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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Mentors	Sander van der Heyden
Overview & Objectives	To develop a portal that aggregates information from different MifosX 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
Description	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.
Helpful Skills	SQL, Java, Javascript, Git, Web Services
Impact	Funders 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	Data Analytics & Client Insight - Are we making an impact? (Client Impact Portal demo)

Security Penetration testing

Mentors	?
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 could integrate 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 Skills	Candidates applying for this project would ideally have prior experience in penetration testing, and document this in their application.
Impact	Re-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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Other Resources	During last year's GSoC 2013, star student (and GSoC 2014 mentor) Anuruddha has greatly contributed to the scalability of the Mifos X by adding server-side pagination and distributed caching to the platform. This project's goal is to measure just how well we really scale - with concrete scenarios and hard numbers, and produce documentation about this helping organization who are evaluating Mifos. Beyond a one time exercise, you should set up infrastructure we can keep using, and integrate the tools you've used into our build chain so that, even after you've gone, help us to keep up good perf.
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Impact	Re-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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