Hello James, I'm familiar with the Apache Software Foundation, but I haven’t previously contributed to open-source projects. I’m currently getting acquainted with the architecture and code of the Fineract project—I’ve just reviewed the Client and Charge modules and have already learned a lot from them. For example, I noticed the use of the Builder Pattern to create CommandSource objects. The work being done by the community is truly impressive!
In China, many banking institutions are state-owned or central government-backed, and they tend to have very few open-source contributors. Their technology stacks are often relatively older, with a stronger emphasis on stability. That’s why I’m especially excited to join the Fineract community. Although I haven’t made any contributions yet, I’m actively following along and learning. Looking forward to engaging more with the community! Chen Fan ---- 回复的原邮件 ---- | 发件人 | James Dailey<[email protected]> | | 日期 | 2025年10月22日 06:17 | | 收件人 | [email protected] | | 抄送至 | | | 主题 | Re: (无主题) | Chen Fan - Are you familiar with the ASF (apache software foundation)? The ASF is very engaged in China and holds conferences in the Asian region. You can find out more about ASF on our links. A key thing that is different is that we ask our contributors to represent themselves rather than their companies. "Wearing your ASF hat" is how we speak about it. / Vendor independence. We welcome your contributions, and hope that your work enables you to contribute to this open source project. We believe that remaining upstream on the code is a better strategy for the users. We want to understand how we can make that happen. So, I hope that if you are bringing Fineract to the Bank, you can bring your contributions back here, enabling a virtuous cycle. I would anticipate that a payments and banking team at a prominent bank could be a significant set of requirements - happy to discuss further. Thanks, On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: Thank you🤝🤝🤝 ---- 回复的原邮件 ---- | 发件人 | Javier Borkenztain<[email protected]> | | 日期 | 2025年10月14日 23:32 | | 收件人 | [email protected] | | 抄送至 | | | 主题 | Re: (无主题) | Welcome Chen Fan! Love to hear from you soon! It's fantastic that our community is expanding to China! You're the first one to raise your hand and are willing to contribute, for sure others will come and, hopefully we can host a Fineract track at the Community Over Code Asia :) Best, Javier On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: Hello every one,! I'm Chen Fan. I am engaged in the development of core banking payment systems at China Construction Bank. I have thoroughly and carefully read through the relevant development documentation of Fineract, and have also carefully reviewed the code for the loan and deposit-related modules of Fineract. I sincerely hope to make some contributions to the code development of the Fineract project, and I look forward to the community's approval of my apply for jira account. I am also confused that jira not approve my application for the jira account to fineract project, is there any other qualifications or step should i provide to the community? Besides, i am a fresher to contribute to open source projects,need your help thanks very much !!!
