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title: Open Source Readiness - Weekly Update - 18 April 2023
description: "This year at FINOS we are focusing on one of FINOS' key existing projects: Open Source Readiness. This is FINOS' term for helping the finance industry \"do open source properly\". "
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# [Open Source Readiness - Weekly Update - 18 April 2023](https://www.finos.org/blog/open-source-readiness-weekly-update-18-april-2023)

 Written by [Rob Moffat](https://www.finos.org/blog/author/rob-moffat) | 4/18/23, 1:37 PM

This year at FINOS we are focusing on one of FINOS' key existing projects: [Open Source Readiness](https://www.finos.org/open-source-readiness). This is FINOS' term for helping the finance industry "do open source properly". 

**What’s Been Happening?**

On 5th April we had an amazing Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting where **Brittany Istenes** presented her article on **Maintaining Open Source Projects**, with lots of discussion around how this should work in regulated / corporate environments. This sparked some interesting discussion around how **Compliance and Evidencing Requirements** impact open source projects. PR Incoming!

**Kay Xiong Pachay** presented her article on **Training Requirements for Open Source Developers** (again, working in a corporate environment). It was interesting to hear how different banks mandate training for open source developers and what those courses contain.   Again - PR Incoming!

**Coming Up This Week**

We have the OSR SIG meeting (Wednesday 10AM EST/3PM BST). Check out the [FINOS Calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=finos.org_fac8mo1rfc6ehscg0d80fi8jig%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FNew_York) and get involved.

We will be talking about **community management** for open source development (again, courtesy of Brittany Istenes) and (time permitting) we’ll be reviewing one of several other new articles being drafted for the Body Of Knowledge.

**Ready To Read**

- Why not read about the [5 Levels of Maturity](https://osr.finos.org/docs/bok/OSMM/Introduction) in the OSR Body Of Knowledge?
- Or take a look at the draft article on [Legal Risk](https://deploy-preview-115--open-source-readiness.netlify.app/docs/bok/Risks/Legal-Risk) and find out about how much money banks end up paying when they break laws…

**Lunch in New York?** 

And Finally we’re in New York in the first week of May for the FINOS Hackathon (sign up now!)

**Join the [FINOS Hackathon at BMO](https://www.finos.org/hosted-events/2023-05-03-finos-hackathon-bmo) in New York City on May 3/4 2023** 

If you work for a FINOS member and you’d like to meet the Open Source Readiness team for lunch on **Tuesday 2nd May 12:30pm** at the Manhattan **Eataly** then get in touch!  We’d love to hear your thoughts!

 

Author: Rob Moffat

 

**Interested in this FINOS open source project, or any of our other projects? Click the link below to see how to get involved in the FINOS Community.**

 

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