Hi Jim, On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Jim Jagielski <[email protected]> wrote:
> As people may recall, I offered to mentor fineract but we had > sufficient mentors. I am starting to ramp up my actual dev > involvement in anticipation of getting commit. Pleased to hear from you again! As a Mifos Contributor and Partner I'd say the key impact areas to reach the next 3 billion are 1. Mifos Mobility and 2. Non MFI organizations providing Financial Inclusion Much of our target audience (much of Africa and some Asian and South American countries) are in areas where there's zero or near zero Internet connectivity. A number of efforts are on to bridge this gap: 1. Bulk SMS Applications which provide notifications to clients with a basic phone (e.g savings deposit/withdrawal) 2. Mobile Applications (for tablet, smartphone) which enable staff of Financial Institutions to provide services in remote areas 3. Mobile money solutions: though these exist and are implemented by 1 or 2 partners, we need an Open Source solution for the larger community Another area which can help the community, is implementing the SACCO functionality persistence. Currently we have mock APIs but the data is stored in memory. It will greatly help if this is persisted in the database. The Functional Specs for this are at https://mifosforge.jira.com/wiki/display/MIFOSX/Share+Account+Management+and+Dividend+Payment I've copied Nazeer from the core team who is working on the SACCO functionality in this mail. > Suggestions > and focus areas welcomed. These are just some of the areas but there are several more and we hope you find a good responsive community and looking forward to hearing more. -- Best, Terence, Github: terencemo www.sanjosesolutions.in
