This Week at FINOS: Week of February 14, 2022

For those unable to attend the FINOS Q1 2022 All Community Call on February 2nd, the recording of the FINOS webinar is now available to watch at your convenience. On the go? Listen to the audio podcast version here or search for the FINOS Open Source in Finance Podcast on your favorite podcast platform.

Did you know the FINOS Open Source Strategy Forum has now rebranded to the Open Source in Finance Forum. The name has changed to reflect our evolution as the premier event dedicated to driving collaboration and innovation in financial services through open source software and standards. Keep an eye out for more information about the up and coming events.

The Call for Proposals are Now Open for Open Source in Finance Forum London and Open Source in Finance Forum New York. View suggested topics and submit talks for all events at the links provided above.

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Finally, looking to contribute to FINOS Projects and SIGs, but not sure where to begin? A great place to start contributing is by finding "good first issues" in the FINOS Github Organization.

Here's what's happening during the week of February 14th, 2022 within the FINOS community.

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Monday, February 14th

• 9:30am ET / 2:30pm GMT. KDB Project call
• The kdb+ project is a set of common standards, tools, and libraries to facilitate collaborative development, ease artifact reuse, and improve usability and administration of kdb+ software in enterprise deployments.
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda

• 11am ET / 4pm GMT. FINOS InnerSource Special Interest Group
• The FINOS InnerSource SIG is a community of people implementing, or interested in implementing, InnerSource within their financial services organization.
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda

Tuesday, February 15th

• 10am ET / 3pm GMT. Currency Ref. Data Project 
• The Currency Reference Data project is creating a standard object to represent currency data, and a central cloud based repository of the currency data. Modeling is being done in the FINOS hosted instance of Legend Studio.
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda

Wednesday, February 16th

• 9am ET / 2pm GMT. Waltz Working Group : Charming Waltz with Juju
• Juju is a hybrid-cloud application management and orchestration system for installation and day two operations. Join Waltz as the project moves forward with Juju and Charms development and integration.
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda
  
• 11am ET / 4pm GMT.  FINOS Office Hours - Your FINOS Questions Answered
• FINOS Office Hours are hosted by Director of Community James McLeod to answer FINOS questions and help people join / start contributing to FINOS.
• Calendar invite | Webex

Thursday, February 17th

• 9am ET / 2pm GMT. FDC3 Context Data & Intents Discussion Group
• At the FDC3 Use Cases Roundtable London, participants agreed that the FDC3 lexicon needs to be expanded, both with additional intents and context types to support Use Cases, but also to include more primitive data types in order to construct complex types. A number of participants also agreed that now is an appropriate time to expand the Lexicon.
• This group is being convened to discuss and arrange work to contribute further Context types and Intents to support Use Cases being implemented by participants.
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda
  
  
• 12pm ET / 5pm GMT. DevOps Mutualization Special Interest Group
• The DevOps Mutualization Special Interest Group (SIG) aims to solve common engineering problems by providing a continuous compliance and assurance approach to DevOps that mutually benefits banks, auditors and regulators whilst accelerating DevOps adoption in engineering and fintech IT departments.
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda

Friday, February 18th

• No project or SIG meetings planned for today.

Have a great week and please contact julia@finos.org or james@finos.org if you have any questions or you would like to take part in a FINOS virtual meetup or podcast.