[Zope-dev] Zope Financials

[alan]

I know that you are all focused upon content management systems here at 
Zope/Plone - and with good reason.

However, our community has a dearth of commercial products and Java 
offerings like Compere ERP, and JBOSS are stealing a march in this arena.

I've made an initial attempt to redress this by applying the Zope 
architecture to a general ledger product, BastionLedger, and to an 
embryonic financials gateway, BastionBanking.  I've seen a couple of 
other Zope products dealing with banking, and would like to somehow 
coordinate our efforts.

This is a very serious initiative, and I've put almost a year's personal 
work and finance into this product and associated infrastructure.

Now, I'd like to see some serious collaboration to get a fantastically 
fully featured ledger available for Zope clients.  What I've delivered 
so far is quite good in terms of basic functionality and a rich toolkit 
from which to develop accountancy processes - but payroll systems for 
example have an abundance of nuances and exceptions and needs much more 
resource than I have available.

In order to overwhelm the world with this stuff, I think we need to 
start very small.  If YOU are a contracter - have your own business, or 
you've got a Plone site for a club or society, how about getting on 
board and helping to get the ledger to meet your financial requirements. 
  The general ledger and order management/inventory control already 
support large-scale use.

These products are available for comment and download at 
http://www.last-bastion.net/BastionLedger and 
http://www.last-bastion.net/BastionBanking.  There is much more 
information there about exactly what they do and what my current 
thoughts on this initiative are.   Please feel free to discuss them with 
me on or off this list, or on their own lists.

I look forward to some interest.

Alan