Google Summer of Code 2021 Ideas
Mifos Initiative not accepted for 2021 GSOC
The Mifos Initiative was unfortunately not selected as a mentoring organization for the 2021 Google Summer of Code as Google aims to accept at least 30 new organizations each year and we didn't make the final list with more than 400 organizations applying. We hope to mentor projects related to Apache Fineract, Fineract CN and Fineract CN mobile under the umbrella organization of Apache Software Foundation. Please stay tuned for our ideas on that list at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/GSoC+2021+Ideas+list. We look forward to applying for GSOC in 2022.
Get Stoked - End Poverty. One Line of Code at a Time.
2021 Google Summer of Code - Get to Know Mifos
We're looking forward to participating in Google Summer of Code for our tenth year. In 2020, we worked with 17 interns from across the world who are continuing to make substantial contributions to our community. We hope to continue building our next generation of contributors who are joining in our movement to fight poverty through open source software. We want you to be part of our mission of creating a world of 3 Billion Maries.
Students in 2021 will have the option to work on a variety of projects related to our end to end open source stack for digital financial services including open source core banking, real-time payments integration with Mojaloop, digitizing government to person payments, mobile money and Open Banking APIs, and our suite of cutting edge and web and mobile apps. Participating interns will get to work on our brand new front-end Mifos X web app built on Angular, our suite of mobile apps including field officer apps and mobile banking apps for Fineract and Fineract CN, our mobile wallet and integrations with the GSMA mobile money API and Open Banking API. We will once again have projects related to our new Payment Hub EE which provides a bridge and connection to real-time payment systems like Mojaloop and for the first time be working with students on OpenG2P, the initiative we've helped to launch to digitize large scale government cash transfer programs. You'll also have the opportunity to build new tools like chatbots and machine learning-based scorecards on the platform.
In addition, we'll be working with students on both our Apache Fineract 1.x platform for financial inclusion and our cloud-native Apache Fineract CN application framework for digital financial services.
The best way to understand what we do is to watch a few videos.
- What is the Mifos Initiative and how does it advance financial inclusion to the poor?
- What is Mifos X?
- How is the Mifos X platform designed?
- Watch how Mifos technology is helping end world poverty
- What do GSoC students work on for Mifos?
- What is it like being a GSoC intern for Mifos?
What is Mifos and What Does our Community Do?
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Why Does Google Summer of Code matter so much to Mifos and what do we look for in students?
How is the Mifos software used?
2021 GSOC Mentors
In Progress
The list of mentors for 2021 is currently being finalized.
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!
Mentor | Project | Location | Time Zone |
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Mobile | India | IST (GMT +5:30) | |
Mobile | India | IST (GMT +5:30) | |
Mobile | India | IST (GMT +5:30) | |
Mobile | India | IST (GMT +5:30) | |
Mobile | Afghanistan | IST (GMT+4:30) | |
Mobile | India | IST (GMT +5:30) | |
Mobile | India | IST (GMT +5:30) | |
Mobile | India | IST (GMT +5:30) | |
Mobile | India | IST (GMT +5:30) | |
Mobile | India | IST (GMT +5:30) | |
Web | India | IST (GMT +5:30) | |
Web | India | IST (GMT +5:30) | |
Fineract CN | Cameroon | WAT (GMT +1:00) | |
Platform | India | IST (GMT +5:30) | |
Mobile | India | IST (GMT +5:30) | |
Platform | India | IST (GMT +5:30) | |
Platform | Mexico | CST (GMT -6:00) | |
Raul Sibija | Platform | Mexico | CST (GMT -6:00) |
Karina Ortiz | Platform | Mexico | CST (GMT -6:00) |
Gustavo Espindola | Mobile | Mexico | CST (GMT -6:00) |
Platform | India | IST (GMT +5:30) | |
Web | India | IST (GMT +5:30) | |
Web | India | IST (GMT +5:30) | |
Web | India | IST (GMT +5:30) | |
Platform | USA | CST (GMT -6:00) | |
Web | India | IST (GMT +5:30) | |
Platform | India | IST (GMT +5:30) | |
Mobile | India | IST (GMT +5:30) | |
Web | India | IST (GMT +5:30) | |
Platform | Serbia | CET (GMT +1:00) | |
Platform | india | IST (GMT +5:30) | |
Platform | India | IST (GMT +5:30) | |
Fineract CN | Cameroon | WAT (GMT + 1:00) | |
Web | India | IST(+5:30) |
Guidelines
- Getting started Read about setting up the code and understand the basic concepts around MifosX.
Expectations
Students working on Mifos X will be expected to:
- Get access to reasonable bandwidth, ie: have a fast, reliable Internet connection
- Introduce yourself to, and discuss on, the mifos-developer mailing list , the Mifos Gitter chatrooms, and the Apache Fineract developer list
- Work on issues by providing patches and pull requests.
- Follow the Mifos coding standards
- Make sure you document your work
- Attend daily standup on Slack as well as the weekly student check-in calls
Prerequisite Skills
Basics
- Be a quick learner
- Be well-behaved, act in good faith and be of good humour.
- Troubleshooting Wizard
- Passion for writing beautiful code
- Excellent communication skills
- Knowledge of developer tools
- such as: a text editor, source control, how to build software
- experience with specific tools will also help, such as: Eclipse IDE, Git
Mifos includes wide variety of technologies, we do not expect a student to be expert on all of these. But it will be helpful if you have some experience in some of these. Helpful skills (specific technology requirements vary with project chosen):
- Java, Spring, MySQL, Jersey & Hibernate
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript (JQuery), Angular & Material Design
- JUnit, REST-assured
Source Code
Mobile App Overview: https://openmf.github.io/mobileapps.github.io/
- Apache Fineract CN Architectural Whitepaper
- Apache Fineract CN Codebase - https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=fineract-cn-&type=
- Apache Fineract CN Wiki (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Fineract+CN)
- Overview of the project structure: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Project+structure
- Detailed slide deck overview on each microservice
- Architectural White Paper: https://goo.gl/du7XhL
- API Docs: https://demo.mifos.io/api-docs/apiLive.htm
- Web Hooks framework: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Hooks
- Platform - Apache Fineract: Source Code | Issue Tracker | Mailing List
- Web App - Mifos X: Source Code | Issue Tracker | Mailing List | Gitter Chatroom
- Mobile App - Android Field Officer App: Source Code | Issue Tracker | Gitter Chatroom
- Mifos Mobile - Android Mobile Banking App: Source Code | Issue Tracker | Gitter Chatroom
- Online Banking App - Web: Source Code | Issue Tracker | Gitter Chatroom
- MifosPay - Mobile Wallet Framework: Source Code | Issue Tracker | Gitter Chatroom
- Mifos Payment Hub EE: Source Code | Issue Tracker | Gitter Chatroom
- OpenG2P: https://github.com/openg2p
Hints
- When you need help, ask for help after exploring all options on the web. We are very excited for you to join us, but we need to know that you're willing to put in the time and effort required to do your part. When you do ask, ask well.
