Agenda

Who Attended

Keith Woodlock (Ireland)
Andrew Hagner (USA)
Krishnan Mani (India)
Ed Cable (US)

Notes

Typewith.me notes and action items - http://typewith.me/ygkggiTlU8

Action Items

Ed to Inform TWN that check-ins should go into Elsie F release
Ed to post his screencasts in a good location.
Udai/Keith to add in reference data to Mifos so that new locale can be accepted.
Keith to share next round of prototype
Krishnan to send out updated concept note, might do demo in next 1-2 weeks
Ed to collect info on who's using BIRT, what version of Mifos, and what methodology
Ed to reconnect with MFIs on upgrades
Krishnan to continue engaging unversity students
Keith to connect with John on reporting estimates
Telugu Translation
Database of locales that Mifos supports. If want to add a new one, just add the reference around it.
Add in the change to accept that locale -
Can add it into 2.1.5 and could patch it into other branches.
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mifosdeveloper/3E46dw_Iui8/discussion
Action: Inform TWN that check-ins should go into Elsie F release
Currently going into Mifos 2.2 release.
Getting G Release to a full release
Some issues with G release compiling in Eclipse
Michael V to follow up on it.
No major bugs currently
BIRT Exception when starting up in Tomcat (but not Jetty)
Action: Who's using BIRT
Would be useful to remove but probably a headache for many customers.
Update from Andrew
Will be looking for other bugs to work on
Colleague, John will be joining over next semester
Action: Ed to post his screencasts in a good location.
Update from Keith
In next 2 - 3 days, will have enough functionality to demonstrate
Security, loans/client functionality, migration/bulk upload
Little bit of reporting as well.
Would then like to get close to actual customers who are in the individual methodology.
Set them up and get their data to have hands-on usage and see if it's something they'd use day to day.
After that, open part, APIs and exposing services then work on a proper UI, using some of these services.
Update from Krishnan
Getting a beta version ready to see all the important concepts trying to implement in an end to end fashion
Handle transactions, processes financial transactions from Mifos, creates vouchers, creates reports - basic interface for accountant as user.
This would be different than any other system where accountant is not the primary user of MIS.
Most MIS fall short of requirements for accountant - handle anything that MIS can provide.
Some time next week, do a demonstration on a skype conference - host something on a url that people can log into and understand.
Put word out to the university students this past week - will probably receive a response later this week
Next Steps: put together a small set of tasks for them to participate in.
Update from Ed
Documentation sprint underway
Upgrading MFIs to current versions of Mifos
Should encourage this strongly
Any way we can incentivize MFIs to get the upgrade done.
Experiences so far
Stephen Kaufman and IAS - upgrade didn't work directly from doing the deployment - not working out of the box, some issues with MySQL case sensitivity
Have a dump of their database for 2.1.5 and 2.2 - to verify that.
Waiting for Justin from Model Metrics - will do upgrade
Kenya MFIs
Give them a dump of their database to see if there would be problems upgrading.
Not much of an update since last conversations
Once look at their DB, see if there are any issues.
Can then just follow steps for the upgrade - only 2.0 upgrade is a bit time consuming.
Krishnan: can we get more volunteers in each region to provide more immediate help to get upgraded.
Is it possible to have a small set of scripts to give indication of what might be potential problem during upgrades.
Keith: data-check type query pre and post-upgrade - could do that and might be more useful for reasonably bigger ones.
Does SunGard migration toolkit have any queries that might give a glimpse into state of the data.
Might be possible to enhance migration kit so it can be used to migrate between different versions of Mifos itself in short term at least.
i.e. dump from 1.3, use migration kit and then use to migrate from 2.1
Keith: Current upgrade scripts work pretty well actually - IAS worked good except for some case insensitivity - went through pretty perfectly.
Krishnan: which would be easiest version of Mifos to migrate to MifosX?
Reporting
Keith to get some estimates from John on reporting

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