This Week at FINOS: Week of October 11, 2021

Thank you to the FINOS Community for a wonderful two days at OSSF London last week. It was so special to have everyone come together in-person on Monday for the FINOS Member Meeting followed by the Open Source Strategy Forum on Tuesday. It was wonderful to see everyone together and we look forward to doing it again this year at OSSF New York on November 9th and 10th.

Each year at OSSF, FINOS has the incredible opportunity to recognize the accomplishments of FINOS Members and Contributors. We are forever grateful to the growing FINOS Community and are pleased to announce the winners of the FINOS Member Awards and FINOS Community Awards for EMEA below ... Well done and congratulations to ...

• Most Active Individual: David Watkins, Engineering Director, Deutsche Bank
• Outstanding Leadership: Vijayesh Chandel, Vice President, Goldman Sachs
• Newcomer: Mauricio Uyaguari, Software Engineer, Goldman Sachs
• Coaching Award: Abdullah Garcia, Vice President - Senior Security Architect, JP Morgan Chase
• Shining Star Award: FINOS Legend Project
• Going "All In" Award: Deutsche Bank
• Most Active Member: Deutsche Bank
• Leading the Pack: CodeThink
• Breaking the Status Quo: UBS
• Spread the Word: Adaptive

Remember, you can still Register Here for OSSF New York on November 9th and 10th and that FINOS Members can attend OSSF NY for FREE. Please email ossf@finos.org to request the FINOS Member registration code.

Here's what's happening in the week of October 11th, 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, October 11th

• 9:30am ET / 2:30pm BST. KDB Project call
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda

• 11:00am ET / 4:00pm BST. FINOS InnerSource SIG
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda

Tuesday, October 12th

• 10am ET / 3pm BST. Currency Ref. Data Work Stream 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. 
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda

• 12pm ET / 5pm BST. FINOS Regulation Innovation SIG (monthly meeting)
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda
  
  

Wednesday, October 13th

• 10am ET / 3pm 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.
• Calendar invite | Webex
  
  

Thursday, October 14th

• 11am ET / 4pm BST. FDC3 Channels, Feeds & Transactions Discussion group
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda 

Friday, October 15th

• No project or SIG meetings planned for today.

Upcoming Events:

• Nov 9th and 10th : FINOS Open Source Strategy Forum and Member Meetings NYC
• At OSSF NY, FINOS brings 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.
• Register here for OSSF and FINOS Member Meetings 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 virtual meetup.