This Week at FINOS: Week of July 5, 2021

Have you experienced the impact and value of creating rapid engineering prototypes through your financial services open source or InnerSource teams? 

This week, Scott Logic kicked off their open source contribution to the FINOS KDB+ Project with the KDB Studio 2 Prototype using Electron and JavaScript. Well done for demonstrating the art of the possible through rapid prototyping in code. Look out for the demo at KDB+ on July 12th! 

Have you contributed your 2021 State of Open Source in Financial Services Survey answers yet? Your participation is vital to understanding the state of open source, adoption, contribution, and overall readiness in the financial services industry.

To access the 2021 State of Open Source in Financial Services Survey simply scan the QR code below from your mobile device or click here to submit your survey answers now.

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Here's what's happening in the week of July 5th, 2021 within the FINOS community. Please forward this email to colleagues and industry partners who you think will be interested in FINOS. 

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Monday, July 5th

• No project or SIG meetings planned for today (US Holiday FINOS US Office closed)

Tuesday, July 6th

• 10am ET / 3pm BST.  Currency Ref. Data Work Stream Meeting
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda
  
• 12pm ET / 6pm BST  FINOS Regulation Innovation SIG (monthly meeting)

• The FINOS Regulation Innovation Special Interest Group (SIG) is a community of people interested in creating open source solutions for regulatory and compliance issues in financial services. For more information, visit https://github.com/finos/open-regtech

• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda
  

Wednesday, July 7th

• 10am ET/ 3pm BST. Open Source Readiness project
• Dave Neary, Red Hat Community Architect will present: Assessing the Health of an Open Source Project: What are the things to look out for when evaluating the community health of a project (and how does community health factor into long-term sustainability)?

• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda
  

• 11am ET / 5pm BST   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.
• Feel free to forward to others who may be interested in contributing to FINOS.
• Calendar invite | Webex
  

Thursday, July 8th

• No project or SIG meetings planned for today.

Friday, July 9th

• No project or SIG meetings planned for today.

Upcoming events:

• July 21th FINOS All Community Call 
• Save the date and register for the FINOS All Community Call on Wednesday 21st July at 10am EST / 3pm BST where Gabriele Columbro, FINOS Executive Director, will update you on the Q3 FINOS board meeting and FINOS Projects and SIGs will give you their latest updates.
• Register here for the FINOS All Community Call
  
• July 27th Legend Community Meeting: Legend 101
• Save the date and register for the Legend Community Meeting: Legend 101 on Tuesday, July 27th and join the Legend team for a Legend demo aimed at new Legend users regardless of technical or data modeling background.
  
• July 28th Can the Internet of Things Transform Retail Banking?
• Join FINOS for this industry experts panel discussion as we explore whether open source and the Internet of Things can help redefine customer experience in post covid retail banking. 
• Our experts for this superb panel discussion are ... Dan Makoski, Chief Design Officer, Lloyds Banking Group. Philip Bonhard, Customer Experience Lead, Lloyds Banking Group. Kathy Crumley, Global Banking Lead & Payment Enablement Strategist, Intel and Vicki Milhoan, Solutions Engineer, Intel.
• Registration here for “Can the Internet of Things Transform Retail Banking?”
  

• July 29th  Legend Community Meeting: New Features Deep Dive

• Join us Thursday, July 29th at 11am ET (4pm BST) via WebEx for the Legend Community Meeting: New Features Deep Dive to learn about the most recently open sourced features.

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 virtual meetup.