a few comments...

[toby cabot]

Folks,

Thanks for writing freeside and making it freely available!  It looks
like a good start, and it's already better than some of the commercial
ISP billing software.  I've only found one other Free (as in speech)
billing package - ispd at ispd.eburg.com.  It's written in C which makes
it not-so-attractive to me (but should make Brian Wolfe happy).

I'd like to pitch in here and there.  I've got a wishlist but I thought
I'd cut my teeth on issues that other people have identifed first.

Quick thought: have you guys seen sql-ledger (www.sql-ledger.com)?  It's
a double-entry accounting package which is very similar to freeside in
some ways.  Both can use postgresql, both use perl/DBI as a programming
language.  Both databases are pretty clean so it shouldn't be too hard
to normalize them; if there's any interest I'll take a first cut at an
analysis and report back here.  I think it might benefit both packages
to be able to take advantage of the others' features.  Sql-ledger would
get cyclical billing, and Freeside would get more robust financial
accounting.  Everybody wins.

Regards,
Toby Cabot