Méfions-nous du Fauxpen Source !
At a time when Octopus is growing up, to exceed the 60 daily users, and where strategic choices arise for the sustainability of our software, I just found this article from website framasoft which is timely! Do you know DimDim? An open source solution handy for demonstrations and other meetings online. Unfortunately this solution has been acquired by SalesForce and although the product was under open-source licence, there was no effective open-source community to continue to support the project. This situation made me realize the importance of uniting an active community around the development of Octopus, and find this excellent article from Framasoft (in French) »Méfions-nous du Fauxpen Source ! » (When open source isn’t [...]
Octopus gets a makeover
Welcome to our new community platform for the experts in MIS for microfinance. We hope this blog will federate the various microfinance practitioners, experts in MIS and enthusiasts of open source, and will move forward technology that moves back poverty ! Feel free to respond on this blog, send us your ideas and desires for [...]
version 2.8.12 Released
Have a look to our release note so see new and improved features: wiki.octopusnetwork.org/display/Release/v2.8.12 Good luck to all! A release is completed, a new iteration starts anew!
Version 2.8.7 released
Long iterations are quite painful. We had to prolong this one of 10 days in order to fix a couple of bugs involved by heavy but necessary refactorings. Benefits are to come soon in term of development easiness and performances. We also have the sad news to lose our dear Farida that flees to USA [...]
Octopus in MFC and Convergences
We just would like to inform you that we will be presenting Octopus in MFC in Astana and also in Convergences 2015 in Paris conferences next week. If you are interested in knowing more about Octopus, feel free to contact us to arrange a meeting or a more in depth presentation aside of these events. [...]
Octopus and revolution
I guess most of you don’t know it but Octopus is being mainly developed in Kyrgyzstan. Last month, the country was shaken by a revolt that successfully deposed the president. The country ‘s situation is stable again and we all hope this event and consequences (and some are tragic) will bring a good opportunity to [...]
Updates about Octopus !
Here a new one! Since last Friday, version 2.8.4 is available on our download page (please check carefully the link to the new Crystal Reports viewer necessary to run reports). As our experience with continuous improvement increases, quality and stability of releases improves. No tremendous changes, but progressive and incremental implementation of existing and new [...]
We don't hire IT specialists, we train IT entrepreneurs !
Octopus is a community, not a company. A company is made of employees, our community is made of entrepreneurs. Following the microfinance scheme that supports micro-entrepreneurs in developping countries, we support IT entrepreneurs that want to make a living out of MIS in micro-finance. How? In the Octopus philosophy, we know that successfull MIS are [...]
Yet Another Octopus Baby :) !
Octopus version 2.8.3 was released on March 5, 2010. Do not hesitate to download it from our Octopus Community website or directly from SourceForge. By the way, have you noticed how we changed the display of our download page? From now on, that page shall offer links to two versions of the software: the latest [...]
Octopus présent lors de la conférence MFNT, Marrakech 11 & 12 mars 2010
Pierre Pezziardi, fondateur d’Octopus, interviendra lors de la session « SIG – Les fondements critiques de la croissance » sur le thème de l’impact réel de l’informatisation dans les Institutions de Microfinance. Nous évoquerons en particulier la nécessaire prise en compte de la dimension accompagnement au changement dans les projets TIC (IT is actually 20% [...]