Hello Everyone, I am, Ravi Sethia, a student pursuing B. Tech(currently in my 2nd Year,4th semester) from the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati,India.
I have been exploring about Gnu Cash since past four days so that I could well understand what are the features provided by GnuCash and how it can be improved and developed to make it more user friendly and at the same time be loaded with all features.I have explored the application in Windows and was successfully able to build it in Linux .Now I feel that Business Integration like POS and support for Indian Languages are two important things I would love to work upon. My family is a business family so my father and uncle and me too have been using Tally for past 10 years and now I have come to know about GnuCash through GSoC. I see a lot of possibilities in developing this into a mass usable product across India as there is immense opportunity here in retail sector which is currently undergoing changes like use of accounting software,small scale shops giving way to large retail shops where POS is an important necessity.Hence the need of modifying this software to suit the needs of a potential market . I will love to be part of this project and would like to integrate some of borrowed features from Quicken and Tally and other pioneering accounting software so that it becomes a full packaged software suitable for needs of small business to large Enterprises. For the time of GSoC ,I would like to start with adding POS feature and support for Indian Languages and later also if I get to work more on this add many features from my business understanding as my family background and contact with businessmen helps me a lot in listening to the needs of the user better and addressing them if feasible.I will like to facilitate a simple tool to migrate from Tally so that its easy to deploy for migrating Tally users. I have experience of coding in C/C++ ,Python and Qt4,Visual Studio Some of the relevant projects done by me are * 1. Hospital Automation Project * - Automation of the institute hospital by designing a desktop based app and networkingamong the various computers to enable minimum manual work . - Lead a team of 18 students to implement the project using Python and Qt and IBM DB2 *2.Project:Tool for Searching Files on Hard‐disk* - Designing a utility tool similar to Google desktop based on Python - User enters the text string and the program searches for it in all the relevant files on computer using a search index 3.* MIPS Simulator * - Wrote a MIPS simulator using C++ as part of assignment *4.8085 Assembler * - *A *simple two pass assembler in C as part of assignment. I have also taken relevant courses in the as part of my curriculum in my 2 years. - C++ and Data Structures - Introduction to Algorithms - Software Engineering - Introduction to C I know its too late to contact the mailing list but I have prepared a proposal just need the final help from some of you regarding my ideas and GSoC application.Thanks in advance for the help Regards, Ravi Sethia 2nd Year Undergarduate(B.Tech) Dept. of CSE IIT Guwahati India +91-9678-55-4844 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
