Projects are at the very core of our mission to accelerate the use of open source software, standards and practices to solve common challenges and drive innovation within the financial services industry.
The open source software and standards hosted within FINOS cover a wide range of functions key to financial services including interoperability, cloud, voice, infrastructure and data.
Whether you want to improve your trader’s desktop experience through better interoperability or data visualization tools; share the burden of developing cloud controls; collaboratively develop new industry trade models or enhance existing ones; improve your test data generation; establish open source best practices and tooling within your organization; or leverage open source to achieve other goals, FINOS provides the platform.
We understand that for highly regulated industries like financial services, collaboration may not seem easy so we provide an independent environment with the appropriate governance, policies, licensing and support necessary to enable open source projects to thrive.
Find out more about existing FINOS projects here.
You are encouraged to contribute code, documentation or issues to any of our existing Projects, or even contribute a new Project.
If you have an idea for a new Project you can reach out directly to our Community or contact the FINOS team.
FINOS is committed to providing a welcoming, professional, and safe environment for every member of our Community. Our Community Code of Conduct sets out clear, common-sense guidelines for respectful participation. If you learn of a violation, please report it to conduct@finos.org.
Programs are the community's mechanism through which business issues, market opportunities, and use cases are grouped together. It's through the program structure that FINOS members and contributors cooperate, specifically by creating and organizing themselves into projects.
Projects produce shared solutions to business problems in the form of code made available through an Open Source license for any organization to use. Additionally Projects can be focused efforts to creating common definitions, protocols, practices, processes and standards. However, they usually do not produce code.A program may have multiple projects.
You are encouraged contribute code, documentation or issues to an existing Project or contribute a new Project to an existing Program.
Only FINOS Members can instead propose new Programs and they are approved by the Board of Directors. Check out our wiki to suggest an idea for a program, reach out directly to our Community or contact the FINOS team.
