Status on NPO Accounting project: Conservancy seeks a contractor to begin work

[Bradley M. Kuhn]

I wrote:
>> My current plan is to spend a day or two doing an "eval-sprint",
>> where we can all get together on an IRC channel (once Conservancy has
>> hired someone) and work through the list quickly, eliminating ones
>> that have no hope, to get down quickly to that list of 3-5.

Josh Berkus wrote at 18:04 (EDT) on Friday:
> I think the "elimination round" is something which the volunteer
> community members on this list could help with.

Definitely.  I'll advertise the dates/times with plenty of notice.

>
> Yeah, and I won't hide my bias towards using a relational database.
> While I like Ledger's simplicity (we're using it for PGCAC), I can
> also see outgrowing its reporting capabilities quite quickly, and I
> currently can't imagine how we could implement a system with different
> classes of users with different permissions on top of Ledger-CLI.
> Maybe I lack imagination ;-)

I have some unorthodox ideas about how we might do this using a revision
control system underneath to handle things like user permissions.

But, the issues you raise are real ones that have to be considered.

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   -- bkuhn