[TriLUG] Meeting 13 November: The State of Open Source Bookkeeping

[Hrivnak, Michael]

Here is a timely article on gnucash's android app to spark your interest in
next week's meeting:

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/gnucash-a-powerful-mobile-financial-tool-for-android/

Michael

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Bill Farrow <bill at arrowsreach.com> wrote:

> Topic: The State of Open Source Bookkeeping
> Presenter: Eric Leary
> When: Thursday, 13th November 2014, 7pm (pizza from 6.45pm)
> Where: NC State Engineering Building I Room 1007, Centennial Campus
> Parking: The parking decks and Oval Drive street parking are free after 5pm
> Map: Google Maps
> Sponsor:Apex Systems
>
> Synopsis:
> =========
> The domain of financial record keeping could greatly benefit from new
> open source projects that provide accounting software solutions for
> the small to medium enterprise. The current offerings don't fulfill
> contemporary requirements, are often buggy and moribund in the
> maintenance of the code base, or are intractable to implement without
> extensive commitment from third party developers.
>
> Quickbooks Online and Xero accounting will be held up as
> representative targets from the commercial world that the open source
> community should pursue with competitive products and frameworks. The
> talk will delve into GnuCash and other open source offerings, showing
> their strengths and weaknesses in today's world.
>
> Bio:
> =========
> Eric is not an accountant, he is a bookkeeper. He has been using
> Quickbooks for over 17 years in a wide range of industries, but he is
> drawn to Python and Open Source for some strange reason. I think he
> would prefer to give it all up and go back to theater set design, but
> such is life.
>
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