GET INVOLVED QUICKSTART

new to open source?

For those newer to Open Source, the best way to start is by:

• Learning more about FINOS  

• Attending one of our Project meetings or attend an upcoming FINOS event

• Joining a Program Mailing Lists (or read through the archives) or the general FINOS Community Mailing List by sending an email to community+subscribe@finos.org

USE THE MEETING CALENDAR AND mailing lists

Joining an open source project 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 Project 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 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 at wiki.finos.org.

CONTRIBUTOR LICENSE AGREEMENT

Participation to meetings or mailing lists has virtually no requirements. But 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 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. 

experienced contributor?

More experienced Open Source developers may be ready to:

• • Contribute a new or to an existing project.

  • If you are looking for idea, a good place to start is the good first issues section below.
    
    
  • A FINOS contributor license agreement will be required once you submit your contribution.
    
    

Good first issues

A great place to start contributing is finding issues marked a "good first issue" in the FINOS Github organization. 

Also, these are some Programs and Projects which have immediate needs for further participation and contribution:

• 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 Project 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.