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Get Stoked - End Poverty. One Line of Code at a Time.

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All 2016 projects will be related to the Community App, our Android apps, or any additional tools or modules. These apps and modules are built on top of the Mifos X platform (now an Apache project under the name of Fineract)the , the world's only open platform for financial inclusion and is banking delivered as a service via the cloud. Mifos X is a true platform in which the back-end is cleanly separated from the front-end and all core platform services are exposed through an API making it easy develop new applications on top of the Mifos X platform. 

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Mentors 
Overview & Objectives

This has a dependency on the Self-Service backend API's being available 

Description

Develop Android Screens:

  • Login
  • View Own Profile and Data Tabs
  • View Own Accounts (deposits and loans)
  • View Own Accounts' Transactions (deposits and loans)
  • Initiate Transfers from own account
  • Fill up Questionnaires

Integrate with the corresponding APIs on the Mifos platform.

Helpful SkillsAndroid development, SQL, Java, Javascript, Git
Impact

Allows a member/client in having a self-service channel allowing them more direct control and visibility into their financial livelihood.

Other Resources 

 

Self-Service - Web App Development

MentorsGaurav Saini
Overview & Objectives

We have recently released a full set of client-facing APIs to enable self-service channels for clients to interact with We have recently released a full set of client-facing APIs to enable self-service channels for clients to interact with their own data and transact in a self-service manner. Previously all Mifos operations were performed by back office staff. Now clients can authenticate themselves, view and edit their account details. and make repayments or transactions between their own accounts.

It is now possible for them to have direct banking apps that they can utilize including smartphone-based mobile banking, USSD-based mobile banking, and online banking via a web app.

The focus of this project would be designing and implementing a clean and simple AngularJS application that can be used as a reference web app for financial institutions to directly deploy and offer to their customers or for our our support partners to customize and enhance to the local needs of their market.

Description

Develop AngularJS Online Banking Interface:

  • Login
  • View Own Profile and Data Tabs
  • View Own Accounts (deposits and loans)
  • View Own Accounts' Transactions (

    Description

    Develop Android Screens:

    • Login
    • View Own Profile and Data Tabs
    • View Own Accounts (deposits and loans)
    • View Own Accounts' Transactions (deposits and loans)
    • Initiate Transfers from own account
    • Make Transfers to other accounts
    • Make Repayment to Loans
    • Fill up Questionnaires

    Integrate with the corresponding APIs on the Mifos platform.

    Helpful SkillsAngularJS Android development, SQL, Java, Javascript, Git
    Impact

    Allows a member/client in having a self-service channel allowing them more direct control and visibility into their financial livelihood.

    Other Resources

    Customer Self Service

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    Self-Service -

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    Web App

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    Development

    Develop USSD App that allows clients to:

  • Login
  • View Own Accounts (deposits and loans)
  • View Own Accounts' Transactions (deposits and loans)
  • Initiate Transactions from own account (repayments, deposits, transfers)
    MentorsAntony OmeriGaurav Saini
    Overview & Objectives

    This has a dependency on the Self-Service backend API's being available 

    Description
    Helpful SkillsUSSD, Java, SQL
    Impact

    Allows a member/client in having a self-service channel allowing them more direct control and visibility into their financial livelihood.

    Other Resources 

    Mobile Money Integration - East Africa

    MentorsAntony Omeri
    Overview & Objectives

    Mobile money is rapidly transforming financial inclusion by providing more immediate, impactful, affordable, and secure financial services to the client. Mobile money platforms like M-Pesa offer the client unparalleled value in terms of convenience, security and the possibility of new services and products that are more in line with real-world financial habits.  For financial institutions and their clients to fully scale mobile money and leverage its potential, it needs to be fully integrated with their core-banking system.

    Description

    Based on the extent of the APIs available through the various mobile money platforms, the level and seamlessness of integration can vary from real-time to end-of-day file-based integration.  This project would work to provide several file, message, and or API-based reference integrations with leading mobile money platforms, including

    • M-Pesa
      • File-based integration
    • TigoCash
    • OrangeMoney
    • AirtelMoney
    Helpful SkillsWeb Services, Java, SQL , JavaScript , Git
    Impact

    Great efficiency, reduced risk for clients, more impactful and relevant products & services.

    Other Resources

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    We have recently released a full set of client-facing APIs to enable self-service channels for clients to interact with their own data and transact in a self-service manner. Previously all Mifos operations were performed by back office staff. Now clients can authenticate themselves, view and edit their account details. and make repayments or transactions between their own accounts.

