Dear FINOS Community,

Here's what's happening in the week of September 6th, 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 6th

• US Public Holiday

Tuesday, September 7th

• 10am ET / 3pm BST. Financial Objects SIG meeting

• The Financial Objects SIG is led by FINOS members Goldman Sachs and ISDA, and hosted by FINOS, The Fintech Open Source Foundation. It was approved by the FINOS Governing Board in April 2021.

• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda
  
  

Wednesday, September 8th

• No project or SIG meetings planned for today
  
  

Thursday, September 9th

• 9am ET / 2pm EST. FDC3 Channels, Feeds & Transactions Discussion group

• There are currently 11 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 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 

Friday, September 10th

• 9am ET / 2pm BST. FDC3 PMC Meeting

• The FDC3 Product Management Committee (PMC) is responsible for coordinating the work of the FDC3 Standard Working Group, as well as FDC3-related planning and communications.

• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda 

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) - London

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

• Register here for OSSF London

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

• The FINOS Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF) 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 OSS to solve industry challenges.

• Register here for OSSF 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.