Mifos 1.0 Launches!

Congratulations to the Mifos team!

(from left: James Dailey, Emily Tucker, George Conard, Melissa Turtel, Priscilla Dosiou)

At the Microcredit Summit in Halifax, Mifos was officially released. Since starting to work with the Grameen Foundation team in September 2004, it's great to see the project reach this stage.

You can find download instructions for the software at:
http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javatools/InstallMifosPackage

But be forewarned: Getting to a fully-functional installation does
require a fairly high level of computer savviness: installing MySQL, Jetty, Java; setting environment variables, etc.

With the launch, there's been a spate of publicity. A couple of notable articles:

• Grameen Foundation Press Release
  
• Article from International Development Resource Center on partnership for Mifos in Africa
  
• BusinessWeek magazine article (mentioned 3 paragraphs from end)