[Kde-finance-apps] Fwd: (Late) Talk Proposal: Notes on Application Integration from the KDE Finance Apps Group

[Klaas Freitag]

FYI - this proposal just went out to the Akademy Program Commitee.

regards,

Klaas

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Betreff: (Late) Talk Proposal: Notes on Application Integration from the KDE Finance Apps Group
Datum: Dienstag 27 April 2010, 12:10:03
Von: Klaas Freitag <freitag at kde.org>
An:  akademy-talks at kde.org

Dear Program Commitee,

knowning that the deadline has exceeded, I still like to propose a talk which
we as the KDE Finance App Group were kind of committing on our sprint last 
weekend. I apologize for beeing late and hope you can still consider it.

regards,
Klaas

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Speaker:     Klaas Freitag <freitag at kde.org>
Photo:       http://en.opensuse.org/images/8/88/Klaas_freitag.jpg
Talk Length: 30 Minutes

Title: Notes on Application Integration from the KDE Finance Apps Group

Abstract:

Starting at Akademy 2008 on Akademy in Belgium, people involved in
finance related applications in KDE began to talk about how
collaboration within the community could happen. Two years later, the
first sprint of the group happened in Frankfurt/Germany to discuss the
KDE Finance Applications Group and drive the integration in the
finance domain.

This talk gives an overview of the applications involved in KDE
Finance, their roadmaps and people, and introduces their work to
produce a domain-specific middleware called Alkimia to enable better
integration of financial applications in KDE.

Alkimia is a KDE service to handle financial transactions. The
rationale of the framework is to provide the data and common business
logic to all applications which deal with financial data.The talk will
describe Alkimias usecases and some technical details.

It aims to stop implementing financial core functionality in each and
every application. For example, it does not make sense to implement
accounting functionality in Kraft if there are personal finance
managers designed for that. The aim is to integrate and focus on a
good framework of specialized applications sharing data with each
other in the finance, business and office space. With that the KDE
software compilation will have another gem integrated for the good of
the users.

The talk will give an insight on the core concepts of Alkimia and will
report on the current implementation status and the plan.

From the application programmer's point of view the talk will highlight
why the KDE Software Platform is a great foundation to work on and
also name a few challenges.

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