- Tips for a Good Application from former GSOC intern and Mentor, Ishan Khanna: https://hackernoon.com/7-things-you-need-to-know-to-ace-your-gsoc-proposal-8e422f2b6abe
- Not sure if you are qualified? Download and build the code, then run the Platform and the Mifos X distribution.
- Instructions for running the platform are in Getting Started Guide in the Apache Fineract Contributor's Zone
- Getting started with the web app can be found in the Getting Started Guide
- Email the mifos-developer mailing list with your questions and project ideas.
- Install Skype for (generally infrequent) video calls. You'll need a headset for Skype, too.
- Get started by solving few issues on Fineract here or for the web app here.
Project Ideas
In Progress
Our 2021 Ideas lists is currently being refined. Stay tuned for additional updates.
All 2020 projects will be related to the Mifos X Web App, our mobile apps including our Android Field Operations app, our Mobile Banking app, or our Mobile Wallet App or our Online Banking App. There will also be projects focused on our payment hub and integrations with open source real-time payments platform - Mojaloop and integrations with the GSMA mobile money API and our Open Banking API. Some projects will also center directly around the Apache Fineract platform for financial inclusion and additional tools, features, or modules on that and our brand-new Apache Fineract CN application framework for digital financial services as well as the mobile apps connecting to Fineract CN. These apps and modules are built on top of the Apache Fineract platform, the world's only open platform for financial inclusion and is banking delivered as a service via the cloud. Apache Fineract is a true platform in which the back-end is cleanly separated from the front-end and all core platform services are exposed through an API making it easy develop new applications on top of the Apache Fineract platform.
Functional Enhancements to Mobile Wallet
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Category | Mobile - Mifos X |
Overview & Objectives | We provide a reference mobile wallet application for consumers and merchants that has been developed by our Google Summer of Code interns from 2017 to 2020. The mobile wallet provides an extensible mobile wallet framework to support the basic use cases of a mobile wallet as documented in the Level One Project mobile wallet requirements. This extensible framework should support both merchant and client use cases as well as be capable of integrating with a Fineract or Fineract CN back-end. Over time, we would like Mifos X to be more generically a wallet management system and this reference application is a powerful tool to support that. |
Description | In 2021 we aim to complete an MVP of a mobile wallet on top of the Fineract CN back-end so most of the major work will be around Fineract CN and Payment Hub integration and improving peer to peer and merchant transactions (initiating transactions to merchants, maintaining history of users with which recent transactions took place, adding deeplink support for unique payment links, payment related notifications using FCM). Payment Hub and Mojaloop integration will allow us to make payments across tenants and fineract deployments. A very basic integration of payment hub with mobile wallet is already in work but that will need to be extended to fully support all use cases. Functional enhancements include:
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Helpful Skills | Android development, SQL, Java, Javascript, Git, Spring, OpenJPA, Rest, Kotlin |
Impact | By providing an extensible mobile wallet framework, allow partners a complete reference stack of back and front-end applications to offer digital financial services to clients. |
Other Resources | 2020 Mobile Wallet Progress: https://gist.github.com/devansh-299/e2041c07d9ab55a747391951e9090df4 Mobile Wallet Framework: Source Code | Issue Tracker | Gitter Chatroom |
Technical Enhancements to Customer-Facing Apps
Mentors | |
Category | Mobile - Mifos X |
Overview & Objectives | We provide a reference mobile wallet application for consumers and merchants that has been developed by our Google Summer of Code interns from 2017 to 2020. The mobile wallet provides an extensible mobile wallet framework to support the basic use cases of a mobile wallet as documented in the Level One Project mobile wallet requirements. This extensible framework should support both merchant and client use cases as well as be capable of integrating with a Fineract or Fineract CN back-end. We also provide reference mobile banking apps for both Fineract 1.x and Fineract CN This project would center around technical enhancements to these three customer-facing mobile applications. |
Description | Technical enhancements to customer-facing apps include:
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Helpful Skills | Android development, SQL, Java, Javascript, Git, Spring, OpenJPA, Rest, Kotlin |
Impact | Transitioning to Kotlin enables multi-platform development capability and wider spread adoption of customer-facing apps. |
Other Resources | 2020 Technical Enhancements : https://gist.github.com/ashwinkey04/7bea77a5b5880023234b04dd68214c66 Mobile Wallet Framework: Source Code | Issue Tracker | Gitter Chatroom Mifos Mobile - Android Mobile Banking App: Source Code | Issue Tracker | Gitter Chatroom |
UI and Design Enhancements to Customer-Facing Apps
Mentors | |
Category | Mobile - Mifos X |
Overview & Objectives | Our suite of customer-facing mobile applications include our mobile wallet framework, and mobile banking apps for Fineract 1.x and Fineract CN. These are designed to serve as reference implementations for demonstration purposes but also to act as secure and robust starting dough that can be extended and enhanced and white-labeled. With the move towards more digital financial services, these reference solutions are ever more important and critical and must appear highly polished, clean, and professional. We are working with a designer to provide a set of clean, consistent and professional UI designs and workflows to implement across our customer-facing apps. This project would focus on implementing these new designs across the customer-facing apps providing a consistent and familiar look and feel. It will build off of efforts in 2020 implementing the UI designs previously proposed during GCI. |
Description | This project would focus on implementing these new designs across the customer-facing apps providing a consistent and familiar look and feel. It will build off of efforts in 2020 implementing the UI designs previously proposed during GCI. We provide a reference mobile wallet application for consumers and merchants that has been developed by our Google Summer of Code interns from 2017 to 2020. Design enhancements to customer-facing apps include:
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Helpful Skills | Android development, SQL, Java, Javascript, Git, Spring, OpenJPA, Rest, Kotlin |
Impact | A clean and simple UI is key for our low-tech audience and professional and consistent look and feel enhances credibility of our stack. |
Other Resources | 2020 UI Enhancements: https://gist.github.com/ShivangiSingh17/67b6041387c1e281caa7df23347f549e Mobile Wallet Framework: Source Code | Issue Tracker | Gitter Chatroom Mifos Mobile - Android Mobile Banking App: Source Code | Issue Tracker | Gitter Chatroom |
Functional Enhancement to Fineract CN Mobile
Mentors | |
Category | Mobile - Apache Fineract CN |
