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Guest speaker: Chris Aniszczyk, COO & CTO at CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) presented on "Best Practices for Starting an Open Source Program/Project - Lessons Learned from TODO Group + Kubernetes / CNCF". 

This video was from a live webinar conducted for the FINOS Open Source Readiness (OSR) project. The OSR project meets bi-weekly for guest presentations, knowledge-sharing between financial industry firms solving similar issues on their road to open source readiness, and discussion of open source strategy. Take a look at upcoming meeting agendas and join us!

Guest speaker: Stephen Murphy, CEO for Genesis Global, presented on the "Open Source Technology to build and constantly evolve a Low Code Application Platform". 

This video was from a live FINOS virtual "Meetup" on May 13, 2020. Join us live for future "Meetups" to see real examples of successful collaboration, hear a few top tips from active contributors, and learn about some innovative approaches to maintaining open source projects.

It’s fair to say that open source software is enjoying a moment. Once viewed with scepticism over its ability to deliver results, open source has become the dominant model for technology firms in every industry – including those in Finance.

Author: James Harrison – COO & Co-Founder, Genesis Global

We're excited to announce that the FDC3 Desktop Agent is now available as a FINOS hosted project at https://github.com/finos/desktop-agent.
 
The FDC3 Desktop Agent is an open source implementation of FDC3 as a Chrome Extension. Its purpose is to provide a quick and easy way for app developers to get started with the FDC3 APIs.  The extension makes FDC3 directly available to any web application in Chrome and provides a default App Directory with a number of demo apps available.  

Author: Nick Kolba - FDC3 Project Lead & Chair
 

As the smart desktop continues to gain momentum in financial institutions, solutions providers depend on a number of modern technologies to realize that vision, including Electron—a container for creating desktop applications with web technologies. Electron has over 100 million installations around the world, and is used by software you already know and use daily—Skype, Slack, Spotify, Microsoft Teams, and WhatsApp, to name a few. 

Author: Rob Schmidt - Director, Strategic Initiatives, ChartIQ