    It is now possible for them to have direct banking apps that they can utilize including smartphone-based mobile banking, USSD-based mobile banking, and online banking via a web app.

    The focus of this project would be designing and implementing a clean and simple AngularJS application that can be used as a reference web app for financial institutions to directly deploy and offer to their customers or for our our support partners to customize and enhance to the local needs of their market.


    Description

    Develop AngularJS Online Banking Interface:

    • Login
    • View Own Profile and Data Tabs
    • View Own Accounts (deposits and loans)
    • View Own Accounts' Transactions (deposits and loans)
    • Initiate Transfers from own account
    • Make Transfers to other accounts
    • Make Repayment to Loans
    • Fill up Questionnaires
    Helpful SkillsAngularJS development, SQL, Java, Javascript, Git
    Impact

    Allows a member/client in having a self-service channel allowing them more direct control and visibility into their financial livelihood.

    Other Resources

    Customer Self Service

    Customer Self Service - Phase 2

    Self-Service - USSD App Development 

    MentorsAntony Omeri
    Overview & Objectives

    Mobile money is rapidly transforming financial inclusion by providing more immediate, impactful, affordable, and secure financial services to the client. Mobile money platforms like M-Pesa offer the client unparalleled value in terms of convenience, security and the possibility of new services and products that are more in line with real-world financial habits.  For financial institutions and their clients to fully scale mobile money and leverage its potential, it needs to be fully integrated with their core-banking system.

    Description

    Based on the extent of the APIs available through the various mobile money platforms, the level and seamlessness of integration can vary from real-time to end-of-day file-based integration.  This project would work to provide several file, message, and or API-based reference integrations with leading mobile money platforms, including those from Zimbabwe and/or Zambia

    Helpful SkillsWeb Services, Java, SQL , JavaScript , Git
    Impact

    Great efficiency, reduced risk for clients, more impactful and relevant products & services.

    Other Resources

    Inbound SMS Integration

    MentorsNayan Ambali(plus Michael Vorburger, as needed)
    Overview & ObjectivesMFIs have requested the ability for both inbound and outbound SMS communication. This project will focus on Inbound SMS Integration as well as advanced outbound SMS functionalities. As part of client protection, client has right know about her/his account information at any time any where. In 2014, through web hooks we built the initial outbound SMS module with a proof-of-concept Twilio integration as well as the Mifos X Messenger which was built by the community. This project will built out additional connections with SMS gateways for outbound SMS campaigns and event-based messages.
    Description

    In outbound SMS notification MFI decides when and what information need to be sent to client, but as part of client protection, client has complete rights to request for information about her/his account details(any time any where). Using inbound SMS client can query for her account details such loan amount, status of new loan application, outstanding loan amount.

    Helpful Skills

    This has a dependency on the Self-Service backend API's being available 

    Description

    Develop USSD App that allows clients to:

    • Login
    • View Own Accounts (deposits and loans)
    • View Own Accounts' Transactions (deposits and loans)
    • Initiate Transactions from own account (repayments, deposits, transfers)

    Helpful SkillsUSSD, Java, SQL
    Impact

    Allows a member/client in having a self-service channel allowing them more direct control and visibility into their financial livelihood.

    Other Resources 

    Mobile Money Integration - East Africa

    MentorsAntony Omeri
    Overview & Objectives

    Mobile money is rapidly transforming financial inclusion by providing more immediate, impactful, affordable, and secure financial services to the client. Mobile money platforms like M-Pesa offer the client unparalleled value in terms of convenience, security and the possibility of new services and products that are more in line with real-world financial habits.  For financial institutions and their clients to fully scale mobile money and leverage its potential, it needs to be fully integrated with their core-banking system.

    Description

    Based on the extent of the APIs available through the various mobile money platforms, the level and seamlessness of integration can vary from real-time to end-of-day file-based integration.  This project would work to provide several file, message, and or API-based reference integrations with leading mobile money platforms, including

    • M-Pesa
      • File-based integration
    • TigoCash
    • OrangeMoney
    • AirtelMoney
    Helpful SkillsWeb Services, Java, SQL , JavaScript , Git
    Impact

    Transparency and client protectionGreat efficiency, reduced risk for clients, more impactful and relevant products & services.

    Other Resources

    See SMS Integration and Outbound SMS

    Client Impact Portal Phase 2

    MentorsTerence Monteiro
    Overview & Objectives

    Microfinance institutions usually work with various external parties, such as funders or investors. Using the data that is available in MifosX we would like to offer those stakeholders a seperate portal showing accurate and high-level information about the institution that would otherwise be reported manually by the institution. This information helps them in their decision making processes, but also enables them to assess the broader impact they are having with their funding.

