Any volunteers?? Stephan
-----Original Message----- From: Grant Parnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 24 December 2001 6:32 PM To: Stephan Borg Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SLUG] SLUG: Accounting software Dare I say it, what's missing is a Project Leader. Someone who can round up the features needed, any existing software that's sortof close and is open source by necessity and keep track of programmers & investors. Lets face it, there's more incentive if we're paid or will benefit from it sooner. A bunch of us here seem to have developed our own systems that work just enough for our own purposes. If I ever get around to moving back to Sydney I might start volunteering for more stuff. Then again, this *is* something I can do on the train. LinuxHelp has also written it's own back end software. Anthony's done all the stuff concerned with pricing structures & BAS issues. On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Stephan Borg wrote: > I have been working on one for years - one of those home projects that > just never seems to get off the ground. > > I recently found PHP to be much easier to protoype in, so I am > currently working on a PostgreSQL backend, Apache/PHP4 front. > > Anybody interested, let me know - I've done a fair bit of ground work > (over 6 years) and there is more to it than just the accounting side. > > Any takers, please let me know. > > Regards, > > Stephan Borg > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf > Of David > Sent: Saturday, 22 December 2001 11:33 AM > To: Internet User > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SLUG] SLUG: Accounting software > > > > This won't be what you want to hear but..... > > I have to use Westpac software that only runs on WinCrap. I use > windows emulation and windows still crashes/freezes/etc but at least I > have the satisfaction of proving to myself once per week that I have > made the right choice in software for everything else! > > MEANTIME.... I wonder if it would be worth somebodies while to write > some nice simple accounting software to suit aussies. I for one would > pay a reasonable price for it. > > Just imagine.. something in perl that you could modify fairly easily > to do EXACTLY what you want, instead of what some pointy head decides > suits every small business in Australia. Is that just a dream? > > David. > > On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Internet User wrote: > > > Hello Sluggers, > > > > I was wondering if any of you could help me with a problem I have. > > > > The one reason that I ever really need to boot into Microsucks is to > > do my accounting in MYOB version 10.02, and this has to happen on a > > monthly basis or whenever I can put up with it, of late , without a > > doubt every boot takes about 15 mins because Winsucks 98 has crashed > > the last time I used it and the system goes through the usual arrogant > > > (you must shut down your computer properly) scandisk routine, freeze > > on boot up, reset, rescan, recrash, blue screen of death, reset, > > rescan, recrash, blue screen of death,... you know the picture. > > > > Now because I have, in a fit of contempt for crappy software, mailed > > my Winsucks 1998 disk back to Microsucks with an "insert this into > > your smallest orifice you bastards" letter, I can't reload it to make > > it work, why? I wish to force the change to Linux on myself for all my > > > computing needs. > > > > Crunch time has come, the tax man cometh........ AAARRRRGGGH! > > > > What I need your advice on is who has a comprehensive accounting > > package on par with MYOB which suits the Australian accounting > > situation, now it doesn't have to be graphical because I can happily > > work without graphics, although they do ease the pain of data entry. > > > > I have looked at GNUcash but found it a little short in some areas, > > as > > > much as I would like to I can't yet program in what I need, I'm > > still > > > a newbie with relation to my knowledge of Linux and how to program > > my > > needs of it. > > > > What I have from MYOB data exports is a text database, and I've been > > able to build a database with tables to suit in mySQL, but I'm > > hopelessly slow at this an need some speed to get the job done for > > this quarter.. > > > > It would be nice if I could just read the *.dat file that MYOB > > generates using MSucks Visual Fox Pro(?) database program and dump it > > directly into a package that will seamlessly eat it up and spit out > > all my accouting information needs. > > > > I might be able to get the text database into star office and do > > something that way but I'm not sure that will be the preferred long > > term solution. > > > > Your suggestions and help if you would please. > > > > Regards > > > > Nicholas Tomlin. > > > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > > > > > -- ---<GRiP>--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Phone/fax: 02 4950 1194 Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
