Cash for Gnucash development?: Self-study course for CPE?

[Thomas Templin]

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On Friday 29 August 2003 23:19, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> As a FreeBSD user, I'm looking at my various options for
> financial software. As a CPA in Texas, I'm also looking at my
> options for earning Continuing Professional Education (CPE)
> hours for my license renewal.  On average, I need 40 hours per
> year.
>
> I usually earn my hours via self-study courses, many of which
> are for computer applications.  This year, I'm looking at paying
> over $100.00 to learn Quicken and earn 24 hours of credit. 
> There's also a course for QuickBooks for the same price.
>
> If the Gnucash documentation were turned into a tutorial, it
> could be registered with the CPA Boards of each state (start
> with Texas, please) for CPE hours.  The Gnucash developers could
> sell the courses, maintain administrative records to meet CPE
> course requirements and mail CPE certificates.  This doesn't
> prevent Gnucash from allowing people to use the tutorials for
> free; but it allows me to divert a necessary expense to Open
> Source development in a completely legitimate/legal/ethical way.
>
> If the right people for this idea aren't on this list, could
> someone forward the idea for me?

As someone who is not familiar with this special US circumstances 
may I ask some questions?
1st could you please be so kind to explain for us Europeans and for 
me as a german aborigine what CSA and CPE stands for?
Who will give such courses, how will such couses be organized and 
which organisation ist responsible for such kind of Education in 
the US? And how could a Gnucash tutorial bring financial donations 
to the developers in this committees?

I think that the special modality you are talking about seems to be 
near the model of our german curiculae which are estabished in our 
Continuing Professional Education at adult evening classes.
Here in germany there are two most common known curiculae / test 
suits. First the European Computer Driving License model which 
goes from first "How to use" Tutorials to Professional 
Cualification in a step to step course system. The other one is 
the XPERT curiculum which wants to suit mostly Professional 
Cualification aspects. In Germany his courses are offered by a 
kind of local education centers called Volkshochschule (adult 
evening classes)
Interesting for me is the option to donate cash to a project group 
you are talking about. AFAIK this is not established here at all.

Bye,
Thomas
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