[Wylug-discuss] November Meeting and Future Talks

[Robert Speed]

Do you know - that sounds like an interesting topic - OSS Accounting 
software.

(Did I just say that ? Must be getting old...)



On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Mike Goodman wrote:

> Dave Fisher wrote:
>
>> If you think that you could give even a very short introductory talk
>> on any of
>> these topics for November, please let me know immediately.
>
> Or, how about a practical exercise? What I have in mind as a starter is
> many members are either self-employed or run small businesses. I've been
> thinking for some time about logging everything and putting all the
> relevant bits through the accounts system and using the rest for
> monitoring and planning purposes. So we'd end up with an OS (or a couple
> of alternative OS) business management system using a sensible
> combination of software on the greatest platform on earth. The sequence
> should be something like:
>
> 1. Enquiry in (phone, email, fax, site response) - where/how to log it?
> (plenty of options).
>
> 2. Response to enquiry - where to log it?.
>
> 3. Enquiry firms up - action points and where to log them?
>   or, nothing happens - how to deal with this situation, to leave, file
> elsewhere or delete? (depends on business type, discussion of
> possibilities would be useful) .
>
> 4. Confirmation, contractual or similar documentation.
>
> 5. Project management documentation if necessary.
>
> 6. Invoicing/Payment/Receipt documents and feed figures into management
> and P&L accounts.
>
> I'd be happy to lead a discussion to start the ball rolling, which
> should take rather more than the first ten minutes if there's enough
> interest. Participants could help by stating reasons why they prefer or
> recommend a particular method to handle any stages, and why one or
> another database should be the driver.
>
> There must be a dozen or more other projects which would tease out where
> people are using the software in everyday terms, where the gaps are, if
> any, hence where the expertise lies to develop some future themes?
>
>> I do have a couple of arm-twisted offers to talk about mutt and pine
>> respectively.
>>
>> It would be really good if we could turn this into a comparative
>> session on
>> email clients with 10 minutes each on Evolution, Thunderbird, Pine,
>> Mutt,
>> Squirrelmail, OpenWebMail, etc.
>
> This would be great as far as I'm concerned. I'm no expert so not sure
> what I could contribute. I use Evolution on a daily basis but almost
> exclusively as an email client. Prepared to give it a bash if you're
> desperate!
>
> Mike Goodman
>
>
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