Alex Moses

Star Contributor of the Month – Raunak Sett

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We are recognizing Raunak Sett, one of our great GSOC interns, as our Star Contributor for the month of August. Before, during, and hopefully for many years to come, Raunak has been a rock star contributor to the Mifos Community, going above and beyond in everything he touches. On top of building out a beautiful online banking app for customers, he has shared his design expertise by providing the UI design for both the Android mobile banking app and collection sheet in the field officer app. He is always patient and so ready to help customers and others in the community – on our weekly check-ins, Raunak is always eager and willing to share advice and lessons to help his fellow interns. A recent graduate from the University of Delhi, Raunak has a very bright future ahead of him. Join us in thanking Raunak for all of his hard work and contributions to the Mifos community!
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Alex Moses

Partner Spotlight – iDT Labs

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This regular blog series will shine the light on some of our top Partners. Not only do we want to recognize them for their accomplishments, we want others to learn from the approach they’ve taken to promote and implement Mifos.

Mifos Partners are one of the most crucial links in our community – they are the driving force that is promoting and supporting Mifos worldwide.  Aside from championing our product and bringing the Mifos technology to new markets, they act as the fundamental bridge feeding in MFI requirements to be developed by the community. Partners don’t stop there as many are also developing and localizing the product to fit their local market.  For all these reasons, we focus our full energy on making Partners successful – they are the primary channel to market, the eyes and ears on the ground, and the entrepreneurial force that will help us sustainably scale. We’d love to recognize your partner organization in this monthly spotlight so please reach out if you’d like to be featured.

In this month’s Partner Spotlight we are featuring iDT Labs from Sierra Leone. Their team is led by Salton Massally and are bringing forth an innovative complete banking as a service solution to Sierra Leone and the neighboring countries. Salton and his team are fully committed to the community and are working on contributing back enhancements they’re making.

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Alex Moses

Connecting The Mifos Community Through Mobilize

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We here at the Mifos Initiative have begun to use mobilize for our communication needs. We strongly encourage you to create an account, which is free and takes under five minutes. Mobilize, a “communication hub for large groups”, allows members of the Mifos global community to stay connected. Everyone knows that communication is key. Through Mobilize, Mifos community members can communicate on a global scale.

Mobilize will be used to power communications within our chapters, collaboration amongst our volunteers, and to connect partners and customers in our marketplace.

At its broadest level, we also aim to use Mobilize to create a global directory, allowing the members of our community to collaborate. Whether you join a local chapter, our volunteer group, or the Jobs Board, you’ll have global profile so everyone can put a face to your name.

Mifos local chapters can use Mobilize to chat, discuss topics, promote their chapter, share files, conduct polls and surveys, and create events and manage a chapter calendar. 

Mifos volunteers can use Mobilize to work together on projects, even if they are working from separate continents.

Our Mifos partners can use Mobilize to respond to jobs posted on our “Mifos Jobs Board” that require assistance for solutions built on the Apache Fineract platform.

Below are some links to join our groups on Mobilize