[touchinglives] the volunteer mail so far

  • From: Saurabh Bhatia <saurabh.a.bhatia@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: touchinglives@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:08:21 +0530

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.



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

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