    Description

    To develop a portal that aggregates information from different Mifos X deployments and report on predefined social and operational metrics

    Objectives:

    • Implement back-end logic in MifosX required to make information available to the client impact portal
    • Implement UI and back-end logic of the Client impact portal
    Helpful Skills SQL, Java, Javascript, Git, Web Services
    ImpactFunders and investors are vital for almost all MFI's, providing them with accurate information on the impact they are making with each of their MFI's is something they highly value and that enables them to assess whether they want to further support the MFI's moving forward to enable growth of the MFI.
    Other Resources

    2014 GSOC Client Impact Portal Project

    Vision for Generic SPM Framework for Mifos X (PPI)

    Background on Client Impact Portal

    Credit Bureau Integration

    MentorsNayan Ambali
    Overview & Objectives

    Because of regulatory reasons or to do background check of a client (risk management), MFIs depend on credit bureaus. As part of it, MFI must submit client details to credit bureau and also need to pull client information from credit bureau before approving any new loans to a client.Mifos X can be integrated with a popular CBs in India and from other regions (based on the demand).

    Description

    This will be an optional module inside Mifos X, and this module can be turned on/off based on the institutes requirements. And will be flexible to configure with different CBs (may not be practical to integrate with all CBs).

    The major functionality will be sending the data to CBs on regular intervals in the format CB expects. And option to pull the client’s information from CB whenever loan officer/branch manager/ user wants to view the information for a particular client.

    Helpful Skills SQL, Java, Javascript, Git, Web Services, Big Data (Hadoop, Hive)
    Impact

    The credit report shows account information such as repayment record, defaults, type of loan, amount of loan, etc. of the customer. This information facilitates prudent decision-making when the credit underwriter processes the loan application. This help MFI to reduce the risk of bad loans and reduces the multiple lendings to same person from different MFIs.

    Other Resources 

    Clean Energy Integration

    MentorsJames Dailey
    Overview & Objectives

    MFIs are interested in becoming a channel for clean energy products - such as solar home systems, water purifiers, or improved cookstoves. With international partners like barefoot power, dlight, or MicroEnergy Credits, or local partners like Grameen Greenway or HUL, MFIs need a way to take orders and hand off data to appropriate partners for order-fulfillment, warranty management, and after-sales service. Integrating a single customer view including their financing of specific clean energy products.

    Description
    1. Build a module that extends loan product definition to include specific physical product ordering - e.g. a clean energy loan associated with a specific solar product. Create a daily batch process to send data in JSON or XML to appropriate third party system (e.g. MEC Tracker). Extend this to include "down payments" on the product purchase - i.e. only partially financed.
    2. Build a supplier ordering/invoice & financial reconciliation process and transfer funds directly to "Supplier Account" upon fulfillment of order.
    3. Create reports on aging of orders, fulfillment timing, and geographic spread.
    Helpful Skills  SQL, Java, Javascript, Git, Web Services
    Impact

    MFIs become more capable of integrating with third party systems for management of deliveries, after-sales service, and carbon tracking.

    Other Resources 

    Integration of Egalite Agent Banking App 

    MentorsNayan Ambali
    Overview & Objectives

    Agent Banking has become a key new delivery channel to increase reach, lower cost, and broaden the depth of services available. We will be taking over the Egalite codebase that's being donated to the Mifos Initiative by BFSI Consulting - it's a fully functional Android-based app for agents that works with any core banking system. This project would involved extending the application so it fully integrates with and works on top of the Mifos X platform

    Description

    The current codebase is stand-alone and can integrate with any core banking system. This project will involve converting it to work on top of Mifos X by leveraging the Mifos X APIs for all functionalities that exist in Mifos X and adding in APIs for the functionalities that aren't present in Mifos X but in Egalite.

    Helpful SkillsAndroid, REST, Java,  
    ImpactBy enabling branchless banking, the costs of serving the poor are dramatically lowered, outreach can be extended to rural offerings, and brand new products and services that are more relevant can be delivered

    Mobile Money Integration - South Africa

    MentorsAntony Omeri
    Overview & Objectives

    Mobile money is rapidly transforming financial inclusion by providing more immediate, impactful, affordable, and secure financial services to the client. Mobile money platforms like M-Pesa offer the client unparalleled value in terms of convenience, security and the possibility of new services and products that are more in line with real-world financial habits.  For financial institutions and their clients to fully scale mobile money and leverage its potential, it needs to be fully integrated with their core-banking system.

