Can you believe that OSSF New York is just three weeks away. Register now for OSSF New York and the FINOS Member Meetings on Tuesday 9th November and Wednesday 10th November at New World Stages to pioneer and drive open source in financial services. FINOS member employees can attend OSSF and the FINOS Member Meetings for FREE.

Register here for OSSF New York to join the US FINOS Community and FINOS Members alongside speakers such as John Madsen Co-Head of Technology at Goldman Sachs, Nadine Chakar Head of Global Markets at State Street, and Brad Levy Chief Executive Officer at Symphony, plus much, much more.

The FINOS Open Source Strategy Forum is the only conference dedicated to driving collaboration and innovation in financial services through open source software and standards. We bring 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.

For OSSF related questions or for any issues (or if you are looking for a discount code) please email ossf@finos.org. 

Here's what's happening in the week of October 18th, 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 18th

• No project or SIG meetings planned for today.

Tuesday, October 19th

• 10am ET / 3pm BST. Open Source Readiness SIG
• The purpose of the OSR is to accelerate financial services firms’ journeys toward open source readiness. The concrete goals of the Project are to 1) advance the readiness of participants’ firms and 2) to inform guidance for the broader industry in the form of white papers, presentations, and blog posts.
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda

• 1pm ET / 6pm BST. All Things Open 2021
• Join Gabriele Columbro, FINOS Executive Director, at All Things Open 2021 for his talk How open source is helping financial services adopt new technology from the ‘outside in’ that starts at 1pm ET / 6pm BST.
• Register to join Gabriele Columbro at All Things Open 2021

Wednesday, October 20th

• 9:30am ET / 2:30pm BST. Q4 FINOS Governing Board Meeting
  

Thursday, October 21st

• 10am ET / 3pm BST. Cloud Service Certification Project Bi-Weekly Meeting
• Cloud Service Certification 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
  
  
• 12pm ET / 5pm BST. 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, October 22nd

• No project or SIG meetings planned for today.
  

Upcoming Events:

• Nov 2nd : Symphony Innovate 2021
• Join FINOS CTO, Jane Gavronsky who is speaking at Symphony Innovate 2021 as part of the FDC3 panel discussion.
• Symphony Innovate 2021 will bring together hundreds of key financial and technology experts from all over the world into a single, digital venue to discuss recent industry transformations, unlock powerful workflows, and connect with purpose. Symphony is holding a concurrent invite-only conference in New York - capacity is limited due to COVID restrictions.
• If interested in joining, please contact your Symphony representative.

• Nov 2nd : Linux Foundation Member Summit 2021
• Join Gabriele Columbro, FINOS Executive Director, as Gab keynotes at The Linux Foundation Member Summit (formerly Open Source Leadership Summit). The Linux Foundation Member Summit is the annual gathering for Linux Foundation member organizations. The event fosters collaboration, innovation, and partnerships among the leading projects and organizations working to drive digital transformation with open source technologies.
• The Linux Foundation Member Summit is a must-attend for business and technical leaders looking to advance open source strategy, implementation and investment in their organizations and learn how to collaboratively manage the largest shared technology investment of our time..
• Register here for Linux Foundation Member Summit 2021

• 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.