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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 10 years ago 2014-03-17 13:41:27
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Add note about the type of student we're looking for for this project.

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     A successful student should be able to complete that work about
     three-quarters the way through the summer, and then be able to focus on
     actually writing a few specialized NPO-style report using the API.  A
     great acid test will be to use the API to implement the
     [IRS required charity public support test](http://www.irs.gov/Charities-&-Non-Profits/Exempt-Organizations-Annual-Reporting-Requirements-Form-990,-Schedules-A-and-B:-Public-Charity-Support-Test).
    This particular project description is vague because we'd like to see a
    creative application from someone who has done some research into how
    non-profit accounting workflow works and wants to help implement it.
 . Convert  [Ledger-CLI](http://www.ledger-cli.org/) to use fixed-point
    arithmetic.
    Currently Ledger-CLI uses floating point arithmetic, which is definitely a
    mistake for an accounting system.  This causes
    [off-by-one bugs](http://bugs.ledger-cli.org/show_bug.cgi?id=992) on some

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