Get Stoked - End Poverty. One Line of Code at a Time.
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Mentors | James Dailey |
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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. |
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Pay as you Go Solar Module Phase 2
Mentors | James Dailey | |
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Description | Impact | This project is a continuation of the initial PayGoSol foundation that was led by 2014 GSOC intern, Antonio Carella.
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Helpful Skills | SQL, Java, Javascript, Git, Web Services | |
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:
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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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Other Resources | Mobile project on MifosX | |
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TENTATIVE: Automation of Conversion of AngularJS Community App into Chrome App
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 | Binny Gopinath Sreevas (Unlicensed) |
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. |
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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. |
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TENTATIVE: Security Penetration testing
Mentors | KojoG |
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 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/ Run FindBugs & related tools for some serious static code analysis |
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Scalability testing, reports, infrastructure for ongoing test, documentation
Mentors | Vishwas Babu A J |
Overview & Objectives | During last year's GSoC 2013our prior GSOC programs, 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. Throughout 2014, a major focus of the core development will be scalability and performance. 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 perfperformance. |
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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 |
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TENTATIVE: Extend Community app to run on Mobile devices with Offline Support
Mentors | Vishwas Babu A J & Markus Geiss (Deactivated) |
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 Skills | Javascript, 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. |
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TENTATIVE: Web-based Ad Hoc Query and Reporting Tool Phase 2
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. In 2014, we began the Saiko integration and this project would serve as a continuation of that. |
Description | The ad hoc reporting will be based on a logical mapping of Mifos data elements to business entities (like customer, loan account, savings account, loan transactions, savings transactions etc.) and business attributes (like loan approved date, loan amount, loan outstanding amount etc.). An end user will be able to configure and generate reports based on these business entities and business attributes. Reporting fields and reporting criteria will support basic derived fields like "days overdue", "amount overdue", "customer total outstanding amount", "customer total relationship value" etc. The reporting will support basic functions like summing up totals, sorting based on different fields and grouping based on different fields. |
Helpful Skills | SQL, Pentaho reporting, DW concepts., Saiku |
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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Actionable notifications/alerts/status updates in Mifos X
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Overview & Objectives | For better usability system needs to have notifications to the logged in user about actions he/she needs to perform in the application.
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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. This involves both invoking and triggering these notifications based on these actions or activities as well as the extension of the user interface to support the display of the notifications as well as the ability of the user to take action upon the notifications. |
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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Mentors | KojoG |
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
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Helpful Skills | Database Management Systems, MDX, SQL, |
Impact | Data 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 |
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Mifos ID/Profile - Single Sign On for Community Infrastructure
Mentors | KojoG & Ed Cable |
Overview & Objectives | This project would seek to create one unified ID/login and profile for community members similar to the OpenMRS ID. It would achieve the following two primary objectives:
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Design a profile Extra Credit:
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Helpful Skills | LDAP |
Impact | Impact is two-fold:
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Make Mifos X DB-Agnostic - Flexible configuration allowing other databases, incl. tests & doc on Oracle
Mentors | Anuruddha Premalal |
Overview & Objectives | Initial version of Mifos X was not designed to be database agnostic. Goal of this project is to make it so, and test this out in practice by running it locally on Oracle, make sure our test suite runs against Oracle as well as mysql, and well documenting how this can be set up by end-user clients, if they wish to go for this deployment. |
Description | To make this possible, all business logic has to be concentrated in the middle tier with the database being as dumb as possible. This means the platform does not rely on any database specific stored procedures or on the database to generate unique keys. And also application heavily use prepared statements (Spring jdbctemplate) for retrieving data and need to make sure all these queries use full JOIN syntax, and bracket the JOINs so that each join is between a single table and bracketed expression. |
Helpful Skills | SQL, Java |
Impact | MFI with large client base can use the application with Oracle or any other commercial databases. |
Other Resources | Mifos has abstraction from underlying database using: |
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Mifos X on "Enterprise Stack" - IBM WebSphere and Oracle WebLogic tests & documentation
Mentors | Michael Vorburger |
Overview & Objectives | Mifos X today is typically used on Tomcat (with Jetty known to work). For a certain class of users, testing it on "Enterprise Stack" application servers (meaning IBM WebSphere and Oracle WebLogic) is desirable - this project would properly test Mifos X on these configurations, make any adaptations to the code which may be required, and produce easy to follow documentation or even small tools helping future users how to go about this. |
Description | This project could be combined with and taken up by the same candidate as the Enterprise database project. |
