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This Week at FINOS: Week of December 2, 2019

December 02, 2019
 
Here's what's happening in the week of December 2nd, 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.  
 
 
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As the FINOS community returns after an awesome Thanksgiving, we're continuing the holiday spirit with an Advent of Code, an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language. You don't need a computer science background to participate - just a little programming knowledge and a willingness to have fun!
 
To play, simply login to Advent of Code, using GitHub, Google, Twitter or Reddit and browse to Day 1 to start solving Advent puzzles! 🎅🏻⭐️✨
 
Now, as we're approaching the end of year one of the FDC3 1.0 standards, we’re asking for your feedback on how well FDC3 is addressing the needs of financial organizations, how we can help you with adoption, and the health of the FDC3 contributor community. 
 
Your input will help us improve our support for your organization and the larger FDC3 community. Please take a few minutes to complete the FDC3 Survey.
As we approach the end of the first year of the FDC3 1.0 standards, we’re asking for feedback on how well FDC3 is addressing the needs of financial organizations, how we can help you with adoption, and the health of the FDC3 contributor community. Your input will help us improve our support for your organization and the larger FDC3 community. Please take a few minutes to complete the FDC3 Survey.
 
 
 
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Monday December 2nd
Tuesday, December 3rd
  • No program activities planned.
Wednesday, December 4th
Thursday, December 5th
  • 12pm ET / 5pm BSTFinancial Objects Project (Financial Objects Program)
Friday, December 6th
  • 12pm ET / 5pm BST FINOS Office Hours (new!)
Looking Ahead:
  • December 9-15 Global CS Education WeekHour of Code in Brooklyn, NY
    • As we heard powerfully from Keesa in the Diversity panel at OSSF, building a sustainable open source community means not only building the community of today, but planting the seeds for the community of tomorrow. This theme was also echoed in the AVC post from FINOS launch day.

      In addition to the financial support that many FINOS members already provide to organizations like CSForAllGirls Who Code, and Black Girls Code, a concrete action individuals within the FINOS community can take is to lend a hand to children and young adults learning how to code and introduce them to open source concepts and practices.  If you're in New York City the week of December 9 - 15 (Global CS Education Week) and are interested in volunteering to go to a school in Brooklyn to help run a "Hour of Code" with local school children, feel free to reach out to Rob at rob.underwood@finos.org.  
A full list of upcoming events can be found at www.finos.org/events. 

Get Involved. Opportunities for further participation and contribution:

 

  • 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.

 

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