Summer of Code Projects to Work on

[Elise Scher]

Here is the Noisebridge conversation snippet/quote below:

"According to this page Wells Fargo supports OFX
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/OFX_Direct_Connect_Bank_Settings
(ask if they'll waive the extra monthly fee)
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Financial_Exchange"


What do you guys think of this?

Thanks,
Elise L. Scher







> >     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
>