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GSoC Mentors' Summit 2019 - 15 years celebration at Munich

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My apologies for posting so late about this event from 2019 when it’s time for GSoC 2020 session to be concluded. In my defence, I've been preoccupied with unforeseeable circumstances and their uncontrollable consequences. Regardless of that, with this blog, I'll try to relive and cherish my experience while attending Google Summer of Code 2019 (GSoC) Mentors Summit which held in Munich, Germany from 17-20 October 2019. I had been associated with the Mifos Initiative for around 3 years by then. This organization gave a brilliant opportunity to me (a mentor), Rahul (an organisation admin) and Sanyam (under the umbrella organization - Apache Foundation) to represent it in the summit for serving as mentor or admin during GSoC 2019. This was the first time the summit was held outside the US and was for 3.5 days to mark the completion of 15 years of Google Summer of Code! It used to be a 2-day event usually. The adventure began (so to speak) much before the actual event when I fa
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GSoC 2017 Experience

It's the time to wrap up the Google Summer of Code internship. Below is the summary of the work accomplished during the program.  The tasks that I had mentioned in my proposal were changed significantly. Hence, if one goes by that proposal, I've done less work but if we go by the actual work it took the same amount of efforts as mentioned in the proposal if not more. New Features : Mifos Field Officer Android app has been fully functional for over 2 years prior to the GSoC '17. My tasks mainly dealt with adding new features to it. Signature Module : This requirement of adding a Signature module arose because field officers have found it inconvenient to take photographs of the signature and then upload it. I added a Signature screen so that the client can draw the signature right there on the officer's phone and the officer can upload the document right from there. He may also upload the signature later, from the gallery if the internet is not available.  http
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