Get Stoked - End Poverty. One Line of Code at a Time.
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- 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
Task: Automated Testing of Mifos Android Application (Unit Tests)
This task involves coding of Functional and Instrumentation tests (Unit Tests) for the latest Android App. Since it is a fresh code with no prior tests in place, this would be an awesome opportunity for the intern to learn Testing of an Android App using Instrumentation Test Runner on Android inside out. This would be an ideal task for Google Code in students as the tests have to be written with a certain pattern, therefore no prior knowledge about Mifos wouldn't be a major blocker.
Tags : Android, Java, Unit Tests, Testing, Git
Documentation/Training
Task: Document Standard Reports in Mifos X with examples
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Tags: Pentaho, Business Intelligence, Reporting, MySQL, Documentation, Confluence
Task: Create Functional Overview slides for End User Training -
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System Configuration
How to configure the system - use the documentation currently on the wiki and convert to slide presentation.
Initial System Set Up (configuration)
Tags: Documentation, training, system setup, system configuration
Task: Create Functional Overview slides for End User Training - New Client
Using Mifos X procedure documentation, create a set of slides for end user training. The slides will include:
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Task: Create Functional Overview slides for End User Training - New Loan
Using Mifos X procedure documentation, create a set of slides for end user training. The slides will include:
- How to accept and enter a loan application
- How to approve a loans
- How to disburse a loan
Tags: Documentation, Training
Task : Documentation for using Android App
With a basic documentation in place, Mifos Android app still lacks documentation for some functionalities. This task would require the students to use the app and write down the steps to perform tasks using the app along with screen shots. It'll be a big plus for the community if a screen cast of the app being used can be created by the user. Ishan Khanna can guide you more on how to create a screen cast.
Outreach/Research
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Complete
Task: Personalize Mifos YouTube Channel and Organize Videos into Playlists
We use YouTube as both a means of outreach as well as education and training. This task would involve branding our YouTube channel with images and colors for our non-profit initiative as well as optimizing the channel and existing videos for searchability. Part of this task is also organizing our existing screencasts and training videos as well as other financial inclusion videos into relevant playlists.
Tags: YouTube, Video, Training, Documentation, Social Media
Task: Design the t-shirt for our Global Mifos Summit
Each year we hold an annual conference and give out a new t-shirt to community members. We also give the shirts out to our volunteers throughout the year since this is one of our biggest incentives a developer could get :) The design of the t-shirt should have both a tech feel as well as some of the warmth of a non-profit to it. We'd like to do the t-shirt on a dark or blue background so a lighter single color design is preferable. Deliverable for this would be a high-res illustrator or photoshop file of the design. For this task, you would have the freedom to design what you want but it should communicate across collaboration, community, empowerment, financial inclusion, solidarity, innovation, technology. working on a common platform, unity, peer support., diversity given our community is completely global, flexibility and freedom of open source. It could tie in elements of technology like software code/bits and bytes, mobile phones, cloud computing. It could tie in elements of microfinance like different forms of currency, villages, microbusinesses like farming, artisanry, etc.
Tags: Graphic Design, Volunteers, Outreach, Community Management
Task: Create Mailchimp template for our Volunteer Newsletter
Volunteers are the lifeblood of our community and it’s imperative we remain in active communication with them. We would like to start sending a regular outbound communication to our pool of active and inactive volunteers (about 200 individuals) that promotes opportunities that we’re seeking volunteers for, recognizes active volunteers and star contributors, and explains and captures recent volunteer contributions. We use mailchimp for our outbound email communications which includes a bi-monthly newsletter that we send to about 4000 individuals.
Tags: Mailchimp, Outreach, Newsletters, HTML, Volunteers, Community Management
Task: Research Donation/Online Payment Processors
Currently we only use Paypal for our online donation processing. We want to move towards a more comprehensive online payment processor with lower costs and more functionality around donation pages and fundraising campaigns. This task involves researching various donation payment processors and completing a matrix comparing various aspects that are important to us. Payment processors to compare include: Convio, Paypal, NationBuilder, Network for Good, and iATs.
Parameters to compare include: Fees, Donation Page Creation features, Minimum donation amount, Level of salesforce integration,
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User Interface
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Timeline
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