    Description

    Based on the extent of the APIs available through the various mobile money platforms, the level and seamlessness of integration can vary from real-time to end-of-day file-based integration.  This project would work to provide several file, message, and or API-based reference integrations with leading mobile money platforms, including those from Zimbabwe and/or Zambia

    Helpful SkillsWeb Services, Java, SQL , JavaScript , Git
    Impact

    Great efficiency, reduced risk for clients, more impactful and relevant products & services.

    Other Resources

    Inbound SMS Integration

    MentorsNayan Ambali(plus Michael Vorburger, as needed)
    Overview & ObjectivesMFIs have requested the ability for both inbound and outbound SMS communication. This project will focus on Inbound SMS Integration as well as advanced outbound SMS functionalities. As part of client protection, client has right know about her/his account information at any time any where. In 2014, through web hooks we built the initial outbound SMS module with a proof-of-concept Twilio integration as well as the Mifos X Messenger which was built by the community. This project will built out additional connections with SMS gateways for outbound SMS campaigns and event-based messages.
    Description

    In outbound SMS notification MFI decides when and what information need to be sent to client, but as part of client protection, client has complete rights to request for information about her/his account details(any time any where). Using inbound SMS client can query for her account details such loan amount, status of new loan application, outstanding loan amount.

    Helpful Skills Java, SQL , JavaScript , Git
    Impact

    Transparency and client protection.

    Other Resources

    See SMS Integration and Outbound SMS

    Client Impact Portal Phase 2

    MentorsTerence Monteiro
    Overview & Objectives

    Microfinance institutions usually work with various external parties, such as funders or investors. Using the data that is available in MifosX we would like to offer those stakeholders a seperate portal showing accurate and high-level information about the institution that would otherwise be reported manually by the institution. This information helps them in their decision making processes, but also enables them to assess the broader impact they are having with their funding.

    Description

    To develop a portal that aggregates information from different Mifos X deployments and report on predefined social and operational metrics

    Objectives:

    • Implement back-end logic in MifosX required to make information available to the client impact portal
    • Implement UI and back-end logic of the Client impact portal
    Helpful Skills SQL, Java, Javascript, Git, Web Services
    ImpactFunders and investors are vital for almost all MFI's, providing them with accurate information on the impact they are making with each of their MFI's is something they highly value and that enables them to assess whether they want to further support the MFI's moving forward to enable growth of the MFI.
    Other Resources

    2014 GSOC Client Impact Portal Project

    Vision for Generic SPM Framework for Mifos X (PPI)

    Background on Client Impact Portal

    Credit Bureau Integration

    MentorsNayan Ambali
    Overview & Objectives

    Because of regulatory reasons or to do background check of a client (risk management), MFIs depend on credit bureaus. As part of it, MFI must submit client details to credit bureau and also need to pull client information from credit bureau before approving any new loans to a client.Mifos X can be integrated with a popular CBs in India and from other regions (based on the demand).

    Description

    This will be an optional module inside Mifos X, and this module can be turned on/off based on the institutes requirements. And will be flexible to configure with different CBs (may not be practical to integrate with all CBs).

    The major functionality will be sending the data to CBs on regular intervals in the format CB expects. And option to pull the client’s information from CB whenever loan officer/branch manager/ user wants to view the information for a particular client.

    Helpful Skills SQL, Java, Javascript, Git, Web Services, Big Data (Hadoop, Hive)
    Impact

    The credit report shows account information such as repayment record, defaults, type of loan, amount of loan, etc. of the customer. This information facilitates prudent decision-making when the credit underwriter processes the loan application. This help MFI to reduce the risk of bad loans and reduces the multiple lendings to same person from different MFIs.

    Other Resources 

    Clean Energy Integration

    MentorsJames Dailey
    Overview & Objectives

    MFIs are interested in becoming a channel for clean energy products - such as solar home systems, water purifiers, or improved cookstoves. With international partners like barefoot power, dlight, or MicroEnergy Credits, or local partners like Grameen Greenway or HUL, MFIs need a way to take orders and hand off data to appropriate partners for order-fulfillment, warranty management, and after-sales service. Integrating a single customer view including their financing of specific clean energy products.

