Skrooge Write up for the Digest

Sun Feb 6 18:12:27 CET 2011

Sorry note in case any edits put back in the DMU section the correct URL is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_mockup

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Roger Pixley <skreech2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Sending two versions of this. The second one is unedited the first I have
> shortened it a little and formatted it so it can be copied and  pasted
> easily
> to the Digest. let me know if I changed it too much (or too little I was
> going to take some other parts out)
>
> I know it's a little light on the actual development side. I was thinking
> of asking for more information on the parts left and perhaps taking out a
> few
> other sentences. If you would like to give credit, a direct link to the
> authour or would just like to get in contact the authour's name and e-mail
> address is Guillaume DE BURE <guillaume.debure at gmail.com>
>
>
>
> 1. History
>
> <a href="http://www.skrooge.org">Skrooge</a> is a personal finances
> manager, comparable to <a
> href="http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net">KMyMoney</a>, <a href="
> http://www.gnucash.org>gnucash</a> and others.  In 2008 we, Guillaume DE
> BURE and Stéphane MANKOWSKI, colleagues in Airbus the European plane
> manufacturer, launched the project. At that time, KDE 4.0 had been
> introduced to the masses, with mixed feelings. We were already KDE
> enthusiasts, and felt KDE 4.0 was the way to go.
>
> KMyMoney, in those days, was KDE 3.5 based, and we had different ideas on
> some personal finances management, so we decided to give a try to
> developping a KDE 4 alternative, and called it Skrooge, inspired by Charles
> Dicken's tale "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol">A
> Christmas Carol</a>"
>
> We were amazed by the reception from the KMyMoney guys: they could have see
> this project as a competitor, instead they immediately
> proposed cooperation, materialized by a "<a href="
> http://dot.kde.org/2010/07/15/successful-kde-finances-sprint-held">KDE
> Finances Spring
> Sprint</a>" in April 2010, and the launch of the <a href="
> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KdeFinance/Alkimia">Alkimia project</a>.
> They did a
> great a job on that, by the way, while we have not been very active yet,
> let's hope we can do better in the future :).
>
> Today, Skrooge is mostly developped by Stéphane, while Guillaume deals with
> communication such as this(and occasional development).
>
> 2. Capabilities
>
> Skrooge is strictly focused on personal finances management. It is not
> intended to be capable of managing accounts for a small business or
> association. It will not handle taxes, or double entry system.
>
> That being said, Skrooge is quite capable for what it is intended for. It
> has a few unique features that make it a bit different from other comparable
> apps:
>
> * Persistent undo / redo, even after the file was closed
> * Tabs based: you may open as many tabs you want (accounts, graphical
> reports, operations, categories...)
> * Search & Process: user may define a set of rules to automatically
> transform some operations. Typically automatically assign payee or category
> after importing operations from your bank.
> * Multi currencies
> * Can import / export almost any file format out there
>
> 3. Current status
>
> Skrooge is very stable, and almost feature complete. We are seriously
> thinking about releasing a 1.0! Though there is probably some work to do in
> simplifying the UI... We are very happy to welcome contributions if someone
> would like to <a href="http://www.skrooge.org/help">help</a>!
>
> Some of the things we are currently working on are:
> * Replacing our home made dashboard by a more generic plasma dashboard
> (some work started during GSOC 2010 by Siddharth Sharma)
> * Finalizing the budget module that was introduced in the latest version
> (0.8.0)
> * Update documentation (help wanted there too  )
> * Enable Windows (through <a href="http://windows.kde.org">KDE on
> Windows</a> ) and MacOS versions (through <a
> href="http://mac.kde.org/?id=build">MacPorts</a>).
>
> On the latter, we would especially appreciate it if someone with Mac
> experience could help us tackle some issues with our menus...
>
> Finally a word about KDE, as a community: we are very grateful to you,
> developpers, translators, users for the help, support, and feedback over the
> years... You rock !!!
>
> Guillaume & Stéphane
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 1. History
>
> Skrooge is a personal finances manager, comparable to KMyMoney, gnucash and
> others. The project was launched in 2008 by us, Guillaume DE BURE
> and Stéphane MANKOWSKI. We are colleagues in Airbus, the European plane
> manufacturer, and enjoyed working together on some DMU tools[1]. At
> that time, KDE 4.0 had been introduced to the masses, with the mixed
> feelings that we all know. We were already KDE enthusiast, and felt KDE
> 4.0 was the way to go.
>
> KMyMoney, in those days, was KDE 3.5 based, and we had different ideas on
> some personal finances management, so we decided to give a try to
> developping a KDE 4 alternative, and called it Skrooge. The  name is
> inspired by Charles Dicken's tale "A Christmas Carol" [2], where the main
> character, Ebenezer Scrooge, a grumpy old narrow man, gets visited by three
> ghosts who change the way he sees the world, in a good way.
>
> We were amazed by the reception from the KMyMoney guys: they could have see
> this project as a competitor, instead they immediately
> proposed cooperation, materialized by a "KDE Finances Spring Sprint" [3] in
> April 2010, and the launch of the Alkimia project [4]. They did a great a
> job on that, by the way, while we have not been very active yet, let's hope
> we can do better in the future :).
>
> Today, Skrooge is mostly developped by Stéphane, while Guillaume deals with
> communication (and occasional development).
>
> 2. Capabilities
>
> Skrooge is strictly focused on personal finances management. It is not, and
> will never be, capable of managing accounts for a small business or
> association. It will not handle taxes, or double entry system.
>
> That being said, Skrooge is quite capable for what it is intended for. It
> has a few unique features that make it a bit different from other comparable
> apps:
>
> * Persistent undo / redo, even after the file was closed
> * Tabs based: you may open as many tabs you want (accounts, graphical
> reports, operations, categories...)
> * Search & Process: user may define a set of rules to automatically
> transform some operations. Typically automatically assign payee or category
> after importing operations from your bank.
> * Multi currencies
> * Can import / export almost any file format out there
> * ... check out http://skrooge.org for more.
>
> 3. Current status
>
> Skrooge is very stable, and almost feature complete. We are seriously
> thinking about releasing a 1.0 version, though there is probably some work
> to
> do in simplifying the UI... We are very happy to welcome contributions if
> someone would like to help !
>
> Some of the things we are currently working on are:
> * Replacing our home made dashboard by a more generic plasma dashboard
> (some work started during GSOC 2010 by Siddharth Sharma)
> * Finalizing the budget module that was introduced in the latest version
> (0.8.0)
> * Update documentation (help wanted there too  )
> * Enable Windows (through KDE on Windows [5]) and MacOS versions (through
> MacPorts[6]).
>
> On the latter, we would especially appreciate it if someone with Mac
> experience could help us tackle some issues with our menus...
>
> Finally a word about KDE, as a community: we are very grateful to you,
> developpers, translators, users for the help, support, and feedback over the
> years... You rock !!!
>
> Guillaume & Stéphane
>
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_making_unit
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol
> [3] Link to KDE Dot story
> [4] Link to Alkimia page on KDE Techbase
> [5] Link to KDE on Windows project
> [6] Link to MacPorts project
>
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