Open Source in Finance

Open Source in Finance

We’re fresh off of a very successful OSFF London, and while digesting all the great feedback that we received from the community, we identified an opportunity to connect and integrate a series of technical activities that are happening across our project landscape.

Today, we are excited to announce the launch of an exciting initiative: between now and OSFF New York (September 30, October 1), we are inviting developers to participate in a long-running Tech Event (or Hackathon) which will provide hands-on opportunities to design, build & contribute solutions focused on creating integrations between FINOS projects and other existing open source tools.

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During this time, we will host both in-person and virtual events to let participants connect, gain insights from FINOS Project Leads about technologies and align around the coding activities. At OSFF New York, teams will showcase their solutions, and a jury will award projects. The first hybrid event is scheduled for July 16th 2024 in New York - you can find more information about event details in the signup form below, but the in-person portion o fthe event will be an all day event capped at 25 people (no cap on virtual attendance).

TraderX (an open-source, cloud-native, highly modular reference architecture for a trading platform that can be easily extended and is lightweight enough to run on a laptop, acting as a junction point for integrating FINOS projects for financial services use cases) will be the primary integration target for this Tech Sprint; starting today, developers have the opportunity to start coding using the TraderX platform as Software Developer Kit (SDK) in order to deliver value across a wide list of use cases that are interesting for financial services institutions; find the use case that you’d like to work on and drop a comment to express your interest, ask questions, or even contribute to the use case description; you can also come up with your idea, or simply fork TraderX and play around on your local environment.

In the following weeks we expect this list to grow in number and level of details, so - if you’re interested to join - make sure to watch the repository or to subscribe to the specific use case you’re interested in. We would particularly like to highlight that there has been ongoing work on building FINOS LLM Exploration and Open RegTech use cases which are currently working on submitting use cases as we speak.

The event is open to anyone who wants to join and write code. The only prerequisite is to have a Github account, though we also encourage you to seek explicit approval from your employer to join this initiative.

 

How to sign up

To join this event, simply fill out the registration form below; please make sure to

  • Use your corporate email address (it allows us to understand if you are a FINOS member)
  • Express interest in one of the use cases, or choose “other” from the drop down, with a small explanation of what you’d like to do
  • Reserve your seat for the upcoming in-person event of July 16th on time (read more below), as we have limited space

 

What’s next

When we receive your registration form submission, we will

  1. Add you to FINOS Slack channel to facilitate communication from FINOS and across all participants
  2. Add you to a GitHub Team to make code collaboration for you and team
  3. Create a new Github repository on github.com/finos-labs and add you as a collaborator

We suggest starting to play around with TraderX right away, in order to get familiar with the framework; you can also access demo.traderx.finos.org to see TraderX in action without running it locally, or using Github Codespaces.

We are looking forward to working with you all on this, and providing meaningful code contributions to continue moving the FINOS community forward! If you have any questions or doubts, please reach out to help@finos.org.

 

July 16, In Person Event in New York

This event can be joined virtually or in person, however we have a limited space (25 seats), so make sure to register on time! Anyone registering for the Tech Sprint will also be invited to join this event virtually.

If you represent a FINOS project and would like to present/participate in the discussion, please reach out to help@finos.org.

Updated Details:

  • Format: Start the day evaluating existing submissions. Followed by Informal Project Presentations/Agile Coffee, Whiteboard Brainstorming, & Future Project Planning.
  • When: Tuesday, Jul 16, 2024
  • Agenda:
    • 8am-9am ET: Arrival & Coffee.
    • 9am-9.30am ET: FINOS Opening Remarks & Tech Sprint Overview
    • 9.30am-10am ET: TraderX Overview with Dov Katz, followed by Q&A.
    • 10am-12pm ET: Project Presentations, Open GitHub Discussions, Code Reviews & Agile Coffee.
    • 12pm-12.30 ET: Break
    • 12.30pm-2.45pm: Whiteboard Brainstorming, Coding if appropriate.
    • 3pm-6pm: Project Planning, continued coding if appropriate.
  • Where: Hybrid
    • In-Person: Barclays Rise, 43 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10010
    • Virtual: Zoom link to be provided to accepted registrants
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