[Mifos-users] FW: [Mifos-functional] Common Bandwidth Usage for Mifos

2008-11-19 Thread Edward Cable
Soham, You can start your discussion regarding bandwidth usage on this thread. I've forwarded over this thread that Ryan started on mifos-functional back in September. (this time I properly copied the list :) - last time I had the wrong address) He is going to try to account for the bandwidt

Re: [Mifos-users] user manual in English (RE: user manual in French)

2009-01-02 Thread Edward Cable
Marie, A valuable tool that community members have used to build their training materials has been the agenda and documentation that GK put together. While reflective of Mifos 1.0 as well, it's still a useful tool. http://tinyurl.com/992yah Ed -Original Message- From: Ryan Whitney [mail

Re: [Mifos-users] Is mifos.org search broken?

2009-01-21 Thread Edward Cable
Hello Jeff, My apologies as I should have put up a notice earlier. I was testing out trying to limit search capabilities to current content (limiting archived items) but that caused searches to not yield wiki pages :( which is the problem that you encountered. I've reset everything back to its

Re: [Mifos-users] [Data Migration] Currently systems deployed byMFI's?

2009-03-25 Thread Edward Cable
offering 7) M2 – (http://www.southernhorizon.com/) – 8) FINO – (http://www.fino.co.in/) 9) Flexcel (http://www.flexcel.com/) – ASP version of iFlex Additionally, you can view a listing of other softwares compiled by CGAP - http://collab2.cgap.org/gm/ISFund_Software_Product_Dashboard Edward

Re: [Mifos-users] [Data Migration] Currently systems deployedbyMFI's?

2009-03-27 Thread Edward Cable
luck in your deployment and I want to thank you for being so pro-active and forthcoming on the mailing lists. Please continue to ask any questions that you have and we'll try and help. Cheers, Edward Cable From: Dusmant Kumar [mailto:dusm...@adhikarindia.org] Sent: Wednesday, Mar

[Mifos-users] CGAP Webinar on MIS for Microfinance

2009-06-02 Thread Edward Cable
g the technology challenges facing the microfinance industry. Here's a direct link to the webcast - http://tinyurl.com/cgap-webcast Hope you can attend, Edward Cable Mifos Marketing Coordinator -- OpenSolar

[Mifos-users] Mifos wins 2009 Duke's Choice Award!

2009-06-04 Thread Edward Cable
Congratulations Community! Mifos has won the 2009 Duke's Choice Award for Best Java Technology for the Open Source Community - we were selected amongst other Java technologies by James Gosling, Vice President and Sun Fellow. Senior software engineer, Van Mittal-Henkle will be accepting the

[Mifos-users] Webchat is up and running again

2009-08-17 Thread Edward Cable
Hello all, Our previous webchat client had been disabled so those who attempted to connect might have been receiving errors stating connection "terminated." Sorry for the headaches it caused anyone in trying to connect. We've installed a new webchat client so you should be able to access

[Mifos-users] FW: fine calculation report

2009-08-19 Thread Edward Cable
Kevin, I'm forwarding your request regarding fine calculation method to the mifos-users mailing list - our community should be able to help! From: KEVIN KIMANI [mailto:kim...@xemplar.biz] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 1:16 AM To: Edward Cable Subject: fine calculation report Hi, I need

[Mifos-users] New Accounting Info on Mifos.org

2009-10-09 Thread Edward Cable
Hello Community, Just wanted to point you all in the direction of several links with updates on accounting in Mifos. News Announcement - Volunteers assist Grameen Koota and enda with Accounting System selection: http://bit.ly/11iIXr New & Improved Accounting Section in Knowledge Center: http:/

[Mifos-users] Mifos Community Blog

2009-11-11 Thread Edward Cable
Hello all, With the goal of keeping our community informed of all the exciting progress and impact you're helping our technology have around the world, we've launched a blog to share news and updates: Please visit http://blog.mifos.org to check it out and learn about what's happening in the com

[Mifos-users] Mifos Community wants your Feedback - CGAP Software Listing and UserVoice

2009-11-17 Thread Edward Cable
Hello all, Please check out our most recent post to http://news.mifos.org to learn about how you can provide your feedback on the Mifos software and on improving collaboration across the community. Check it out here: http://bit.ly/3IlbF2 Highlights of the post include: -

