Mifos Initiative has been accepted as a mentoring org for GSOC 2022.

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We're looking forward to participating in Google Summer of Code for our tenth year. In 2021 we were not able to directly participate but still helped to mentor 5 interns through the Apache Software Foundation. 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.  

GSOC Contributors in 2022 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.

We have some major refactoring and modularization of Fineract 1.x that contributors could help with, streamlining of the development and design of our mobile apps, and exciting new work around payments orchestration and G2P payments that will be of focus as well.

Mifos is a globally recognized digital public good and an award-wining project that sits at the cutting edge of inclusive fintech and embedded finance. Mifos is the leader of the open source banking movement helping to commoditize core banking infrastructure enabling financial services to be embedded anywhere and everywhere.

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 contributors work on for Mifos?

• What is it like being a GSoC intern for Mifos?

• Getting started Read about setting up the code and understand the basic concepts around MifosX.

Contributors 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

• Freely open to communicating with community members on the public channels

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, IntelliJ

Mifos includes a wide variety of technologies, we do not expect a student to be an 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) and must be eager to learn and develop with the requirements:

• Java, Spring, MySQL, Jersey & Hibernate

• HTML, CSS, JavaScript (JQuery), Angular & Material Design

• JUnit, REST-assured

• Android

Mobile App Overview: https://openmf.github.io/mobileapps.github.io/

Apache Fineract CN (Gen 3)

• 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  

Mifos X and Apache Fineract 1.0 (Gen 2)

• Architectural White Paper: https://goo.gl/du7XhL

• API Docs: https://demo.mifos.io/api-docs/apiLive.htm & https://www.fineract.dev

• 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