Community Blog

In this special episode of the podcast, we sit down with Leslie Hawthorn who is a senior manager for vertical community strategy at Red Hat and a long time friend in the open source world. We leverage her extensive conference speaker knowledge for this "how to" for first time conference speakers. We talk about ideation, planning, psychology, and just getting through the presentation as a way to help folks that have thought about giving a talk about something they care and know about, but have reservations about doing that in front of 10, 100, or 1000 people.

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In this episode of the podcast, we return to our FINOS Debrief episodes (now monthly) that wrap up the past month in the FINOS Ecosystem - and look forward to the next month and beyond.

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In this episode of the podcast, Niamh interviews James McLeod, Director of Community at FINOS. We talk project updates and what's happening in the FINOS community.

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In this episode of the podcast, Grizz interviews Ana Jiménez Santamaría, the OSPO Program Manager of the TODO Group.

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This article gives a high-level view of the advantages of open source for stakeholders in financial services institutions, as well as the ecosystem that supports them. 

Why use and contribute to open source in finance? Open source's power is found in leveraging a collaborative development as well as the security and quality of code, with more eyeballs on the code. Banks and fintechs can lower costs of development, speed up time to market, and reduce vendor lock-in.

There are many other advantages for financial services industry firms as well with open source, but the first Open Source in Finance 101 will discuss:

• Why use and then contribute back to open source in financial services.
• How financial services developers can produce a better product by leveraging collaborative development
• How security and quality of source code can be improved through open source

In this episode of the podcast, Grizz interviews Dawn Foster, Director Open Source Community Strategy at VMware. 

This is the beginning of our series on the bedrock benefits of open source. Dawn and Grizz talk about how collaboration breeds creativity, how to be a good corporate citizen in open source, and also about Dawn's path, and how she's been able to turn her fascination in open source communities into a career.

Episode show notes and transcript are available below.