[Kde-finance-apps] Fwd: KDE Finance Apps Group Sprint

[Klaas Freitag]

Hi,

find attached the mail I just sent out to the KDE e.V. board
asking for sponsoring. Now there is no way back :-)

What we should now do:
- Finalize the attendee list
- Agree on the date, I think april 23-25th or april 30-may 2nd
  are still in the race
- Most important: Get reliable estimates for travel costs 
  to report to the board to ask for reimbursement.

I started a techbase page about the sprint:
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KdeFinance/Spring-Sprint_2010

Please everybody fill in missing information, especially in the 
attendee list.

Thanks, 

Klaas

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Betreff: KDE Finance Apps Group Sprint
Datum: Montag 08 Februar 2010
Von: Klaas Freitag <freitag at kde.org>
An: kde-ev-board at kde.org

hello board,

you might have noticed that a KDE finance app group has started recently.
After a longer discussion phase we now have a mailing list started
(kde-finance-apps at kde.org) and started to work more closely. I am 
excited :-)

On the list there are people from all "finance related apps" active,
such as KMyMoney, Skrooge, Kraft, LemonPOS and a management software
for non profit organizations (which name I forgot atm, sorry). 
Additionally there is at least one person working on localisation
topics in kdelibs offering help in our area. 

The aims of the group are so far to set up:
- KDE Finance Stack: a framework within KDE that helps to 
  integrate finance related apps process- and data wise. The rational 
  behind that is that users for example ask for accounting related 
  functions in Kraft. But it not make sense to implement these in 
  Kraft because Skrooge or KMyMoney already have them. 
  The benefit that we think makes KDE so incredible strong is 
  integration that all these apps work together.

  A very concrete example is: If an invoice is issued in Kraft Skrooge
  and KMyMoney should notice that payment is expected. If the money
  comes in via online banking, Kraft should get the information back
  to checkmark the invoice.
- A common terminology over all the applications
- A common icon set

For end of april, beginning of may (date not yet completely fix) we
plan a sprint to work on these topics. We plan for three complete days,
arrive thursday, work friday->sunday. The location will be the office
of the company Thomas Baumgart from KMyMoney works for, it is in Frankfurt
am Main and we can be there for free. Hotel rooms around range from 40
to 60 Euro on weekends Thomas said.

The current list of attendees has around eight people now, coming from 
the US, argentinia, france, belgium, romania and germany.

We'd like to ask for your blessing of course first ;-) and if you 
would consider our activity worth of being sponsored by the e.V. ? 
We would appreciate that, especially since the travel fees can be 
comparable high given the spreading of the people over the planing.

If you agree I'll assemble a list of travel costs and come back again :-)

regards,

Klaas

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