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After participating in Google Summer of Code in four different summers, we look forward to the opportunity to work with pre-university students through Google Code-In. As both a 501(c)3 non-profit and an open source project, our global community has a diverse range of tasks (both technical and non-tecnhnical) that will be a valuable experience for the students. Students will gain exposure to an active open source project, a widespread global community, and expand upon a wide range of discipline as they use technology to help alleviate global poverty.
GCI students will have the opportunity to work on the following types of tasks:
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- How is the Mifos software used?
- What is Mifos X?
- When is the GSoC?
- Watch how Mifos technology is helping end world poverty
- What do GSoC students work on for Mifos?
- What is it like being a GSoC intern for Mifos?
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Mentor | Category | Location | Time Zone | ||||
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| Coding & Quality Assurance | Switzerland | CET (GMT +1:00) | ||||
| Coding & Quality Assurance | India | IST (GMT +5:30) | ||||
| Coding & User Interface | Indian | IST (GMT +5:30) | ||||
| Outreach/Research & Documentation/Training | USA | PST (GMT -8:00) | ||||
| Coding & Quality Assurance | India | IST (GMT +5:30) | ||||
| Documentation/Training | Belize | CST(GMT -6:00) | ||||
| Coding & Quality Assurance | Germany | CET (GMT+1:00) |
Project Tasks
GCI students will have the opportunity to work on the following types of tasks:
- Code: we have a range of introductory coding tasks across our Java platform, AngularJS community app, and Android mobile field operations app.
- Documentation/Training: Most of the end users of our software aren't super-technica. Documentation is critical - we have a number of short how-to guides as well as training slides to work on.
- Outreach/Research: As a global non-profit with a rich social mission to bring financial services to the poor, we have an enormous amount of non-coding work to get done in our community - on the marketing front this involves product positioning and collateral, donor and volunteer outreach, social media management, CRM & contact management, digital media design, as well as analysis and research of our competitors and new financial inclusion products and services.
- Quality Assurance: Mifos X is enterprise-grade, mission-critical software to run a bank - quality, security, and performance couldn't be more important - as our software continues to grow, we have a range of manual and automate testing tasks.
- User Interface: Since many end users of our software aren't that technically literate, an optimal user experience is ever more valuable, various areas of our app could use some mockups and wireframes.
Coding
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Documentation/Training
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Outreach/Research
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Quality Assurance
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User Interface
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Timeline
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