Here's what's happening in the week of November 4, 2019 within the FINOS community.
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Monday November 4th- No program activities planned.
Tuesday, November 5th
- 10am ET / 3pm BST. FDC3 General Meeting (FDC3 Program)
- [external event] FINJS London
- Landing Forty Two, 122 Leadenhall St, London EC3V 4AB [Map]
Wednesday, November 6th
- 10am ET / 3pm BST. Open Source Readiness WG (FDX Program)
- 12pm ET / 5pm BST. ODP Project (FDX Program)
Thursday, November 7th
- 10am ET / 3pm BST. Cloud Service Certification Project (FDX Program)
Friday, November 8th
- 12pm ET / 5pm BST FINOS Office Hours (new!)
- A place for all FINOS members and contributors to hang out and ask us anything.
- Join the Community WebEx
Looking Ahead:
- November 11-13 FinTech Talents
- Printworks London, Surrey Quays Rd, Rotherhithe, London SE16 7PJ [Map]
- November 13 TABB Group - FinTech Festival 2019
- Sheraton, NYC Times Square, 811 7th Avenue, W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019 [Map]
- Buy side registration is complimentary
- Nominate your favorite FinTech Startup for the Nova Awards
- November 13-14 Github Universe
- Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA [Map]
- November 16 New Technologies in Finance
- Alfred Lerner Hall, Columbia University, 2920 Broadway, Room 555 New York, NY 10027 [Map]
- November 16 Google DevFest London
- November 19 Benzinga Fintech Awards
- New World Stages, 340 W 50th St, New York, NY 10019 [Map]
- Attendees to both the Benzinga Fintech Awards and the FINOS Open Source Strategy Forum are eligible for a registration - use discount code FINOSVIP at registration.
- November 20 FINOS Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF)
- New World Stages, 340 W 50th St, New York, NY 10019 [Map]
- More details at www.
opensourcestrategyforum.org
- November 28 React London - Bring Your Own Project - Banking and FinTech Themed
- Fora Spitalfields, 35-41 Folgate Street, E1 6BX [Map]
- December 4 Edinburgh Open Source Fintech Meetup
- Scott Logic, 102 West Port, Edinburgh EH3 9DN [Map]
- December 9 Open Fintech (linux foundation)
- Convene Conference Center at One Liberty Plaza, 1 Liberty Street New York NY 10006 [Map]
Get Involved. Opportunities for further participation and contribution:
- The Decentralized Ecosystem Growth Program 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 and website for more information and background. To find out more send a note to deg@finos.org.
- 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. Reach out to fdx-cloud-service-
certification@finos.org if you're interested.
- The Call Metadata Standardization WG 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 issues.
- Check out the Data Technologies Program's list of Good First Issues
