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Open Source in Fintech Podcast: FINOS Debrief 19 March 21

In this episode of the podcast, we're excited to share the news about a recent award, welcome a new Associate Member, highlight the great work of our community and offer you a new channel to collaborate and network. We've also picked out some "good first issues" for those of you looking to get more involved with FINOS projects.
 
Episode show notes and transcripts are available below.
 

Capital One's InnerSource Journey - Roderick Randolph and Arthur Maltson

Guest Speakers: Roderick Randolph and Arthur Maltson, Distinguished Engineers at Capital One presented on "Capital One's Innersource Journey"

This video is from a live webinar conducted for the FINOS Open Source Readiness (OSR) project. The OSR project meets regularly for guest presentations, knowledge-sharing between financial industry firms solving similar issues on their road to open source readiness, and discussion of open source strategy. Take a look at upcoming FINOS events like this and join us!

This particular webinar for OSR featured the second in a series of collaborations between FINOS and InnerSource Commons. 

 

FINOS Announces New Community Slack

The FINOS team is delighted to announce the launch of a new FINOS Slack following feedback from our FINOS Community. The FINOS Slack provides our Community another public channel to discuss work in FINOS and open source in finance more generally.

 

Waters Women in Technology and Data Award Winner 2021: FINOS' Tosha Ellison

We're delighted that Tosha Ellison, FINOS Chief Operating Officer, has been recognized as the "Vendor partnership or alliance professional of the year" in the Women in Technology & Data Awards 2021.

 

Open Source in Fintech Podcast: The Code Coverage Paradox - Diffblue

February 25, 2021
Season 3, 2nd edition of 2021 of the FINOS Open Source in Fintech Podcast: The Code Coverage Paradox - Diffblue's Enrico Trentin & Matthew Richards Interview.
 
 

Enrico Trentin - The Code Coverage Paradox

February 24, 2021

Guest Speaker: Enrico Trentin of Diffblue, presented "The Code Coverage Paradox: When 90% Isn’t Enough, But Less Might Be". 

This video was from a live FINOS Open Source in Fintech Meetup on February 17, 2020. Join us live for future "Meetups" to see real examples of successful collaboration, hear a few top tips from active contributors, and learn about some innovative approaches to maintaining open source projects.

 

Primer: The Code Coverage Paradox - DiffBlue

February 16, 2021

Code coverage is the metric everyone knows - but is it really what you need to be using? 

In an upcoming talk this Wednesday, February 17th at 11am ET/4pm GMT, Enrico Trentin, the developer relations lead at Diffblue, will answer this question, walk you through the code metrics that actually matter, and explain how to identify areas of risk and efficiently improve them with manual and automated means, using examples from FINOS open source projects and data-modelling platforms.

Below is a primer for what we'll be discussing during Enrico's talk.

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Reflecting on Grass-roots Innersource - Aaron Searle

February 11, 2021

 

Guest Speaker: Aaron Searle, VP of Engineering, Morgan Stanley presented on "Reflecting on Grass-roots Innersource"

This video is from a live webinar conducted for the FINOS Open Source Readiness (OSR) project. The OSR project meets bi-weekly for guest presentations, knowledge-sharing between financial industry firms solving similar issues on their road to open source readiness, and discussion of open source strategy. Take a look at upcoming FINOS events like this and join us!

This particular webinar for OSR featured the second in a series of collaborations between FINOS and InnerSource Commons. Aaron's presentation was integral in showing how InnerSource can work from the ground up in banks, even when there is not a top-down emphasis (yet), highlighting collaboration efforts of different groups. 

Panelists from this OSR session also discussed Aaron's questions on how to get better at InnerSourcing in early stages within your organization.

 

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