Re: [Mifos-users] FW: Complicated installation

2009-11-20 Thread Edward Cable
Noel, I'm sorry to hear that you've decided to move forward with LoanPerformer. The ease of use of the Mifos software itself is one of its strongest points but we do recognize that the install process is overly complicated. This shouldn't be a barrier to accessing technology and we're working

[Mifos-users] Join the Discussion Taking Place Today on CGAP Technology Blog

2009-12-08 Thread Edward Cable
Hello Community, I wanted to note some collaboration we've been doing with CGAP including a virtual conference the CGAP technology blog is hosting to discuss findings from a workshop we recently co-organized that brought together more than 25 stakeholders from across the industry to discuss bac

Re: [Mifos-users] [New user] Merits/De merits of Mifos

2010-02-06 Thread Edward Cable
Hello all, I'm glad to see this active and open discussion taking place amongst our community. Amit - thank you for being so quick, passionate, and forthcoming in your response to Anand. It's exciting to see the feedback from others on Mifos and look forward to seeing more responses come in s

Re: [Mifos-users] [New user] Merits/De merits of Mifos

2010-02-07 Thread Edward Cable
collection) incentives. More you can find the document attached herewith. Hope All-Is-Well for All Thanks and Regards AMIT JAIN On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Edward Cable wrote: Hello all, I'm glad to see this active and open discussion taking place amongst our community. Am

[Mifos-users] Issue with clients when transferring groups after Mifos upgrade

2010-02-17 Thread Edward Cable
Hello community, I'm sharing this inquiry that Maina from Adept Systems had when performing the Mifos 1.4 upgrade at KEEF in Kenya. Ryan - Kay let me know that you may have seen similar occurrences in your experiences. Maina's Request: Another thing is that KEEF is having issues since

Re: [Mifos-users] Savings account

2010-02-22 Thread Edward Cable
Maina, You can view archives of all previous post from the following mirrors: Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/mifosusers GMANE: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.finance.mifos.users I tend to use the Google Groups interface as it's easy to use, search, and can be posted

Re: [Mifos-users] [SPAM] Re: [SPAM] Issues with install guide forMifos

2010-02-23 Thread Edward Cable
Ryan and all, Thanks for all the comments to the install guide. I had just put this up online a little while back and was in the process of perfecting it. I'll get the changes made so it clearly reflects the best installation procedure. Thanks, Ed -Original Message- From: Adam Feuer [

Re: [Mifos-users] Accounting Package with Mifos

2010-03-08 Thread Edward Cable
Hello Anand, I'll let our customers respond regarding their accounting packages they've been using to date but wanted to share a link to our accounting section and the page on accounting systems in use by our current customers: http://www.mifos.org/knowledge/support/deploying-mifos/accoun

[Mifos-users] Congratulations to SunGard - Star Contributors for the Month of February

2010-03-10 Thread Edward Cable
Hello all, Join us in congratulating the team at SunGard including Deepak, Parthasarathy, Aravind, Chandan, Rajesh, Raghavendra, and Rajesh - our Star Contributors of the Month for February. http://news.mifos.org/star-contributor-feb/ Read on to get to know each member of the team and

[Mifos-users] Shamim D and the Technology for Microfinance Shared Vision

2010-03-15 Thread Edward Cable
Hello community, We have an exciting update to share with you about our product roadmap (http://www.mifos.org/developers/roadmap) and how we'll be code-naming our upcoming releases going forward. You might have been wondering why we've named the release following Gazelle C, Shamim D. Here's why

Re: [Mifos-users] reports: downloading and customizing

2010-03-19 Thread Edward Cable
Anita, You are correct in the simple workflow you outlined. Did you look at our reporting guide? It provide more detail on how one actually builds the reports - http://www.mifos.org/knowledge/reporting/reporting-in-mifos Thanks for catching the empty link - I'll make sure it links to th

[Mifos-users] PROPOSAL: Merge mifos-functional list into mifos-users mailing list.