    Description
    1. Build a module that extends loan product definition to include specific physical product ordering - e.g. a clean energy loan associated with a specific solar product. Create a daily batch process to send data in JSON or XML to appropriate third party system (e.g. MEC Tracker). Extend this to include "down payments" on the product purchase - i.e. only partially financed.
    2. Build a supplier ordering/invoice & financial reconciliation process and transfer funds directly to "Supplier Account" upon fulfillment of order.
    3. Create reports on aging of orders, fulfillment timing, and geographic spread.
    Helpful Skills  SQL, Java, Javascript, Git, Web Services
    Impact

    MFIs become more capable of integrating with third party systems for management of deliveries, after-sales service, and carbon tracking.

    Other Resources 

    Integration of Egalite Agent Banking App 

    MentorsNayan Ambali
    Overview & Objectives

    Agent Banking has become a key new delivery channel to increase reach, lower cost, and broaden the depth of services available. We will be taking over the Egalite codebase that's being donated to the Mifos Initiative by BFSI Consulting - it's a fully functional Android-based app for agents that works with any core banking system. This project would involved extending the application so it fully integrates with and works on top of the Mifos X platform

    Description

    The current codebase is stand-alone and can integrate with any core banking system. This project will involve converting it to work on top of Mifos X by leveraging the Mifos X APIs for all functionalities that exist in Mifos X and adding in APIs for the functionalities that aren't present in Mifos X but in Egalite.

    Helpful SkillsAndroid, REST, Java,  
    Impact

    By enabling branchless banking, the costs of serving the poor are dramatically lowered, outreach can be extended to rural offerings, and brand new products and services that are more relevant can be delivered.

    Other Resources  See http://bfsiconsulting.com/?page_id=179

    Collateral Management Module

    MentorsMaek Twain
    Overview & Objectives

    As financial inclusion evolves, more loan products are collateral-based and require more detailed tracking of the asset (gold, property, etc.) along with its value, and its depreciation.

    Description

    We have a complete specification in place and need a team to build out a new module on top of the platform that tracks the additional collateral values. The work involved includes creation of new APIs and database tables to track additional parameters for the collateral, and to build out the UI screens for this module.

    Helpful SkillsAndroid, REST, Java, AngularJS, SQL  
    Impact

    Clients and Small Businesses are able to take out higher value loans when they can offer up different forms of collateral.

    Other Resources  See http://bfsiconsulting.com/?page_id=179

    Activity Management/CRM Integration (UPDATE)

    Mentors 
    Overview & Objectives

    As financial inclusion evolves, more loan products are collateral-based and require more detailed tracking of the asset (gold, property, etc.) along with its value, and its depreciation.

    Description

    We have a complete specification in place and need a team to build out a new module on top of the platform that tracks the additional collateral values. The work involved includes creation of new APIs and database tables to track additional parameters for the collateral, and to build out the UI screens for this module.

    Helpful SkillsAndroid, REST, Java, AngularJS, SQL  
    Impact

    Clients and Small Businesses are able to take out higher value loans when they can offer up different forms of collateral.

    Other Resources  See http://bfsiconsulting.com/?page_id=179

    Biometric Integration

    Insurance Claims Module

    MentorsMaek Twain
    Overview & Objectives

    A crucial part of financial inclusion is micro-insurance and the ability for clients to safely manage risk in their lives. Mifos X will not fully handle the entire lifecycle of an insurance product but it should

    Description

    This project would involve building out a s

    Helpful SkillsREST, Java, AngularJS, SQL  
    Impact

    Clients and Small Businesses are able to take out higher value loans when they can offer up different forms of collateral.

    Other Resources  See http://bfsiconsulting.com/?page_id=179

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    Agricultural Credit Scoring Integration

    MentorsMaek Twain
    Overview & Objectives

    As financial inclusion evolves, more loan products are collateral-based and require more detailed tracking of the asset (gold, property, etc.) along with its value, and its depreciation.

    Description

    We have a complete specification in place and need a team to build out a new module on top of the platform that tracks the additional collateral values. The work involved includes creation of new APIs and database tables to track additional parameters for the collateral, and to build out the UI screens for this module.

    Helpful SkillsAndroid, REST, Java, AngularJS, SQL  
    Impact

    Clients and Small Businesses are able to take out higher value loans when they can offer up different forms of collateral.