Helpful Skills | Java, Application Server configuration, WAS classloading crap tricks, documentation writing. Use Cargo, Arquillian etc. for automated testing against WAS & WLS containers? |
Impact | Enable Mifos X to be considered by users wanting it to run (only) on an Enterprise stack
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Other Resources | Vendor pages |
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Mifos X SDK
MentorsMichael Vorburger | Markus Geiss (Deactivated) |
Overview & Objectives | The Mifos X platform as of today is a well structure but monolithic code base - one Git repo, one build, one WAR. This has worked out well for us, but as we grow, it could be interesting to introduce a proper SDK and plug-in concept, allowing contributors to build individual JARs that can be dropped into a certain directory of Mifos X to augment the core platform on well defined extension points and hooks. These modules would be loaded at run-time, not require rebuilding Mifos X, and would remain compatible when a customer upgrades their core platform version. We currently see the SDK as something more relevant to the Java back-end, so in this project you would likely work less on our AngularJS UI (barring some configuration UI for the plug-ins probably); but if you do have any ideas how to make the front-end more modular and extensible as well, we would love to hear from you. |
Description | This project will have three axis/phases: 1. platform infrastructure framework kind of work, based on a very simple or fictitious example extension; 2. identifying the functionally which could require / be sensible to extend in Mifos X, extracting clear and documented Java APIs from it, and then make changes to existing functional platform services to make them extensible by plug-ins; 3. well document this - such plugins will only be written if it's easy and clear how to do this. Note that the more technical part 1. should only take about 1/4 of your project, the focus will have to be putting the "theory" from 1. into "practice" in phases 2. & 3. |
Helpful Skills | Java, modularity, API design, dynamic class loading, OSGi-like concepts (without any plans to actually move Mifos X to running on an OSGi kernel; it's unnecessary complexity, for this) |
Impact | Developers from partnering organisations would be able to more easily extend the core Mifos X by extension code running in-process the platform (as opposed to REST-based |
Other Resources | Many other Java-based platform have such mechanism, and you would be expected to draw at least conceptual, if not outright technical inspiration (re-using code, if feasible) from things like the Eclipse Plug-In architecture (or similar non-OSGi based ones in other IDEs), research if Spring itself or some extension from someone has anything useful for this (think like Guice Multibindings plus ServiceLoader API as discussed on this StackOverflow, or this blog, or these Mycila Guice Extensions; but without going all the way to OSGi-based Spring DM / Dynamic Modules; again, overkill, here), get inspiration from drop-in add-on modules extension capabilities in enterprise software such as e.g. Atlassian plug-in framework, and learn how e.g. our friends at OpenMRS do this (see OpenMRS SDK doc and OpenMRS project). |
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Mentors | Nayan Ambali |
Overview & Objectives | To allow field-based staff to manage their daily schedules and to ensure that their supervisors are able to review these tasks and to plan field operations and bring in more efficiency and transparency for field operations. To meet the requirement, Android based app need to be developed to cover these uses cases. And this app will be an extension to MIfos X mobile clientextension to MIfos X Android Client built by GSOC intern, Ishan Khanna in 2014. |
Description | Field officers typically have a predefined set of tasks to follow, for example: Do survey for a locality, Conduct Group Trainings, Conduct Group Tests, Do Center Meetings and Collections. Each could have a task code to make operations streamlined. Field officers manage their calendars by selecting an activity and specifying a center, date and time for which this activity is planned. This becomes their planned activity for this slot. A simple workflow to manage each slot – when field officer starts the activity, status of the slot is changed from “new” to “open” and when the activity is completed, it is set to “closed”. It would be ideal to manage this workflow using a mobile tool – preferably an inbound SMS message. For example: an SMS from the field officer’s phone with the text “OPEN 1430” will change the status to “OPEN” of the field officer’s activity that was planned for 2:30pm. Field officer may change his plan up to a certain time prior to the start of the activity. Auditors and branch managers will review the activities and track the field officers’ planning and efficiency. |
Helpful Skills | Java, XML, SQL , Git, SMS integration, Android app development is plus |
Impact | Field efficiency and operational efficiency |
Other Resources | See SMS Integration and Outbound SMS |
TENTATIVE: Web UI quality cross browser non-regression testing
Mentors | Michael 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 Skills | Candidates 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. |
Impact | Continuously 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 |
Improvements to User Generated Documents
Mentors | TBD |
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. |
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Helpful Skills | SQL, Java, Javascript, Git |
Impact | Easy to print reports like Loan Sanction Letter, Savings Transaction report, Deposit notice etc. |
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Batch Jobs for Loan Loss Provisioning and Dividend posting
Mentors | TBD |
Overview & Objectives | Add Across the globe, thousands of financial cooperatives are bringing financial inclusion to the Base of the Pyramid in the form of SACCOs, credit unions, cooperative societies, etc. One major feature gap that we still don't fully support in Mifos X is proper management of shares and member equity and calculation and posting of dividends. This project would cover that functionality as well as adding loan loss provisioning. Project involves adding two additional batch jobs in Mifos: a) For Loan Loss Provisioning b) Dividend calculation and posting for Share accounts |
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Helpful Skills | SQL, Java, Javascript, Git |
Impact | From a business perspective, these add a lot of value in automating some of the key year end computations |
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Data Tables Improvements to support workflows
Mentors | TBD |
Overview & Objectives | Data Tables - enhancements for psuedo-workflows |
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Helpful Skills | Android development, SQL, Java, Javascript, Git |
Impact | Allows a member/client in having a self-service channel |
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