thanks for the warm welcome and the explicit history. The event was about "open source" so as a java developer I begged for proposals on projects that were good for contribution and on the list given Mifos/Fineract was the one I loved most.
On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 7:09 AM James Dailey <[email protected]> wrote: > Welcome Fon - > > What is a GDG Buea event about? > > For the difference between Fineract and FIneract_CN please see: > > 1. http://fineract.apache.org/ explains the difference between > Fineract > and Fineract-CN. > 2. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Fineract+Home > > Fineract1.x is a system that is used in many institutions worldwide, and is > a core-banking-application originally designed for microfinance > institutions but used by a lot of other financial providers and finTechs. > Fineract-CN is the new "cloud native" design and is in the process of being > released. It is also a microservices approach. See the links for more > info. > > For a bit of history, mifos was begun in 2002 and in approximately 2010 > launched as a separate non-profit, with a corpus of code called MifosX and > (over time) several front end applications. Mifos transferred the MifosX > code to Apache, and that is now Fineract1.x code. Mifos later transferred > (donated) the mifosI/O code to apache, now called fineract-CN. Mifos > retained the front end applications (android native and web) under its own > open source (mostly apache consistent) license. see the list of repos at > https://github.com/openMF. > > > James Dailey > Fineract PMC Contributor @jdailey67 > Mifos Board Chair > > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 7:58 AM Fon Lawrence <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hello Everyone, > > > > My name is Fon Lawrence. I am a Computer Science student at the > University > > of Buea, Cameroon. I am interested in contributing to your community. I > > heard about the Fineract Community from a GDG Buea event. > > > > I am Comfortable with Java and Android and recently I began learning the > > Spring Framework. I am also familiar with JavaScript but have not used it > > extensively over the past year but I will come up to speed as required. I > > am also interested to participate in the upcoming GSoC 2019 competition > as > > an intern. > > > > It will be helpful if someone helped to explain the difference between > > Mifos, Fineract 1.x and Fineract CN. > > I will also like to know where to get started in Fineract 1.x and also > > interested to know which mobile apps require contributions. > > > > Thanks very much. > > Fon Lawrence. > > Mifos-developer mailing list > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe or change settings at: > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mifos-developer >
