Re: [Mifos-developer] Mifos TurnKey Linux appliance

[Ed C. <ed...@mi...>]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Jeremy Davis <je...@je...>wrote:

> Hi Ed,
>
> Ah Ok so MifosX[1] is the latest (stable) release then? Rather than
> 2.6[2]? So I assume we would be best looking to install MifosX?
>
> [1] https://github.com/openMF/mifosx
> [2] https://github.com/mifos/head
>
> Yes. Most certainly Mifos X.

> And I then assume that the instructions to follow would be these[3]?
>
> [3]
>
> https://github.com/openMF/mifosx/blob/master/INSTALL.md#2-manual-installation
>
> Does that sounds about right?
>
> Yes - that's correct. Another helpful background link on the platform is:
https://demo.openmf.org/architecture/

> TBH I was hoping that you guys would be able to take the lead (with me
> providing support) but that's ok. I know that it was a bit of a stab in
> the dark. Not many open source projects have devs sitting around waiting
> to find something to do! :)


> It just means that I'm not sure when it will happen... I appreciate your
> willingness to help out though! For now I have added it to our (mile
> long) GitHub Appliance Wishlist (aka Candidates list)[4] and I just
> started a Mifos appliance 'whiteboard'[5] as well.
>
>
Thanks for getting us listed there. I hope that one of the volunteers in
our community who comes across this thread might be interested in helping
out and taking on some of the work.



> Regards,
> Jeremy
>
> On 15/04/14 00:03, Ed Cable wrote:
> > Jeremy,
> >
> > I"m glad you came across our project while listening to FLOSS Weekly. As
> a
> > community we're always looking for ways to make Mifos X more readily
> > accessible and minimize the effort in getting it up and running.
> >
> > TurnKey Linux seems like another solid option that we could make
> available
> > to community members. Is your team able to take the lead in doing the
> > necessary work to make an appliance available? Our core developers are
> > available to assist and help you get up to speed but don't have the free
> > cycles currently to lead the actual work themselves.
> >
> > We can set up a chat with our development team if you'd like to discuss
> > this further.
> >
> > Thanks again for coming to us!
> >
> > Ed
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Jeremy Davis <je...@je...
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I recently saw Vishwas Babu and Ed Cable on FLOSS weekly[1] talking
> >> about Mifos. I hadn't ever heard of this project before but it sounds
> >> like you are doing great work!
> >>
> >> [1] http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/289
> >>
> >> I'm a developer with TurnKey Linux[2] and I thought that we may be able
> >> to collaborate on a Mifos Community Edition[3] server appliance (and/or
> >> possibly a Mifos Dev server environment[4]).
> >>
> >> [2] http://turnkeylinux.org
> >> [3] http://mifos.org/product/download-mifos
> >> [4]
> >>
> >>
> https://mifosforge.jira.com/wiki/display/MIFOS/Mifos+Development+Environment+Package
> >>
> >> TurnKey Linux provides free open source software appliances based on
> >> Debian 7 and we have an Open Source build environment called TKLDev[4]
> >> for building server software appliance that by default outputs an ISO
> >> for installation into a VM or on bare metal.
> >>
> >> [5] http://www.turnkeylinux.org/tkldev
> >>
> >> Once a working prototype is developed (for TKLDev - and the code is on
> >> GitHub), on the next maintenance release of TurnKey it can be added to
> >> the library[6] and will be available in a range of build types[7].
> >>
> >> [6] http://turnkeylinux.org/all
> >> [7] http://turnkeylinux.org/docs/builds
> >>
> >> Anyone interested?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Jeremy Davis
> >> TurnKey Linux Developer
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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