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

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Mentors	James 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	Create a pre-paid account mechanism as an account type or account option in Mifos (perhaps extending existing classes), zero fees. Create a new API for consuming pre-paid account balances. 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). 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.
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	Mobile project on MifosX

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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 ion 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 Skills	Javascript, 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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Web-based Ad Hoc Query and Reporting Tool

Mentors	Nayan Ambali
Overview & Objectives	To run any business successfully, you need the insight of the business and that is possible when you have information system in which you can get the information in the format your business analysis team needs. And in current world business are very much market adaptive and market scenarios changes very rapidly. To cope up with that good MIS need to have Ad-hoc report builder. Easy-to-use, drag-and-drop report designer builds crosstabs, tables, and chart-based reports using a standard browser.
Description	Binny can you update this?
Helpful Skills	SQL, Pentaho reporting, DW concepts.
Impact	Business analysis team, funders, management or operational users can get the required data in real time instead of depending on someone to develop reports. Helps in taking quick decisions as data is available immediately.
Other Resources	http://community.pentaho.com/faq/waqr_faq.php

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Mentors	Nayan Ambali
Overview & Objectives	For better usability system need to have notification to the logged in user about actions he/she need to perform in the application.
Description	Build real time notification system in application to notify to users about pending/new actions she/he needs to take. Example if branch manager login to the application and 3 new loans are created and pending for approval then system should notify him/her about the pending actions.
Helpful Skills	Javascript, CSS, HTML5. AngularJS and Bootstrap (CSS framework) is plus
Impact	Better usability. improve the productivity of users and actions will be taken on time.
Other Resources	Usability and Design

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