Are you registered for the FINOS Member Meetings and Open Source Strategy Forum at Etc.Venues, Liverpool Street, London on October 4th and 5th. Register for OSSF London here to join FINOS Members, Projects and SIGs at the FINOS Member Meetings, alongside speakers such as Russell Green - Deutsche Bank Managing Director, Beeke-Marie Nelke - Goldman Sachs Vice President and Attila Mihaly - Morgan Stanley Vice President at OSSF.

Also, don't forget to register for the FINOS Member Meetings and OSSF New York on November 9th and 10th and that FINOS member employees can attend both the FINOS Member Meetings and OSSF for FREE in either location.

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.

Here's what's happening in the week of September 13th, 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, September 13th

• 9:30am ET / 2:30pm BST. KDB Project call

• The purpose of the kdb+ project is to curate common standards, tools, and libraries to facilitate collaborative development, ease artifact reuse, and improve usability and administration of kdb+ software in enterprise deployments.

• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda
  

• 10am ET / 3pm BST.  Product Control Common Template project

• The Product Control Common Template project initiative is looking to: construct a common template data model using Legend Studio (an approved open sourced data modelling tool that allows users to create data models in a graphical user interface). This common template data model will include all the attributes that each vendor is required to run their valuation process and return the consensus data to the banks.

• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda 

• 11am ET / 4pm BST. FINOS InnerSource Special Interest Group

• The FINOS InnerSource Special Interest Group is a community of people implementing, or interested in implementing, InnerSource within their financial services organization.

• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda

Tuesday, September 14th

• 10am ET / 3pm BST. Currency Reference. Data Work Stream Meeting

• The objective of this project is to create a standard object to represent currency data and create a central cloud based repository of the currency data.

• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda
  

• 12pm ET / 5pm 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. 

• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda
  
  

Wednesday, September 15th

• 11am ET / 4pm ET 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, September 16th

• 12pm ET / 5pm EST. FINOS 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, September 17th

• No FINOS project / SIG meetings planned.

Upcoming Events:

• Sept 27th to 30th : Linux Foundation Open Source Summit, North America

• Open Source Summit connects the open source ecosystem under one roof. It’s a unique environment for cross-collaboration between developers, sysadmins, devops, architects and others who are driving technology forward.

• Learn more about Open Source Summit, North America

• Sept 20th to Oct 1st : Leeds Digital Festival, UK

• Leeds Digital Festival returns this Autumn for a two-week open-platform celebration of digital culture. Whether you’re interested in coding, fintech, AI, healthtech, data, start-ups or cyber security, we’ve got something for you.

• Find out more about Leeds Digital Festival, UK

• Sept 29th : Open Source Leeds, UK

• Open Source Leeds, UK is a new meetup group dedicated to promoting the use of open source in large enterprises, run in partnership by FINOS and Scott Logic.

• The event will be run as a hybrid event as part of Leeds Digital Festival, so you can register to attend in person or you can register to watch the live stream.

• Oct 4th and 5th : Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF) and FINOS Member Meetings - London

• The FINOS Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF) and FINOS Member Meetings is the only conference dedicated to driving collaboration and innovation in financial services through open source software and standards.

• Register here for OSSF and FINOS Member Meetings London

• Nov 9th and 10th : Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF) and FINOS Member Meetings - New York

• The FINOS Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF) and FINOS Member Meetings 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 OSS 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.