2010-03-23 Thread Edward Cable
Hello community, With the goal of consolidating our mailing lists and making sure people know where to post their questions where they'll be most actively discussed and quickly answered, we're proposing to merge our mifos-functional mailing lists into the mifos-users mailing list. Since the la

Re: [Mifos-users] Mifos, Income statements

2010-03-29 Thread Edward Cable
Hello Dennis, It is a very good question that you ask. These financial reports would have to be generated from your accounting system. The Balance Sheet, P&L, etc would be calculated based on portfolio data from Mifos and then all your other income and expenses recorded in your accounting sys

Re: [Mifos-users] Weekend testers - user manual and product feedback

2010-04-30 Thread Edward Cable
Stephen, Those are all good suggestions to make this more usable. I'll make the change by providing that note and linking to our download page which has on overview of new features in each release which will be fairly representative of the functionality this new user manual includes that th

Re: [Mifos-users] Problem initializing tomcat on Mifos 1.5 install

2010-05-06 Thread Edward Cable
wrote: Navratan, Your first screen shot shows an icon of Tomcat server in the task bar, It shows that your web server is not running. Please configure the script while clicking right of your mouse. Thanks On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Edward Cable wrote: Navratan

Re: [Mifos-users] setting up LSIM

2010-05-12 Thread Edward Cable
Navratan, You can also learn a bit more about the LSIM feature in our user manual: http://en.flossmanuals.net/Mifos/Howtocreateanewloanaccount#lsim Best, Ed From: Ryan Whitney [mailto:rwhit...@grameenfoundation.org] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 1:04 AM To: mifos-users@lists.sour

Re: [Mifos-users] Interest Calculation

2010-05-19 Thread Edward Cable
Maina, Let me also point you to a couple of discussion threads where the actual monthly installments versus APR is discussed in detail. The differences you may be seeing might be in which number you're choosing to calculate APR (360/365). Ryan - will be able to chime in with this thoughts as h

Re: [Mifos-users] loan arrears aging table update

2010-05-28 Thread Edward Cable
fix? Cheers! From: Kay Chau [mailto:kc...@grameenfoundation.org] Sent: 27 May 2010 02:53 To: Edward Cable; A good place to start for users or folks new to Mifos. Subject: Re: [Mifos-users] loan arrears aging table update Hi Ed, no they should not be and actually Va

[Mifos-users] Issues with Collection Sheet Report and Partial Payments

2010-06-07 Thread Edward Cable
switching the system data. Thanks, Ed From: Jeff Brewster Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 3:18 PM To: Edward Cable Subject: RE: Collection Sheet Report Bug --> FW: Bug Joaquim deitado Ed, I'm wondering if the date changes on the system are causing issues. You'll note

Re: [Mifos-users] FW: Screen mockup for smart select option

2010-06-17 Thread Edward Cable
Some questions around how a user brings up the list of all possible options for the field. That is the use case we're outlining in the 3rd scenario, "User answering question - Enter tag name" this is where the user might not know what the list of options are for that question. They would th

Re: [Mifos-users] How to import transactions - Information about set upMFI for that and use

2010-06-18 Thread Edward Cable
Sergio, Could you please provide more details and context for what you are trying to do with file imports. It's difficult for our community to effectively help you if the request is vague and not specific. Have you looked at the functional specifications for the bank import transactions (http:/

Re: [Mifos-users] Mifos website on Safari 5?

2010-06-21 Thread Edward Cable
Ryan, Have you tried a hard refresh. Sometimes that solves the problem, it happens to me at times on different browsers. Send a screenshot and any more details if you're still getting the problems. Ed -Original Message- From: Ryan Whitney [mailto:rwhit...@grameenfoundation.org] Sent:

[Mifos-users] Upcoming Virtual Webinar discussing "Getting Past the Technology Hurdles at MFIs"

2010-07-02 Thread Edward Cable
Dear Mifos Community: Please read on for the following announcement from Charlene Balick from our Tech for Microfinance team regarding an upcoming virtual webinar to conclude the series of regional technology workshops that have recently been held. Read her blog post to learn more.

[Mifos-users] Question regarding define mandatory/hidden fields - possible bug with Group "Trained and Trained On" fields

2010-07-03 Thread Edward Cable
hould override that of "Trained On". 2) Make sure Group "Trained On" is a field that can be specified as hidden/mandatory because right now it's always being displayed. Thanks Gayl for uncovering this issue. Ed From: Gayl Kennedy [mailto:gaylkenn...@fant

Re: [Mifos-users] FW: Sample database for Mifos

2010-07-06 Thread Edward Cable
ks, Ed From: Kay Chau Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 11:22 AM To: Geraldine O'Keeffe; Edward Cable; Jeff Brewster Cc: A good place to start for users or folks new to Mifos. Subject: RE: [Mifos-users] FW: Sample database for Mifos Geraldine, you are right I couldn't get the link

