Hello all, I want to put this out to the community to assist with so we can move forward with implementing group lending support on Fineract CN which is one of the key paths forward with parity between Fineract CN and Fineract 1.x.
Can you please help draft the spec for group-based operational methodologies <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Group-Based+Financial+Inclusion+Methodologies> ? It's also a barrier for students who are applying to a potential GSOC project around a web UI for group lending support. We have more than a decade of learning and knowledge of implementing proper group lending support from our original gen 1 software (Mifos 2.x) and our gen 2 software (Mifos X/Fineract 1.x) so I don't want us to throw away all that knowledge and think we have to completely re-invent the wheel. However I do want us take the learnings we implemented from the transition to Gen 1 to Gen 2 as well as the learnings/improvements we want to make off of Gen 2. We also want to bear in mind not just support traditional JLGs/Solidarity groups but also Savings Groups, Village Banking, Self Help Groups, etc. I know that across the community we have both technical as well as operational individuals who are experts in these matters so I really want to challenge you all to assist the community in this regard. To get everyone started, I'm putting in place a wiki page at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Group-Based+Financial+Inclusion+Methodologies to house the spec and also linking to all the past specs/pseudo-requirements documents from before. Generation 1 - Mifos 2.x - Group Accounts FS: http://mifosx.openmf.org/Mifos%20website/mifos.org/functional-specifications/account-management/group-accounts.html or https://mifosforge.jira.com/wiki/spaces/MIFOS/pages/73466196/Group+Accounts - Center Accounts FS: http://mifosx.openmf.org/Mifos%20website/mifos.org/functional-specifications/account-management/center-accounts.html - GLIM: https://mifosforge.jira.com/wiki/spaces/MIFOS/pages/4456859/GLIM+Functional+Specification and https://mifosforge.jira.com/wiki/spaces/MIFOS/pages/4456866/Group+loan+with+individual+monitoring - Loans: https://mifosforge.jira.com/wiki/spaces/MIFOS/pages/7700948/Loans Generation 2 - Mifos X - Groups API: https://demo.openmf.org/api-docs/apiLive.htm#groups - Groups & Centers User Manual: https://mifosforge.jira.com/wiki/spaces/docs/pages/52035634/Clients+Groups+and+Centers - Loan Tracking Strategies: https://mifosforge.jira.com/wiki/spaces/MIFOSX/pages/31358990/Loan+Tracking+strategies - Group Loan FS (early-stage): https://mifosforge.jira.com/wiki/spaces/MIFOS/pages/28213252/New+Group+Loan+Functional+Specification and https://mifosforge.jira.com/wiki/spaces/MIFOSX/pages/25821209/Group+Lending+MifosX+FS - Self-Funded Groups: https://mifosforge.jira.com/wiki/spaces/MIFOSX/pages/113017056/Self-Funded+Groups+SHGs+Savings+Groups+VSLAs - Savings Groups per DreamStart Labs Requirements (Design for Fineract Data Model) - Savings Requirements v1.1 <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/75975654/Mifos_SG_Reqs_v1.1_edits.docx?version=1&modificationDate=1520639290346&api=v2>Savings Groups Requirements v1.1 Dreamstart Labs <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/75975654/Mifos_SG_Reqs_v1.1_edits.docx?version=1&modificationDate=1520639290346&api=v2> Labs <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/75975654/Mifos_SG_Reqs_v1.1_edits.docx?version=1&modificationDate=1520639290346&api=v2> - Savings Groups User Stories <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/75975654/SHG_UserStories_Design.docx?version=1&modificationDate=1520639343727&api=v2> - Savings Groups Estimates <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/75975654/SHG%20Estimates.xlsx?version=1&modificationDate=1520639352132&api=v2> Ed -- *Ed Cable* President/CEO, Mifos Initiative edca...@mifos.org | Skype: edcable | Mobile: +1.484.477.8649 *Collectively Creating a World of 3 Billion Maries | *http://mifos.org <http://facebook.com/mifos> <http://www.twitter.com/mifos>