Please can someone help me with where the source codes are found on GitHub,
and guides on getting started with the setup of my Development Environment.
Thanks
On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 5:55 PM Fon Lawrence <[email protected]>
wrote:
> 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.
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