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Learn about 8Knot, a new tool designed to enhance open source community analysis, with a video of the recent FINOS Open Source Readiness presentation by Cali Dolfi of Red Hat on June 8th, 2024, or check out the transcript. In her presentation, Cali provided an in-depth look at 8Knot’s features, explaining how it utilizes Augur to collect and structure data from Git repositories. 8Knot offers comprehensive visualizations and dashboards to provide insights into community health, contributor activity, and project sustainability. The session also included a dynamic Q&A, where participants discussed potential future enhancements and integrations based on the audience's feedback.

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.

Join us Wednesday, June 19th at 10am EDT via WebEx for two guest presentations for the FINOS Open Source Readiness (OSR) Working Group.

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.