Refresh the front page.

Remove outdated information, and update other tone of voice to better
reflect the current state of the project.
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@ -8,15 +8,9 @@ Conservancy welcomes the help of anyone who is interested in this issue to
design and develop this software. If you want to get involved right now,
look below for [[information about how to get involved with this project|index#howtohelp]].
BTW, we're [[hoping to participate in GSoC 2014|GSoC2014Ideas]]. We think
there are enough ideas for probably only one, maybe two, students.
## Phase 0
Initially, during Phase 0 of this project,
Conservancy is doing the following things:
Conservancy has done the following:
- [Writing a tutorial on a Ledger-CLI setup for fiscal sponsor 501(c)3 organizations](https://gitorious.org/ledger/npo-ledger-cli/).
- [[Finding and evaluating existing Free Software accounting systems|ExistingProjects]].
@ -24,7 +18,7 @@ Conservancy is doing the following things:
## Phase 1
Phase 0 is nearly complete, and in Phase 1, we plan to:
Phase 1 calls for the project to:
- [Create an REST API for basic double-entry accounting, currently using Ledger-CLI as a backend](http://npoacct.sfconservancy.org/accounting-api/)
- Add functionality to that API that already exists in the [documented Ledger-CLI setup for NPO's](https://gitorious.org/ledger/npo-ledger-cli/).
@ -39,9 +33,9 @@ You can learn more about what we done so far on this project by:
- Reading the [mailing list archives for this project](http://lists.sfconservancy.org/pipermail/npo-accounting/).
- Reading the [the IRC logs of the #npoacct channel](/irclogs/).
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Helping and Collaborating on this Project
========================
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You can help us and/or collaborate with us on this project by:
* Editing this Wiki!
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About This Wiki
===============
This wiki is powered by [[ikiwiki]], which allows for the Wiki contents to be stored in Git.
There is a
[mirror on Gitorious as well](https://gitorious.org/conservancy/npo-acct-wiki/),
but [due to a bug in Gitorious](https://issues.gitorious.org/issues/333),
this mirror isn't up to date. We push to that repository on a regular basis,
though.
In the meantime, if you'd like write access via Git to this wiki, please just
[ask for it on the mailing list](https://lists.sfconservancy.org/mailman/listinfo/npo-accounting)
or ping joar or bkuhn on
[#npoaccount on irc.freenode.net](irc:irc.freenode.net/npoacct). You should
however be able to edit this Wiki using the web interface, too.
This Wiki also has a [[SandBox]].
This wiki is powered by [[ikiwiki]], which allows for the Wiki contents to be stored in Git. You can use the [[SandBox]] to experiment with ikiwiki's features and learn how to edit wiki pages.