--- title: "This Week at FINOS: Week of December 16, 2019" description: Here's what’s happening the week of December 16th, 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. --- [Community Blog](https://www.finos.org/blog) # [This Week at FINOS: Week of December 16, 2019](https://www.finos.org/blog/this-week-at-finos-week-of-december-16-2019) Written by [FINOS Team](https://www.finos.org/blog/author/finos-team) | 12/16/19 7:03 AM 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](http://community+subscribe@finos.org/) and you'll be added to the mailing list. [mailto:james@finos.org](mailto:james@finos.org)        **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) - *12pm ET / 5pm BST*. **Open Developer Platform Project **(FDX Program) **Thursday, December 19th** - *10am ET / 3pm BST*. **Cloud Service Certification Project  **(FDX Program) - [Calendar invite](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r/week/2019/12/19?eid=MWo4b2pucms5bzJvdjVwajc2b3VwYjZjNTFfMjAxOTEyMTlUMTUwMDAwWiBmaW5vcy5vcmdfZmFjOG1vMXJmYzZlaHNjZzBkODBmaThqaWdAZw&ctz=America/New_York&sf=true) | [Webex](https://finos.webex.com/finos/j.php?MTID=me0b8e6061812f875505b0caaceac3321) | [Confluence Page](https://finosfoundation.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FDX/pages/904626436/Cloud+Service+Certification+Project) - *10.30am ET  / 3.30pm BST* **Pure/Alloy Demo by Goldman Sachs** - To register, please reach out to [purealloy@finos.org](mailto: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 ** **Looking Ahead:** -  *April 1, 2020* **[Empire Startups NY Fintech Conference](https://empirestartups.com/events/ny2020/)** - New World Stages, 340 W 50th St, New York, NY 10019 \[[Map](https://www.google.com/maps?q=new+world+stages&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJj4HsvpzmAhXhT98KHcCFD1wQ_AUoAXoECA0QAw)\] *A full list of upcoming events can be found at [www.finos.org/events](https://www.finos.org/events). * **Get Involved. **Opportunities for further participation and contribution:   - The [**Decentralized Ecosystem Growth Program**](https://finosfoundation.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DEG/overview) 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](https://entethalliance.org/enterprise-ethereum-alliance-launches-blockchain-neutral-token-taxonomy-initiative-to-accelerate-a-token-powered-blockchain-future/) and [website](https://entethalliance.org/participate/token-taxonomy-initiative/) for more information and background. To find out more send a note to [deg@finos.org](mailto:deg@finos.org). - The [**Financial Objects Program**](https://fo.finos.org/) is looking for suggestions of proposed use cases for financial objects. Send suggestions to [fo@finos.org](mailto:fo@finos.org). - The [**Open Source Readiness WG**](https://finosfoundation.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OSR/overview) is looking for open source process, policy, and governance questions & topics for future meetings. Send suggestions to [osr@finos.org](mailto:osr@finos.org). - The** [Security Reference Data WG](https://finosfoundation.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DT/pages/656834673/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](mailto:data-tech-sec-ref@finos.org). - The [**Call Metadata Standardization WG**](https://github.com/finos/voice-metadata-standard/wiki#call-metadata-standardization-working-group) 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](https://github.com/finos/voice-metadata-standard/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22help+wanted%22) issues. - Check out the [**Data Technologies Program**](https://finosfoundation.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DT/overview)'s list of [Good First Issues](https://github.com/finos/datahelix/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22)         [View full post](https://www.finos.org/blog/this-week-at-finos-week-of-december-16-2019) ```json { "@context" : "http://schema.org", "@type" : "BlogPosting", "author" : { "@type" : "Person", "name" : "FINOS Team" }, "dateModified" : "2019-12-16T07:03:07.484Z", "datePublished" : "2019-12-16T07:03:07Z", "headline" : "This Week at FINOS: Week of December 16, 2019", "image" : { "@type" : "ImageObject", "height" : 1024, "url" : "https://www.finos.org/hubfs/FINews-december16.png", "width" : 2048 }, "mainEntityOfPage" : "https://www.finos.org/blog/this-week-at-finos-week-of-december-16-2019", "publisher" : { "@type" : "Organization", "logo" : { "@type" : "ImageObject", "height" : 60.0, "url" : "https://www.finos.org/hubfs/FINOS/finos-logo/FINOS_Icon_Wordmark_RGB.svg", "width" : 60.000004 }, "name" : "Thoughts, news and events from our community" } } ```