Google Code-In
Get Stoked - End Poverty. One Line of Code at a Time.
The Mifos Initiative is one of the 25 mentoring organizations for Google Code-In 2017 - join us in fighting poverty with financial inclusion!
Mifos Participation in GCI
2016
- Mifos Wrap-Up Blog Post: http://mifos.org/blog/2016-google-code-in-wrap-up/
- Mifos 2016 GCI Archive: https://codein.withgoogle.com/archive/2016/organization/5709717443706880/
2014
- Mifos Week One Blog Post for GCI: http://mifos.org/blog/google-code-whirlwind-week-one/
- Mifos 2014 GCI Archive: https://www.google-melange.com/archive/gci/2014/orgs/mifos
2016 Google Code-In (GCI) - Get to Know Mifos
After participating in Google Summer of Code in five different summers and GCI in 2014 we look forward to the opportunity to work with pre-university students through Google Code-In. As both a 501(c)3 non-profit and an open source project, our global community has a diverse range of tasks (both technical and non-technical) that will be a valuable experience for the students. Students will gain exposure to an active open source project, a widespread global community, and expand upon a wide range of discipline as they use technology to help alleviate global poverty.
Students in 2016 will have the option to work on a variety of projects related to the back-end Apache Fineract platform, our front-end Web App built on top of the AngularJS framework, and a suite of mobile apps including our Android field officer app and Android client self-service banking app.
- What is the Mifos Initiative and how does it advance financial inclusion to the poor?
- What is Mifos X?
- How is the platform designed?
- Watch how Mifos technology is helping end world poverty
- What do students work on for Mifos?
- What is it like contributing to Mifos?
Get Excited!
Watch the following videos to learn about our gigantic mission and the game-changing platform we've built to achieve it.
Useful Resources
GCI students will have the opportunity to work on the following types of tasks:
- Code: we have a range of introductory coding tasks across our Java platform, AngularJS community app, and Android field officer and client self-service apps
- 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
- Client App - Android Self-Service App: Source Code | Issue Tracker | Gitter Chatroom
- Documentation/Training: Most of the end users of our software aren't super-technical. Documentation is critical - we have a number of short how-to guides, training slides, and video tutorial to work on for using the software and engaging with the community.
- Fineract Wiki: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/
- Mifos X User Manual: User Manual
- 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 web and mobile apps could use some mockups and wireframes.
Example Tasks
Coding
Task: Insert Correct Labels for “Add Client Identifier” page
See - MIFOSX-2753Getting issue details... STATUS for a screenshot.
Tags: Javascript, AngularJS, UI, Web App, Community App
Task: Add Proper Field so "Edit Weekly Charges" Functionality Works Properly
Within the Mifos X Web App, it's not possible to edit an existing weekly charge due to a required input field of "Repeats every" being missing. The steps to reproduce are as such
- Create savings account with weekly charge,
- Click on submit, to submit new savings application.
- Click on Undo approval,
- In the modification savings page, for weekly charge - Repeats every field is not available.
What is expected is that the "Repeats Every" field should be displayed. See - MIFOSX-2557Getting issue details... STATUS for details and screenshot. Expected:-
You can test this out at https://demo.openmf.org (mifos/password). This can be changed by updating the Mifos X Web App (Community App) with source code located at https://github.com/openMF/community-app. Please reference this Getting Started Guide to familiarize with the codebase.
Tags: Javascript, AngularJS, UI
Task: Only Allow Active Groups to Be Associated with Centers
Currently in the Mifos X Web App (community app) when attempting to search for new groups to associate with a center, it is displaying in the auto-populated search, closed and pending groups, Ideally it should allow only active groups to get associated under Centers (While creating center or though manage groups for centers). See - MIFOSX-2792Getting issue details... STATUS for more details
You can test this out at https://demo.openmf.org (mifos/password). This can be changed by updating the Mifos X Web App (Community App) with source code located at https://github.com/openMF/community-app. Please reference this Getting Started Guide to familiarize with the codebase.
Tags: AngularJS, Java, Javascript
Task: Fix Localization issues with typos and bad grammar in message strings
In several of the message strings available for translation, there are both typos and grammatical mistakes which need to be addressed. The listing strings can be found at https://github.com/openMF/community-app/labels/TranslateWiki. Pull requests can be made for each separate commit.
You can test this out at https://demo.openmf.org (mifos/password). This can be changed by updating the Mifos X Web App (Community App) with source code located at https://github.com/openMF/community-app. Please reference this Getting Started Guide to familiarize with the codebase.
Tags: AngularJS, Java, Javascript
Task: Properly align the client and group lists on Bulk Reassignment Page
In the recently re-skinned Mifos X Web App (Community App), the Client and Group lists on the Bulk Loan Reassignment page are mis-aligned. Please fix the columns so they're aligned not extending beyond the margin.
See https://github.com/openMF/community-app/issues/1625 for screenshot and details.
You can test this out at https://demo.openmf.org/beta (mifos/password). This can be changed by updating the Mifos X Web App (Community App) with source code located at https://github.com/openMF/community-app. Please reference this Getting Started Guide to familiarize with the codebase.
Tags: AngularJS, Java, Javascript
Documentation/Training
Task: User Documentation for Offline Functionality in Android Field Operations App
During the past Google Summer of Code program, Rajan Maurya, built in significant new offline functionality within the Android field operations app. Based on the functional specifications and testing out the mobile app, you should add a section to our wiki for the end user documentation to outline how a user will go back and forth between online and offline mode, how they can download clients, groups, and centers prior to going offline, how to view this data while offline, and how they can synchronize this data when they have an online data connection once more. Documentation will be added to the Confluence Wiki on MifosForge. Source code and technical documentation can be found at https://github.com/openMF/android-client
Tags: Documentation, Android, Mobile, Offline
Task: Create Screencast to Demo Basic Features of Android Field Officer App
During the past Google Summer of Code and Outreachy programs have implemented a brand new Material Design for our Android field officer app. This new design is a significant improvement which we'd like to showcase to our community via a screencast demonstration that covers the basic functionality of the application including logging in, navigation amongst clients, groups, and centers, viewing account details, and conducting transactions. Demo video should be no more than 2 minutes long. You can hook up your phone via a data cable to your PC and then based on your environment, we'll recommend a program to record the screencast.Source code and technical documentation can be found at https://github.com/openMF/android-client
Tags: Videos, Android, Mobile, Screencast
Task: Document the Address Module
As a part of Credit bureau Integration project, address module has been added to enable users to add address for clients. You need to understand the address module and document its usage and configuration steps.
The initial requirement documents can be found here :Address Module requirements. The JIRA ticket :Fineract Jira for Address module documentation for the task
Task: Document Standard Reports in Mifos X with examples
Mifos X ships with a number of standard default reports representing the most commonly request, loan, client, accounting, and funds reports. We need to provide a short description of each report, the audience it's directed at, a list of the fields in the report, its available formats, and selectable parameters. For the task, you will run each report in our demo server, generate it as a PDF to upload to our wiki as an example, and add the descriptive details in the table found at Standard Reports Field Descriptions.
Tags: Pentaho, Business Intelligence, Reporting, MySQL, Documentation, Confluence
Task: Create Set of Training Slides for Mifos Shares & Dividend Accounts
To assist our customers in using the Mifos X web app, we want to provide a set of training slides based off of our existing documentation. Training Slides should provide step by step instructions along with relevant screenshots from the application. Training slides should be created as a Google Slides presentation. This set of training slides should cover the following:
- How to Create a New Share Product
- How to Create New Shares Account
- How to Issue Dividends