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