    Other Resources  See http://bfsiconsulting.com/?page_id=179

    Activity Management/CRM Integration (UPDATE)

    Biometric Integration

    Insurance Claims Module

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    Islamic Finance Module

     

    Pay as you Go Solar Module Phase 2

    MentorsJames Dailey
    Overview & Objectives

    Pay-as-you-go mobile phones have revolutionized access to telecom, the same can be done with solar energy access. Off-grid installations of PVC panels and batteries can be pared with a mobile payment mechanism to allow clients to purchase power "as they use it". This functionality will allow organizations to become involved with 3rd party providers of solar systems.

    Description

    This project is a continuation of the initial PayGoSol foundation that was led by 2014 GSOC intern, Antonio Carella.

    1. Create a pre-paid account mechanism as an account type or account option in Mifos (perhaps extending existing classes), zero fees.
    2. Create a new API for consuming pre-paid account balances.  
    3. Create a simple external model that mimics consumption by a household on a daily basis - imagined as a set of data received from solar panel (watts used, time of day, volts present).  
    4. Load up pre-paid account by account transfer in P2P interface (my phone to your account) or via trusted agent - i.e. trusted agent receives cash and loads account on Mifos.

    Work in 2015 will include adding the following features to make it an out-of-the-box solution that any PAYG hardware provider could use:

     

    • Hardware Integration
      • Integration with SMS "kill signal" (sms outbound) 
      • Integration with unique "enabler code" for keycode entry and SMS outbound 
      • Per time period Charge and Pay per Kwh options (via control panel) 
    • Web App & Android Client
      • Better UIX and UI work 
    • Platform Work
      • Componentized PGS server (with Mifos X as dependent jar) 

     

     

    Helpful Skills SQL, Java, Javascript, Git, Web Services
    Impact

    Providers of pay-as-you-go solar can use MIFOS for their operations. MFIs can become such providers.

    Other Resources

    Mifos Android Client on MifosX

     

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    MentorsTBD
    Overview & Objectives

    Right now Mifos X contains core client management functionalities including tracking basic demographic information, know your customer information, document management, and survey collection through data tables. As financial institutions serving the poor begin to offer a more in-depth and diverse range of financial inclusion products, the need for more robust client management and in-depth client understanding has grows. Their core system needs to provide more and more CRM-type functionality that complement the portfolio management and financial/social reporting the Mifos X provides.

    This project will work to deliver the initial set of customer relationship management functionalities including a module for tracking inquiries, complaints

    Description

    This module will have a request management functionality. A request can be of 2 types: Complaints and Service Requests. Each request must be against a customer and optionally against an account of the customer. Each request will go through a simple workflow.

    Actions that can be performed on a request:

    Assign -> will change status to "assigned"

    Start Work --> will change status to "in progress"

    Close --> will change status to "closed" (with a sub-reason code)

    At each step user can enter comments.

    The customer summary screen will have a link to view the requests of the customer - along with a summary and current status - with option to click-through to get the complete history of each request.

    Helpful Skills 
    Impact

    Deepening the client relationship and ensuring fair, responsible, and transparent financial services to the poor is a core piece of the industry's roadmap for financial inclusion. Providing customers the ability to voice their concerns and feedback about the services they're receiving provides a simple yet powerful tool to protect the client. Empowering the financial institution with the ability to track these inquiries and overall maintain a more holistic relationship tracking entire lifecycle of their clients gives them a much better ability to understand their clients and respond to their needs with appropriately designed services and products.

    Other Resources 

    Security Penetration testing

    MentorsTBD
    Overview & Objectives

    We believe the Mifos X platform is super secure and impenetrable. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to prove us wrong, and help close gaps you may find.

    Description

    Beyond a one time exercise, you should integrate (some of) the tools you've used into our build chain so that, even after you've gone, tools flag up future newly introduced potential vulnerabilities.

    Helpful SkillsCandidates applying for this project would ideally have prior experience in penetration testing, and document this in their application.
    ImpactRe-assuring the more Entreprise-y type Mifos clients that they can safely bet on Mifos X as an MFI platform.
    Other Resources

    https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Main_Page

    https://code.google.com/p/zaproxy/

    http://wapiti.sourceforge.net

    Run FindBugs & related tools for some serious static code analysis

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penetration_test

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    MentorsTBD
    Overview & Objectives

     Create a POC of a scalable MifosX implementation (with load balanced tomcats and percona servers) on an openstack setup on a public cloud. Also publish a whitepaper with details of Openstack setup

    Description

     Mifosx was built to be cloud ready from the ground up. One of the most popular deployment environments for MifosX has been on Amazon EC2, however due to country specific regulation, many implementors are forced to seek alternative models that can scale as effectively

