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Here's what’s happening the week of July 29th, 2019 within the FINOS community:

Here's what’s happening the week of July 15th, 2019 within the FINOS community:

First things first -- if you have not already, please review and, if desired, comment on the following governance refinements by July 14th, ahead of the July 17 FINOS board meeting. Community feedback is critical. Please take time to provide your input:

• Consolidation of Working Groups and Projects
• Participation policy
• Revised Project Lifecycle

Here's what’s happening the week of July 8th, 2019 within the FINOS community:

Riko Eksteen is a tech lead and desktop strategy specialist at Adaptive Financial Consulting. An an active member of the FINOS Community, Riko has nearly 15 years of experience in technology and financial services with knowledge and skills spanning multiple technologies, front- and back-end systems, and everything in between (a true all-rounder).

First things first ... Run, don't walk, to check out this week's podcast from The Changelog, "Maintainer spotlight! Ned Batchelder". Chock-full of great stuff about building an open source community and being a maintainer of an open source project -- one great quote: "Making contribution successful takes a lot of people skills".

Here's what’s happening the week of July 1st, 2019 within and around the FINOS community:

Here's what’s happening the week of June 24th, 2019 within the FINOS community. We encourage you to forward this to colleagues and industry partners who may be interested in FINOS and its mission.

By: Gilles Gravier, Director, Senior Advisor - Open Source Strategy, Wipro

Free software, open source software, or FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software) is still, for a lot of people and organizations, the object of many questions and hesitations. One of the more frequent questions is whether somebody, or an enterprise, can modify code, and, if so, whether they can contribute those modifications back (upstream) to the original project.