Fwd: Re: GNUCash as a maintenance project?

[james]

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Subject: Re: GNUCash as a maintenance project?
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 13:19:06 -0400
From: james <garftd at verizon.net>
To: Adonay Felipe Nogueira <adfeno at openmailbox.org>

On 07/27/17 09:43, Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote:
> Please note that, as far as I'm aware, GnuCash Android isn't related to
> GnuCash, and not even a GNU subproject, contrary to GnuCash.

Which matters little to the wider, coding community. License analysis
is a bit tricky, particularly if they are just trying to learn. Licenses
really matter when commercial aspirations come into play. Millions of
FOSS user are not so 'hung up' on the religious aspects of FOSS
licenses, particularly when just coding things up for fun; ymmv.


> About extending GnuCash for personal medical records: do you mean that
> the user would be able to enter/import medical records about himself so
> as to have some indication of how much of suger he can and has taken? 

Those were just some random thougths. Mostly to track medical history,
form a financial perspective which does lead to a rather nice collective
of data. For example bandaid expenditures for a family or business.....


> I have seen some projects dealing with this for some time, although I only
> know GNU Health so far.


Those items that I posted were not necessarily linked for a specific
project in mind. Surely the financial (medical) history is wonderfully
tracked via gnucash. Perhaps any number of medical aspects could be
added, depending on what somebody wanted, keeping those records either
gnucash centric, or in a data base format that other application
software could share. Financial aspects of one's personal medical
records is always a component for anyone with serious issues, imho.
Grocery shopping records and breakdown is both medically important
as well as financially. One cure for ADHD (from JohnsHopkins some 80
years ago) is to drastically reduced both carbs and sugar and increase
calories in the form of fats. Pretty much works 99% of the time in
children and teens, if you add a 6am exercise component and  robustly
track the calories. Surely gnucash could be setup to track those costs,
in a fine grained manner. Medical journals ignored it, as there are
not drugs that can be patented. PBS did a show on it some 20 years ago.


GnuCash has a very bright future, imho.

hth,
James



> 
> Also, about using GitHub: Any Git repository will do, not only
> GitHub. See
> [[https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html]] for an
> evaluation of some of the most popular hosting services. Note: GNU
> Savannah supports: Git, GNU Bazaar, GNU Arch, GNU CVS, Mercurial,
> Subversion, mailing lists, project custom pages, tasks/bugs/issue
> trackers. In GNU Savannah you can toggle the features you want.

I'd guess using something close to what gnucash uses would be more
appropriate?

> 
> Also, about distros welcoming people: GuixSD system distribution, or
> simply the GNU Guix package manager that can be installed in any system
> distribution, would welcome anyone, besides having the plus of being
> similar to Gentoo, offering roll-backs in case of trouble, and most
> importantly: being free/libre software (as in freedom, not price). See
> [[https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html]] and
> [[https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-non-gnu-distros.html]] for a list of
> free/libre system distributions, and also
> [[https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html]] for a list of common
> system distributions that are not recommended and why they aren't.


I do not think most folks that end up using linux ever consult those
links to make a decision. Yes Gentoo can be made to do anything, even
things ont officially part of Gentoo. In fact we are working on a system
that formalizes creating your own linux distribution from gentoo, so
a group of folks can have linux the way they want it (GLEP-70).

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GLEP:70


Furthermore, the major split in Linux as to whether to use Systemd or an
alternative such as Gentoo's OpenRC is a major rift for those deeply
involved in how a linux distro works. Many other distros choosing to not
adopt systemd are using openRC. Gentoo stands head and shoulders above
other linux distros for robustly supporting both Systemd and Openrc and
indeed any other init(PID 1) system one chooses to use. Gentoo, more
than any other linux distro, is all about choice.

Gentoo is also 'overweight with scientific types of folks' ( or
EggHeads), and many fields of computer science. Gentoo is smashingly
wonderful for all sorts of software developers, penetration testers,
etc, as well as traditional support for establish coding semantics. Guix
lists (2) developers as maintaining and extending the Guix Distro?


Still Guix looks very cool, thanks for pointing it out. Can I run it in
containerized form or VM form on a different linux server?



James