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.
We're 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.
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) 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 detail, so - if you’re interested in joining - make sure to watch the repository or 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.
To join this event, simply fill out the registration form below; please make sure to
When we receive your registration form submission, we will
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.
