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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 10 years ago 2013-11-15 00:19:08
bkuhn@ebb.org
Merge in my changes from today from those done in online wiki editing.
This merges branch 'master' of oak.sfconservancy.org:npo-acct

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* [[ExistingProjects/ERP5]]
 
* [[ExistingProjects/ERPNext]]
 
* [[ExistingProjects/Frontaccounting]]
 
* [[ExistingProjects/Garradin]]
 
* [[ExistingProjects/GNUEnterprise]]
 
* [[ExistingProjects/GNUCash]]
 
* [[ExistingProjects/HomeBank]]
 
* [[ExistingProjects/JFire]]
 
* [[ExistingProjects/JGnash]]
 
* [[ExistingProjects/Kuali]]
 
* [[ExistingProjects/Ledger]]
 
* [[ExistingProjects/LedgerSMB]]
 
* [[ExistingProjects/npo-ledger-cli]]
 
* [[ExistingProjects/OpenERP]]
 
* [[ExistingProjects/OpenPetra]]
 
* [[ExistingProjects/Phreedom]]
 
* [[ExistingProjects/Postbooks]]
 
* [[ExistingProjects/SQLLedger]]
 
* [[ExistingProjects/Tryton]]
 
* [[ExistingProjects/TurboCASH]]
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* Highly [Customizable](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Is+OFBiz+for+Me#IsOFBizforMe-AskingBuildvs.Buy)
 

	
 
### Negative
 

	
 
* [In transitional phase](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OFBiz#Open_Source_Libraries)
 
* One tool for everything, possibly hard to streamline. <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBREQDES/OFBiz+EZBiz> points to the contrary.
 
* Documentation is spotty
 
* Documentation is split up in one page per section, hard to overview (it uses confluence, the same documentation system as [[Kuali]]). The documentation also has TODOs in multiple locations and is lacking content.
 
* The community is hard to get in contact with, three mailing lists are provided, a request for assistance has been sent to the `user` mailing list.
 

	
 
### Comments
 

	
 
Josh Berkus: there's no question that OFBiz could be customized into an NPO accounting program; it is tremendously customizable.  It is also, however, difficult and complex to install, maintain, or understand, and lacks the kind of documentation and existing user community required to support advanced usages from non-project-participants; we would need the direct assistance of the primary developers to accomplish anything.  More importantly, it would never be installable in standalone mode on a desktop machine; it would always need to be a server install.  Despite this, if we have 5 front-runners for this project, I think OFBiz should be one of them.
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    - Informix
 
    - Firebird
 
    - IBM
 

	
 
## Preliminary evaluation
 

	
 
- [Initial open source release in August 2013](https://github.com/system76/beansbooks/commit/96e8605d7553e56004376336bb961ffcd9380b3c)
 
- [Initial source release in August 2013](https://github.com/system76/beansbooks/commit/96e8605d7553e56004376336bb961ffcd9380b3c)
 

	
 
### Positive
 

	
 
- Built on an existing framework
 
- i18n
 
- l10n
 

	
 
### Negative
 

	
 
- 1 [active contributor](https://github.com/system76/beansbooks/graphs/contributors) as of 2013-11-12
 
- Odd licensing: <https://beansbooks.com/home/opensource>
 
- Not free software: <https://beansbooks.com/home/opensource>
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### Positive
 

	
 

	
 
### Negative
 

	
 
- Community: The mailing lists are not very active, see <http://mail.tiolive.com/pipermail/erp5-users/>, <http://mail.tiolive.com/pipermail/erp5-dev/>
 

	
 
### Comments
 

	
 
Yusei Tahara(an ERP5 developer): I'm sure ERP5 can be customized into an international NPO accounting program. ERP5 is very flexible, customizable, strong i18n/l10n support. However it takes time to understand how to use/develop. Let me know if there are any questions.
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data does, so I think it's tough to do it as a list of questions.
 

	
 
# Evaluation of the [[Storage API|UseCases/StorageAPI]]
 

	
 
FIXME: This is assessment of what the API for storing the accounting data
 
does, so I think it's tough to do it as a list of questions.
 
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## [[UseCases/WorkFlow]] evaluation
 
- [[Unaccrued Invoice|UseCases/WorkFlow#unaccrued-invioice]]: FIXME
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Links:
 

	
 
- [Project homepage](http://kuali.org)
 
- [Live demo](http://testdrive.kfs.kuali.org/kfs-ptd/portal.do)
 

	
 
## Technical
 

	
 
- Java
 

	
 
## Preliminary evaluation
 

	
 
Kuali seems like a complex set of machinery, with many projects or distributions with different attributes.
 

	
 
- Partially under "All rights reserved" licensing: http://testdrive.kfs.kuali.org/kfs-ptd/acknowledgements.jsp, should not be an issue.
 

	
 
### Positive
 

	
 
- Backed by Kuali Foundation
 
- Backed by Kuali Foundation.
 

	
 
### Negative
 

	
 
- [Goofy licensing](http://testdrive.kfs.kuali.org/kfs-ptd/acknowledgements.jsp)
 
- No public source control.
 
- No open community channels such as mailing list, message board, IRC channel. This makes it very hard to find information about Kuali. The documentation is also very inconvenient as every section is a separate page, making it hard to get an overview of how Kuali works and its capabilities.
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