Get Involved in the FINOS Community

GET INVOLVED

Ready to get involved in the FINOS community?

FIND a PLACE TO START

Check out the descriptions of the 11 FINOS programs to learn about a program's mission and its various working groups and projects. Each program also has its own program site or wiki listed off the program descriptions where you can find roadmaps, calls for help and contribution, meeting minutes, and upcoming meeting times and dial-in information.

Another good way to learn about FINOS programs and our community is to attend an upcoming FINOS event.

current "help wanted" opportunities

These Programs and Projects have immediate needs for further participation and contribution:

The Plexus Program PMC is developing a proposal for the FINOS Board that could expand that program's scope into several potential areas including desktop containers, development of cross-container APIs in JavaScript and .NET, and creation of an FDC3 API reference implementation. If you'd like to learn more about what's being discussed and potentially provide feedback, send an email to the Plexus PMC list (plx-pmc@finos.org).

ChartIQ has announced its intent to contribute its "Secure Electron Adaptor". Review and provide and feedback directly in JIRA on CONTRIB-52. Into which program this contribution would come is still TBD; one possibility is Plexus.

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

The Cloud Service Certification Project has defined Volunteer Roles for those who would like to participate. Reach out to fdx-cloud-service-certification@finos.org if you're interested.

Check out the Data Technologies Program's list of Good First Issues

USE THE MEETING CALENDAR AND GOOGLE GROUPs

Joining a working group call or program general meeting is a great way to experience FINOS and see our collaborations first hand. All program meetings can be found on the programs calendar as well as on the respective program wiki. Unsure which one to check out? A great first choice is our Open Source Readiness Working Group call that occurs every other Wednesday at 10am ET / 3pm BT.

Communication between scheduled meetings, and much of the overall collaboration within the FINOS community, occurs via Google Group mailing lists. Specific mailing lists used for projects and working groups within a program can be found on the respective program's wiki as well as in the directory of FINOS mailings lists.

More information about how to engage the FINOS community can be found on the FINOS Wiki at wiki.finos.org.

CONTRIBUTOR LICENSE AGREEMENT

To contribute code into a FINOS Github repository, community participants must be covered by a Contributor License Agreement. Commits and pull requests of code to FINOS repositories will only be accepted from those contributors:

with an active, executed Individual Contributor License Agreement (ICLA) with FINOS, or
covered under an existing and active Corporate Contribution License Agreement (CCLA) executed with FINOS.

Commits from individuals not covered under an ICLA or CCLA will be flagged and blocked by the FINOS "CLA-bot" tool. Please note that some CCLAs require individual employees to be explicitly named on the CCLA. More information about FINOS CLA requirements can be found on the FINOS Wiki.

Need HeLP?

Can't find a Google Group? Unsure when a working group next meets? Need to set up an ICLA or unsure if you are covered under an existing CCLA? Email help@finos.org or contact us.

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