• 1 How Our Listservs Work
• 1.1 Etiquette
• 2 Developer Listserv
• 2.1 Signup | Archives (mirror 1, mirror 2) | USENET, RSS feeds
• 3 Functional Listserv
• 3.1 Signup | Archives (mirror 1, mirror 2) | USENET, RSS feeds
• 4 Other Mailing Lists
• 4.1 Issue Tracker Change Notifications
• 4.2 Source Code Commit Notifications
• 5 Other Useful Communication Tools
• 5.1 IRC
• 5.2 Developer's Wiki

How Our Listservs Work

• Read the sections below.
• Sign up for the listserv you are interested in.
• Once you are approved, you'll star receiving mails from the listserv.
• To reply to the community, respond to the email.
• To post your questions and comments, use the appropriate listserv email address.
• You can also search the archives to read previous posts (and to avoid repeating posts!)

Etiquette

The following list of core values should be your guiding light when posting mailing list messages:

• Politeness
• Respect
• Trust
• Humility
  

The following guidelines are designed to facilitate effortless communication on the Mifos mailing lists. Please be a considerate list citizen and abide by them!

• search first! If there is already a thread on the topic you'd like to post, reply to it. It's fine to start a new thread if the existing one is very old, but consider including a link to the existing thread in your new post.
• choose a meaningful subject line and keep related messages in the thread. Your emails will become part of a permanent record that will help future developers, Mifos specialists, project managers, and others
• quote only the relevant portion of the email to which you are replying, then post your response below the quoted text
• post in plain text, not HTML
• many on the list have low-bandwidth connections, so please don't attach files larger than 10 kilobytes. Host them somewhere else and provide a link to the download. It is also a good idea to include a secure hash like an SHA-1 checksum of the file so others will know the content was not tampered with. The command-line program "sha1sum" works fine for this for this purpose.
• shorten long hyperlinks using a service like TinyURL or Snipr.
• see netiquette and ESR's advice on asking smart questions for more ideas on proper etiquette
  

Developer Listserv

Interested in learning more about the ongoing development of Mifos or contributing? The developer listserv is the place to:

• Participate in design decisions
• Suggest approaches or work on specific items
• Provide feedback on code quality
• Respond to design questions

Signup | Archives (mirror 1, mirror 2) | USENET, RSS feeds

The google groups (1) and gmane (2) mirror archives have cleaner interfaces and are easier to search. The gmane mirror is a full mirror of all messages on the sourceforge.net archives.

Functional Listserv

Need to discuss functionality of the Mifos platform? The functional listserv will allow you to:

• Discuss functional requirements for new features
• Ask functional clarifications
• Suggest new features to be added to Mifos.

Signup | Archives (mirror 1, mirror 2) | USENET, RSS feeds

The google groups (1) and gmane (2) mirror archives have cleaner interfaces and are easier to search. The gmane mirror is a full mirror of all messages on the sourceforge.net archives.

Other Mailing Lists

Issue Tracker Change Notifications

Keep up to date with changes in the issue tracker.  Daily traffic is between 10-20 emails per day.

Mailing List Address | Signup | Archives | (mirror 1, mirror 2) | USENET, RSS feeds

Source Code Commit Notifications

Monitor and track commits to the source code.  Daily traffic is approximately 5 emails per day.

Mailing List Address | Signup | Archives | (mirror 1, mirror 2) | USENET, RSS feeds

Other Useful Communication Tools

IRC

Mifos also has a chat room set up. Get instructions to join here.  A an archive of these chat logs can be found here.

Developer's Wiki

Another vibrant source of developer discussion and communication is the Developer's Wiki. Learn more about using this open collaboration space.