Schedule

Board meeting: July 18th
Report due to board: July 11th
Plan to complete by: July 9th

Report

## Description

Apache Fineract (\’fīn-,ә-,rakt\) is an open source system for core banking as
a platform. Fineract provides a reliable, robust, and affordable solution for
entrepreneurs, financial institutions, and service providers to offer
financial services to the world’s 2 billion underbanked and unbanked.

## Issues

PR backlog continues to grow including contributions from 2017 GSOC interns and delays in moving towards a monthly release cycle for the 1.2 release and beyond. There was little availability of PMC members to take on this burden so a dedicated and funded individual is being supplied from the community to take on these responsibilities. 

We are currently trying to set up a VM with Fineract CN and are running into resource limitations.  A request for a second VM has been sent to the board.

## Activity

GSOC interns

4 interns are currently heads-down on their projects:

  • Dilpreet Singh of India is working on version 2 of the Fineract CN Mobile Field Operations app including converting over to Kotlin, refactoring, and adding in new features.
  • Ebenezer Graham of Mauritius is working on a SMS/Email microservice for Fineract CN
  • Ruphine Kengne of Cameroon is implementing the back-components for group management on Fineract CN
  • Pembe Miriam of Cameroon is implementing the web user interface for group-based lending and microfinance services on Fineract CN. 

Newly selected committer, Aleksander Vidakovic is configuring the Apache VM infrastructure for a public demo server for Fineract CN - a request for additional infrastructure is being made to Apache board. 

Marketing: Myrle co-presented with Justin McLean on Fineract and the Incubator at FOSS Backstage..  Myrle promoted Fineract via feathercast with many thanks to Rich Bowen.

At least 5 members of the community will be in attendance at ApacheCon and two talks including a keynote will be given. Talks are being prepared now. 

Fineract CN APIs have been documented using Spring REST Docs by Isaac Kamga and are temporarily available on http://smartfinance.tech/fineract-cn-api-docs/. 

## Health report 

PR's backlog continues to be an issue.

## PMC changes

- Currently 14 PMC members.
- Awasum Yannick was added to the PMC on Thu Apr 19 2018

## Committer base changes

- Currently 27 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Aleksandar Vidakovic was added as a committer on Sat Apr 28 2018
- Courage Angeh was added as a committer on Thu Apr 12 2018
- Steve Conrad was added as a committer on Wed Mar 28 2018


## Releases

- 1.1.0 was released on Wed Apr 18 2018


## Mailing list activity:

Mailing list activity is down slightly across all lists.  This is a little surprising; with the additional traffic from the GSoC interns I would have expected *more* emails not less. 

- dev@fineract.apache.org:
- 257 subscribers (up 14 in the last 3 months):
- 709 emails sent to list (752 in previous quarter)

- issues@fineract.apache.org:
- 17 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 302 emails sent to list (333 in previous quarter)

- user@fineract.apache.org:
- 195 subscribers (up 15 in the last 3 months):
- 39 emails sent to list (55 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:
Jira activity is up significantly from last quarter, but nowhere close to the activity of the quarter before that.

- 27 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 9 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

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