Hello. My name is Quiliro Ordóñez. I am from Quito, Ecuador [, South America, America] and would like to present [to you]: How you can save money by knowing what you have.

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[Saving money can be done by using plain text accounting to know profoundly what you own.] What is plain-text accounting? Plain-text accounting is doing all your accounting on plain-text files. Why do it on plain-text files? For three reasons: for flexibility, for security and for traceability.
Flexibility comes because it is easier to adapt to situations. If you have different software that needs different input data, then plain-text is what you need.
Security: You control all your data because plain-text files are very readable. They don't need a certain software to read them.
Tracebability because you can control your processes. If you have plain-text accounting, you can practicaly do anything you want.

Ledger Command Line Interface. What is it? Ledger is a powerful, double-entry, plain-text accounting system that is accessed from the Unix command-line.
It is [very] flexible because you can have multiple currencies. You can even have imaginary currencies. And you can have inifinite account recursion, among many other things.
It is auditable. Since it is libre software (free as in freedom), you can read the code; you can modify the code; you can use it as you want. You can use it for bussiness. You can sell it. You can give it away. You can distribute it [exact copies]. You an [also] redistribute  it [modified versions]. You can do anything you want to [and with] it.
It is stable. It has a small footprint; yet it is very powerful. The performance is great because it is so lightweight.
The most important characteristic of most plain-text accounting softwares (among them Ledger Command Line Interface) is that you can have all the reports you want. You create the reports you need. If a report is not predefined, you can define it yourself [on the fly]. And you can change the software also. So it is very, very useful.
There is a tool for Emacs that is called ledger-mode. This tool lets you attain more performance. Emacs can be used for editing files. If you want to edit [them] quickly, then you use Emacs. ledger-mode is no exception [to this rule]. It is used as a template system. Transactions are entered very easily. It is an all terrain vehicle. There is a very workflow. If you are watching this presentation, you can see you can have a lot of reports, you can add transactions easily, you can copy them. You have a lot of functionality in this software.

Please use free software. Your freedom is very important. If you have to pay for it, please do it. When one person uses free software, [that] frees other people too. So it is very important for society that people use free software.
I would like to thank Richard Stallman for starting the free software movement and [continuously to the day] making it known to users that software freedom is very important for all the other freedoms such as: freedom of speech, freedom of reunion. All [human] rights in modern society must be exerted by way of technology. Test it. You can see what it does. If you think it is difficult to use the keyboard, then you can add the commands as icons [or as menu items] and then just click on them. I think that takes too long. But if you are a newbie, you can learn to add the icons [and menu items] and use them until you learn the keyboard way to do it. Go ahead and welcome to our Free [GNU] World. I would be very glad to help out, if you need me. Bye! :-)

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