Here's what’s happening the week of August 19th, 2019 within the FINOS community.

Monday August 19th

• No Program activities planned.

Tuesday, August 20th

• 9am ET / 2pm BST. Pan-FINOS PMCs Monthly Roundtable 
• Calendar invite | Webex | Confluence Wiki Page
  
  
• 11am ET / 4pm BST. DT - Security Reference Data WG (DT Program)
• Calendar invite | Webex | Confluence Wiki Page

Wednesday, August 21st

• No program activities planned. 

Thursday, August 22nd

• 10am ET / 3pm BST FDC3 API Working Group Meeting (FDC3 Program) 
• Calendar invite | Webex | Confluence Wiki Page
  
  
• 11am ET / 4pm BST Data Technologies PMC Call (DT Program) 
• Calendar invite | Webex | Confluence Wiki Page
  
  
• 12pm ET / 5pm BST Financial Objects WG Meeting (Financial Objects Program) 
• Calendar invite | Webex | Confluence Wiki Page

Friday, August 23rd

• 9am ET / 2pm BST FDC3 PMC Meeting (FDC3 Program) 
• Calendar invite | Webex | Confluence Wiki Page
  
  
• 11am ET / 4pm BST Plexus PMC meeting (Plexus Program) 
• Calendar invite | Webex | Confluence Wiki Page

Looking Ahead:

• September 9-12 Boston Fintech Week
• Several location across Boston, MA

• September 17 Gitlab Commit New York
• The Williamsburg Hotel - 96 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, NY [Map]
• FINOS members get a 50% discount with Promo Code COMMIT101. You can also use this link and the code will already be applied

• September 19-20 Open Core Summit
• Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco [Map]
• Speakers include FINOS Executive Director Gabriele Columbro 

• September 23-26 Finovate Fall
• New York Marriott Marquis, New York, NY [Map]

• September 24 WSO2 Integration Summit
• New York Hilton Midtown, 1335 6th Ave, New York, NY  [Map]

• September 25 The Trading Show
• New York Hilton Midtown, 1335 6th Ave, New York, NY [Map]

• October 9 Gitlab Commit London
• The Brewery - 52 Chiswell St, London EC1Y 4SD [Map]
• FINOS members get a 50% discount: go to the registration page, select the London event and enter the promo code COMMIT101.

• October 13-15 All Things Open
• Raleigh Convention Center, 500 S Salisbury St, Raleigh, NC 27601 [Map] 

• November 20 FINOS Open Source Strategy Forum
• New World Stages, 340 W 50th St, New York, NY 10019 [Map]
• More details at www.opensourcestrategyforum.org

A full list of upcoming events can be found at www.finos.org/events. 

Get Involved. Opportunities for further participation and contribution:

• The Plexus Program PMC is developing a proposal for the FINOS Board that could expand that program's scope into several potential areas including desktop containers, development of cross-container APIs in JavaScript and .NET, and creation of an FDC3 API reference implementation. If you'd like to learn more about what's being discussed and potentially provide feedback, send an email to the Plexus PMC list (plx-pmc@finos.org).
• The Financial Objects Program is looking for suggestions of proposed use cases for financial objects. Send suggestions to fo@finos.org.
• The Open Source Readiness WG is looking for open source process, policy, and governance questions & topics for future meetings. Send suggestions to osr@finos.org.
• The Security Reference Data WG (Data Technologies Program) is looking for existing challenges related to managing Security Reference Data. Send suggestions to data-tech-sec-ref@finos.org
• The Cloud Service Certification Project has defined Volunteer Roles for those who would like to participate. Reach out to fdx-cloud-service-certification@finos.org if you're interested.