Overview & Objectives | Just as we have a mobile field operations app on Apache Fineract 1.x, we have recently built out on top of the brand new Apache Fineract CN micro-services architecture, an initial version of a mobile field operations app with an MVP architecture and material design. Given the flexibily of the new architecture and its ability to support different methodologies - MFIs, credit unions, cooperatives, savings groups, agent banking, etc - this mobile app will have different flavors and workflows and functionalities. |
Description | In 2020, our Google Summer of Code intern worked on additional functionality in the Fineract CN mobile app. In 2021, the student will work on the following tasks:
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Helpful Skills | Android Development, Kotlin, Java, Git, OpenJPA, Rest API |
Impact | Allows staff to go directly into the field to connect to the client. Reduces cost of operations by enabling organizations to go paperless and be more efficient. |
Other Resources |
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JIRA Task |
Create Open Banking API Layer for Mifos Mobile
Mentors | |
Category | Mobile/Platform |
Overview & Objectives | Across our ecosystem we're seeing more and more adoption and innovation from fintechs. A huge democratizing force across the financial services sector is the Open Banking movement providing Open Banking APIs to enable third parties to directly interact with customers of financial institutions. We have recently started providing an Open Banking API layer that will allow financial institutions using Mifos and Fineract to offer third parties access to requesting account information and initiating payments via these APIs. Most recently the Mojaloop community, led by Google, has led the development of a centralized PISP API. We have chosen to the folow the comprehensive UIk Open Banking API standard which is being followed and adopted by a number of countriues through Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Tremendous impact can be had at the Base of the Pyramid by enabling third parties to establish consent with customers authorize transactions to be initiated or information to be accessed from accounts at their financial institution. This Open Banking API layer would enable any instituion using Mifos or Fineract to provide a UK Open Banking API layer to third parties and fintechs. The API Gateway to connect to is still being chosen (WS02, Gravitee, etc.) |
Description | Mifos Mobile API Matrix (completed by Ashwin) MIfos Mobile API Matrix (completed by Shivangi) |
Helpful Skills | Android development, SQL, Java, Javascript, Git, Spring, OpenJPA, Rest, Kotlin, Gravitee, WSO2 |
Impact | By providing a standard UK Open Banking API layer we can provide both a secure way for our trusted first party apps to allow customers to autheniticate and access their accounts as well as an API layer for third party fintechs to securely access FIneract and request information or initiate transactions with the consent of customers. |
Other Resources | CGAP Research on Open Banking: https://www.cgap.org/research/publication/open-banking-how-design-financial-inclusion Docs: https://mifos.gitbook.io/docs/wso2-1/setup-openbanking-apis Self-Service APIs: https://demo.mifos.io/api-docs/apiLive.htm#selfbasicauth Open Banking Adapter: https://github.com/openMF/openbanking-adapte
Reference Open Banking Fintech App:
Google Whitepaper on 3PPI: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/nextbillionusers.google/en//tools/3PPI-2021-whitepaper.pdf UK Open Banking API Standard: https://standards.openbanking.org.uk/ Open Banking Developer Zone: https://openbanking.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DZ/overview Examples of Open Banking Apps: https://www.ft.com/content/a5f0af78-133e-11e9-a581-4ff78404524e |
Create Open Banking API Layer for Mifos Mobile CN
Mentors | |
Category | Mobile/Platform |
Overview & Objectives | Across our ecosystem we're seeing more and more adoption and innovation from fintechs. A huge democratizing force across the financial services sector is the Open Banking movement providing Open Banking APIs to enable third parties to directly interact with customers of financial institutions. We have recently started providing an Open Banking API layer that will allow financial institutions using Mifos and Fineract to offer third parties access to requesting account information and initiating payments via these APIs. Most recently the Mojaloop community, led by Google, has led the development of a centralized PISP API. We have chosen to the folow the comprehensive UIk Open Banking API standard which is being followed and adopted by a number of countriues through Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Tremendous impact can be had at the Base of the Pyramid by enabling third parties to establish consent with customers authorize transactions to be initiated or information to be accessed from accounts at their financial institution. This Open Banking API layer would enable any instituion using Mifos or Fineract to provide a UK Open Banking API layer to third parties and fintechs. The API Gateway to connect to is still being chosen (WS02, Gravitee, etc.) |
Description | |
Helpful Skills | Android development, SQL, Java, Javascript, Git, Spring, OpenJPA, Rest, Kotlin, Gravitee, WSO2 |
Impact | By providing a standard UK Open Banking API layer we can provide both a secure way for our trusted first party apps to allow customers to autheniticate and access their accounts as well as an API layer for third party fintechs to securely access FIneract and request information or initiate transactions with the consent of customers. |
Other Resources | CGAP Research on Open Banking: https://www.cgap.org/research/publication/open-banking-how-design-financial-inclusion Docs: https://mifos.gitbook.io/docs/wso2-1/setup-openbanking-apis Self-Service APIs: https://demo.mifos.io/api-docs/apiLive.htm#selfbasicauth Open Banking Adapter: https://github.com/openMF/openbanking-adapte
Reference Open Banking Fintech App:
Google Whitepaper on 3PPI: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/nextbillionusers.google/en//tools/3PPI-2021-whitepaper.pdf UK Open Banking API Standard: https://standards.openbanking.org.uk/ Open Banking Developer Zone: https://openbanking.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DZ/overview Examples of Open Banking Apps: https://www.ft.com/content/a5f0af78-133e-11e9-a581-4ff78404524e |
Create Open Banking API Layer for Mobile Wallet
Mentors | |
Category | Mobile/Platform |
Overview & Objectives | Across our ecosystem we're seeing more and more adoption and innovation from fintechs. A huge democratizing force across the financial services sector is the Open Banking movement providing Open Banking APIs to enable third parties to directly interact with customers of financial institutions. We have recently started providing an Open Banking API layer that will allow financial institutions using Mifos and Fineract to offer third parties access to requesting account information and initiating payments via these APIs. Most recently the Mojaloop community, led by Google, has led the development of a centralized PISP API. We have chosen to the folow the comprehensive UIk Open Banking API standard which is being followed and adopted by a number of countriues through Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Tremendous impact can be had at the Base of the Pyramid by enabling third parties to establish consent with customers authorize transactions to be initiated or information to be accessed from accounts at their financial institution. This Open Banking API layer would enable any instituion using Mifos or Fineract to provide a UK Open Banking API layer to third parties and fintechs. The API Gateway to connect to is still being chosen (WS02, Gravitee, etc.) |
Description | |
