[Mifos-developer] interested in the project "Prototype Mifos with a CSS framework"

[vishnu vardhan]

HI Van Mittal-Henkle,
  I am student from India pursuing my bachelors in Computer Science. I am currently in my 2nd year of degree. I wanted to participate in GSOC 2010. While surfing on the internet i came across your project and did quite some research on the domain of micro finance. I have already downloaded the source code for "mifos" and started to play with it . I guess it would take more couple of days to do so.
I was just wondering if i can help in contributing for the project
"Prototype Mifos with a CSS framework".
I havent really seen the HTML pages at yet to checkout how they have been currently coded.
I am also working as an intern for a company, Teleparadigm Networks limited,Hyderabad, India.(http://www.teleparadigm.com).
One of the customers of teleparadigm is "Investment Yogi" (http://investmentyogi.com) for whom me and my team mates designed the entire UI(HTML+CSS). The backend is supported by the .net platform.
So please let me know if I can be of any help.
Vishnu

[Van Mittal-Henkle]

Hi Vishnu,

 

Thanks for your interest in contributing to Mifos for Google Summer of Code (GSOC) 2010!

 

It sounds like you have good and relevant experience in HTML/CSS.  Please note that  official application period for GSOC 2010 will probably start around March or April.  However, the more up front involvement you have with Mifos and the more you can demonstrate your ability to contribute, the better your chances will be to be accepted in GSOC 2010, so you are welcome to start getting involved.

 

A couple things I could suggest are:

* download and get the Mifos source code to build—that’s the first step for any GSOC project.

* start looking at or playing around with the blueprint CSS framework

 

Cheers,

--Van

[Adam Feuer]

Vishnu,

Here's Blueprint:

http://www.blueprintcss.org/

One idea would be to create a duplicate of the Mifos user interface in
flat HTML, using Blueprint CSS - that alone would be a huge help to
us, as it would show us the way to go forward with Blueprint.

Once that was done, we could start converting a part of Mifos - a few
pages, or a header or sidebar...

One difficult issue is: how can we have Blueprint CSS live next to the
current CSS at the same time, so that pages can use one or the other
or both... so we can do migration over a period of months, instead of
having to convert everything all at once. Do you have ideas about how
that could be done?

-adam
--
Adam Feuer <adamf at pobox dot com>

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