[Gnue-dev] Introducing proyect PAPO

[John Lenton]

Ok, dneighbo asked me to give you more information on what we guys are
doing, so we could work together easier. Excellent.

First, long range: we want to build a complete replacement for Tango
(http://www.tangosoft.com.ar/). Even longer range: we want every
freaking bussiness in Argentina to replace their
Tango/SAP/Whatchamacallit for our system. An while we're at it, why
stop at Argentina's borders? We obviously want to start out
thinking ahead, beyond what Tango currently does, and also obviously
avoiding the (many, many) idiotsyncracies of that software.

For those who don't want to follow a link n/or read spanish, Tango is
an ERP system that tends to the argentine market.

We looked at what was available to build from, and gnue won.

It is a long journey ahead, so we'd better start with the first step:
we'll build a simple invoicing system targeted at services, which
means we don't have to track inventory, no article databases, just the
bare bones of creating an invoice (which, due to the baroque tax
legislation in Argentina can be a feat nonetheless, but that's a
feature: if we can do an invoice here, it's a pretty safe bet we can
do it in Alpha Centauri as well -- as long as Alpha Centauri dig free
software). We'll grow from there, creating different invoicing
front-ends for different kinds of bussinesses, adding management of
customer data, provider data, inventory, bookkeeping, asset
management... all one step at a time.

We've noted several places where we'll probably be having to add
features to for example GEAS, but that's further along, and we're
certain that we'll be working together on several overlapping issues
before that.

Hoping to see and hear a lot more of each other soon!

We are the PAPO team @ vialibre.org.ar:

   Marcos Dione (StyXman)
   Federico Heinz (perlhead)
   John Lenton (Chipaca)
   Charlie Navarro (yogurt2unge)
   Alejandro Pronotti (prono)

Fundación Vía Libre (http://www.vialibre.org.ar)

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John Lenton (address@hidden) -- Random fortune:
Here lies my wife: here let her lie!
Now she's at rest, and so am I.
                -- John Dryden, epitaph intended for his wife