Re: [Mifos-users] Late payment penalty question

2010-07-13 Thread Edward Cable
Ryan, Great call on having folks log feature requests in issue tracker and vote. I've been actively steering all our community customers this way. Also had volunteer Tom Rapp do a quick guide on how to request a new feature. http://www.mifos.org/product/features/feature-request Ed Sam Birne

Re: [Mifos-users] Supports for mifos_v1.6

2010-07-28 Thread Edward Cable
e. More details on this can be found here in Issue 2929 http://mifosforge.jira.com/browse/MIFOS-2929 I believe you would set the value of ClientInformation.AreFamilyDetailsRequired to "true" Jeff/Ryan, correct me if I'm wrong. Ed From: Pradeep Ku. Panda [mailto:pradeep@adh

Re: [Mifos-users] Mifos v1.6 demo version

2010-07-28 Thread Edward Cable
Gayl, The test server has the latest version of the codebase you can demo. You may encounter some bugs or instability as this includes the latest build (beyond 1.6) and has features/work that is in development. http://ci.mifos.org:8085/mifos/ (same id/password) All test instances can be accesse

Re: [Mifos-users] mifos source codes

2010-08-13 Thread Edward Cable
Lungo Welcome to the Community! Happy to see another potential Mifos user from East Africa. Details about getting the source code from our Git repository can be found in our Version Control Guide - have you attempted that? http://www.mifos.org/developers/wiki/MifosVersionControlGuide You can g

Re: [Mifos-users] mifos source codes

2010-08-13 Thread Edward Cable
Lungo, This is the more appropriate link for the Pootle translation server: http://birch.mifos.org:8844/projects/gazelle/ Ed -Original Message- From: Edward Cable Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 9:31 AM To: mifos-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Mifos-users] mifos source codes

[Mifos-users] Mifos.org temporarily down

2010-08-25 Thread Edward Cable
Hello, The mifos.org site is currently down. We're trying to address and resolve these issues as quickly as possible. We'll inform you as soon as the site is back up and running. Thanks, Ed Cable Community Manager ---

Re: [Mifos-users] Mifos.org temporarily down

2010-08-25 Thread Edward Cable
STATUS: Mifos.org back up and live. From: Edward Cable Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 8:05 AM To: 'mifos-users@lists.sourceforge.net'; 'mifos-develo...@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: Mifos.org temporarily down Hello, The mifos.org site is currently down. We&

Re: [Mifos-users] 2 enhancements logged for your review and comments

2010-08-27 Thread Edward Cable
Nayan, Thanks for pointing Polly in the right direction to vote. Polly (and anyone else) - as a reference here's a how-to on logging or voting for feature requests in Issue Tracker: http://www.mifos.org/product/features/feature-request Ed From: Nayan Ambali [mailto:nayan.amb...@gm

Re: [Mifos-users] Branch progress report and GL report problems

2010-08-30 Thread Edward Cable
Gayl, Here's the direct link to the issue: http://mifosforge.jira.com/browse/MIFOS-3598 Ed -Original Message- From: Gayl Kennedy [mailto:gaylkenn...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 8:17 AM To: A good place to start for users or folks new to Mifos. Subject: Re: [Mifos-users] Br

[Mifos-users] Exciting News! Beta launch of new mifos.org website

2010-09-03 Thread Edward Cable
Hello Community, I'm pleased and excited to unveil to you the beta version of the new mifos.org community website. This is the first time we've update our web presence in over 3 years! Over the past couple of months, we've been building out a brand new website on Drupal to create a more compel

Re: [Mifos-users] Clarification regarding Loan Cycle

2010-09-14 Thread Edward Cable
GH, Just responding to your Loan Cycle question: >1) When creating a Loan Product you can check yes or no for "Include >in Loan cycle counter:". I have read docs about it but still don't >understand what this is and how it could affect us. The goal behind the loan cycle counter is to track the

Re: [Mifos-users] Translate Mifos Documentation - spanish volunteer

2010-09-21 Thread Edward Cable
Julio, Welcome to the community and thank you for your interest in this project. I've got one other volunteer who's been slowly making progress on the documentation translation so we gladly welcome your help. To get started you can simply follow the steps listed on the project page: htt

Re: [Mifos-users] Surveys - how to view consolidated results

2010-09-22 Thread Edward Cable
Hello, Thanks to Gayl for pointing this out. Currently on the Test Server, that branch of the code only has Question Groups for the following stages - Create Group, Create Client, and Create Loan currently implemented. If you create a question group at another stage (i.e. Create Center) you won't

