Each month we’re going to honor one of our top volunteer contributors from around the world. Volunteers commit countless hours of their time, energy, and knowledge into building and extending the Mifos platform to make it accessible to microfinance institutions serving the poor. For the month of June, we’re showcasing Keith Woodlock, who came on as one of our most productive volunteers this past summer and then joined the Mifos team as a contractor. He’s been an instrumental contributor helping to refactor the Mifos platform so it can be easier for other contributors to participate and build on top of Mifos. [...]
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Each month we’re going to honor one of our top volunteer contributors from around the world. Volunteers commit countless hours of their time, energy, and knowledge into building and extending the Mifos platform to make it accessible to microfinance institutions serving the poor. For the month of March, we’re showcasing Sam Birney, a longstanding member of our community who has been a part of the Mifos family in a number of ways. Sam first came onto the Mifos team as our Engineer Manager. Since moving on from that post, he’s worked as a contractor to deploy Mifos at our consortium customer, Al Majmoua in Beirut, Lebanon. On the side, he’s continued to volunteer his time to fix bugs and keep Mifos code at its highest quality. Most recently, Sam identified a concurrent user bug in our Mifos 1.5 release; within one day he had submitted a patch to fix the issue and resolve the problem for Al [...] Periodically, we’re going to highlight some notable news from around the industry involving microfinance, technology, and brief updates from our team and other initiatives at Grameen Foundation. Follow our @mifos Twitter feed to keep up with the latest news for our community. *Grameen Foundation releases new report on microfinance’s impact This past Thursday our team successfully released Mifos 1.5, the next version of our open source technology platform for microfinance. This release contained a mix of brand new functionality as well as continued underlying architectural improvements to improve the scale and performance of our software. Mifos now supports multi-currency for both loan products and loan fees, provides a new interface for more robust system administration, and contains greater performance and flexibility around batch job processing, collection sheet entry, and customer schedules. Special thanks go to Jakub Slawinski, our Star Contributor for the month of January, who continued to find time outside of his day job at SolDevelo to continue fixing bugs and building new features for our community. We’d also like to give a preview of Shamim D, our upcoming release, the first of our releases code-named for a borrower at one of our MFI customers. This release naming is part of our Mifos Shared Vision of 3,000,000,000 Maries, and will help bring this vision of creating a better life for each of the billions living in poverty into our software development. Shamim D will contain some often-requested features and a major scalability milestone, including mobile money integration with m-pesa for our Kenyan customers, moratoriums and branch-level holidays, and the capacity to handle up to one million [...] Each month we’re going to honor one of our top volunteer contributors from around the world. Volunteers commit countless hours of their time, energy, and knowledge into building and extending the Mifos platform to make it accessible to microfinance institutions serving the poor. For the month of March, we’re showcasing Graeme Ruthven, a longstanding member of our community who is always ready to offer his advice and knowledge on our mailing lists. Over the past couple of years he’s shared his knowledge of operational and implementation topics to help develop best practices and guides on VPN, security, and on installing and running Mifos on Debian-based distributions. [...] Want to help fight poverty? Grameen Foundation is updating the user manual for its Mifos software, an open source management information system (MIS) that helps microfinance institutions more efficiently deliver loans and other financial services to poor women around the world. The actual content of the new user manual is almost complete but there’s tons to do to get it published in FLOSS Manuals. We need your help! This one-day sprint will be dedicated towards formatting, proofreading, and standardizing the text towards agreed-upon writing conventions. Read on to learn [...] Each week, we’re going to highlight some notable news from around the industry involving microfinance, technology, and brief updates from our team and other initiatives at Grameen Foundation. Follow our @mifos Twitter feed to keep up with the latest news for our community. *Mifos in the Cloud Expands to Central Africa Each month we’re going to honor one of our top volunteer contributors from around the world. Volunteers commit countless hours of their time, energy, and knowledge into building and extending the Mifos platform to make it accessible to microfinance institutions serving the poor. For the month of Feburary, we’re showcasing the entire team at SunGard Technology Services in Bangalore, India who have been working closely with the Mifos team for the past year helping to strengthen the core Mifos platform, dramatically increase the performance of Mifos for our customers, and providing direct implementation services to our [...] Each month we’re going to honor one of our top volunteer contributors from around the world. Volunteers commit countless hours of their time, energy, and knowledge into building and extending the Mifos platform to make it accessible to microfinance institutions serving the poor. For the month of January, we’re showcasing Jakub Sławiński who recently joined the Mifos community and his been fixing some critical bugs for our customer, Al Majmoua in Beirut, [...] Today on the Grameen Foundation website we announced the latest release of the Mifos open source software for microfinance including support for Spanish and Firefox 3.0 Browser and an Interface for Banking Systems. Scroll down to read the full press release and learn more about the new features added in Mifos. |
  
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