Interest in contributing to Apache FIneract CN

[ruphine kengne <ru...@gmail.com>]

Hello everyone,

Happy New Month of March.

I am  Ruphine Kengne from the beautiful city of Buea, Cameroon, a Computer
Engineering student at the University of Buea who was an intern at
Skylabase Inc a couple of years back.

I am interested in contributing to Apache Fineract/Mifos X during and after
the upcoming session of GSOC 2018. I have looked at the functionalities of
the Community App and i was wondering if working on the web UI for the Group
Loan Management Service <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FINCN-3>of
Fineract CN is worthwhile. In addition, the project does not have proper
documentation yet.

I look forward to interacting with you all and contributing to this awesome
community.

Regards,
Ruphine Kengne.

Re: Interest in contributing to Apache FIneract CN

[Awasum Yannick <aw...@apache.org>]

Hello Ruphine,

Nice meeting you here.

You might want to look at what has already been implemented on the API side
of Fineract CN, here <https://github.com/apache/fineract-cn-group>
I think at the moment you can create groups, add leaders to the groups
along with members and schedule meetings.
Am reading that from the Feign Client Interface of the Group Service here
<https://github.com/apache/fineract-cn-group/blob/develop/api/src/main/java/io/mifos/group/api/v1/client/GroupManager.java>

And try to understand how fims-web-app works and evaluate how you will
first consume the existing Group APIs on the front end before extending the
Microservice to encompass more features as driven by a business
implementation of Fineract or Fineract CN.

So the first step might be for you to understand the API and consume the
existing services via fims.
Second step will be to extend the Group Microservice wrt new feature
requests or following whats on Fineract 1 (the monolith).


Aside: Ruphine am still thinking of the new web app you developed for
Fineract 1 using Angular 4/5...I remember we discussed last year about
contributing it back to Fineract. In time I will start a separate thread to
evaluate if the community is willing to accept a new web app for Fineract 1.



Thanks,
Awasum



On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 7:01 PM, Ed Cable <ed...@mifos.org> wrote:

> Hello Ruphine,
>
> Welcome to our communities! Your email is a timely one as during our mentor
> kick-off call this morning we were just talking about projects related to
> group lending for GSOC. The project is incredibly worthwhile as having
> support for group lending and web UI for the same is a critical part of
> getting to parity with our current Fineract solution and a much-needed
> requirement for most providers of financial inclusion.
>
> The biggest outstanding question is how far along are the micro-services
> for group management and lending to support building out a web UI. I will
> create a separate thread so we can provided this much needed clarity.
>
> You are correct in that proper documentation is not yet in place. We only
> just got the repos moved over into Apache and are now writing out the
> requisite documentation. As you get your build up and running and hit any
> obstacles, it'd be great for you to improve or create documentation to help
> others that come after you.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ed
>
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 7:54 AM, ruphine kengne <ru...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > Happy New Month of March.
> >
> > I am  Ruphine Kengne from the beautiful city of Buea, Cameroon, a
> Computer
> > Engineering student at the University of Buea who was an intern at
> > Skylabase Inc a couple of years back.
> >
> > I am interested in contributing to Apache Fineract/Mifos X during and
> after
> > the upcoming session of GSOC 2018. I have looked at the functionalities
> of
> > the Community App and i was wondering if working on the web UI for the
> > Group
> > Loan Management Service <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FINCN-3
> >of
> > Fineract CN is worthwhile. In addition, the project does not have proper
> > documentation yet.
> >
> > I look forward to interacting with you all and contributing to this
> awesome
> > community.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ruphine Kengne.
> >
>
>
>
> --
> *Ed Cable*
> President/CEO, Mifos Initiative
> edcable@mifos.org | Skype: edcable | Mobile: +1.484.477.8649
>
> *Collectively Creating a World of 3 Billion Maries | *http://mifos.org
> <http://facebook.com/mifos>  <http://www.twitter.com/mifos>
>

Re: Interest in contributing to Apache FIneract CN

[Ed Cable <ed...@mifos.org>]

Hello Ruphine,

Welcome to our communities! Your email is a timely one as during our mentor
kick-off call this morning we were just talking about projects related to
group lending for GSOC. The project is incredibly worthwhile as having
support for group lending and web UI for the same is a critical part of
getting to parity with our current Fineract solution and a much-needed
requirement for most providers of financial inclusion.

The biggest outstanding question is how far along are the micro-services
for group management and lending to support building out a web UI. I will
create a separate thread so we can provided this much needed clarity.

You are correct in that proper documentation is not yet in place. We only
just got the repos moved over into Apache and are now writing out the
requisite documentation. As you get your build up and running and hit any
obstacles, it'd be great for you to improve or create documentation to help
others that come after you.

Cheers,

Ed

On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 7:54 AM, ruphine kengne <ru...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Happy New Month of March.
>
> I am  Ruphine Kengne from the beautiful city of Buea, Cameroon, a Computer
> Engineering student at the University of Buea who was an intern at
> Skylabase Inc a couple of years back.
>
> I am interested in contributing to Apache Fineract/Mifos X during and after
> the upcoming session of GSOC 2018. I have looked at the functionalities of
> the Community App and i was wondering if working on the web UI for the
> Group
> Loan Management Service <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FINCN-3>of
> Fineract CN is worthwhile. In addition, the project does not have proper
> documentation yet.
>
> I look forward to interacting with you all and contributing to this awesome
> community.
>
> Regards,
> Ruphine Kengne.
>



-- 
*Ed Cable*
President/CEO, Mifos Initiative
edcable@mifos.org | Skype: edcable | Mobile: +1.484.477.8649

*Collectively Creating a World of 3 Billion Maries | *http://mifos.org
<http://facebook.com/mifos>  <http://www.twitter.com/mifos>