Re: [Mifos-users] Translate Mifos Documentation - spanish volunteer

2010-09-22 Thread Edward Cable
Ryan, Julio while grabbing Spanish screenshots noticed that some terms in the Mifos UI were still English which is why he inquired about translating those English terms that were still not translated via Pootle. Ed -Original Message- From: Ryan Whitney [mailto:rwhit...@grameenfoundatio

[Mifos-users] Star Contributor of the Month - Gayl Kennedy

2010-10-08 Thread Edward Cable
Join us in congratulating our most recent Mifos Star Contributor of the Month, Gayl Kennedy. Gayl is a volunteer leading the deployment of Mifos at Fantsuam Foundation in Nigeria. Since joining our community, she's been an active voice on the mailing lists, reporting many bugs and posting featu

Re: [Mifos-users] Translate Mifos Documentation - spanish volunteer

2010-10-08 Thread Edward Cable
Julio, I'm back from vacation and very excited to see all the progress you're continuing to make. Thank you for the suggestions on the UI translations. We are actually needing to update quite a few strings that aren't properly translated or not translated at all that have been discovere

[Mifos-users] Changing centre date and impact on loan date when using LSIM

2010-10-13 Thread Edward Cable
sue 3595 - http://mifosforge.jira.com/browse/MIFOS-3595 Community - could you please take a look at Gayl's situation with LSIM below. Ed From: Gayl Kennedy [mailto:gaylkenn...@fantsuam.org] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 6:38 AM To: Edward Cable Subject: Changing centre date and impa

Re: [Mifos-users] Translate Mifos Documentation - spanish volunteer

2010-10-19 Thread Edward Cable
ing (for later review)? Cheers, Julio On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Edward Cable wrote: Julio, Welcome to the community and thank you for your interest in this project. I’ve got one other vo

[Mifos-users] Best Web Browser for Pentaho

2010-10-20 Thread Edward Cable
Hello all, Pradeep from Adhikar had a question regarding the best web browser to use with Pentaho. Based on your experiences thus far, what web browser performs the best for an end user attempting to access reports on a Pentaho reporting server? Thanks, Ed --

[Mifos-users] Launch of the new Mifos.org

2010-10-20 Thread Edward Cable
Hello all, Some exciting news to share. A New Home for the Community Over the past few months, we've worked to expand and revamp our overall web presence for the Mifos Initiative. In case you hadn't noticed the changes to mifos.org, we now have a brand new home for our online community. We wa

[Mifos-users] Question about entering in fee data in Collection Sheet Entry

2010-10-22 Thread Edward Cable
Kay, This is directed towards you but I'll send to entire community. While on a call yesterday with the team at Missions of Hope International, they had some questions regarding the handling of fees in the Collection Sheet entry. The A/C Collections is only used to capture fees at the cli

Re: [Mifos-users] Usage of Mifos in Latin America

2010-10-26 Thread Edward Cable
Milan, These are fantastic question that our entire user community can benefit from seeing answered. I can already tell you're looking deeply into Mifos and asking good critical questions to help you fully understand it. I've answered your questions below inline to the best of my knowledge

Re: [Mifos-users] Updating Savings Products

2010-10-27 Thread Edward Cable
Kay, Can the following still be changed: Balance used for interest calculation Minimum balance required for interest calculation I know that Nuru currently has active savings accounts but they might be considering changing the min balance required for interest. Thanks, Ed > >-Original M

[Mifos-users] Downloading Latest Stable Build of Leila E

2010-11-02 Thread Edward Cable
Milan, I'm also responding to the mifos-users list so others can respond with feedback on the new data structure or advice on product testing. You can get a .zip file download of the latest stable build of Mifos Leila E at this link: http://ci.mifos.org/hudson/job/head-1.7.x/org.mifos$mifos

[Mifos-users] Leila E Translation Sprint

2010-11-04 Thread Edward Cable
Mifos is open source technology for accelerating microfinance. Help us transform the lives of 3 Billion Maries through financial services by translating our software. * WHAT: Mifos Leila E Translation Sprint * WHEN: Nov 4, 2010 - 9:00AM

Re: [Mifos-users] Leila E Translation Sprint

2010-11-04 Thread Edward Cable
IGNORE previous email (sent in error) Mifos is open source technology for accelerating microfinance. Help us transform the lives of 3 Billion Maries through financial services by translating our software. WHAT: Mifos Leila E Translation Sprint WHEN: Nov 5,

