FYI OpenPetra.org

[Marc Paré]

Hi all,

I just thought I would send you this information of another opensource 
fund accounting project that has already been started. It is called the 
"OpenPetra Project" and is licensed under the GPL licence.

I wonder, seeing as our present endeavour has pretty well slowed to a 
crawl, would it be in our interest to take a look at the OpenPetra 
project  and add our efforts to that project, or even adopt a fork of 
that project? It looks like the closed sourced version "Petra" is 
already being used by a group called "Open Mobilisation" and in over 80 
countries.

At this point, the OpenPetra Project is still in alpha stage and it 
looks like it would need a little help to get it to the level that we 
would most likely need for what we would consider a proper "Fund 
Accounting" software package.

Would this be a possible new direction that we could explore?

Also FYI, I am not a dev, so I would not be able to gauge as to how much 
work would be involved to help more the OpenPetra project to a more 
stable Fund Accounting level of software. But, to me, the project looks 
promising. The code is there and already at an advanced stage, the user 
GUI looks also quite good.

Cheers,

Marc


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