Re: Counting money

["Alexey Parshin" <alexeyp@gmail.com>]

Theoretically, we can create an account for every UMO, but we need to figure out the distribution schema.

2007/6/15, Anatoly Volynets <av@total-knowledge.com >:

It is necessary to  fix somehow the  situation, when a sponsor wants to
pay an author for  a  particular UMO, not a course.


Alexey Parshin wrote:
> First of all, I needed to confirm the 'account' entity.
>
> Now, as far as I see, these transactions always include to parties: a
> person
> account and a class account.
> A person may be one of: author, teacher, student, admin, translator, or
> anonymous (for donations).
> I'm not sure about course, however. I need to understand, if we need
> other
> source/destination accounts (besides person and class) and what for.
>
> As soon as we have account system, the stored procs handling the money
> to/from these accounts can use transaction rules.
> 2007/6/7, Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh < ilya@total-knowledge.com>:
>>
>> As far as sources/destinations go, I could also think
>> of translators as destination (not sure we need it within
>> the system, but probably not much extra cost) and also
>> there is one other source - generic donation (could be even
>> from outside person that doesn't sign up to anything at all).
>>
>> Oh, and people might want to donate to Total Knowledge,
>> for writing such a wonderful system ;-) Also not sure if we
>> need to integrate that into UU itself, or just link to some
>> separate page for that.
>>
>> Now, on top of that all, we need to find a way to define
>> distribution rules/procedures for shared accounts (class,
>> course)
>>
>> Alexey Parshin wrote:
>> > Gentlemen,
>> >
>> > Since we gonna have a money traffic (well, at least for closed
>> > server), we need to define - what are the possible sources and
>> > destinations of these money.
>> >
>> > I can think of few sources:
>> >
>> > 1) Students are paying for class:
>> >   source: a student, destination: a class account
>> >
>> > 2) Teachers are paid for teaching:
>> >   source: a class account, destination: a teacher
>> >
>> > 3) Authors are paid for the authorship:
>> >   source: a class account, destination: an author
>> >
>> > How does that sounds for you? This creates an entity 'account'..
>> >
>> > --
>> > Alexey Parshin,
>> > http://www.sptk.net
>>
>> --
>> Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
>> Total Knowledge. CTO
>> http://www.total-knowledge.com
>>
>>
>
>

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Anatoly Volynets, Co-Founder
total-knowledge.com
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Alexey Parshin,
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