Re: [Mifos-users] Leila E Translation Sprint

2010-11-05 Thread Edward Cable
Julio, Thanks for taking time out of your vacation to translate messages into Spanish. That is pure dedication and what we need for our translation sprint! Our customers and Latin American community thank you. Here's recent translations from the Sprint . E

Re: [Mifos-users] Database documentation

2010-11-10 Thread Edward Cable
Milan, Have you looked at the database schema visualization? http://link.mifos.org/schema It's linked to from here: http://mifos.org/contributors/tech-overview Ed From: Milan Patel [mailto:milan.pa...@prosperitasmf.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 8:40 AM To: mifos-us

Re: [Mifos-users] SQL Query Repository

2010-11-15 Thread Edward Cable
Gayl, Very good catch. I had forgotten to take the page out of draft state. It should be viewable now. My apologies. Ed > >-Original Message- > >From: Gayl Kennedy [mailto:gaylkenn...@gmail.com] > >Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 7:02 AM > >To: A good place to start for users or folks n

Re: [Mifos-users] Database integrity audit queries

2010-12-07 Thread Edward Cable
Ryan, As FYI, Keith Woodlock (prior to this happening) was planning to spend a little time looking at their database and configuration to troubleshoot other outstanding issues. He now has their database and their logs so perhaps he will find something there. Gayl, please do share any details y

[Mifos-users] Congrats to our Star Contributors of the Month - Translatewiki.net Community

2010-12-16 Thread Edward Cable
Join us in congratulating the Translatewiki.net Community for being our Star Contributors of the Month for October and November. >From around the world, members of their community have helped to provide Mifos >a robust translation tool and an engaged and enthused community of translators.

Re: [Mifos-users] [Mifos-developer] Want A List Of All Loans Which is not Disbursed

2010-12-20 Thread Edward Cable
Trilok, I'm glad Ramya was able to help you with your query. In the future if you have a request please also document it on the SQL Query Request page on MifosForge and then request it on the mailing list as well. That way we'll have one centralized place where common and requested SQL qu

Re: [Mifos-users] MIFOS windows platform

2011-01-04 Thread Edward Cable
Not adding much J Graeme - here's a link to the Mifos 2.0 System Recommendations - (it was at the top level page) http://mifosforge.jira.com/wiki/display/MIFOS/Mifos+System+Recommendatio ns#MifosSystemRecommendations-MifosServerSystemRecommendationsforversion 2.0 Ed -

Re: [Mifos-users] mpesa for mifos

2011-01-14 Thread Edward Cable
Pay close attention to the Import File Details and Validations in the Functional Spec: http://mifosforge.jira.com/wiki/display/MIFOS/MPESA+Loan+Repayments+and+ Savings+Deposits+Functional+Spec+v2#MPESALoanRepaymentsandSavingsDeposit sFunctionalSpecv2-ImportTransactions%28MPESA%29FunctionalRequ

[Mifos-users] [EVENT] Mark your Calendar: Mifos Community-Wide User Meeting

2011-01-21 Thread Edward Cable
Hello community, We're hosting a special community-wide event this week. A great deal of activity has been taking place across our community and product and we wanted to bring everyone around the world together in one place to actively discuss the vision for the future of Mifos. At this

[Mifos-users] Congratulations to Keith Pierce - Mifos Star Contributor of the Month!

2011-02-04 Thread Edward Cable
Join us in congratulating Keith Pierce, our most recent Star Contributor of the Month. Keith has been volunteering his time behind the scenes keeping our Drupal websites on mifos.org and mifos.com, running strong and performing at top-speed. Learn more about Keith and thank him for his grea

[Mifos-users] Help Support the Open Source Tool that powers our User Manual - Vote for Booki in Open Web Awards

2011-02-04 Thread Edward Cable
Like our user manual on FLOSS Manuals (http://en.flossmanuals.net/Mifos/Welcome)? Show your support for Booki (the open source tool we use to update and maintain it) by voting for them in the Drumbeat Open Web Awards. Only 1 hour left to vote, you can do it in three easy steps: http://

[Mifos-users] Mifos Business Intelligence Suite Demo Server

2011-02-16 Thread Edward Cable
Hello Mifos users, You've seen the Mifos Business Intelligence Suite announcements and heard about the new standard reports and data warehouse we launched. Now you can try it out for yourself. See our new and improved reporting in action on our BI Suite Demo Server. The BI Suite Demo

