"There is growing interest in Fineract for Fintechs and banks."  -Javier Borkenztain 

The week of September 28th at ApacheCon @ home was terrific for the project.  A big shout out goes to @Javier Borkenztain for all of his work to organize the first ever Fineract track at the ApacheCon.  In some sense, the online version was probably a much better format for this group, especially for the first time.  I get the sense that we built some important momentum.  

The presentations and discussions are found here:  https://www.youtube.com/theapachefoundation, and supporting slides are here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17ahcInsVSu5R00BaJKfCs_wh2XnCtLh4 

The "Birds of a Feather" discussions at the end of each day...were some of the most useful discussions about the future directions and challenges facing the Software Integrators and builders of the fineract platform(s).  The last day session lasted until after 2am in the morning for our friends in Europe and I think one person stayed on past 3am in India.  You all get the "night owl" award.  

A few JIRA tickets were created related to some priorities we identified and I hope others will chime in with either comments or new email threads that cover new specific topics.  

Modularize Fineract to allow something like e.g. the Pentaho integration to be built and run separately
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FINERACT-1127

Automated Load Testing Scenarios and Tooling
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FINERACT-1170

I think the interest shown by the community of developers and software integrators demonstrates a very positive progression. 

As Micheal pointed out in his talk, we've had a lot of renewed interest in the past 12 months on the fineract1.x platform.  We also heard from some software integrators about the directions that they would like to see taken by the community on both Fineract1.x and Fineract-CN and we hope to see those projects get on the upstream.  We heard about the work around AI for All as it applies to the project and we got a taste of the solution set around payments integration with Mojaloop and the new efforts around authentication.  We also got to hear about the importance of the project to financial inclusion and the need for a broad digital public good around G2P (govt to person) transfer payments. 

I am sure others have their take-aways, mine is that Success breeds interest, begets momentum, drives project.  


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