This Week at FINOS: Week of October 14, 2019

Written by FINOS Team | 10/13/19 11:00 PM

Here's what’s happening the week of October 14, 2019 within the FINOS community.

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Monday October 14th

11am ET / 4pm BST. Financial Objects PMC Call (Financial Objects Program)

Calendar invite | Webex | Confluence Page

[external event] All Things Open [Day 2 of 3]

Raleigh Convention Center, 500 S Salisbury St, Raleigh, NC 27601 [Map]

Tuesday, October 15th

9am ET / 2pm BST. Pan-FINOS PMCs Monthly Roundtable

Calendar invite | Webex | Confluence Page

11am ET / 4pm BST. Security Reference Data Project (Data Technologies Program)

Calendar invite | Webex | Confluence Page

[external event] All Things Open [Day 3 of 3]

Raleigh Convention Center, 500 S Salisbury St, Raleigh, NC 27601 [Map]

Wednesday, October 16th

No program activities planned.

Thursday, October 17th

11am ET / 4pm BST. FDC3 Use Cases Working Group (FDC3 Program)

Calendar invite | Webex | Confluence Page

[external event] AquaQ KDB+ Architecture workshop

W Hotel New York Downtown, 8 Albany St, New York, NY 10006 [Map]

Friday, October 18th:

9am ET / 2pm BST. FDC3 PMC Meeting (FDC3 Program)

Calendar invite | Webex | Confluence Page

11am ET / 4pm BST. Plexus Desktop Interop API Project (Plexus Program)

Calendar invite | Webex | Confluence Page

Looking Ahead:

October 1-31 Hacktoberfest by Digital Ocean

Hacktoberfest is open to everyone, globally. Whether you’re a developer, student learning to code, event host, or company of any size, you can help drive growth of open source and make positive contributions to an ever-growing community. All backgrounds and skills levels are encouraged to complete the challenge.

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 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, E16BX [Map]

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

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.
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.
Check out the Data Technologies Program's list of Good First Issues.

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