This Week at FINOS: Week of February 22, 2022

FINOS is hiring for a Senior Technical Architect. If you are passionate about open source, especially in the financial services technology landscape, and are a good fit for the role, apply here to join the awesome FINOS team.

We are excited to announce that FINOS member Databricks has just launched their Lakehouse platform that enables Financial Services to accelerate data-driven innovation across the industry. Notably, the Lakehouse platform is integrated with the FINOS Legend Project.

How secure are your open source systems? Gabriele Columbro, FINOS Executive Director, joins Financial Technologies Forum for a two part Q&A that directly addresses the security issues financial services firms have about open source software.

Submit your Call for Proposals now for Open Source in Finance Forum London and Open Source in Finance Forum New York. Follow the links above to view suggested topics and to submit talks for the FINOS London and New York City events. 

Here's what's happening during the week of February 21, 2022 within the FINOS community.

Monday, February 21st

• US Holiday. No project or SIG meetings planned for today.

Tuesday, February 22nd

• 10am ET / 3pm GMT. Financial Objects SIG meeting
• The Financial Objects Special Interest Group (SIG) provides a neutral forum for individuals across the financial services industry to collectively identify the need for new, open, financial objects standards as well as modifications to existing ones. The goal of the Financial Objects Special Interest Group is to promote adoption of financial object definitions and models that support common industry workflows and use cases.
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda
  

Wednesday, February 23rd

• 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
  

Thursday, February 24th

• 9am ET / 2pm GMT. Product Control Common Template project
• PCCT aims to construct a common template data model using Legend Studio (an approved open sourced data modeling tool that allows users to create data models in a graphical user interface).
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda

• 10am ET / 3pm GMT. FDC3 Standard Working Group
• FDC3 aims to provide an open standard for interoperability on the financial desktop. This includes standardized verbs to invoke actions between applications (called "intents"), a standardized data format, an OpenAPI app directory standard, and standardized API operations.
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda

Friday, February 25th

• 10am ET / 3pm GMT. Compliant Financial Infrastructure Project Meeting
• This week the CFI project turns its attention to Open Compliance for CDMC to accelerate the tests needed to automate and assure CDMC compliance across AWS, Azure, Google and all other major cloud service providers.
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda

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.