## Description:
The mission of Apache Fineract is the creation and maintenance of software
related to a core banking platform that provides a reliable, robust, and
affordable solution for entrepreneurs, financial institutions, and service
providers to offer financial services to the world's underbanked and unbanked.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache Fineract was founded 2017-04-19 (4 years ago)
There are currently 41 committers and 19 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Aleksandar Vidakovic on 2020-10-11.
- No new committers. Last addition was Percy Enoabane on 2020-10-02.
## Project Activity:
Project Release Details:
Fineract 1.5.0 was released on May 24, 2021 including 90+ enhancements/bug fixes. Thanks to Aleks Vidakovic and Petri Tuomola for serving as release managers. Release notes can be found at: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12345040&styleName=Html&projectId=12319420&Create=Create&atl_token=A5KQ-2QAV-T4JA-FDED_d421ef012122870af9f9849d4184ab4c7d8c71d8_lin
GSoC Updates and Details:
Five interns were selected by Apache Fineract for Google Summer of Code and all are on track with their projects. A write-up done by Mifos Initiative welcoming them to the community can be found at https://mifos.org/blog/gsoc-2021/:
- Danish Jamal
- Android SDK & Fineract Client
- Mentor(s): Chinmay Kulkarni & Shashank Priyadarshi
- Project to update the Android SDK and have the Android client consume it is on track.
- Kinar Sharma
- Mobile Wallet – Fineract-CN
- Mentor(s): Devansh Aggarwal, Garvit Agarwal, Victor Romero, Shivansh Tiwari
- Update: Project to implement a mobile wallet app directly connecting to Fineract CN is on track with architecture for app implemented and now Fineract CN APIs being made securely available via API gateway.
- Varun Jain
- Fineract CN Mobile app
- Mentor(s): Ahmad Jawid Muhammadi and Rajan Maurya
- Update: Project to enhance mobile field operations app for Fineract CN is on track. Progress has been documented in this gist
- Yemdjih Nasser
- Machine Learning Credit Scorecards
- Mentor(s): Lalit Mohan, Aaashish Sawhney, Abhijit Ramesh, Jeremy Engelbrecht and Rahul Goel
- Update: Project to extend and productize the credit scoring module as an external plugin is on track.
- Benura Abeywardena
- Fineract Backlog & Collateral Management Module
- Mentor(s): Bharath Gowda, Chaitanya Nuthalapati, Manthan Surkar, Sanyam Goel
- Update: progress is proceeding ahead of schedule on collateral module - https://gist.github.com/BLasan/bd21154ab9cc69e996a9e5aa0395cc03
## Community Health:
- dev@fineract.apache.org had a 9% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (96 emails compared to 105)
- issues@fineract.apache.org had a 74% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (222 emails compared to 846)
- 13 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-77% change)
- 8 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-77% change)
- 66 commits in the past quarter (-42% change)
- 5 code contributors in the past quarter (-64% change)
- 91 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-57% change)
- 95 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-33% change)