Helpful Skills | Android development, SQL, Java, Javascript, Git, Spring, OpenJPA, Rest, Kotlin, Gravitee, WSO2 |
Impact | By providing a standard UK Open Banking API layer we can provide both a secure way for our trusted first party apps to allow customers to autheniticate and access their accounts as well as an API layer for third party fintechs to securely access FIneract and request information or initiate transactions with the consent of customers. |
Other Resources | CGAP Research on Open Banking: https://www.cgap.org/research/publication/open-banking-how-design-financial-inclusion Docs: https://mifos.gitbook.io/docs/wso2-1/setup-openbanking-apis Self-Service APIs: https://demo.mifos.io/api-docs/apiLive.htm#selfbasicauth Open Banking Adapter: https://github.com/openMF/openbanking-adapte
Reference Open Banking Fintech App:
Google Whitepaper on 3PPI: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/nextbillionusers.google/en//tools/3PPI-2021-whitepaper.pdf UK Open Banking API Standard: https://standards.openbanking.org.uk/ Open Banking Developer Zone: https://openbanking.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DZ/overview Examples of Open Banking Apps: https://www.ft.com/content/a5f0af78-133e-11e9-a581-4ff78404524e |
Create Open Banking API Layer for Online Banking App
Mentors | |
Category | Mobile/Platform |
Overview & Objectives | Across our ecosystem we're seeing more and more adoption and innovation from fintechs. A huge democratizing force across the financial services sector is the Open Banking movement providing Open Banking APIs to enable third parties to directly interact with customers of financial institutions. We have recently started providing an Open Banking API layer that will allow financial institutions using Mifos and Fineract to offer third parties access to requesting account information and initiating payments via these APIs. Most recently the Mojaloop community, led by Google, has led the development of a centralized PISP API. We have chosen to the folow the comprehensive UIk Open Banking API standard which is being followed and adopted by a number of countriues through Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Tremendous impact can be had at the Base of the Pyramid by enabling third parties to establish consent with customers authorize transactions to be initiated or information to be accessed from accounts at their financial institution. This Open Banking API layer would enable any instituion using Mifos or Fineract to provide a UK Open Banking API layer to third parties and fintechs. The API Gateway to connect to is still being chosen (WS02, Gravitee, etc.) |
Description | Mifos Mobile API Matrix (completed by Ashwin) MIfos Mobile API Matrix (completed by Shivangi) |
Helpful Skills | Android development, SQL, Java, Javascript, Git, Spring, OpenJPA, Rest, Kotlin, Gravitee, WSO2, Angular |
Impact | By providing a standard UK Open Banking API layer we can provide both a secure way for our trusted first party apps to allow customers to autheniticate and access their accounts as well as an API layer for third party fintechs to securely access FIneract and request information or initiate transactions with the consent of customers. |
Other Resources | CGAP Research on Open Banking: https://www.cgap.org/research/publication/open-banking-how-design-financial-inclusion Docs: https://mifos.gitbook.io/docs/wso2-1/setup-openbanking-apis Self-Service APIs: https://demo.mifos.io/api-docs/apiLive.htm#selfbasicauth Open Banking Adapter: https://github.com/openMF/openbanking-adapte
Reference Open Banking Fintech App:
Google Whitepaper on 3PPI: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/nextbillionusers.google/en//tools/3PPI-2021-whitepaper.pdf UK Open Banking API Standard: https://standards.openbanking.org.uk/ Open Banking Developer Zone: https://openbanking.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DZ/overview Examples of Open Banking Apps: https://www.ft.com/content/a5f0af78-133e-11e9-a581-4ff78404524e |
Open Banking Fintech App Framework
Mentors | |
Category | Mobile |
Overview & Objectives | Across our ecosystem we're seeing more and more adoption and innovation from fintechs. A huge democratizing force across the financial services sector is the Open Banking movement providing Open Banking APIs to enable third parties to directly interact with customers of financial institutions. We have recently started providing an Open Banking API layer that will allow financial institutions using Mifos and Fineract to offer third parties access to requesting account information and initiating payments via these APIs. Most recently the Mojaloop community, led by Google, has led the development of a centralized PISP API To demonstrate these Open Banking APIs and use cases that third parties and fintechs can provide we have developed a cross-platform reference mobile app on Kotlin to showcase a number of these features. It currently connects with the Open Bank Project that adheres to the UK Open Banking API standard. The API Gateway to connect to is still being chosen (WS02, Gravitee, etc.) The breadth and variety of apps that could be built leveraging these APIs from region to region is endless. We would like this app to be built in an extensible and modular fashion such that core libraries and components could be re-used across different use cases with this framework as the foundation and multiple reference apps on top. Applications include personal financial management apps aggregating information from multiple bank accounts in one place, wallet apps allowing payments to be made from different banks, lending apps, leveraging data and insight from multiple accounts, savings apps, etc. |
Description | |
Helpful Skills | Android development, SQL, Java, Javascript, Git, Spring, OpenJPA, Rest, Kotlin |
Impact | By providing an extensible open banking fintech app framework, allow partners a complete stack of Open Banking APIs and reference front-end application to rapidly build innovation via Open Banking APIs. |
Other Resources | 2020 Progress: https://gist.github.com/ankurs287/4ef7c3de462073bf36bd5247479cb176 Google Whitepaper on 3PPI: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/nextbillionusers.google/en//tools/3PPI-2021-whitepaper.pdf UK Open Banking API Standard: https://standards.openbanking.org.uk/ Open Banking Developer Zone: https://openbanking.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DZ/overview Examples of Open Banking Apps: https://www.ft.com/content/a5f0af78-133e-11e9-a581-4ff78404524e |
Digital Bank UI on Fineract CN
Mentors | Gaurav Saini, Pranjal Goswami, @Giorgio Zoppi |
Category | Web - Fineract CN Web App |
Overview & Objectives | A new reference user interface on Fineract CN for staff of financial institutions such as digital, challenger, and neo-banks that focused on individual accounts is needed for multiple reasons:
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Description | Intern will implement the front-end UI screens for the Fineract CN web UI for the following functionalities and use case:
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Helpful Skills | Javascript, CSS, HTML5. Angular and Bootstrap (CSS framework) is plus |
Impact | Reference UI for microfinance institutions on Apache Fineract CN |
Other Resources | Use Cases - https://github.com/openMF/digital-bank-ui/wiki/Use-Cases-&-Requirements 2020 Progress: https://gist.github.com/abhi40308/21cf6f1ac78efe309faaf6a0d6d971e4 |
Github |
Mifos X Web App Enhancements
Mentors | |
Category | Web - Mifos X Web App |
