Adding other lists. On 10-Jan-2018 11:49 PM, "Sayan Biswas" <techsaya...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > A very happy new year to all. Hope you guys are doing good. :) > > Me and Rahul (CC'ed; IRC nick - rahulch) came up with an idea for a > new application in KDE, and we were hoping to get an opinion on it. > > The central idea behind the app will be to manage the expenses of a > group of users. As a user, you can create one or more groups, add > members to them, and add entries for expenses for a given group. You > can also check the outstanding balances and choose to settle-up with one > or more members. There will be options for fine-tuning a given entry - > decide who all have born the total expenditure and by what > proportions, how should the total expense be divided among the members > (equally/specific amounts/etc), add pictures for receipts, add > comments, and so on and so forth. > > We are planning to start off with desktop application with a decentralised > approach, i.e. the users will hold the data of the shared expenses. Now > again, > there is a possibility of tampering with the expenditure so we might need > to > set a centralised archived or something similar data set to maintain the > integrity and persistence of a transaction. We are open to opinions and > discussions for this also. Further to that we will be building mobile > application for the users ease of usage and add expenditure on the go. > After > all, mobiles are more widely used by user than desktop application. > > > For settling up we were thinking of integrating some standard payment > gateways (PayPal, etc) but I am not sure of how much of this > integration is possible in KDE. Until then we can just maintain a > transaction record indicating that members A and B have settled up. We > were also considering developing a cryptocurrency (we could call it > KCoin or something) that would serve as a means of payment. Opinions > are welcome in this particular segment as possibilities can be immense. > > As for maintaining the ledgers, we wanted to implement it using > blockchain, but again, I am not sure if it can be done in KDE, or if > we have some libraries that support blockchain implementation, etc. > > An application like this comes in handy when a group of people need to > manage their regular expenses, and we thought it might be a good idea > to have something similar in KDE. The target audience for this will be > college groups, work groups, school groups, etc whoever is entitled to > shared expenditure. We would love to get your feedback, mainly on the > feasibility of the features mentioned above. > > > Regards, > Sayan >
