The community input towards a mobile banking interface to Mifos keeps
growing. There seem to be several different organizations interested in
working on this. This would be great functionality to add to Mifos,
although the internal team may not be able to focus on it as a feature area
during 2008, we will be working on APIs to provide clean support and upgrade
paths for this type of interface in the future and more.
Tim Wood and Aarti Sharma, who are working on Grameen's Village Phone
project, are also very interested in getting to a proof of concept and
eventual full implementation of mobile banking with Mifos. I think Tim has
done some work on defining some initial usage scenarios that he can share.
In the spirit of open source, perhaps all the interested groups can
collaborate on coming up with a functional spec, initial technical design,
and proof of concept. I would recommend making a wiki page on mifos.org for
the project.
As Van mentions, one thing to note is that our current Mifos API, such as it
is, will likely change significantly between v1.1 and the next big release.
Our hope is that after that, we will have a stable API, and be able to
provide a smooth upgrade path for any changes to it. Until then, keep in
mind that the interface to Mifos APIs, or eventually Mifos web services
layer, may need to be reworked later. But I don't think this should stop
anyone from thinking through the scenarios and design, and even a first
implementation.
I will be interested to follow along with the development of this project,
it sounds like an exciting step forward for Mifos.
regards,
Sam
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Van Mittal-Henkle <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for your interest in Mifos and for thinking about extending it into
> areas like mobile banking.
>
> Currently there is no clean API as such that Mifos exposes. However,
> after the 1.1 release of Mifos creating exactly that kind of API is on our
> list of things to do. One of the prime motivations for creating a well
> documented API like this would be to support integration with mobile
> banking.
>
> In the coming months it is likely that there will be some significant
> changes to the internals of Mifos as we rewrite parts of the code in order
> to support a robust API. It would be very useful to first try to get an
> understanding of what the requirements would be to support your mobile
> banking application. We could then use that information to help guide our
> efforts as we define the Mifos API for integrating with other applications.
>
> Cheers,
> --Van
>
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> *Subject:* Re: [Mifos-functional] Adam- P2P Cash would like to assist in
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> Hi Tom,
>
> Good to hear that. I was about to send the same message now till I saw
> yours. For mobile banking I am interested. We need to look at the various
> business models and to integrate it with Grameen model and MIFOS. In
> additions, there is another solution on using EFTPOS as one of the banking
> channels. We can get some codes and see how we can build on them. However,
> we need to know about MIFOS API for this or betterstill how to put the
> solutions together
>
> Thank you,
> Gbolahan Oshonubi
> Intelligent Network Services Ltd
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> *From*: "Adam Monsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> *Sent*: Thursday, March 20, 2008 5:27 PM
> *To*: "Tom Meredith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> *Subject*: Re: [Mifos-functional] Adam- P2P Cash would like to assist in
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Tom Meredith wrote:
> > developing a mobile banking interface to your code.
> > How would you best suggest we start the process and is anyone else
> > interested in assisting as well?
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> I would first suggest signing up on the mailing lists and joining the
> IRC channel. This is the best way to keep abreast of community
> activity with Mifos.
>
> There isn't a functional spec for mobile banking that I know of, so
> you might start with your own proof-of-concept. Here's how to get
> started with the code:
> http://mifos.org/developers
>
> Looks like we've been thinking about this for a while:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.finance.mifos.devel/1069
>
> Cheers!
> -Adam
>
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