[CK-Ledger-users] Re: I would like to help

[C K Wu <ck...@ch...>]

Hello, Robert,

Thanks for checking out ck-ledger and offering to help.
We do need any help that is available.

The current status with ck-ledger is that a new release of
ck-ledger is going to be made within the next two weeks.
The new release will carry two POS modules.  After that,
modules on HR, Payroll, time billing will be tackled.  Further
on, Rental/Facility Management (FM) System is planned.

If you like to pitch in, my suggestions are (in stepwise progression),

a)    Develop a sample chart of account for your country of residence.
b)    Provide adjustment to ck-ledger to cover specific tax requirement
        of your country, although a fair number of tax requirements
(like
        tax on tax) is difficult to implement within ck-ledger's
framework.
c)    Add your country's local language to ck-ledger.  [Local language
        capability is already built into phpgroupware].  BTW, I am
scrambling
        to find time to produce Chinese versions of ck-ledger.
d)    Take full responsibility to develop the Rental/FM modules.
Rental/FM
        is not linked to the other planned modules, and the underlying
billing facility
        is already well completed.  You could actually start on
Rental/FM at
        a very early stage.

You may also like to take note of the following points,

1.    The scheme above is not a strict requirement.  But, it helps you
to
        familiarise with the structure of ck-ledger and provide
check-points
        at which you could decide whether to proceed further.  However,
        you may have different ideas.  I am all ears.

2.    In terms of templates, you may like to check out

http://www.phpgroupware.org/cvsdemo/etemplate/doc/etemplate.html.
        Apparently, etemplate is a module within phpgroupware, that
provides
        tools for constructing templates.  [I haven't try it myself]

3.    One of the basic design of ck-ledger is that it is runnable
against Mysql and
        Postgresql.  Therefore, when coding the sql statement, you may
have to
        be careful to ensure postgresql compatibility.

4.    Again, ck-ledger is designed to run on top of phpgroupware.  You
would
        need to watch the continuing development of phpgroupware.

5.    For Rental/FM, a demo system (www.fm-sytem.no/demo/) had already
        been developed atop phpgroupware.  You may like to check it,
although
        the system is geared mainly towards FM.

I am forwarding this email to ck-...@li..., so
the others
have an ideas of what's going on.

If you have any other ideas, feel free to give me and
ck-...@li...
a email.

Best Regards,
CK


Robert Del Huerto wrote:

> Hey, ckwu.  How are you doing?
>
> I would like to help develop ck-ledger.  In fact, I've
> already begun tweaking the templates a bit to make it a
> little easier for my users to understand.  I'd like to
> deploy ck-ledger in the near future at our organization
> and test its robustness in a real production
> environment.  I'm not ready to switch our accounting
> system to ck-ledger but that is my intention.
>
> I was going to use sql-ledger but I'm not
> comfortable with perl or postgresql.  However, I feel
> at home with php/mysql.  I'm stumbling through
> templates (I've never used them before) but I'm getting
> the hang of it.
>
> BTW, once the accounting system is stable enough, I'd
> like to add a tenant a/r system to track rental units.
>
> Please let me know how I may be of assitance.  :)
>
> robert