1. Ending Poverty With Software Solving large problems with
Open Source software, distributed teams, and Agile methodologies
Adam Feuer, Van Mittal-Henkle, Adam Monsen Grameen Foundation Mifos
Initiative
2. Poverty a large problem
Six million children die of hunger every year, 17,000 every
day.
Higher communication bandwidth has reduced time to convey
ideas, reach decisions, build team cohesion (USA, India, Ireland,
Australia, Ghana-Africa)
Free tools that work for us
Audio skype
Video tokbox
15. Team = Product
Great communication = great team
Great team = great product
16. Mifos Technology Roadmap
Legacy micro-finance web application-> financial services
platform for offering serves to the poor
Legacy code was monolithic and used:
Hibernate, Struts, JSP
Integrated BIRT reporting
Lots of custom code:
Transactions
I18n
Security
17. Mifos Technology Roadmap (Target)
18. Get Involved!
Join the global collaborative Mifos community and united effort
to build and extend this platform that fuels innovation from the
bottom up and empowers the poor to ascend out of poverty. There are
many ways to get involved:
Build acceptance tests
Find & fix bugs (look around JIRA for open issues you could
have a go at)
Answer questions on mailing lists, participate on IRC
Guide implementations on-site
Write new or complete existing documentation
Translate Mifos UI or documentation
Localize by building local region-specific reports
Get on the mailing and/or IRC and say Hello! People will point
you to how and where you can contribute.
19. Based on a presentation by Mifos volunteer Michael
Vorburger http://vorburger.ch