For all those who are US-based, we hope you had a wonderful time with friends and family for the Thanksgiving holiday.

If you recall, we were busy working over the summer with our research partners, The Linux Foundation, Scott Logic, Wipro, and GitHub to collaboratively conduct the FINOS ‘2021 State of Open Source in Financial Services’ survey. 

Hilary Carter, VP Research, at The Linux Foundation, and Colin Eberhardt, CTO, Scott Logic will be summarizing the key findings of the survey and will be outlining out what steps the industry can take to break through these barriers and benefit from the innovation that open source software and standards at the next Open Source London meetup on Wednesday, December 8, 2021, at 12 PM  EST / 5 PM GMT. 

To attend the virtual Open Source in London Meetup, register for the webinar at Scott Logic's Webinar registration page, or visit the Open Source London Meetup page to join the public Open Source London Group and RSVP for the Open Source London virtual event. 

To view the 2021 State Of Open Source in Financial Services Report report, register to download the 2021 State of Open Source in Financial Services. 

If you have questions regarding the survey or report please email us at info@finos.org.

Here's what's happening in the week of November 29nd, 2021 within the FINOS community. 

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Monday, November 29th

• No project or SIG meetings planned for today.

Tuesday, November 30th

• 9am ET / 2pm GMT. FDC3 Channels, Feeds & Transactions Discussion group
• There are currently 10 open issues in the FDC3 repository , under consideration for the 2.0 release, that relate to the existing concept of channels (both the 'system channels' used via the desktop agent API, and 'app channels' interacted with through the Channels API) and new concepts we've discussed introducing: transactions (a standardized way to make a request and receive a response back) and feeds (a standardized way to request a stream of data, such as a pricing stream).
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda
  
  
• 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, December 1st

• 10am ET / 3pm GMT. Open Source Readiness SIG
• In this panel discussion, three experienced open source IP attorneys; Van Lindberg, Partner, Taylor English, Heather Meeker, Partner, O’Melveny & Myers, and McCoy Smith, Founding Attorney, Lex Pan L will answer questions that large companies have about contributing to open source projects. 
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda

Thursday, December 2nd

• 9am ET / 2pm GMT. FDC3 Context Data & Intents Discussion Group
• At the FDC3 Use Cases Roundtable London, October 5th 2021 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

Friday, December 3rd

• 10am ET / 3pm GMT. Compliant Financial Infrastructure Project Meeting
• Compliant Financial Infrastructure accelerates the development, deployment and adoption of services provided for AWS, Azure and Google in a way that meets existing regulatory and internal security controls.
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda

Upcoming events:

December 8, 2021: FINOS APAC WEBINAR: How Open Source is Driving Innovation in Financial Services and How You Can Get Involved

•  7am GMT, 9am Israel, 3pm Hong Kong, 11pm PST, midnight MST
• Leading financial services companies are embracing open source as a key driver for innovation and efficiency. Companies globally are collaborating to deliver better code, faster, and solve industry challenges.
• This is a rare opportunity for leaders in Asia Pacific financial services and fintech companies to hear how OSS is changing the industry and how they can get involved.
• Register here for FINOS APAC WEBINAR

December 8, 2021 - 5pm to 6:15pm GMT : Open Source London // Dec 2021 // Online event

• We’re back online for the next Open Source London meetup where we have a fantastic line-up of speakers and talks for you in December:
• Hilary Carter, VP Research, The Linux Foundation
• Colin Eberhardt, CTO, Scott Logic
• Abby Mitchell, Quantum Developer Advocate, IBM
• Maxwell Hsu, Developer Relations, Digital Asset
• Register here for Open Source London

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.