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GreenPepper rocks… and so does Andrey!
Warning: in this post, we will go deeper in ‘Octopus’ garage’ – Though that might seem a bit geeky, I hope you will find interest in learning more about how Octopus is developed What are we going to speak about? About one tool: GreenPepper, and about how we have been using it over the last [...]
A look into the garage: agile and continuous integration
Within the Octopus Community, we have of course a bunch of geeks full of enthusiasm from different countries, and people who know much more about accounting and loan amortization than about SQL procedures and C#… In a nutshell, the first ones build the software, based on the plans of the latter. But how do those [...]
Version v.2.6 is available (multi-currency inside)
The v.2.6 of Octopus has been released on the 4th of August. It is downloadable here, and a release note has been drafted in the wiki. . . . . This version brings considerable improvements, only two months after the v.2.5.8 (we had a v.2.5.9 at the end of June, that was only released as [...]
Get a strategic vision at USI
Octopus is now a quite sophisticated software, with more than 100 000 lines of codes (C#/.Net/SQL) and several thousands of automated tests. It is very likely that the client/server system will have to progressively migrate to a fully ‘SaaS’ version, multi-bank, aligned on the latest standards in design (web, vectorial, mobile). Architectural choices to be [...]
The three lives of Octopus…
And we are just starting the fourth one… (Graph extracted from Octopus’ issue tracker – Jira)
Octopus Newsletter – April 2009
News from the garage A new version is available (released on the 3rd of April) – Download it now ! Octopus now supports accrual accounting methodology and village banking (Grameen model) The development of the savings module is going on: you can now manage current accounts in the software Discover also a new custom report [...]
Discover Babyloan.org!
Babyloan is a new website of peer-to-peer microfinance, supported by French banks (BRED, Credit Coopératif) and the international NGO ACTED.� It enables people to lend online to micro-entrepreneurs through partnering Microfinance Institutions. For instance, you can help Rakhmonov, from Tajikistan, get a loan to expand his bakery.. Babyloan’s model is close to Kiva’s one, the website that first introduced the [...]
New version: v2.0
The v2.0 is downloadable here. It has been a long time since a new version was ‘officially’ released. We have actually proceed with our traditionnal tempo (a new version every three weeks) for our new users (AIRDIE in France in particular), but we only decided to release a new version once it was totally stable [...]
Launch of Octopus Online
We are pleased to announce the start-up of Octopus ONline ! Octopus is now available as a ‘Software as a Service’ at www.octopusnetwork.org/online. ‘Octopus ONline’ allows MFIs staff to launch the software and access their data from any computer with an internet connection. It offers the same level of usability and a higher degree of [...]
New Release: v1.1.7
The v 1.1.7 is downloadable here. It solves the bugs found in the previous version, and brings a few improvements: