Here's what's happening in the week of August 10th, 2020 within the FINOS community. Please feel free to forward this email to colleagues and industry partners who you think will be interested in FINOS. If someone forwarded this email to you and you'd like to subscribe, please send a note to community+subscribe@finos.org and you'll be added to the mailing list.
Monday, August 10th
- No project meetings planned.
Tuesday, August 11th
- No project meetings planned.
Wednesday, August 12th
- 5am ET / 10am BST. [external event] Building desktop applications with Finsemble by FINOS member Scott Logic
- This webinar will explain what’s involved in building an application that runs in the Finsemble desktop container. Mark Jose, Technical Principal at Scott Logic, will introduce you to Finsemble and talk about some of its features, demonstrating the approach he’s taken to building containerised applications. He will also cover some of the value-added features you get with Finsemble, such as integration with native Java and .NET applications.
- Register here
- 11am ET / 4pm BST. FINOS [virtual] Meetup: Introducing Waltz as a Dynamic Open Source Project by the Waltz team at Deutsche Bank
- Waltz is Deutsche Bank's open source project, recently contributed to FINOS, that allows you to visualize and define your organisation's technology landscape. Join Dave, Jessica, Kam and Mark from the Waltz open source team as they introduce the project, the evolution of Waltz and what it's like to be open source contributors in banking.
- Register here
- 12pm ET / 5pm BST. ODP Project
Thursday, August 13th
- 10am ET / 3pm BST. Cloud Service Certification Project
- No project meetings planned.
Looking Ahead:
- August 26 FINOS [virtual] Meetup: The unexpected story of Nearform: from OSS Mavericks to launching the world's most successful Covid-19 Contact Tracing App
- Guest Speakers Ger O’Shaughnessy & Conor O’Neill of FINOS member Nearform, will give a short introduction to what NearForm does and then they will dive into some of their valuable OSS work, leading up to their most recent project, Polaris; as well as the launch of the world’s most successful Covid-19 Contact Tracing App.
- Register here
- September 10 FINOS All Community Call
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- Presenters Executive Director, Gabriele Columbro, the FINOS team and community
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You can see agenda topics and even suggest new ones directly at https://github.com/finos/
community/issues/53 . Some of the items we’ll be covering include:- An update on Q3 focus projects
- Walkthrough of our new governance
- Top tips on key tools and processes for FINOS project maintainers and lead maintainers
- Discussion on community key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Register here
- October 16 Empire Startups NY Fintech Conference
- New World Stages, 340 W 50th St, New York, NY 10019 [Map]
- October 26-29 Open Source Summit Europe
- [SAVE THE DATE] November 12-13 Open Source Strategy Forum
- Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF) is the only conference dedicated to driving collaboration and innovation in financial services through open source software and standards. We bring together experts across financial services, technology, and open source to engage our community in stimulating and thought-provoking conversations about how to best (and safely) leverage open source software to solve industry challenges.
- Call For Proposals: submit a proposal by August 16th
- Register here
Help wanted:
- Riko Eksteen of FINOS member Adaptive is looking to put together a workshop on the topic of building applications using FDC3, especially to help "train engineers and business stakeholders to understand why FDC3 matters, and to realise its potential." If you are interested in learning more, reach out to Riko at riko@weareadaptive.com
Have a great week and please contact me at james@finos.org if you have any questions and especially if you would like to present at a future FINOS virtual meetup.
