Get Stoked - End Poverty. One Line of Code at a Time.
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| Mentors | Nayan Ambali(plus Michael Vorburger, as needed) |
| Overview & Objectives | MFIs 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. This topic has traditionally been of interest to end-users, and one thing you could do is start an email thread on our Mifos end-user and developers mailing list, and perhaps on the chat room, to ask for input from others for Inbound SMS requirements, and add that to the Wiki, and then create a project proposal based on what you've learnt. |
| Helpful Skills | Java, SQL , JavaScript , Git |
| Impact | Transparency and client protection. |
| Other Resources | See SMS Integration and Outbound SMS |
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| Mentors | James Dailey |
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| Description | This project is a continuation of the initial PayGoSol foundation that was led by 2014 GSOC intern, Antonio Carella.
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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| Mentors | Pranjal Goswami |
| 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 near-real time notification system in the web application to notify to users about pending/new actions she/he the user about action she needs to take. Example For example, if a branch manager login to is logged in the application and 3 a new loans are loan is created and is pending for approval by her, then the system should notify him/ her about the pending actionsaction. This involves both invoking and triggering these notifications based on these actions or activities in the server as well as the extension of the user interface to support the display of the notifications as well as along with the ability of the user to take action upon the notifications. |
| Helpful Skills | Java, Javascript, CSS, HTML5. Spring , Hibernate, AngularJS and Bootstrap (CSS framework) is a plus |
| Impact | Better usability. improve Improve the productivity of users and actions will be taken on time. |
| Other Resources | Usability and Design |
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| Mentors | Ankit Sharma |
| 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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JPOS Integration - Point of Sale Cash Out
| Mentors | Antony Omeri |
| 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 .
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Security Penetration testing
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| 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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| Mentors | Michael Vorburger, Terence Monteiro |
| 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 | Mifos X 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:
To prepare for this project, applying students must demonstrate at least that they have already successfully locally built and ran a Mifos X REST back-end server and UI, populated the database etc. as well as provided a simple pull request proposing some minimal deployment related improvement. |
| Helpful Skills | Unix, OpenStack, experience with any public cloud (AWS etc) and Percona Server is a plus |
| Impact | Improves 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 Resources | Openstack: 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 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 | Swapnil Agarwal |
| 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, Offline functionality is critical such because users |
| Helpful Skills | Javascript, AngularJS, Apache cordova, SQL |
| 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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Business Analytics (OLAP)
| 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
This project would extend off of the work of a previous GSOC intern in building out integration with Saiku | ||||||||
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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
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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 |
Front Desk Service Module / Experience Module
| Mentors | Maek Twain |
| Overview & Objectives | Before booking a loan the customer needs to require and assess the details of the loan he is enquiring for and there is no way to personally judge it, based on the parameters, Sales staff right now is using different external loan calculator and loan product schemes are not documentated we need a frontend experience service with personal match |
| Description | The staff or customer should be able to enter thier requirements before applying for the loan , like Loan amount what kind of loan product he is interested in, and based on a questionaire he should be presented a view where loan products are personally matched based on recomendation engine and after setting basic loan parameters customer should be able to get a qoute and then will be transfered to CRM given by Ankit Sharma |
| Helpful Skills | ANDROID UI, Integrating Backend Service,MIFOS X |
| Impact | Streamlined sales, Staff and Customer Better Interaction |
| Other Resources | https://docs.google.com/document/d/18rS0gVWkjQvNdRnNj40uKNl32zuTh-uuzNv161n6YrY/edit?usp=sharing |
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