The Mifos Initiative is looking forward to participating in Google Summer of Code for our third year as the independent Mifos Initiative and our fifth overall. We had grown from four to seven interns and after a year away from the program in 2015 look to continue that growth with students working on a wide variety of projects across our AngularJS community app, Android mobile apps, and other tools and modules. Ideas related to the Fineract codebase (formerly the Mifos X platform) can be found on the Ideas Page for Apache Foundation as a Mentoring Organization.
2016 Google Summer of Code Timeline
Please see Melange for the full program timeline. Here are a few key dates and their current status:
Date | Event | Status |
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| 19 February: 1900 UTC | Mentoring organization application deadline | COMPLETE |
29 February: 1900 UTC | List of accepted mentoring organizations published on the Google Summer of Code 2016 site. | ACCEPTED AS A MENTORING ORG! |
Interim Period: | Would-be students discuss project ideas with potential mentoring organizations. | ONGOING |
14 March - 25 March | Student application period | |
Interim Period: | Mentoring organizations review and rank student proposals; where necessary, mentoring organizations may request further proposal detail from the student applicant. |
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15 April: | Slot allocations published to mentoring organizations | |
18 April: |
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22 April: 1600 UTC | Accepted student proposals announced on the Google Summer of Code 2016 site. | |
Students get to know mentors, read documentation, get up to speed to begin working on their projects. | ||
23 May: | Students begin coding for their Google Summer of Code projects | |
27 June: 1900 UTC | Mid-term evaluations deadline | |
17 August: | Suggested 'pencils down' date. Take a week to scrub code, write tests, improve documentation, etc. | |
15 August - 23 August: 1900 UTC | Students tidy code, write tests, improve documentation and submit their code sample. Students also submit their final mentor evaluation. | |
29 August: 1900 UTC | Mentors submit final student evaluations. | |
30 August: | Final results of Google Summer of Code 2015 announced | |
Late October |
2016 Mentors
We have a talented and passionate group of mentors from across our global community who are eager to help guide the next generation of HFOSS contributors. These mentors come from various backgrounds - partners deploying Mifos, financial institutions using Mifos, volunteers, and even former GSOC students but they all share a common goal of ending poverty one line of code at a time!
These are the current mentors for the 2016 program. Please reach out to them if you have any questions. Projects they're leading will be finalized later on.
Mentor | Project | Location | Time Zone |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | IST (GMT +5:30) | ||
| Cameroon | WAT (GMT +1:00) | |
| India | IST (GMT +5:30) | ||
| India | IST (GMT +5:30) | ||
| India | IST (GMT +5:30) | ||
| Switzerland | CET (GMT +1:00) | ||
| India | IST (GMT +5:30) | ||
| USA | EST (GMT -5:00) | ||
| Sri Lanka | SLT (GMT +5:30) | ||
| Canada | PST (GMT -8:00) | ||
| Kenya | EAT (GMT +3:00) | ||
| India | IST (GMT +5:30) | ||
| India | IST (GMT +5:30) |
Recap from our Last GSOC - 2014
We documented their incredible summer in several posts to our blog:
- http://mifos.org/blog/meet-2014-google-summer-code-class-interns/
- http://mifos.org/blog/a-light-hearted-look-at-our-2014-gsoc-interns/
- http://mifos.org/blog/gsoc-14-mid-term-experience/
- http://mifos.org/blog/gsoc14-experience-mifos/
- http://mifos.org/blog/2014-google-summer-code-bigger-better-ever/
- http://mifos.org/blog/gsoc-reunion/
2014 Summer of Code Students & Their Projects
| Student | Mentor | Project | Location | Time Zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sri Lanka | IST (GMT +5:30) | ||
| India | IST (GMT +5:30) | ||
| Notifications Framework - Actionable notifications/alerts/system updates in Mifos X | India | IST (GMT +5:30) | |
| Mifos X Native Android App - Mobile Field Office Planner | India | IST (GMT +5:30) | |
| Client Impact Portal | Sri Lanka | IST (GMT +5:30) | ||
| Web-based Ad Hoc Query and Reporting Tool | Georgia | GET (GMT +4:00) | ||
| PayGoSol - Pay as You Go Solar Module | USA | CST (GMT -6:00) |