Have you registered for the New York OSSF and FINOS Member Meeting on November 9th and 10th? Come network and collaborate at OSSF and the FINOS Member Meeting live and in-person to accelerate FINOS Projects and SIGs whilst engaging in conversations around how financial institutions are leveraging open source software to address various business challenges.

Join the FINOS Community and FINOS Members alongside keynote speakers such as Igor Seletskiy, CEO & Founder of TuxCare (d.b.a. CloudLinux), Sultan Meghji, Chief Innovation Officer at FDIC, and JT Dupuy, Vice President Head of Client Services at Symphony, plus much, much more.

Register now for OSSF New York and the FINOS Member Meetings on Tuesday 9th November and Wednesday 10th November at New World Stages to sit in on (and engage) with over 25+ sessions, revealing recent developments and the direction of open source in financial services across a wide range of topics and domains. FINOS member employees can attend OSSF and the FINOS Member Meeting for FREE.

Please email ossf@finos.org for any OSSF related questions and to get your FINOS member discount code.

Here's what's happening in the week of October 25th, 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 25th

• 11am ET / 4pm BST. FINOS InnerSource Special Interest Group
• The InnerSource SIG is of particular importance to financial services organisations who wish to accelerate their InnerSource practices, share best practices, patterns and anti-patterns and potentially related code (e.g. for InnerSource tooling) in a secure environment, with the aim of contributing proven methods to FINOS and the wider InnerSource Commons community.
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda

Tuesday, October 26th

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

Wednesday, October 27th

• 10am ET / 3pm BST. Product Control Common Template
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda
  
  
• 11am ET / 4pm 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 28th

• 10am ET / 3pm BST. 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, October 29th

• 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.