As we wrap up an amazing FINOS year, we're taking some time off and all FINOS Offices will be closed from Tuesday, December 24th until Thursday, January 2nd. This means there will be no FINOS Programs activities during that period.
We'd like to wish you a very happy 2020 and look forward to starting FINOS activities the first week of the new year! 
Here's what's happening in the week of December 16th, 2019 within the FINOS community. Please feel free to 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 December 16th
- No program activities planned.
Tuesday, December 17th
- No program activities planned.
Wednesday, December 18th
- 10am ET / 3pm BST. FINOS Open Source Readiness WG (FDX Program)
- Calendar invite | Webex | Confluence Page
- Join us for a Guest Presentation by Andrew Aitken, GM & Global Open Source Practice Leader at Wipro Technologies on Triaging Open Source – Getting Your Program on the Right Path
- 12pm ET / 5pm BST. Open Developer Platform Project (FDX Program)
- 10am ET / 3pm BST. Cloud Service Certification Project (FDX Program)
- 10.30am ET / 3.30pm BST Pure/Alloy Demo by Goldman Sachs
- To register, please reach out to purealloy@finos.org
- 11am ET / 4pm BST. FDC3 Use Cases Working Group (FDC3 Program)
Friday, December 20th
- 11am ET / 4pm BST. Plexus Desktop Interop API Project (Financial Objects Program)
- 12pm ET / 5pm BST FINOS Office Hours
- A place for all FINOS members and contributors to hang out and ask us anything
- Join the Community WebEx
Looking Ahead:
- April 1, 2020 Empire Startups NY Fintech Conference
- New World Stages, 340 W 50th St, New York, NY 10019 [Map]
Get Involved. Opportunities for further participation and contribution:
- The Decentralized Ecosystem Growth Program is looking for suggested potential use cases of the Token Taxonomy Initiative (i.e. uses of standardized token definitions) to help that program further evaluate how the FINOS community might get involved in that initiative.Take a look at the initiative's launch press release and website for more information and background. To find out more send a note to deg@finos.org.
- The Financial Objects Program is looking for suggestions of proposed use cases for financial objects. Send suggestions to fo@finos.org.
- The Open Source Readiness WG is looking for open source process, policy, and governance questions & topics for future meetings. Send suggestions to osr@finos.org.
- The Security Reference Data WG (Data Technologies Program) is looking for existing challenges related to managing Security Reference Data. Send suggestions to data-tech-sec-ref@finos.org
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- The Call Metadata Standardization WG is developing a standard proposal for call recording metadata that includes call details, voice recordings, and transcribed voice, and is looking for contributors and call examples to validate the standard. Check out the list of Help Wanted issues.
- Check out the Data Technologies Program's list of Good First Issues
