Keith > For people that are setup and wanting to be active: > > One big difference betweeen Mozilla and Mifos is that developers on > mifos don't get to 'eat their own dog food'. We dont use the product > ourselves on a day to day basis and have minimal contact with those > that do.
This is *really* important. One of the reasons we originally built an internal engineering team at Grameen Foundation to work on Mifos was that we learned - both through direct experience and looking at other open source projects - that it's really hard to have a domain-specific business app that is solely built by people not working with the software every single day. I've yet to find many examples of open source business apps (like Mifos) that are purely community driven rather than having a central engineering organization that is supported/augmented by the community. This may be one of the biggest challenges for Mifos and the community going forward... The best idea I have is to look for ways to get the developers who are now working on Mifos into direct contact with customers - MFIs using the software. Cheers -george ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos & much more. Register early & save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 _______________________________________________ Mifos-users mailing list Mifos-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mifos-users
