Here's what’s happening the week of September 30, 2019 within the FINOS community.
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- 11am ET / 4pm BST. kdb+ project (Data Technologies Program)
- No program activities planned.
Wednesday, October 9th
- 10am ET / 3pm BST. Open Source Readiness WG (FDX Program)
- 12pm ET / 5pm BST. Open Developer Platform WG (FDX Program)
- [external event] Gitlab Commit London
- The Brewery - 52 Chiswell St, London EC1Y 4SD [Map]
Thursday, October 10th
- 10am ET/ 4pm BST FDC3 Context Data & Intents WG (FDC3 Program)
- 10am ET/ 4pm BST Cloud Service Certification Project (FDX Program
- [external event] Yahoo! Finance All Markets Summit
- Union West, 535 W 28th St [Map]
- Yahoo has provided FINOS Members a special discounted price of $200 (full price tickets are $995 / early bird thru September is $795) Use Code: YFFINOS
Friday, October 11th
- No program activities planned.
Looking Ahead:
- October 1-31 Hacktoberfest by DigitalOcean
- Hacktoberfest is open to everyone in our global community. 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.
- October 9 Gitlab Commit London
- The Brewery - 52 Chiswell St, London EC1Y 4SD [Map]
- The Brewery - 52 Chiswell St, London EC1Y 4SD [Map]
- October 10 Yahoo! Finance All Markets Summit
- Union West, 535 W 28th St [Map]
- Yahoo has provided FINOS Members a special discounted price of $200 (full price tickets are $995 / early bird thru September is $795) Use Code: YFFINOS
- October 13-15 All Things Open
- Raleigh Convention Center, 500 S Salisbury St, Raleigh, NC 27601 [Map]
- 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 discount - 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]
- The Decentralized Ecosystem Growth Program is looking for suggested use cases of the Token Taxonomy Initiative (i.e., potential uses of standardized token definitions) to help that program evaluate how the FINOS community might get involved. 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.