<div dir="auto">Adding other lists.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10-Jan-2018 11:49 PM, "Sayan Biswas" <<a href="mailto:techsayan01@gmail.com">techsayan01@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
A very happy new year to all. Hope you guys are doing good. :)<br>
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Me and Rahul (CC'ed; IRC nick - rahulch) came up with an idea for a<br>
new application in KDE, and we were hoping to get an opinion on it.<br>
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The central idea behind the app will be to manage the expenses of a<br>
group of users. As a user, you can create one or more groups, add<br>
members to them, and add entries for expenses for a given group. You<br>
can also check the outstanding balances and choose to settle-up with one<br>
or more members. There will be options for fine-tuning a given entry -<br>
decide who all have born the total expenditure and by what<br>
proportions, how should the total expense be divided among the members<br>
(equally/specific amounts/etc), add pictures for receipts, add<br>
comments, and so on and so forth.<br>
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We are planning to start off with desktop application with a decentralised<br>
approach, i.e. the users will hold the data of the shared expenses. Now again,<br>
there is a possibility of tampering with the expenditure so we might need to<br>
set a centralised archived or something similar data set to maintain the<br>
integrity and persistence of a transaction. We are open to opinions and<br>
discussions for this also. Further to that we will be building mobile<br>
application for the users ease of usage and add expenditure on the go. After<br>
all, mobiles are more widely used by user than desktop application.<br>
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For settling up we were thinking of integrating some standard payment<br>
gateways (PayPal, etc) but I am not sure of how much of this<br>
integration is possible in KDE. Until then we can just maintain a<br>
transaction record indicating that members A and B have settled up. We<br>
were also considering developing a cryptocurrency (we could call it<br>
KCoin or something) that would serve as a means of payment. Opinions<br>
are welcome in this particular segment as possibilities can be immense.<br>
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As for maintaining the ledgers, we wanted to implement it using<br>
blockchain, but again, I am not sure if it can be done in KDE, or if<br>
we have some libraries that support blockchain implementation, etc.<br>
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An application like this comes in handy when a group of people need to<br>
manage their regular expenses, and we thought it might be a good idea<br>
to have something similar in KDE. The target audience for this will be<br>
college groups, work groups, school groups, etc whoever is entitled to<br>
shared expenditure. We would love to get your feedback, mainly on the<br>
feasibility of the features mentioned above.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Sayan<br>
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