Overview & Objectives | Our AngularWeb App is the standard application on the Mifos X distribution that provides all the core functionality for the most common methods of financial inclusion and products and services. It's also the starting point for any partners looking to customize or extend the UI. It's constantly being improved based on user feedback, better performance, and to integrate new design standards. |
Description | In 2018, we made the decision to re-write the entire Mifos X web app from Angular 1.75 to Angular 6 providing cleaner Material design, access to brand new libraries, better theming/skinnability, and a more stable and modern codebase. In 2019 we continued the re-write and upgraded to Angular 7. In 2020 we upgraded to Angular 9 and continued the rewrite. The re-write is nearly complete and now just needs to focus on a few minor remaining enhancements and optimizations. You can see the in-progress new UI at https://openmf.github.io/web-app/ (mifos/password) The remaining issues can be found: https://github.com/openMF/web-app/issues The progress is being tracked here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JxeJjG1GdZ3BNJi-sScCQLirfevSc8amFr8o3SfUj4U/edit?usp=sharing Some additional work also includes adding in comprehensive keyboard shortcuts to enable power-users of the app and to ensure that the tabs and arrow keys work appropriately for navigating through the app, localization support, additional dashboards, adding of tooltips, etc. |
Helpful Skills | Javascript, SCSS, HTML5, Angular 9, Angular Material, Flex Layout |
Impact | Enhanced User Experience, Intuitive application design 2020 Progress: https://gist.github.com/karantakalkar/7a4acb83f31ebfe4f3b827c86c67eec0 https://gist.github.com/muskankhedia/b0929cbf2ae6236bfe07964a140da179 |
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Improve Robustness of Mifos X and Apache Fineract by Fixing Issues/Feature Requests in Backlog
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Category | Platform |
Overview & Objectives | Mifos X and Apache Fineract is widely used by financial institutions of all different sizes and methodologies around the world. With that widespread user base there is a vast array of different processes and procedures that would like to be supported as slight modifications over the common functionality provided. Over the past several years, we have captured these minor enhancements in our issue tracker as feature requests. Also included in this backlog or additional minor and less critical bugs that have been reported but have not been fixed yet. This backlog has grown and it would be a very impactful project for an intern to work on completing as many of these bug fixes and minor enhancement as possible. The difficult level of these issues ranges from low to higher and touch all componets of the platform - most don't require too much domain knowledge but some will. |
Description | We have groomed the backlog and tagged issues and feature requests that are relevant for this project with the labels gsoc and/or Volunteer. Priority level of tasks is measured by p1 being the highest priority. Tasks with an assigned fix version of either 1.4.0 or 1.5.0 have a higher priority. There are more than 120 tickets in the saved filter. You are not expected to complete all of the tasks in the backlog but throughout the internship you should fix as many issues/feature requests as possible. You will work with your mentor to deliver a plan for each sprint and adjust velocity as you get scaled up. Issues to be worked on can be found at https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12345785 - the saved filter is named 2021 Intern Project. |
Helpful Skills | HTML, Spring, Hibernate, REST, Java, AngularJS, Javascript, SQL |
Impact | Better internal control and financial transparency |
Other Resources | Getting Started with Apache Fineract: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Getting+Started+Docs |
OpenG2P - Digital Identity Proof of Concept on Sovrin & Hyperledger Indy
Mentors | Rachit Kansal |
Category | Platform & Modules |
Overview & Objectives | Digital Identity is a pressing topic and for both generations of Fineract (1.x and CN), we'd like to have integration with emerging KYC and digital identity solutions. KYC (Know your customer) is a fundamental banking concept. It refers to the process of identifying a new customer at the time of account opening, in compliance with law and regulation. The identification requirements may be lower for low value accounts ("Tiered KYC"). The term is also used in connection with regulatory requirements for a provider to understand, on an ongoing basis, who their customer is and how they are using their account. Most of the banks are mandated to perform basic/extensive KYC, before they can serve their customers. Traditionally KYC is done in a centralised fashion where a central agency has the control over all the data. For example consider each bank like SBI, Deutsche, JP Morgan, etc. when creating a bank account, each of them requires a separate KYC process to be completed and all this data gets stored in their respective databases. Even the systems like Aadhar or social security number, etc. have the data stored in a central manner and maintained by the government. However, in recent times all these centralised identity servers continue to be hacked and the important and private data being stolen regularly. With the advent of blockchain concepts and technologies, it is not ideal but imperative that we shift from the traditional identity management to a more secure decentralised claim-based identity management system. This kind of system has multiple benefits:
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Description | See https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=103093257 for details on the proof of concept P0 requirements
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Helpful Skills | HTML, Spring, Hibernate, REST, Java, AngularJS, Javascript, SQL, Hyperledger Indy |
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OpenG2P - Digital Identity Proof of Concept with MOSIP
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Category | Platform & Modules |
Overview & Objectives | Digital Identity is a pressing topic and for both generations of Fineract (1.x and CN), we'd like to have integration with emerging KYC and digital identity solutions. KYC (Know your customer) is a fundamental banking concept. It refers to the process of identifying a new customer at the time of account opening, in compliance with law and regulation. The identification requirements may be lower for low value accounts ("Tiered KYC"). The term is also used in connection with regulatory requirements for a provider to understand, on an ongoing basis, who their customer is and how they are using their account. Most of the banks are mandated to perform basic/extensive KYC, before they can serve their customers. Traditionally KYC is done in a centralised fashion where a central agency has the control over all the data. For example consider each bank like SBI, Deutsche, JP Morgan, etc. when creating a bank account, each of them requires a separate KYC process to be completed and all this data gets stored in their respective databases. Even the systems like Aadhar or social security number, etc. have the data stored in a central manner and maintained by the government. However, in recent times all these centralised identity servers continue to be hacked and the important and private data being stolen regularly. Omidyar Network along with Gates Foundation have developed the MOSIP project which provides an open source digital ID platform. Integration between Mifos along with Mojaloop can provide an end to end reference architecture for a digital cash transfer system built on open source digital public goods.
