The Heart and Soul of GnuCash
Matthew Vanecek
mevanecek at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 29 15:29:48 CDT 2003
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 13:20, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Linas Vepstas wrote:
>
> - I know a lot about accounting. I work for a small business that sells
> and services small business unix accounting software (larger businesses
> than the target audience of GnuCash and emphasizing operations -
> automatically generating accounting transactions from the
> operation of the business. E.g., print UPS label, generate AP
> transaction for postage.)
>
We need more people experienced with different facets of accounting to
offer advice and commentary about how real world accounting works in
various situations. Many of us work off of what we have experienced or
read, which may not be as complete or correct as what a CPA could
offer...
> Why haven't I helped with GnuCash very much?
>
> - I hate LISP syntax. The talk about SWIG and Python support has
> gotten my interest again. I understand that having two or more interpreters
> required could be a bloatware problem.
>
Perl would be nice. Lots of people know Perl. And no silly whitespace
restrictions...
> - I have very little GUI experience. I can't reasonbly help with the
> user interface.
>
Don't sell yourself short. You use GUIs all the time, and thus have
much to offer. Useability, screen flow, menu flow. You maybe don't
know how to write the code, but you can surely offer insight about how
well it works for you from an interaction perspective. The HID
perspective doesn't seem to have been addressed much (if at all) lately,
and HID doesn't require any coding knowledge. All you need to know is,
"that's button is in a really inconvenient spot..." ;)
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Matthew Vanecek
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