Summer of Code Projects to Work on

[Christian Stimming]

Am Montag, 21. März 2011 schrieb Elise Scher:
> Hi John and others,
>     Both Cutecash and Online Banking Integration in Desktop and Web Browser
> look interesting.
>     I have worked on an ETX electronic funds transfer system before. And I
> know some German.

Dear Elise,

welcome to our project. We are curious to hear your ideas on how to tackle 
those project. Unfortunately, the task concerning "online banking and desktop 
integration" (which was described by me) can be tested only by users with a 
German bank account who has the HBCI online banking protocol available. Only 
in HBCI gnucash has the possibility to actually send "real" money online, 
which was the point of this task proposal. With U.S. banks, only OFX 
DirectConnect exists which supposedly should offer this possiblity as well, 
but it isn't implemented in any of the libraries that gnucash uses for OFX 
access and subsequently it also isn't implemented in gnucash. Hence, if you 
would like to work on this but don't have a German bank account, you can 
either use only the HBCI test server (which is kinda boring, as I already 
said), or you can implement the online money transfer in all of our OFX 
libraries, but that sounds like a little bit too complicated for a GSoC 
project for me. Maybe a slightly different task is more suitable in this 
timeframe? What else would be of interest to you?

Regards,

Christian