Google Summer of Code Project

[Christian Stimming]

Dear Michael,

thank you for your interest in working with gnucash in the GSoC 2011 program. 
As a first step, we suggest you should checkout the gnucash sources from SVN 
and build it yourself (on some Linux/Unix computer), see 
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building

If you're interested in the online banking desktop integration, you would 
first need to find a bank where you have a bank account at a bank that offers 
the online banking protocols supported by gnucash. See 
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/OFX_Direct_Connect_Bank_Settings if you're in the 
U.S. Then, please try to set up gnucash with your account so that you can see 
at least the statement download working.

Only if you've completed those steps it makes sense to plan for new steps in 
your GSoC project. Feel free to ask here on the list if you encounter any 
difficulties.

Also, all the ideas from the uservoice page http://gnucash.uservoice.com are 
useful suggestions for a project.

Best Regards,

Christian

Am Donnerstag, 24. März 2011 schrieb Michael Wang:
> Hi,
> 
> My name is Michael Wang, and I am interested in helping GnuCash develop its
> Business Integration or online banking integration through a web browser
> (or desktop) over the summer of 2011 as a Google Summer of Code Project.
> I'd like to create a plan to reach out to customers and find out their
> needs. From this, I will develop the code using C that will allow one of
> these integrations to occur. At this point, I am interested in learning
> more about this opportunity, so if there is any information that isn't on
> the website or GSoC 2011 wiki, or someone I could talk to in order to
> develop my ideas (mentor for these projects), that would be great.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael Wang