Here's what’s happening the week of August 26th, 2019 within the FINOS community

Monday August 26th

• No Program activities planned.

Tuesday, August 27th

• 12pm ET / 5pm BST. FDX PMC meeting (FDX Program) 
• Calendar invite | Webex | Confluence Page

Wednesday, August 28th

• 10am ET / 3pm BST. Open Source Readiness WG (FDX Program) 
• Calendar invite | Webex | Confluence Page

• 12pm ET / 5pm BST. Open Developer Platform WG (FDX Program) 
• Calendar invite | Webex | Confluence Page
• This week the team will present the integration of the recently developed WhiteSource for GitHub.com, providing continuous repository scans and alerts for security vulnerabilities.

Thursday, August 29th

• 10am ET / 3pm BST. Cloud Service Certification Project Bi-Weekly Meeting (FDX Program) 
• Calendar invite | Webex | Confluence Page

Friday, August 30th

• No program activities planned. 

Looking Ahead:

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

• September 17 Gitlab Commit New York
• The Williamsburg Hotel - 96 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, NY [Map]

• 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]

• 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).
• ChartIQ has announced its intent to contribute its "Secure Electron Adaptor". Review and provide and feedback directly in JIRA on CONTRIB-52. Into which program this contribution would come is still TBD; one possibility is Plexus. 
• 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 in the project. Reach out to fdx-cloud-service-certification@finos.org if you're interested.