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Description | Integration between Mifos/Fineract and digital identity systems and KYC protocols could be deepened. This project would focus on an initial proof of concept integration with MOSIP APIs for digital identity including
Registering a client with a MOSIP-powered Digital Identity in a Fineract system and verifying that digital identity to perform transactions. |
Helpful Skills | HTML, Spring, Hibernate, REST, Java, AngularJS, Javascript, SQL, MOSIP |
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Self-Service User Administrative Portal on Web App
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Category | Web - Mifos X Web App |
Overview & Objectives | Now that we have a robust mobile banking and online banking application which allows for users to self-create their own accounts, we need to add better back-end administrative support for staff of the financial institution to manage their self-service operations including user management, notifications to clients, task management, logo uploads, etc. |
Description | This project would involve front-end development of the new UI screens (some part has been already been implemented but may be enhanced) and development of additional APIs on the Apache Fineract back-end to support the following use cases:
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Helpful Skills | Javascript, CSS, HTML5. Angular 7, Angular Material, Flex Layout |
Impact | Improved usability and staff control for self-service operations. |
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Android Field Operations App Functional Enhancements
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Category | Mobile - Mifos X Android Field Operations App |
Overview & Objectives | We have released several versions of our Android app for field officers to go out in the field to process transactions, create clients, etc. Most recently in 2020, our Google Summer of Code intern, Shashank, added support for instant search, optimized the UI, added language support through locale, added dark mode support, extended support for Kotlin in the app, and added KYC/Client Onboarding feature. For 2021, the functional focus for the application would include: cus for the appbuilding out new functionalities, UI enhancement to the application, and providing widespread coverage of automated testing throughout the app. |
Helpful Skills | Android development, SQL, Java, Javascript, Git, Kotlin |
Impact | Allows staff to go directly into the field to connect to the client. Reduces cost of operations by enabling organizations to go paperless and be more efficient. |
Other Resources | 2020 Progress: https://gist.github.com/robustTechie/85e9fde225be7926a77b1dd08c9906d1 https://github.com/openMF/android-client Architecture overview: Code style conventions guide: |
Optimize Payment Hub EE Operations UI
Mentors | @Istvan Molnar |
Category | Web |
Overview & Objectives | For our Payment Hub EE integration layer and payment orchestration engine, we provide an operational user interface which allow staff of the financial institution participating in a real-time payment scheme to manage view detail of the incoming and outgoing transactions that are flowing through the switch, manually process refunds, complete reconciliations, view and take action on unsuccessful and disputed transactions, and more. |
Description | Intern will implement the front-end UI screens for the Fineract CN web UI for the following functionalities and use case:
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Helpful Skills | Javascript, CSS, HTML5. Angular and Bootstrap (CSS framework) is plus |
Impact | Reference UI for microfinance institutions on Apache Fineract CN |
Other Resources | Use Cases - https://github.com/openMF/digital-bank-ui/wiki/Use-Cases-&-Requirements |
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Cloud interoperability Project
Android SDK Project
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Category | Mobile - Android SDK |
Overview & Objectives | The goal of this project is to continue work on developing the Fineract 1.x Client Android SDK which will be used in other Mifos Mobile Applications (android-client, mifos-mobile, mobile-wallet). The project aims to remove a lot of repeated code in the mobile apps and help mobile apps easily migrate to newer versions of Apache Fineract 1.x |
Description | The student will be working on implementing the following things:
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Helpful Skills | Java, Kotlin, Android, Swagger Specification, Open API Specification, Spring (Good to have) |
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Other Resources | Last year progress: https://gist.github.com/Grandolf49/f79537436a467dac0baa9458a38290c5 Jira Issue for reference: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FINERACT-838 |
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Digital Bank UI on Fineract CN
Mentors | Gaurav Saini, Pranjal Goswami, Maulik Soneji, @Giorgio Zoppi |
Category | Web - Fineract CN Web App |
Overview & Objectives | A new reference user interface on Fineract CN for staff of financial institutions such as digital, challenger, and neo-banks that focused on individual accounts is needed for multiple reasons:
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Description | Intern will implement the front-end UI screens for the Fineract CN web UI for the following functionalities and use case:
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Helpful Skills | Javascript, CSS, HTML5. Angular and Bootstrap (CSS framework) is plus |
Impact | Reference UI for microfinance institutions on Apache Fineract CN |
Other Resources | Use Cases - https://github.com/openMF/digital-bank-ui/wiki/Use-Cases-&-Requirements |
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Live Fineract CN API Documentation as Part of Developer Portal
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Overview & Objectives | The aim of this project is to provide a visual display of the Fineract CN API Documentation. We are now starting to use more of the Postman toolset for our developer portal and this project would focus on extending the existign work that was done. |
Description | This project involves providing a visual display of the API Documentation of Apache Fineract CN. Student would have to optimize documentation snippets ( .adoc ), document any service which isn't completely documented like template and reporting, document failing unit tests too and develop a visual website where these html files will be hosted. |
Skills | Java, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Cassandra, TDD With JUnit 4, Spring REST Docs, Asciidoctor, HTML/CSS, Graphic Design |
Impact | A visual presentation of the Fineract CN APIs will be a key building block for an enabling environment for developers working on Fineract CN. |
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Functional Enhancements to Mifos Mobile - Mobile Banking App
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Category | Mobile - Mifos X |
Overview & Objectives | Mifos Mobile is a reference mobile banking app which enables clients to authenticate themselves, view and edit their account details. and make repayments or transactions between their own accounts. It is now possible for any It is now possible for any financial institution using Mifos to provide an omni-channel banking experience including including smartphone-based mobile banking, USSD-based mobile banking, and online banking via a web app. In 2019, our Google Summer of Code intern, Prashant, extended our mobile banking app, completing a mix of functional, architectural, and design improvements including improving the outbound notification system by migrating from GCM to FCM, initial integration with RocketChat for direct customer support between staff and clients, a dark theme and better support for skinning, and phase 1 of integration with Mojaloop via the payment hub. With the payment hub and API Gateway now in place, next we look to add additional mobile money and payment system integrations into the app as well as having the app connect via the Open Banking API rather than the self-service APIs. This exercise of mapping the Fineract self-service APIs to the Open Banking APIs will be the major focus of this project. It was built on top of the Apache Fineract 1.x client-facing APIs to enable self-service channels for clients to interact with their own data and transact in a self-service manner. |