[Mifos-users] Suggestions for Workaround: Re-assigning active clients to dummy centers

2011-03-08 Thread Edward Cable
Ryan, Per your feedback from our discussion, I wanted to circulate this question more broadly to the users mailing lists for the feedback of the community. Re-assigning active clients to Dummy Centers * Nuru in Kenya doesn't use centers in their operational structure. The ability to tur

[Mifos-users] Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn - Stay connected with what's happening in the Mifos community

2011-03-08 Thread Edward Cable
We're always looking for ways to help the community stay better connected with how we're working towards our vision of 3 Billion Maries. Here are few ways to stay connected and be an active part of our community. Twitter: Follow @mifos on Twitter (http://twitter.com/mifos) - here's where we

Re: [Mifos-users] contribution to the project

2011-03-11 Thread Edward Cable
ur ideas to the mailing list with as much detail and background around them. Our team and members of community will be happy to share feedback and discuss them. Looking forward to seeing your contributions and helping us work towards our vision of 3 Billion Maries! Edward Cable Mifos Co

[Mifos-users] Recommended EC2 instances for small MFI

2011-03-15 Thread Edward Cable
Sumit, team and community, A Specialist in Nigeria, Agosu Olatunbosun of ef-Oneweb, had some questions about recommended Amazon EC2 Cloud instance types and memory allocations for a small MFI (under 2000 clients currently). We've had a lot of discussion about this internally but wanted to s

[Mifos-users] Question about Loan Fees

2011-03-18 Thread Edward Cable
Kay, Quick question helping out Missions of Hope in Kenya. Do one-time loan fees not show up on collection sheet until a loan has been disbursed? They've created a loan account with a 2% upfront client fee and a 1% loan fee. The 2% client fee is showing up but the loan fee is not. Is it corr

Re: [Mifos-users] Question about Loan Fees

2011-03-20 Thread Edward Cable
Samuel/Joanna, Could you please respond to the list with some additional details about how the fee was configured? Thanks, Ed From: Kay Chau Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 9:34 AM To: Edward Cable; 'mifos-users@lists.sourceforge.net'; 'SAMUEL MBITHI'; 'J

[Mifos-users] Improving Mifos BI Documentation

2011-03-22 Thread Edward Cable
Hello all, I've discussed this with several of you personally but wanted to openly on the lists bring together a subgroup to improve the documentation we have for getting Mifos Business Intelligence Suite installed. I want as many users across the community to take advantage of our brand ne

[Mifos-users] FW: about windows 2008

2011-03-23 Thread Edward Cable
md.khalid, I'm forwarding your questions to the mifos-users mailing list. If anybody in the community has installed Mifos on Windows Server 2008, could you please share your thoughts/experiences? You can view our system recommendations at: http://mifosforge.jira.com/wiki/display/MIFOS/Mifo

[Mifos-users] FW: Functional questions about variable installment loans

2011-03-25 Thread Edward Cable
:05 AM To: Edward Cable Subject: Re: Demo Server version Feature: Variable Loan Installment 1. In the case of apply payments, will the conditions specified in variable installment override the existing validation functions of apply payments? Specifically, the date of transaction field and

[Mifos-users] Mifos 2.1 - A Closer Look

2011-03-25 Thread Edward Cable
Head on over to our newslog for a post which takes a closer look at some of the new features we've delivered in the past couple releases. http://bit.ly/hiZXlg Ed Cable -- Enable your software for Intel(R) Active

[Mifos-users] FW: accounting integration

2011-03-29 Thread Edward Cable
Mustafa, I'm forwarding your question to the users mailing list so members of our community and product team can respond with more detailed information. Mustafa is seeking an "accounting integration diagram for ERP solution" Just so you know Mifos doesn't have full accounting capabilities - Mif

[Mifos-users] Documentation and Support for Specialists

2011-04-15 Thread Edward Cable
The following are several areas where assistance would come in handy to help the staff at VasTech, a Specialist in Uganda, push forward with more Mifos deployments. Questions about where these tools are at are exactly the kinds of information we want to know from our Specialists - please follow Th

Re: [Mifos-users] Window mifos BI (pentaho) installation

2011-04-19 Thread Edward Cable
Teejay, I'm forwarding your email to the enter mifos-users lists so John and other BI experts in our community can respond. Please reply to the list going forward. Ed -Original Message- From: Teejay [mailto:btajud...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 7:03 AM To: Edward