    The aim of this project is two-fold

    • Propose a scalable deployment model for Mifos (includes load balanced tomcats, percona mysql server etc ) on OpenStack. The POC would be on a public cloud provider (Rackspace?)
    • Publish a whitepaper of the same, which can be used as a reference for local implementors (who would additionally take care of provisioning their own hardware)

     

    Helpful SkillsUnix, OpenStack, experience with any public cloud (AWS etc) and Percona Server is a plus
    ImpactImproves deployment options for Mifos. Would be very helpful for specialists in African countries who deal with strict regulatory controls in hosting data outside their region
    Other ResourcesOpenstack: https://www.openstack.org/

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    Mentors Nayan Ambali
    Overview & Objectives

    At present MIfos X platform is shipped with Community-App (SPA) as default UI, but initial load time of the application high. And for users on narrow bandwidth internet it takes a considerable amount of time to load the app.

    Instead of loading the app every time, we can convert the Community-App into a Chrome App and user can download them once and install it on the machine, and it can used as thick client.

    Description

    Community-App is completely developed on top of JavaScript, CSS and HTML. And Chrome apps are also written in same stack. Using grunt we should be able to repackage Community-App(SPA) into Community-App(Chrome App)

    Helpful SkillsJavascript, AngularJS, Grunt
    Impact

    Users with slow internet connectivity can use this app (Installed on the machine) instead of loading Community-App (SPA) on the browser. Users will also have a continually updated app. This will also allow MFIs to potentially use Chromebooks as field-based devices for their branches.

    Other Resources  http://developer.chrome.com/apps/angular_framework.html

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    MentorsVishwas Babu A J
    Overview & Objectives

    MIfos X platform is shipped with a Community-App (SPA) as the default UI which is optimized for Web Browser display on large screens (Mobile, Laptops and Tablets). We need to extend the same to support mobile views (with minor changes to workflow) and provide offline functionality

    Description

    Community-App is completely developed on top of JavaScript, CSS and HTML. Also since there is a clear separation between the view and the Controllers in Angular JS, we should be able to spin up mobile views fairly easily reusing the same Controllers and Services. As it is quite common for Mobile users to have intermittent data connection, we should also support offline functionality,

    Helpful SkillsJavascript, AngularJS, Apache cordova
    Impact

    Field officers can access MifosX from a Mobile optimized view, capture data offline that can be synced back to the server when an internet connection is available.

    It also becomes easier for the community volunteers to maintain the mobile view ( as we reuse most of the code from the Community app) as opposed to maintaining a separate Android app.

    Other Resources

     

    Business Analytics (OLAP)

    MentorsKojoG
    Overview & Objectives

    Develop ETL scripts to create OLAP cubes (fact and dimension tables in MySQL). This will allow managers to perform ad hoc slicing and dicing of their data 
    to answer important questions about their operations.

    • Create ETL scripts and tests
    • Create a Mondrian schema to work with Saiku Analytics

    This project would extend off of the work of a previous GSOC intern in building out integration with Saiku

    Description

     

    Helpful SkillsDatabase Management Systems, MDX, SQL,
    ImpactData drives a microfinance institution - the more powerful and robust analytical tools management has, the better they can tailor their services and outreach to impact the poor most effectively.
    Other Resources

    Saiku Analytics Demo - demo.analytical-labs.com
    Wikipedia OLAP Article - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olap
    Introduction to OLAP - http://www.db-class.org/course/video/preview_list
    Gentle Introduction to MDX - http://www.iccube.com/support/documentation/mdx_tutorial/gentle_introduction.html

    Jira Legacy
    serverJIRA (mifosforge.jira.com)
    serverId6ed65b55-ae19-3f63-b72c-a969383d4221
    keyMIFOSX-1448

    Web UI quality cross browser non-regression testing

    MentorsMichael Vorburger
    Overview & Objectives

    While the Mifos X Community App front-end UI based on AngularJS-based currently does already have some JS unit tests, we lack a full UI level web tests which continually non-regression test common scenarios. We believe having this could add value in terms of quality, including ensuring automated cross browser testing.

    Description

    Possibly building upon a extremely limited small scale existing POC (if you find it to be a useful starting point), your mission, should you chose to accept it, would be to build out comprehensive UI walk through scenario test coverage for the Mifos X UI. If you can build more such tests faster and more maintainable (= less code) by using any of the existing frameworks listed below or others you know of / will find, or build useful such infrastructure yourself as part of this code, we're eager to hear from you! Keep in mind that the main deliverable of this project is not (only) a foundation framework, but must actually include an extensive suite of running tests integrated into the Mifos build.