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Helpful Skills | Android development, SQL, Java, Javascript, Git, Spring, OpenJPA, Rest, WS02 API Gateway |
Impact | By providing an extensible mobile banking app, allow a member/client in having a self-service channel allowing them more direct control and visibility into their financial livelihood. |
Other Resources | User Stories - https://goo.gl/3xuUko Wireframes - https://goo.gl/3xuUko Customer Self Service APIs - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Customer+Self-Service UK Open Banking API Standard: https://standards.openbanking.org.uk/ Source Code: https://github.com/openMF/mifos-mobile See: https://openmf.github.io/mobileapps.github.io/ Mifos Webinar on Open Banking API: Mifos Open Banking API Documentation: https://app.gitbook.com/@mifos/s/docs/ |
Build Beyonic/MFS Africa Connector for Mifos Payment Hub EE
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Category | Platform - Payments Integrations |
Overview & Objectives | Mobile money is rapidly transforming financial inclusion by providing more immediate, impactful, affordable, and secure financial services to the client. Providers like MFS Africa and Beyonic provide a set of cross-border payment rails to enable remittances across Africa terminating in mobile money wallets. Mobile money platforms like M-Pesa offer the client unparalleled value in terms of convenience, security and the possibility of new services and products that are more in line with real-world financial habits. For financial institutions and their clients to fully scale mobile money and leverage its potential, it needs to be fully integrated with their core-banking system. |
Description | The Payment Hub EE has been built out as an integration layer between Fineract and real-time payment systems like Mojaloop. Built around the Zeebe as an orchestration engine, it's built with an extensible architecture with a set of connectors for additional core banking systems, channels, and payment systems. We have a connector built for Mojaloop and the GSMA mobile money API and would like to build additional ones for the most widely used payment rails across our community. As part of our DIAL-funded project to integrate Mifos with the open source Mojaloop payments platform the team from DPC consulting built out a middleware component called the payment hub to enable the integration with the Mojaloop APIs. This middleware will also serve as the point of integration for all other external payment systems - the payment hub is extendable by additional payment connectors. This project would focus on adding the connector for the Beyonic APIs. Beyonic is a global mobile money aggregator which provides a common set of payment and collection APIs to seamlessly integrate with the leading mobile money platforms in East and West Africa. Our 2020 project provided a connector for GSMA mobile money API which can be followed as a blueprint for other connectors. This project will involve building the Beyonic connector and integrating with the specific Beyonic APIs for the mobile money use cases to be supported. |
Helpful Skills | Web Services, Java, SQL , JavaScript , Git, Sprint |
Impact | Great efficiency, reduced risk for clients, more impactful and relevant products & services. |
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Extend GSMA Mobile Money API Connector for Mifos Payment Hub
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Category | Platform - Payments Integrations |
Overview & Objectives | Mobile money is rapidly transforming financial inclusion by providing more immediate, impactful, affordable, and secure financial services to the client. Mobile money platforms like M-Pesa offer the client unparalleled value in terms of convenience, security and the possibility of new services and products that are more in line with real-world financial habits. For financial institutions and their clients to fully scale mobile money and leverage its potential, it needs to be fully integrated with their core-banking system. |
Description | As part of our DIAL-funded project to integrate Mifos with the open source Mojaloop payments platform the team from DPC consulting built out a middleware component called the payment hub to enable the integration with the Mojaloop APIs. This middleware will also serve as the point of integration for all other external payment systems - the payment hub is extendable by additional payment connectors. This project would focus on adding the connector for the GSMA Mobile Money API. In 2016 GSMA published a first set of harmonized mobile money APIs to "ensure best practice in API design, security design, and more and to "address the complexity and fragmentation that is apparent in the fast-growing industry. The GSMA Mobile Money APIs are OTT (Over the Top) APIs that have been designed to cater for a core set of mobile money use cases:
This project will extend the work started by Sidhant Gupta under the mentorship of Avik Ganguly in 2019. This project will involve building the GSMA Mobile Money API connector and integrating with the specific APIs for the mobile money use cases to be supported. |
Helpful Skills | Web Services, Java, SQL , JavaScript , Git, Spring |
Impact | Great efficiency, reduced risk for clients, more impactful and relevant products & services. |
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Transformation Layer for GSMA Mobile Money API to Mojaloop Open API
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Category | Platform - Payments Integrations |
Overview & Objectives | Mobile money is rapidly transforming financial inclusion by providing more immediate, impactful, affordable, and secure financial services to the client. Mobile money platforms like M-Pesa offer the client unparalleled value in terms of convenience, security and the possibility of new services and products that are more in line with real-world financial habits. For financial institutions and their clients to fully scale mobile money and leverage its potential, it needs to be fully integrated with their core-banking system. |
Description | As part of the GSMA Inclusive Tech Lab, they are building an Interoperability Test Platform to test how service providers can connect to a mobile money system via the GSMA Mobile Money API and how MNOs and DFSPs can connect to a central switch/hub via the Mojaloop API. The Mifos Initiative has also built and configured a lab environment that provides an immersive user experience complete with rich user interfaces to test out various scenarios and transaction flows originated across Mojaloop and via GSMA mobile money APIs from the perspective of various DFSPs including MFIs, wallet providers, merchants, etc. GSMA has built a transformation layer on PHP to map the GSMA Mobile Money API to the Mojaloop Open API. We would like to incorporate this transformation layer into our lab environment and to do so must write the transformation layer in a more production-ready language like Java. This project would focus on writing that Java transformation layer and ensuring the GSMA Mobile Money API connector is in place for the payment hub and API gateway. In 2016 GSMA published a first set of harmonized mobile money APIs to "ensure best practice in API design, security design, and more and to "address the complexity and fragmentation that is apparent in the fast-growing industry. The GSMA Mobile Money APIs are OTT (Over the Top) APIs that have been designed to cater for a core set of mobile money use cases:
This project will extend the work started by Sidhant Gupta under the mentorship of Avik Ganguly in 2019. This project will involve building the GSMA Mobile Money API connector and integrating with the specific APIs for the mobile money use cases to be supported. |
