Hey Victor, That's very exciting. I'm very interested in helping you on that. But because of preparations for ApacheCon, I don't have time for this right at this moment. I will come back to you in October...
Best Regards, Myrle On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 7:44 AM Victor Manuel Romero Rodriguez <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Myrle, > > > I have taken this thread because now we are working in a Crowdfunding > project and we are in our PoC the Stellar platform. > > We are working with the Smart Contracts for the PoC, because is part of > the requirement to reduce the risk, lock the assets and also to have > multi signature and unlock the money as per a timeline of deliverables. > > In Mexico we are looking for the best integration with the official > currency and the players of payments gateways that we have in this > country (MXN <--> XLM), because is a challenge to find the best > cost-benefits to allow the micropayments and the MFI to succeed. > > > We would like to contribute with the code that we have done for 2 > players of the mexican market payment gateway and also to contribute on > the Stellar bridge. > > Regards > > Victor > > El 24/07/18 a las 03:28, Myrle Krantz escribió: > > Hi all, > > > > I hadn't been tracking Sanyam's efforts closely enough, but now I've > > had a quick flyby of it, there are some important problems with me > > integrating with it: > > > > * It's not part of Fineract. It's being creating at the Mifos Initiative. > > * It hasn't been released yet. It's very early stage. > > > > If I were to make my code dependent on it, and the development were to > > take an unexpected direction, I wouldn't be able to protect any > > Fineract users from that, and I'd be making Fineract users dependent > > on the Mifos Initiative. I think highly of the Mifos Initiative, and > > it *is* a non-profit, but there are still risks there. For example, > > the Mifos Initiative doesn't have a vetting process which prevents > > Cat-X dependencies, like the one Markus discovered. > > > > Also architecturally, I think it may create unnecessary complexity > > (though I'm not certain I'm right here). If what we want to achieve > > is a certain flow of transactions through accounting, we can achieve > > that with a static library, made available to all payment plugins. > > You're going to have to provision a vendor specific-component via the > > provisioner anyways. Why add extra provisioning code? > > > > (I wrote this email with Fineract CN in mind, I haven't really thought > > this through for Fineract yet.) > > > > Best Regards, > > Myrle > > > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 3:17 PM Myrle Krantz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey all, > >> > >> I'm glad to see so much interest. I'm going to go ahead and create > >> the repository and put my code of the last couple of days into it. At > >> this point this is more of a proof-of-concept than anything else. As > >> a developer, I'd like to discuss on the basis of implementation > >> decisions, and that's so much easier if there is code to look at. > >> > >> Best Regards, > >> Myrle > >> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 3:12 AM Brijesh Kumar <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >>> I agree with Steve. Cross-border payments space (FIAT) is fast adopting > >>> the > >>> Interledger Protocol (ILP <https://interledger.org>). Mojaloop is an > >>> implementation of ILP. > >>> Hyperledger QUILT <https://www.hyperledger.org/projects/quilt> (Linux > >>> Foundation) is a business blockchain tool which is interoperable with > >>> ledger systems (Hyperledger Fabric/ Sawtooth/ Iroha) and the ILP. > >>> > >>> It would be good if requirements are drawn in a way that Stellar/Ripple, > >>> Mojaloop/QUILT, MMPs could be seamlessly configured with Fineract CN for > >>> domestic/ cross-border payments. > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> Brijesh > >>> > >>> > >>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 5:56 AM, Steve Conrad <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hi James and Myrle - > >>>> > >>>> I am wondering if we could combine these efforts to create a Stellar > >>>> integration with the current payment gateway project that we are working > >>>> on. Sanyam is developing this code under Rahul's mentorship. We designed > >>>> the gateway to be very flexible so that we could configure any number of > >>>> payment providers - MFIs, MMPs, or platforms like Mojaloop or > >>>> Stellar/Ripple. > >>>> > >>>> While our development is currently oriented around Fineract V1, we have > >>>> architected the gateway so that it can function as a micro-service and > >>>> should be compatible with Fineract CN. All interactions with Fineract are > >>>> done through ActiveMQ. > >>>> > >>>> Myrle, perhaps we could connect on your requirements and ensure that this > >>>> gateway project will meet your needs as far as Stellar integration. > >>>> > >>>> Thanks, > >>>> Steve > >>>> > >>>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 4:34 PM Myrle Krantz <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> James, > >>>>> > >>>>> Just like Mojaloop, Stellar is a Ripple fork which exists primarily > >>>>> for moving real currencies, not coins. > >>>>> > >>>>> If Fineract were a business this might be seen to impinge on another > >>>>> development direction by taking resources away from other efforts. > >>>>> But in open source we're all free agents, so additive changes without > >>>>> an impact on other repositories can't really be said to impinge on > >>>>> anything. > >>>>> > >>>>> Hope to see you around here at OSCON! > >>>>> > >>>>> Best Regards, > >>>>> Myrle > >>>>> > >>>>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 11:06 PM James Dailey <[email protected]> > >>>>> wrote: > >>>>>> Hi Myrle - I have some opinions about the business model of any block > >>>>> chain > >>>>>> / coin based approach to financial transactions, but no objections to > >>>>>> widening the appeal. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> I guess I'm unclear about the relationship between stellar connector > >>>> and > >>>>>> other connectors. In an ideal world the architecture would allow for > >>>>> ready > >>>>>> made connection points so we don't create duplicative efforts. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> For the good of the project I wonder if that could be made clear prior > >>>> to > >>>>>> bringing in code and/or how this code would impinge or not on any other > >>>>>> development direction. If that's already clear to everyone, please let > >>>>> me > >>>>>> know. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> James > >>>>>> > >>>>>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018, 7:01 AM Myrle Krantz <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> Hey all, > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> I've been working since yesterday on a Fineract CN / Stellar bridge. > >>>>>>> Basically I'm just copying the existing Fineract 1.x bridge that I > >>>> did > >>>>>>> for the Mifos Initiative, and adjusting it to the paradigms and > >>>>>>> interfaces of Fineract CN. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> I'd like to develop it under the auspices of our project. Are there > >>>>>>> any objections? > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Best Regards, > >>>>>>> Myrle > >>>>>>> >
