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title: "FINOS: Friday Update Newsletter - 24 April 20"
description: "FINOS: Friday Update Newsletter - 24 April 20\n\nWe at FINOS hope you are all staying safe (and sane) during these times.\n\nThere have been so many things happening at the foundation over the past month, we wanted to send a quick summary to kept you current."
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# [FINOS: Friday Update Newsletter - 24 April 20](https://www.finos.org/newsletter/finos-friday-update-newsletter-24-april-20)

 Written by [FINOS Team](https://www.finos.org/newsletter/author/finos-team) | Apr 24, 2020 2:55:12 PM

 

We hope you are all staying safe (and sane) during these times.

There have been so many things happening at the Foundation over the past month, we wanted to send a quick summary to keep you current.

### FINOS Joins FORCES WITH the Linux Foundation

On April 9th, The Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) joined the The Linux Foundation.

[**Read the press release**](https://www.finos.org/press/fintech-open-source-foundation-joins-linux-foundation-to-expand-and-accelerate-development-across-financial-services)

[**Read our Executive Director's post about the merger & video announcement**](https://www.finos.org/blog/finos-joins-the-linux-foundation-unity-is-strength)

[**FAQs about the merger**](https://www.finos.org/en/finos-lf-faq)

 

### FINOS Virtual Meetups

As part of our continued commitment to provide value to our Members and our greater Community, FINOS is expanding our use of virtual meetings and digital communication. Watch the videos from the first three meetups:

[**April 1st - FINOS FDC3 1.1 Release**](https://www.finos.org/blog/introducing-fdc3-1.1)

[**April 8th - 7 Unexpected Lessons from 2 Years of our SDK in Banks**](https://www.finos.org/blog/7-unexpected-lessons-from-2-years-of-our-sdk-in-banks-tom-schady)

[**April 15th - From Closed Source, to Open Source**](https://www.finos.org/blog/from-closed-source-to-open-source-petyo-ivanov)

[**Upcoming - April 29th - EPAM GLUE Project: Developing a Unified Entity and Data Model for the Buy-Side**](https://www.finos.org/hosted-events/2020-04-29-finos-meetup-guest-speaker-heiko-sundermann-epam-glue-project)

 

### OTHER BLOG POSTS AND UPCOMING EVENTS

Find out more about weekly happenings at FINOS in all of our open source projects. Here are some posts and events you may have missed this month:

[**This Week at FINOS Blog**](https://www.finos.org/this-week-at-finos)

[**Upcoming - April 30th - Open Source in Fintech Event Series - London - Webinar**](https://www.finos.org/hosted-events/2020-04-30-open-source-in-fintech-event-series-london)

[**Kubernetes in BFSI blog post**](https://www.finos.org/blog/kubernetes-in-bfsi-wipro)

[**Open Source and COVID-19 - OS Will Come out Stronger on the Other Side of the Pandemic blog post**](https://www.finos.org/blog/open-source-and-covid-19-open-source-will-come-out-stronger-on-the-other-side-of-the-pandemic)

[**Introduction to FINOS Waltz**](https://www.finos.org/blog/introduction-to-finos-waltz)

[**FINOS Q1 Newsletter**](https://www.finos.org/newsletter/finos-q1-2020-newsletter)

 

### GET INVOLVED

[**FINOS Activity Catalog**:](http://finos.github.io/) Search all of our Programs, Projects and Working Groups.

[**Project Meeting Calendar**](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=finos.org_fac8mo1rfc6ehscg0d80fi8jig%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FNew_York): Scroll through the calendar to find a meeting to join.

[**Program Status Dashboard**:](https://metrics.finos.org/goto/7bfcb03f027a1406c997d731d4715ea7) See a live snapshot of our community contributors and activity.

[**Events**](https://www.finos.org/events)[: ](http://finos.github.io/)Check out our upcoming events or email marketing@finos.org if you'd like to partner with us or have an event idea.

 

**Interested in FINOS open source projects? Click the link below to see how to get involved in the FINOS Community.**

 

**Thanks!**

**~ The FINOS Team**

[View full post](https://www.finos.org/newsletter/finos-friday-update-newsletter-24-april-20)

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