Helpful Skills | Web Services, Java, SQL , JavaScript , Git, Spring, Rest, Spring |
Impact | Great efficiency, reduced risk for clients, more impactful and relevant products & services. |
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Build Safaricom M-Pesa API Connector for Mifos Payment Hub EE
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Category | Platform - Payments Integrations |
Overview & Objectives | Mobile money is rapidly transforming financial inclusion by providing more immediate, impactful, affordable, and secure financial services to the client. Mobile money platforms like M-Pesa offer the client unparalleled value in terms of convenience, security and the possibility of new services and products that are more in line with real-world financial habits. For financial institutions and their clients to fully scale mobile money and leverage its potential, it needs to be fully integrated with their core-banking system. |
Description | As part of our DIAL-funded project to integrate Mifos with the open source Mojaloop payments platform the team from DPC consulting built out a middleware component called the payment hub to enable the integration with the Mojaloop APIs. This middleware will also serve as the point of integration for all other external payment systems - the payment hub is extendable by additional payment connectors. This project would focus on adding the connector for the Safaricom M-Pesa APIs. M-Pesa is the leading mobile money platform from Kenya. The payment hub built upon the work of previous interns, most recently the efforts on the Mifos Payment Gateway which were led by Sidhant Gupta in 2019. This project will involve building the M-Pesa connector and integrating with the specific M-Pesa APIs for the mobile money use cases to be supported. |
Helpful Skills | Web Services, Java, SQL , JavaScript , Git, Spring, Apache Camel, Kafka, Rest, Zeebe |
Impact | Great efficiency, reduced risk for clients, more impactful and relevant products & services. |
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Optimize Containerization & Deployment of Apache Fineract CN
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Overview & Objectives | The increasing need for fast and reliable access to financial services has prompted the expansion of Apache Fineract from a single complex financial platform to a platform constituted of multiple micro-services that interact and scale to meet up with this increased need - Apache Fineract CN. Apache Fineract CN is a digital financial application platform built to render financial services to consumers in a fast, reliable and scalable manner. Deploying this platform such that consumers get the latest features with no reduction impact requires an optimized release cycle in a CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous Deployment) environment. |
Description | In view of that, last year Courage began this work by implementing the needed scripts to containerize and deploy the Fineract CN services using Docker, Docker compose and Kubernetes. For the Google Summer of Code 2020, you are required to complete this work by performing the following task:
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Helpful Skills | Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Bash, Java - Spring, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Cassandra, TDD With JUnit 4, Gradle |
Impact | Provide a CI/CD pipeline to mange the the release of Apache Finerect CN microservices |
Other Resources | Vendor pages GSoC 2018: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2018/projects/5060024451727360/ |
Computer Vision Based PPI Tool Version 3.0
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Overview & Objectives | In 2019, Appoorva built out the alpha version of this project including the initial app and machine learning model for image processing. In 2020, Yash made this a functional application. The student for 2021 would extend the application and refine the model to achieve the original vision. Build out an AI-powered tool that leverages Machine Learning and Google's Cloud Vision to capture responses for the 10-question Poverty Probability Index (PPI) Scorecard using the simple image capture via a smartphone camera. Social Performance Measurement is a critical tool for financial inclusion providers and the PPI is a widely-accepted tool for capturing it. Student would work on training the model for analyzing these images based on the scorecard requirements for multiple PPIs. |
Description | The Poverty Probability Index (PPI®) is a poverty measurement tool for organizations and businesses with a mission to serve the poor. The PPI is statistically-sound, yet simple to use: the answers to 10 questions about a household’s characteristics and asset ownership are scored to compute the likelihood that the household is living below the poverty line. Recording the answers to these 10 questions on initial onboarding of a client and at future period intervals is fraught with manual human error and data integrity issues. Leveraging Cloud Vision, a field officer would simply have to take a series of photos with their smartphone camera inside and outside of the house and then the Cloud Vision would be able to deduce based on the images the response to the 10 questions (i.e. the presence of soot on the walls would denote a coal-base stove is using, the image could easily depict what material the roof is made of, the image could detect the BMI of the family, the image could detect if there is a TV in the household. Cloud Vision won't be able to answer every single question in each 10-question scorecard but for some it would. |
Helpful Skills | Machine Learning, AI, Data Science, Statistics |
Impact | More widespread adoption of Social Performance Measurement and Increased Efficiency and Improved Data Integrity by reducing manual data entry for PPI scorecard capturing. |
Other Resources | 2020 GSOC Output
About the PPI
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Static Analysis and Vulnerability Scanning of Apache Fineract CN
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Category | Framework - Apache Fineract CN, Security |
Overview & Objectives | As our product is core banking platform and our clients are financial institutions, we strive hard to make our code base as secure as possible. However, due to ever increasing security threats and vulnerabilities, it is the need of hour that we analyze our code base in depth for security vulnerabilities. During pull request merge process, we have a process in place wherein we do peer code review,QA and integration tests. This practice has been very effective and our community is already reaping the benefits of such a strong code review process. However, we should test our code against the standard vulnerabilities which have been identified by reputed organisations like Mitre to gain more confidence. It has become a critical part of independent and partner-led deployments |
Description | We can make use of opensource tools like Jlint, Findbugs , SonarQube or frameworks like Total output Integration Framework (TOIF) - used by companies dedicated to produce military grade secure systems. As our environments become more containerized we can also utilize tools like: Anchore, Snyk.io, and Docker Bench for Security It would be worthwhile, if we can dedicate one GSOC project for this analysis. The student would be responsible to analyse the findings, generate reports, identify if it is really a bug and then submit a fix after consultation from the community. Of course, the student needs to demonstrate some basic understanding of security vulnerabilities( like buffer overflow etc) and should have some academic level of experience working with static analysis tools. |
Helpful Skills | Java (Spring/JPA/Jersey), SQL , JavaScript , Git, Apache POI |
Impact | Improved security keeping the integrity and privacy of the underbank's financial data intact. |
Other Resources | Static Analysis of Apache Fineract Project- A GSOC project idea |
Static Analysis and Vulnerability Scanning of Apache Fineract 1.x
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