FINOS is excited to announce the first set of speakers for OSSF London. Register for OSSF London on October 4th and 5th and join Alejandra Villagra - Global Head of Citi Velocity, Nureen D'Souza - Capital One Open Source Program Office Lead, Jane Gavronsky - FINOS CTO, Traci Robinson-Williams - GitLab Head of Marketing Insights, Hilary Carter - Linux Foundation VP Research and more ...!
Also, don't forget to register for OSSF New York on November 9th and 10th and that FINOS member employees can attend both the FINOS Member Meetings and OSSF for FREE in either location.
The FINOS Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF) is the only conference dedicated to driving collaboration and innovation in financial services through open source software and standards. We bring together experts across financial services, technology, and open source to engage our community in stimulating and thought-provoking conversations about how to best (and safely) leverage open source software to solve industry challenges.
Here's what's happening in the week of August 30th, 2021 within the FINOS community. Please forward this email to colleagues and industry partners who you think will be interested in FINOS. If someone forwarded this email to you and you'd like to subscribe, please send a note to community+subscribe@finos.org and you'll be added to the mailing list.
Monday, August 30th
UK Public Holiday
11am ET / 4pm BST. FINOS InnerSource Special Interest Group
InnerSource can help break down silos, encourage internal collaboration and innovation, accelerate new engineer on-boarding, and identify opportunities to contribute software back to the open source world.
Tuesday, August 31st
10am ET / 3pm BST. Currency Ref. Data Meeting
The objective of this project is to create a standard object to represent currency data and create a central cloud based repository of the currency data. Learn more at github.com/finos/secref-data#currency-reference-data.
Wednesday, September 1st
12pm ET / 5pm BST. Open Source Readiness SIG
This is the second meeting of the new Open Source Readiness Special Interest Group, co-chaired by Andrew Aitken and Gilles Gravier of Wipro and Sundeep Dadlani of RBC
Thursday, September 2nd
6:30pm BST / 1:30pm EST. React London - Bring Your Own Project
Join James McLeod, FINOS Director of Community, for the fully hybrid React London BYOP on Thursday 2nd September from 6:30pm BST / 1:30pm EST as he shows the ReactJS community how FINOS creates and configures ReactJS open source project microsites from GitHub repositories using Docusaurus and Netlify.
Friday, September 3rd
No project or SIG meetings planned for today
Upcoming Events:
Sept 27th to 30th : Linux Foundation Open Source Summit, North America
Open Source Summit connects the open source ecosystem under one roof. It’s a unique environment for cross-collaboration between developers, sysadmins, devops, architects and others who are driving technology forward.
Sept 20th to Oct 1st : Leeds Digital Festival, UK
Leeds Digital Festival returns this Autumn for a two-week open-platform celebration of digital culture. Whether you’re interested in coding, fintech, AI, healthtech, data, start-ups or cyber security, we’ve got something for you.
Sept 29th : Open Source Leeds, UK
Open Source Leeds, UK is a new meetup group dedicated to promoting the use of open source in large enterprises, run in partnership by FINOS and Scott Logic.
The event will be run as a hybrid event as part of Leeds Digital Festival, so you can register to attend in person or you can register to watch the live stream.
Oct 4th and 5th : Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF) - London
The FINOS Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF) is the only conference dedicated to driving collaboration and innovation in financial services through open source software and standards.
Nov 9th and 10th : Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF) - New York
Have a great week and please contact me at james@finos.org if you have any questions and especially if you would like to present at a future FINOS Open Source in Finance meetup.