Dear Microworld Volunteers, A Warm welcome to the touching lives team. MicroWorld Project Brief : Microworld is an Open Source Software that will help Microcredit and Microfinance organizations to enter,maintain,manipulate and analyze the data related to Self Help Groups. * I have outlined some roles in this mail. I would like each one of you to please select the respective roles and reply to this thread.* Chandramouli : Has asked for Rails Development and Design Naveen : UI / UX for the project. Project Goals: * Management Information System for an MF organization * Organize Self Help Group Data and Facilitate funtions like refunds,Lending,track Usage. * Easy to Use Interface, with Minimal Training required * Generate Various Reports, Graphs to represent the effectiveness of the SHGs. Project RoadMap : * Web Application to Manage Microcredit data * Web Application to Manage Microfinance data * Mobile Web Application to Enter data from Mobile Phone * SaaS based Offering to Other Organizations Roles and Responsibilites: 1. Functional : Understand Microfinance Domain,Develop lending models, develop related formulae and impart functional knowledge to the team, and help in creating Requirements. 2. Feature Development : Based on the functional requirements, create featureset to be incorporated in the software. 3. Technical Architecture : Decide the best practices and technologies for project. 4. Development : Develop features in decided technologies 5. Testing : Write and Run Unit tests for models and controllers, integration tests for the application 6. UI / UX : User Interface and User Experience for making the apps easy to use for larger set of users. 7. Content Writing, Updatation, Social Media : Handle,Update the website for Content and Social Media Like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Blogs Regards Saurabh