the codebase... (if you'll have me)
>

Absolutely, we'll definitely have you, if we can. Do you need help setting
up LedgerSMB? I would advise you to use a *nix like environment to run
LedgerSMB: the installation instructions for Windows are spotty at best.
Likewise, running LedgerSMB 1.4+ in a development setting is easiest to be
done through Starman (the HTTP server), which eliminates the need for an
Apache or Nginx setup.

As far as tasks in the project, I think we have enough to be done :-)  As a
start, you could have a look for small issues in the GitHub issue tracker.
I marked the ones that I think should be easy enough to handle (as in: "can
be dealt with in a matter of hours") with the "bite-sized" label.


Thanks for showing your interest and welcome on board!

-- 
Bye,

Erik.

http://efficito.com -- Hosted accounting and ERP.
Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in.
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