--- title: "This Week at FINOS: Week of December 2, 2019" description: Here's what’s happening the week of December 2, 2019 within the FINOS community. We encourage you to forward this to colleagues and industry partners who may be interested in FINOS and its mission. --- [Community Blog](https://www.finos.org/blog) # [This Week at FINOS: Week of December 2, 2019](https://www.finos.org/blog/this-week-at-finos-week-of-december-2-2019) Written by [FINOS Team](https://www.finos.org/blog/author/finos-team) | 12/2/19 12:45 PM   Here's what's happening in the week of December 2nd, 2019 within the FINOS community. Please feel free to forward this email to colleagues and industry partners who you think will be interested in FINOS. If someone forwarded this email to you and you'd like to subscribe, please send a note to [community+subscribe@finos.org](http://community+subscribe@finos.org/) and you'll be added to the mailing list. [mailto:james@finos.org](mailto:james@finos.org)        As the FINOS community returns after an awesome Thanksgiving, we're continuing the holiday spirit with an [Advent of Code](https://adventofcode.com/2019/about), an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language. You don't need a computer science background to participate - just a little programming knowledge and a willingness to have fun!   To play, simply [login to Advent of Code](https://adventofcode.com/2019/auth/login), using GitHub, Google, Twitter or Reddit and [browse to Day 1 to start solving Advent puzzles](https://adventofcode.com/2019/day/1)! 🏻⭐️   Now, as we're approaching the end of year one of the [FDC3 1.0 standards](https://fdc3.finos.org/), we’re asking for your feedback on how well FDC3 is addressing the needs of financial organizations, how we can help you with adoption, and the health of the FDC3 contributor community.  **Your input will help us improve our support for your organization and the larger FDC3 community.** Please take a few minutes to complete the [**FDC3 Survey**](https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/finosfdc3). As we approach the end of the first year of the [FDC3 1.0 standards](https://fdc3.finos.org/), we’re asking for feedback on how well FDC3 is addressing the needs of financial organizations, how we can help you with adoption, and the health of the FDC3 contributor community. **Your input will help us improve our support for your organization and the larger FDC3 community.** Please take a few minutes to complete the [**FDC3 Survey**](https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/finosfdc3).           **Monday December 2nd** - *11am ET / 4pm BST*. **KDB Project **(Data Technologies Program) **Tuesday, December 3rd** - *No program activities planned.* **Wednesday, December 4th** - *10am ET / 3pm BST*. **FINOS Open Source Readiness WG **(FDX Program) - *12pm ET / 5pm BST*. **Open Developer Platform Project **(FDX Program) - **[Edinburgh Open Source Fintech Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/es-ES/Edinburgh-Open-Source-Fintech-Meetup/events/265922187/)** **Thursday, December 5th** - *10am ET / 3pm BST*. **Cloud Service Certification Project  **(FDX Program) - *10am ET / 3pm BST*. **FDC3** **API Working Group **(FDC3 Program) - *11am ET / 4pm BST*. **Data Technologies PMC Call **(Data Technologies Program) - *12pm ET / 5pm BST*. **Financial Objects Project **(Financial Objects Program) **Friday, December 6th** - *12pm ET / 5pm BST ***FINOS Office Hours (new!)** **Looking Ahead:** - *December 9-15 ***[Global CS Education Week](https://csedweek.org/): [Hour of Code](https://hourofcode.com/us/en) in Brooklyn, NY** - *December 9***[Open Fintech (Linux foundation) ](https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/events/open-fintech-forum-2019/?creative=390149119430&keyword=%2Bfintech%20%2Bevents&matchtype=b&network=g&device=c&pi_ad_id=390149119430&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIv_2Z4Ie45QIVAm6GCh0IjQTIEAAYAiAAEgJI4_D_BwE&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=OFF&utm_content=General)** *A full list of upcoming events can be found at [www.finos.org/events](https://www.finos.org/events). * **Get Involved. **Opportunities for further participation and contribution:   - The [**Decentralized Ecosystem Growth Program**](https://finosfoundation.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DEG/overview) is looking for suggested potential use cases of the Token Taxonomy Initiative (i.e. uses of standardized token definitions) to help that program further evaluate how the FINOS community might get involved in that initiative.Take a look at the [initiative's launch press release](https://entethalliance.org/enterprise-ethereum-alliance-launches-blockchain-neutral-token-taxonomy-initiative-to-accelerate-a-token-powered-blockchain-future/) and [website](https://entethalliance.org/participate/token-taxonomy-initiative/) for more information and background. To find out more send a note to [deg@finos.org](mailto:deg@finos.org). - The [**Financial Objects Program**](https://fo.finos.org/) is looking for suggestions of proposed use cases for financial objects. Send suggestions to [fo@finos.org](mailto:fo@finos.org). - The [**Open Source Readiness WG**](https://finosfoundation.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OSR/overview) is looking for open source process, policy, and governance questions & topics for future meetings. Send suggestions to [osr@finos.org](mailto:osr@finos.org). - The** [Security Reference Data WG](https://finosfoundation.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DT/pages/656834673/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](mailto:data-tech-sec-ref@finos.org). - The [**Cloud Service Certification Project**](https://finosfoundation.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FDX/pages/904626436/Cloud+Service+Certification+Project) has defined [Volunteer Roles](https://finosfoundation.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FDX/pages/1178206217/Open+Volunteer+Roles) for those who would like to participate. Reach out to [fdx-cloud-service-certification@finos.org](mailto:fdx-cloud-service-certification@finos.org) if you're interested. - The [**Call Metadata Standardization WG**](https://github.com/finos/voice-metadata-standard/wiki#call-metadata-standardization-working-group) is developing a standard proposal for call recording metadata that includes call details, voice recordings, and transcribed voice, and is looking for contributors and call examples to validate the standard. Check out the list of [Help Wanted](https://github.com/finos/voice-metadata-standard/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22help+wanted%22) issues. - Check out the [**Data Technologies Program**](https://finosfoundation.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DT/overview)'s list of [Good First Issues](https://github.com/finos/datahelix/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22)       [View full post](https://www.finos.org/blog/this-week-at-finos-week-of-december-2-2019) ```json { "@context" : "http://schema.org", "@type" : "BlogPosting", "author" : { "@type" : "Person", "name" : "FINOS Team" }, "dateModified" : "2019-12-02T15:03:57.178Z", "datePublished" : "2019-12-02T12:45:00Z", "headline" : "This Week at FINOS: Week of December 2, 2019", "image" : { "@type" : "ImageObject", "height" : 1024, "url" : "https://www.finos.org/hubfs/FINews-december2.png", "width" : 2048 }, "mainEntityOfPage" : "https://www.finos.org/blog/this-week-at-finos-week-of-december-2-2019", "publisher" : { "@type" : "Organization", "logo" : { "@type" : "ImageObject", "height" : 60.0, "url" : "https://www.finos.org/hubfs/FINOS/finos-logo/FINOS_Icon_Wordmark_RGB.svg", "width" : 60.000004 }, "name" : "Thoughts, news and events from our community" } } ```