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{{Grant Application
|Project Title=Avbi personal  : budget+ tax+advisor   web tool  for Guatemala  
|applicants=Alejandro velasquez
|contact person=Alejandro velasquez
|coordinator=Alejandro Velasquez
|start date=2010/08/01
|end date=2010/12/31
|Affiliation=none
|Mainurl=none
|Affiliated=No
|description=a financial planning tool  (balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement, tax reporting, advisor) to facilitate today's  problem of tax reporting and stimulate proper use of credit, spending and saving future
income  through a open source web application for individuals.    
|output=web application ,web site,  blog, manuals, video tutorials.  
|community=every individual or tax payer from Guatemala  , it will benefit helping individuals minimize the struggle with debt and tax reporting through expenditure and income awareness, help them through advice and software tools hence less penalization for not knowing the how to of taxes and budgets.

|community relationship= i am a tax payer so im part of that community and have grown in a system that 
requires tax paying but does not provide the appropriate tools. 
I am a software developer  and have been working over the past  8 years
on custom made software for medium and small business which relate to
accounting , sales, inventory and related topics which have 
given the experience to understand the system and what we are lacking 
hense propose  the mentioned proyect.

|measurement=monitoring tools on the web application , polls , surveys, blogs, social media, newsletter, website
|participants=after a accomplishing a 3 month promoting plan the goal is to register 500 users (167/month) then sustain their involvement through stimulating their interest in being constant so they can see the their future results and obtain the needed advise  and tax reports which are presented  Monthly / Quarterly.   Also including  service and utility providers data ( through api’s) to increase interest of having  as most information as possible in one tool .

|impact=once implemented we will reach the end user , and others like the tax agency, universities and will be possible to spread the understanding of open source licensing with the web tool, manuals and other material. 

the aim is to set an example (other than internet examples)  of creativity made by involving the culture of  Guatemala in education on economics through a computer science solution in "the commons" way,  available for the public to use. for example we can start inviting software developers for the  connections with service/utility providers (api's) or home economy specialist for white papers , articles.

|tech needs=technologies:Apache/php/mysql (open source types licenses)  for developing the web application , installed in a server and with internet connection.

i am a freelancer working in computers since 1995 as a technician, educator, developer and webmaster , currently focused on php web applications. 

|challenges=two challenges , defining the proper security architecture  and the synchronization  of the offline tool to be updated with online new features and changes. the plan to overcome them is to analyze possible solutions and to investigate similar existing examples.

|sustainability=1. making a banner system to sell advertisement which will be used not only to sell but to explain to possible clients the open source type and that they are helping others.
2. sponsors and/or investors. 
3. make a pro version for business that can include a crm and cms. 

|scalability=Monitoring can allow us to do a scalability load study to see how to scale horizontally , more servers other locations, replication, clustering.
scaling vertically we can add a for example an  option so people can pay their services on line incorporate tax collection agency to approach a certain need.
Administrative scalability because through sponsors various organizations can 
sponsor money and knowledge for example a university in economics or management
in a geographic scale at first it would start in the capital then scale to main cities then the hole country.
|resource needs=Other than the grant cant think of any. 
|communication=none currently . the plan is to use social media tools, then through a site to publish the main information  and support  with a blog to answer specific questions and a newsletter with updates information , articles, tutorials, recommendations about the web tool and or budget topics .

|budget=BUDGET AV.pdf
|legal=Yes
}}