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:
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.
As financial services firms get serious about open source collaboration, one of their first priorities is getting a handle on the open source software they're already using. Open source may be free-of-cost but it's not free of obligation: using it responsibly means compliance with open source licenses and keeping current with updates to ensure the products using it remain secure.
Here's what’s happening the week of June 17th, 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.
Last month we held our 2019 Members Meeting in London, with well over 100 attendees helping to make the event a great success. Presentations included wide-ranging content focused on progress across our 11 FINOS programs as well as factors influencing our community and open source adoption. We were even treated to a live demo of product functionality delivered as a direct result of collaboration between our members. We’d like to thank J.P. Morgan for hosting us in a fantastic (and convenient) venue.
