--- title: Friday Update Newsletter - 12 March 21 description: "FINOS FRIDAY UPDATE NEWSLETTER\n\n12 MARCH 21\n\nHappy Friday! In this issue we're excited to share a recent award, welcome a new Associate Member, highlight the great work of our community and offer you new a new channel to collaborate and network. We've also picked out some \"good first issues\" for those of you looking to get more involved with a FINOS project." --- [Newsletter](https://www.finos.org/newsletter) # [Friday Update Newsletter - 12 March 21](https://www.finos.org/newsletter/friday-update-newsletter-12-march-21) Written by [FINOS Team](https://www.finos.org/newsletter/author/finos-team) | Mar 12, 2021 1:25:13 PM     FINOS FRIDAY UPDATE NEWSLETTER # 12 MARCH 21   Happy Friday! In this issue we're excited to share the news about a recent award, welcome a new Associate Member, highlight the great work of our community and offer you a new channel to collaborate and network. We've also picked out some "good first issues" for those of you looking to get more involved with FINOS projects.    ### FINOS NEWS & UPDATES ### TOSHA ELLISON RECOGNIZED IN WATERS TECH AWARDS We're delighted that Tosha Ellison, FINOS Chief Operating Officer, has been recognized as the "Vendor partnership or alliance professional of the year" in the Women in Technology & Data Awards 2021. [**Read More**](https://finos.org/blog/waters-women-in-technology-and-data-award-winner-2021-finos-tosha-ellison) [**Full Award Listing**](https://www.waterstechnology.com/awards-rankings/7804016/women-and-technology-data-awards-2021-all-the-winners)   ### NEW ASSOCIATE MEMBER: OPENUK We're pleased to share that OpenUK has recently joined FINOS as an Associate Member. OpenUK promotes businesses, projects and people, who use and develop Open, and strives to collaborate through 3 Pillars: Community, Legal & Policy and Learning. We're looking forward to working together. [**Open UK**](https://openuk.uk/)   ### FINOS PROJECTS AND COMMUNITY ### FINOS ANNOUNCES NEW COMMUNITY SLACK The FINOS team is delighted to announce the launch of a new FINOS Slack following feedback from our FINOS Community. The FINOS Slack provides our Community another public channel to discuss work in FINOS and open source in finance more generally.  [**More Info & How to Join**](https://finos.org/blog/finos-announces-new-community-slack)   ### Community Spotlight - Mark Guerriero Every newsletter we recognize and celebrate the awesome work of our open source contributors and the FINOS community. The FINOS team are delighted to welcome a [**Community Spotlight nominated by David Watkins**](https://github.com/finos/community/issues/108), Lead Maintainer of Waltz who would like to recognize the contributions **Mark Guerriero of Deutsche Bank** has made to the project. [**Read Mark's Community Spotlight**](https://finos.org/community-spotlight/community-spotlight-mark-guerriero-mar-21) [**More on Waltz**](https://github.com/finos/waltz)   ### INNERSOURCE COMMONS AT FINOS OPEN SOURCE READINESS GUEST SPEAKERS Last week, Roderick Randolph and Arthur Maltson, both Distinguished Engineers at Capital One discussed Capital One's InnerSource Journey, and the pitfalls and peaks they've experienced along the way. This particular webinar for OSR featured the third in a series of collaborations between FINOS and InnerSource Commons, and have helped launch the FINOS InnerSource Special Interest Group who just held their kickoff this week. If you were unable to attend, or just didn't get enough the first time, check out the video. [**Capital One's InnerSource Journey**](https://finos.org/blog/capital-ones-innersource-journey-roderick-randolph-and-arthur-maltson) [**FINOS InnerSource Special Interest Group**](https://github.com/finos/InnerSource)   ### finos GOOD FIRST ISSUES & HELP WANTED **Your Opportunity To Get Involved** A good place to start contributing to, and making a difference in, open source in financial services is by taking a look at the FINOS Good First Issues (GFI) List on GitHub. This list includes issues and "help wanted" posts from our open source projects like Legend, Morphir, Waltz, Perspective, and many others. This week we're highlighting GFIs from the [**Perspective Project**](https://perspective.finos.org/). The project is based around streaming pivot visualization via WebAssembly. [Perspective Project Good First Issues](https://github.com/finos/perspective/labels/good%20first%20issue) [**All FINOS Project Good First Issues**](https://github.com/search?q=org%3Afinos+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22&unscoped_q=is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22)   ### join us ### OUR MEETUPS & GUEST PRESENTATIONS We are working on our meetup and guest presentation schedule for 2021. For a full weekly list of meetups, webinars, and other open source project oriented meetings, please refer to [**“This Week at FINOS”**](https://www.finos.org/this-week-at-finos), and sign up to receive this email which comes out every Monday. (Email [**community+subscribe@finos.org**](mailto:community+subscribe@finos.org) to be automatically added to the distribution.)   **24 March 2021: APAC Open Source in Fintech Meetup (AUS Start Time: 5:00pm Australian EST / 2:00am US EDT / 6:00am GMT)** ***Symphony BDK for Java - Yong Sheng Tan, Symphony*** ***OS Technology to Build & Evolve a Low Code Application Platform - José Pozo*** [**REGISTER HERE**  ](https://finos.org/hosted-events/2021-03-24-apac-os-in-fintech-meetup)   ### OUR PODCASTS AND VIDEOS Listen to and view our podcasts and videos on Open Source in Fintech. We'll announce upcoming ones through our [**This Week at FINOS blog and email**](https://finos.org/this-week-at-finos). **Podcasts** [**2020 Podcast Roundup**](https://finos.org/blog/2020-finos-open-source-in-fintech-podcast-episodes) [**Apple Podcasts **](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/finos-open-source-in-fintech-podcast/id1512371068)| [**Anchor.fm **](https://anchor.fm/finos)| [**Spotify**](https://open.spotify.com/show/431XdfX2fBdCUsopwh8td3) | [**Google Podcasts **](https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8xZjQ0NTg4MC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw==) **Videos** [**All 2019 & 2020 FINOS Guest Presentations On YouTube**](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmPXh6nBuhJsYg1tP9dh3pNq2pVrGTdWs) [**FINOS YouTube Channel**](https://www.youtube.com/c/FINOS)      ### LEARN MORE   [**This Week at FINOS Blog**](https://finos.org/this-week-at-finos) - See what is happening at FINOS each week. [**FINOS Landscape**](https://landscape.finos.org/) - See our landscape of FINOS open source and open standard projects. [**Community Calendar**](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=finos.org_fac8mo1rfc6ehscg0d80fi8jig%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FNew_York)- Scroll through the calendar to find a meeting to join. [**Project Status Dashboard**](https://metrics.finos.org/goto/7bfcb03f027a1406c997d731d4715ea7) - See a live snapshot of our community contributors and activity. [**Events**](https://finos.org/news-and-events) - Check out our upcoming events or email [**marketing@finos.org**](mailto:marketing@finos.org) if you'd like to partner with us or have an event idea. [**FINOS Virtual "Meetups" Videos & Slides**](https://finos.org/knowledge-base#finos-event-videos) - Access replays of our 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**](https://finos.org/knowledge-base#finos-podcasts) - Subscribe and listen to the first open source in fintech and banking podcast for deeper dives on our virtual "meetup" and other topics.     **Interested in FINOS open source projects? 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