[Advacs-discuss] [Fwd: Re: Skolelinux]

[David Palmer]

Before I got going on the recent work flurry, I was involved in 
corresponding with these people who can be found here:-

http://eduforge.org/wiki/wiki/eduforge/?pagename=AboutUs

and not knowing enough concerning the structure of Advacs, I thought you 
people may be able to supply some relevant information.
They are Debian developers, and met/spoke with Petter Reinholtzen(sp?) 
at the last Skolelinux conference.
Regards,

David.

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Subject: 	Re: Skolelinux
Date: 	Tue, 14 Sep 2004 15:25:18 +1200
From: 	Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
To: 	David Palmer <davidpalmer@westnet.com.au>
CC: 	Richard Wyles (OP) <richard.wyles@openpolytechnic.ac.nz>, 
andrew@catalyst.net.nz
References: 	<414541DC.1090902@catalyst.net.nz> 
<41459774.2050508@westnet.com.au>



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David,

sounds very interesting! Is how modular/customizable is it? Eduforge
hosts some projects that aim to replace software that is needed in the
education sector but is proprietary and costly. NZVLE is focused on
enhancing and promoting learning management systems (LMS) -- and is
being developed by the Eduforge core team.

Student Management Systems  are usually heavily customized/extended
accounting packages, and while we are at this stage looking at
interoperation with the SMS installed base, there may be interest in a
FOSS SMS.

cheers,






martin

David Palmer wrote:

| Martin Langhoff wrote:
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|>  David,
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|>  I am extermely curious about the 'enterprise class accounting system'
|>  you mention. What system is it?
|>
| Hello Martin,
|
| It's currently called 'Advacs' (advanced accounting).
| It's a modular build, with the general ledger being the basic module,
| and anything else required downloadable after that. This, of course,
| allows for individual enterprise requirement, speed and stability.
|
| So far, we have the basic outline of modules required for a small
| business, i.e., general ledger, sales ledger, cashbook and purchase
| ledger. But we envisage everything else with time as well, e.g., ecommerce
| Current work happening is on internationalisation modules to cover
| individual national requirements as far as tax goes. (hint: looking for
| an N.Z. tax module, have already done advance research -
| http://www.ird.govt.nz/payrolldev/ ).
|
| Not many on the project, but what there is is quality.
| A senior developer with the postgresql project, Oliver Elphick, is
| project head.
| The project is here on Alioth:-
|
| https://alioth.debian.org/projects/advacs/
|
| And the mailing list is here:-
|
| https://alioth.debian.org/mail/?group_id=30474
|
| Regards,
|
| David.
|
|


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