+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ledger___double_entry_accounting_using_text_based_storage_format.html">Ledger - double-entry accounting using text based storage format</a></div>
+ <div class="date">18th December 2012</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>A few days ago I came across
+<a href="http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/hledger/">a blog post from Joey
+Hess</a> describing <a href="http://ledger-cli.org/">ledger</a> and
+hledger, a text based system for double-entry accounting. I found it
+interesting, as I am involved with several organizations where
+accounting is an issue, and I have not really become too friendly with
+the different web based systems we use. I find it hard to find what I
+look for in the menus and even harder try to get sensible data out of
+the systems. Ledger seem different. The accounting data is kept in
+text files that can be stored in a version control system, and there
+
+are at least <a href="https://github.com/ledger/ledger/wiki/Ports">five
+different implementations</a> able to read the format. An example
+entry look like this, and is simple enough that it will be trivial to
+generate entries based on CVS files fetched from the bank:</p>
+
+<blockquote><pre>
+2004-05-27 Book Store
+ Expenses:Books $20.00
+ Liabilities:Visa
+</pre></blockquote>
+
+<p>The concept seemed interesting enough for me to check it out and
+look for others using it. I found blog posts from
+<a href="http://blog.spang.cc/posts/hledger_rocks_my_world/">Christine
+Spang</a>,
+<a href="http://bugsplat.info/2010-05-23-keeping-finances-with-ledger.html">Pete
+Keen</a>,
+<a href="http://blog.andrewcantino.com/blog/2010/11/06/command-line-accounting-with-ledger-and-reckon/">Andrew
+Cantino</a> and
+<a href="http://blog.iphoting.com/blog/2012/11/29/command-line-double-entry-accounting/">Ronald
+Ip</a> describing how they use it, as well as a post from
+<a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/ledger-cli/r0oWjwbQ9Bo">Bradley
+M. Kuhn</a> at the Software Freedom Conservancy. All seemed like good
+recommendations fitting my need.</p>
+
+<p>The <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/ledger.html">ledger</a>
+package is available in Debian Squeeze, while the
+<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/haskell-hledger.html">hledger</a>
+package only is available in Debian Sid. As I use Squeeze, ledger
+seemed the best choice to get started.</p>
+
+<p>To get some real data to test on, I wrote a
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/tools/lodo2ledger">web scraper</a> for
+<a href="http://www.lodo.no/">LODO</a>, the accounting system used by
+the <a href="http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG</a> association, and started to
+play with the data set. I'm not really deeply into accounting, but I
+am able to get a simple balance and accounting status for example
+using the "<tt>ledger balance</tt>" command. But I will have to
+gather more experience before I know if the ledger way is a good fit
+for the organisations I am involved in.</p>
+</div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
<div class="entry">
<div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/61_kommuner_lenker_n__til_FiksGataMi_fra_sine_nettsider.html">61 kommuner lenker nå til FiksGataMi fra sine nettsider</a></div>
<div class="date">11th December 2012</div>
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/59_kommuner_omfavner_n__FiksGataMi.html">59 kommuner omfavner nå FiksGataMi</a></div>
- <div class="date"> 5th November 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p><a href="http://maps.google.com/?q=http://www.nuug.no/prosjekt/fiksgatami/fiksgatami-municipalities-201210.kml"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-10-17-fiksgatami.png"></a></p>
-
-<p>For noen dager siden omfavnet to nye kommuner NUUGs
-<a href="http://www.fiksgatami.no/">FiksGataMi</a>. Med 59 kommuner
-som lenker til FiksGataMi fra sine hjemmesider er "markedsandelen"
-13,8 % (av 429 kommuner). Sist ut er Stange og Utsira kommune, som
-slår følge med kommunene Askim, Askøy, Audnedal, Aure, Balestrand,
-Bærum, Eide, Farsund, Flekkefjord, Folldal, Gran, Grue, Hadsel,
-Halden, Halsa, Hamar, Hobøl, Holtålen, Hægebostad, Høyanger,
-Kongsberg, Kristiansund, Kvinesdal, Kviteseid, Levanger, Lindesnes,
-Luster, Lyngdal, Løten, Mandal, Marnardal, Moss, Namsos, Nissedal,
-Nordreisa, Randaberg, Rindal, Sel, Sirdal, Skiptvet, Sortland,
-Spydeberg, Stjørdal, Stord, Søgne, Sør-Odal, Tolga, Trysil, Tynset,
-Tysvær, Ullensvang Herad, Vennesla, Verdal, Vågan, Vågå, Våler og
-Åseral. Oppdatert liste er tilgjengelig fra
-<a href="http://wiki.nuug.no/grupper/fiksgatami/positivemottakere">NUUGs
-wiki</a>. Kartet er dog ikke oppdatert med de siste kommunene.</p>
-
-<p>Kanskje du bør høre med din kommune om de vil bli mer aktive
-brukere av FiksGataMi? Se
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/40_kommuner_lenker_n__til_FiksGataMi_fra_sine_nettsider___gj_r_din_.html">en
-tidligere bloggpost</a> med tips om hvordan det kan gjøres.</p>
-
-<p>I snitt rapporteres det nå via FiksGataMi ca. 100 meldinger i uka fra
-innbyggerne om feil på offentlig infrastruktur.</p>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.
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