Here's what's happening in the week of August 24th, 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 24th
- No project meetings planned.
Tuesday, August 25th
- 11.30am ET / 4.30pm BST. Financial Objects Project
Wednesday, August 26th
- 11am ET / 4pm BST FINOS [virtual] Meetup: The unexpected story of Nearform: from OSS Mavericks to launching thee 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
- 12pm ET / 5pm BST. ODP Project
Thursday, August 27th
- 10am ET / 3pm BST. Cloud Service Certification Project
- No project meetings planned.
Looking Ahead:
- September 10 FINOS All Community Call
- Please register and join us for the Q3 All Community Call on September 10th at 11am ET / 4pm BST to hear about FINOS projects, upcoming events, new initiatives and lots of ways to engage with the FINOS community.
- 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
- Discussion on community key performance indicators (KPIs) We look forward to speaking with you!
- Register here
- October 26-29 Open Source Summit Europe
- 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.
- Final Call For Proposals: submit a proposal by end of August
- Register here
- April 14 2021 Empire Startups NY Fintech Conference
- New World Stages, 340 W 50th St, New York, NY 10019 [Map]
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
Other:
- The InterWork Alliance is hiring a Manager of Membership Growth. This is an opportunity for a recent grad with a background in technology and sales, eager to jumpstart their career in token-powered services.
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.
