Template:Ngode, NGO Accounting Software
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ngode, NGO Accounting Software
ngode is free/libre open source accounting software focused on needs anddeveloped from the perspective of non governmental/non (for)profitorganization. it is developed in multimedia institute's mi2lab.multimedia institute - mi2 is croatian ngo focused on issues of new media/ technology / art, social theory, cultural policies and activism. ngodeis based on use case of mi2 where there is a complex matrix of manyprojects, programs, grants, funders + a commercial service of publicaccess to internet.the goal of the software is:* to cover records of incomes (grants + own earnings etc.)* to cover outcomes (costs etc.)* to plan allocation of money from grants into projects* to have a good tool to write easily and quickly reports for fundersby particular projects and/or grants (based on plans)* to have a good tool to make reports on the current states ofprojects/grants/costs/etc for project managers in an organization(ie."how much money left i have in the budget of project XYZ for theparticular XYZ costs").in designing the data model we were trying to cover many to many matrix(many funders, many grants, many projects, many costs, many reports...).for example by many to many we mean possibility of having particularcosts which are covered by more than one grant by more then one funderor being placed in more than one project at the same time.in choosing the technologies on which ngode is based we had in mindplatform which will be remotely avalaible for demos or hosting it asweb service + multiplatform client's printing support (firefox). theother priority was to make ngode good platform for online support inreal time + having documentation editable from everywhere so it can beused to build financial knowledge base for ngo's in general. that's whywe build ngode upon our online colaborative tool tamtam with wikifunctionality. tamtam and ngode is written in python using twistedmatrixnetwork framework.additional information: http://tamtam.mi2.hr/TamTamDev/NGOdE
