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FINOS: Friday Update Newsletter - 31 July 20

July 31, 2020

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FINOS FRIDAY UPDATE NEWSLETTER

31 JULY 20

We hope you are all staying safe (and sane) during these times.

Read below to keep up to date with the many activities happening at FINOS.

 

Q3 FINOS FOCUS PROJECTS

Each quarter the FINOS Governing Board identifies quarterly focus projects to receive extra support from the FINOS team. We're pleased to share below this quarter's projects and encourage you to check them out and get involved.

Alloy

Morphir

DevOps Mutualization

Security Reference Data

DataHub (and collaboration with DataHelix)

 

OPEN SOURCE FINREG

In case you haven't already heard, we've kicked off a new initiative to bring more open source code, standards, and practices to the way the financial services industry meets regulatory requirements. We're calling it Open Source FinReg. Check out the website, sign up for updates and email us if you have questions, ideas, or want to get involved. 

 

OPEN SOURCE STRATEGY FORUM (OSSF) 2020 - virtual ON NOVEMBER 12th & 13th

The dates are confirmed! Register now for OSSF 2020, the only conference dedicated to driving collaboration and innovation in financial services through open source software and standards. Visit the website for more information, including on registration, sponsorship, and speaking opportunities.

 

UPCOMING VIRTUAL MEETUPS & TALKS

Check out “This Week at FINOS”, our weekly email arriving in your inbox every Monday, for a full list of meetups, webinars, and FINOS open source project meetings.

(Email community+subscribe@finos.org to be automatically added to the distribution.)

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

Grab a Calendar Invite - OSR Panel Discussion: August 5th - "Perspectives of Open Source Matters within Organizations" - Jennifer Edwards of Deutsche Bank, Sally Ellard of Deutsche Bank, Simon Holt of JP Morgan Chase, Tony Wasserman of Carnegie Mellon University, and Matthew Weinstein of Accenture

Register - Meetup: August 12th - "Introducing Waltz, an Open Enterprise Project" - David Watkins, Jessica Woodland-Scott, Kamran Saleem, and Mark Guerriero of Deutsche Bank

 

PAST events

Open Source Readiness Video & Slides: July 8th - "Using Open Source at Scale" - Justin Colannino, Microsoft

Meetup Video & Slides: July 1st - "Debunking Common Fears about Open Source" - Danese Cooper, Nearform

Meetup Podcast: June 17th - "Financial Services After Covid-19 : Open Source Paves the Way" - Andrew Aitken, Wipro

With each Virtual "Meetup", we've done a deeper dive with the speaker in our FINOS Open Source in Fintech Podcast. This podcast is now available on our website, but also on Apple PodcastsSpotifyGoogle Podcasts, and Anchor.fm.

 

GET INVOLVED

This Week at FINOS Blog: See what is happening at FINOS each week.

FINOS Project Catalog: Search all of our Projects and Working Groups.

Project Meeting Calendar: Scroll through the calendar to find a meeting to join.

Project Status Dashboard: See a live snapshot of our community contributors and activity.

EventsCheck out our upcoming events or email marketing@finos.org if you'd like to partner with us or have an event idea.

FINOS Virtual "Meetups" Videos & Slides: In April of this year, we started a series of virtual "meetups" based around the FINOS Community and projects, since we can't all be in the same room right now.

FINOS Open Source in Fintech Podcasts: We also started one of the first open source in Fintech and banking podcasts for deeper dives on our virtual "meetup" topics.

 

Interested in FINOS open source projects? Click the link below to see how to get involved in the FINOS Community.

Get Involved

 

Thanks!

~ The FINOS Team