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

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Mentors	Sander van der Heyden
Overview & Objectives	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.
Description	To develop a portal that aggregates information from different Mifos X 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
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) Client Impact Portal POC - (mifos/password are login credentials)

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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	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.
Helpful Skills
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.
Other Resources

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/ http://wapiti.sourceforge.net Run FindBugs & related tools for some serious static code analysis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penetration_test

Scalability testing, reports, infrastructure for ongoing test, documentation

Mentors	Vishwas Babu A J
Overview & Objectives	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.
Description
Helpful Skills
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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Mentors	Vishwas Babu A J
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.
Other Resources

Web-based Ad Hoc Query and Reporting Tool

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Mentors

Anuruddha Premalal and Markus Geiss (Deactivated)

Overview & Objectives

Note
This feature should not be confused with Spring Batch.

Adding the ability to batch requests similar to the one at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/making-multiple-requests/ would greatly improve the performance and ease of consumption of MifosX Api's in apps that require bulk processing, syncing of offline data etc

Some of the simplest use cases would involve

a) Disbursing Multiple JLG loans in a center on a given meeting day

b) A flexible collection sheet, where we could query for all loans that have a scheduled repayment on a particular day, update the actual repayments and post the data back to the platform

c) Batch operations like approving multiple checker requests at a time

Description

Abstract

Batching allows you to pass instructions for several operations in a single HTTP request.

The Batch API takes in an array of logical HTTP requests represented as JSON arrays - each request has a requestId (the id of a request used to specify the sequence and as a dependency between requests), a method (corresponding to HTTP method GET/PUT/POST/DELETE etc.), a relativeUrl (the portion of the URL after https://DomainName/api/v1), optional headers array (corresponding to HTTP headers) and an optional body (for POST and PUT requests).

The Batch API returns an array of logical HTTP responses represented as JSON arrays - each response has a requestId, a status code, an optional headers array and an optional body (which is a JSON encoded string).

First Step & POC

The workflow of an agent acting in the field will be used as a POC.

For the first step we should focus on the following use stories:

As an agent I want to create a new client for an existing office.
As an agent I want to update client specific information for an existing office.
As an agent I want to apply a loan to an existing client.
As an agent I want to apply a savings to an existing client.
As an agent I want to collect client charges for a loan.

It should be feasible to implement all this by using existing commands. This solution will include dependency resolution, e.g. adding a new client and apply a new loan.

Definition

POST https://DomainName/api/v1

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language	js
title	Request Body
collapse	true

[
  {
    "requestId" : 1,
    "method" : "POST",
    "relativeUrl" : "clients",
    "body" : "{ \"officeId\": 1, \"firstname\": \"John\", \"lastname\": \"Smith\", ... }"
  },
  { "requestId" : 2,
    "method" : "POST",
    "relativeUrl" : "loans",
    "body" : "{ \"clientId\" : \"{1:$data$.clientId}\", \"productId\" : 1, ...}"
  },
  {
    "requestId" : 3,
    "method" : "POST",
    "relativeUrl" : "clients",
    "body" : "{ \"officeId\": 1, \"fullname\": \"Pocahontas\", ... }"
  },
  {
    "requestId" : 4,
    "method" : "POST",
    "relativeUrl" : "savingsaccount",
    "body" : "{ \"clientId\" : \"{3:$data$.clientId}\", \"productId\" : 1, ...}"
  }
]

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language	js
title	Response Body
collapse	true

[
  {
    "requestId" : 1,
    "statusCode" : 201,
    "headers" : [
      {
        "name" : "Content-Type",
        "value" : "application/json; charset=UTF-8"
      }
    ], 
    "body" : "{ \"officeId\": 1, \"clientId\": 1, ...}"
  },
  {
    "requestId" : 2,
    "statusCode" : 201,
    "headers" : [
      {
        "name" : "Content-Type",
        "value" : "application/json; charset=UTF-8"
      }
    ],
    "body" : "{ \"officeId\": 1, \"clientId\": 1, \"loanId\": 1, ...}"
  },
  {
    "requestId" : 3,
    "statusCode" : 201,
    "headers" : [
      {
        "name" : "Content-Type",
        "value" : "application/json; charset=UTF-8"
      }
    ],
    "body" : "{ \"officeId\": 1, \"clientId\": 2, ...}"
  },
  {
    "requestId" : 4,
    "statusCode" : 201,
    "headers" : [
      {
        "name" : "Content-Type",
        "value" : "application/json; charset=UTF-8"
      }
    ],
    "body" : "{ \"officeId\": 1, \"clientId\": 2, \"savingsId\": 1, ...}"
  }
]

Helpful Skills

Java (Jersey, Spring, JPA) , Javascript, CSS, HTML5. AngularJS and Bootstrap (CSS framework) is plus

Impact

Friendlier API's would accelerate the development of Offline Modules and bulk processing workflows

Other Resources

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/making-multiple-requests/

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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 client.
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

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 https://github.com/FluentLenium/FluentLenium http://www.gebish.org http://www.thucydides.info

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

Security Penetration testing

Scalability testing, reports, infrastructure for ongoing test, documentation

Web-based Ad Hoc Query and Reporting Tool

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First Step & POC

Definition

Web UI quality cross browser non-regression testing

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Versions Compared

Old Version 71

New Version Current

Key

Security Penetration testing

Scalability testing, reports, infrastructure for ongoing test, documentation

Web-based Ad Hoc Query and Reporting Tool

Abstract

First Step & POC

Definition

Web UI quality cross browser non-regression testing