    Helpful SkillsCandidates should demonstrate serious interest and basic know-how by accompanying their application for this project with pull requests to the existing mifosx-ui-selenium-webdriver-tests POC.
    ImpactContinuously verified and cross browser checked quality of the Mifos X UI.
    Other Resources

    http://docs.seleniumhq.org/projects/webdriver/

    https://github.com/vorburger/mifosx-ui-selenium-webdriver-tests

    https://github.com/vorburger/webdriver-runner

    https://saucelabs.com or https://browserling.com

    https://github.com/FluentLenium/FluentLenium

    http://www.gebish.org

    http://www.thucydides.info

    JPOS Integration - Point of Sale Cash Out

    MentorsTBD
    Overview & Objectives

    Integrate MifosX with an opensource Point of Sale (POS) called JPOS.

    Description

    Use case would be to get a debit transaction (cash withdraw from checking account) thru the POS device /local runtime with 2FA.  In India, the ability to get cash out through a point of sale network is provided for under RBI regulations. In production there will likely need to be an intermediate "Merchant Acquisition" or "Payment Processor" in between a single POS and MifosX Instance, but this could be abstracted out as a payment gateway only (primarily data mapping). The implementation target is the ability to do a 2 factor authentication on a POS device running JPOS (emulator ok), input account number (via some simple method), then be able to do a (cash-out) account withdrawal in real time to the MifosX account. Additional use cases would be to implement a transaction for payment for goods. i.e. enter specific goods, then do payment from MifosX account to Merchant Account (probably also in Mifos).

    Helpful Skills

    Familiarity with API work. Understanding of transactional flows.

    Java.

    Two-factor authentication - see other project idea .

     

    Impact 
    Other Resources

    https://github.com/jpos/jPOS/

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    MentorsPranjal GoswamiBD
    Overview & Objectives

    Provide an easy way for reports to "merge-printed" from the Client or account page. Currently, if a user needs to print a specific letter for customer or loan account or savings account - the only way is to develop a report or use stretchy report. This is difficult to use and cannot be invoked from a client or account page.

    Description

     

    The following enhancements will be needed:

    • Improvements to the UI - to provide Logical names for pre-defined fields
    • Extend it for Deposit Accounts too
    • For Loans and Deposits accounts, we should be able to access Client Details
    • For loans - allow Loan Summary and Tranche details tabs to be accessible in the template
    • Allow data table fields to be accessible for Clients and Loans and Deposits
    • For Loans and Deposits - allow transaction tab to be accessible in template - need a way to specify a specific transaction type and/or a date or a date-range as inputs for these at the time of invoking the report
    • Allow basic filters like date-range for transactions related templates
    • Allow totals for amount fields for transactions related templates

     

    Helpful SkillsSQL, Java, Javascript, Git
    Impact

    Easy to print reports like Loan Sanction Letter, Savings Transaction report, Deposit notice etc.

    Other Resources

    Scaling MifosX to serve 2 million+ customer accounts (MOVE TO FINERACT)

    MentorsTBD
    Overview & Objectives

    This project's goal is to create an Amazon Cloud formation template for Mifos deployments at large Organisations. We would measure how we scale, with concrete scenarios and hard numbers, and produce documentation about this helping organization who are evaluating Mifos.

    We would also try to identify and fix performance bottlenecks in the MifosX and the community app codebase

    Description

    You would be creating a Cloud formation template on AWS for a sample high performance Mifos setup. The setup would include

    • Approximately 5 web servers (Apache) on medium EC2 instances fronted with a load balancer
    • Approximately 5 Tomcats servers on large EC2 instances fronted with a load balancer
    • Multi Az extra Large RDS
    • Distributed in memory cache environment

    You would then use Jmeter (or a tool of your choice) to create realistic data and run and benchmark performance on this setup. Based on the figures, we would make fixes to either to the MifosX / Community app codebases to fix any identified performance bottlenecks and then carry out multiple iterations of tweaking the Cloud formation template to achieve best performance.

    Helpful SkillsMust be a self starter, Experience with Amazon AWS and any opensource load testing tool is helpful
    ImpactRe-assuring the more Entreprise-y type Mifos clients that they can safely bet on Mifos X as an MFI platform.
    Other Resources

    http://twitter.github.io/iago/

    http://www.loadui.org (by the good people behind SOAPui)

    Selenium WebDriver

    https://jmeter.apache.org/

    http://grinder.sourceforge.net/

    http://opensta.org/

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