[Mifos-users] Great progress from Mifos Specialists in Southern Africa and India

2011-04-22 Thread Edward Cable
Hello everyone, I wanted to share a couple recent posts from our newslog describing some recent progress made by Specialists in the Mifos community. If you too have a story about how you're using Mifos or helping others to use Mifos that you'd like to share - please let me know! Recentl

Re: [Mifos-users] [Mifos-developer] Redo Loan functionality

2011-04-28 Thread Edward Cable
Binny, But wasn't the original intent of the Redo loan feature that which Nayan describes. That's how the original functional spec (http://mifos.org/functional-specifications/transaction-processing/rever se-and-redo-loan-disbursals) seems to read. In that loans that are being redone are ones t

[Mifos-users] Mifos Upgrade Tips for Jitegemea

2011-04-29 Thread Edward Cable
Hello all, Any tips or advice for Jitegemea in expediting their upgrade process? Currently they're running on 1.3 and experiencing some performance issues with collection sheet that they need to resolve. Database has currently reached a size of 3GB - current server only has 3GB RAM and

[Mifos-users] Mifos Business Intelligence Suite Windows Installer Package

2011-05-04 Thread Edward Cable
Mifos Users, I wanted to share with you documentation and a simple installer package for Mifos Business Intelligence Suite for our Windows users - http://bit.ly/mifos-bi Thus far, we only had rough Linux documentation on how to install Mifos BI so it's been quite difficult for users to act

Re: [Mifos-users] Interest waiving during Loan Repayment.

2011-05-05 Thread Edward Cable
Kevin, Read up in our user manual how to work with the Waiving Interest on Early Repayment of loan feature: http://en.flossmanuals.net/mifos-user-manual/ch024_how-to-define-new-and -change-existing-loan-products/#waive-interest You can also reference the functional specification: http://mifosforg

[Mifos-users] Question about Clients can have different frequency loans FS

2011-05-11 Thread Edward Cable
Team, I just wanted to confirm that this new functionality to allow clients to have loans of multiple frequencies in Maya G will have no bearing on savings accounts: http://mifosforge.jira.com/wiki/display/MIFOS/Clients+can+have+different +frequency+loans+FS For example, a client that meets mont

Re: [Mifos-users] Question about Clients can have different frequency loans FS

2011-05-12 Thread Edward Cable
tomer meeting schedule'. LSIM must be turned on for this to work. So does not affect savings anything 'customer account' related like client fees etc. regards, Keith. On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Edward Cable wrote: > Team, > > I just wanted to confirm that this new f

[Mifos-users] Fwd: Deploying Mifos Business Intelligence Suite 1.1

2011-05-19 Thread Edward Cable
Thomas, I'm forwarding this to our mifos users mailing list so our community can help with a response. Ed Original Message Subject: Deploying Mifos Business Intelligence Suite 1.1 From: Thomas Ndugwa To: Edward Cable CC: --- Begin Message --- Hi Edward, I get hi

Re: [Mifos-users] Deploying Mifos Business Intelligence Suite 1.1

2011-05-19 Thread Edward Cable
Forwarding additional details to the mifos-users list as Thomas was having troubles posting. From: Thomas Ndugwa [mailto:ndugw...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 9:48 AM To: Edward Cable Subject: Re: Deploying Mifos Business Intelligence Suite 1.1 To the Error am getting when

Re: [Mifos-users] Process Flow Configuration States tobedeprecatedin Elsie F

2011-05-20 Thread Edward Cable
Kay, This sounds fine to me. I think that Gayl had expressed similar feedback around that state adding extra work. Are there any use cases where MFIs need this workflow where this is some probationary period or some initial saving requirement that must be collected before they would form

Re: [Mifos-users] Unable to add new fields

2011-05-24 Thread Edward Cable
Oniel, Natu is correct in that both the Additional Fields and Survey Functionalities have been replaced by the Question Groups functionality as of Mifos 2.0+ You can learn more about Question groups by reading the functional specification (http://mifos.org/functional-specifications/retrievi

[Mifos-users] FW: Facing issues while building Mifos

2011-05-24 Thread Edward Cable
-- Forwarded message -- From: animesh Shrivastav To: mifos-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 17:02:13 +0100 Subject: Facing issues while building Mifos Hi, This is the build failure i am getting, please suggest what i am missing. C:\Users\smita\head>mvn install

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