Here's what's happening in the week of August 3rd, 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 3rd
- 10am ET / 3pm BST. kdb Project Call
Tuesday, August 4th
- 10 am ET / 3pm BST. FDC3 General Meeting
- 10am ET / 3pm BST. Security Reference Data: Currency Reference Data Call
- 11am ET / 4pm BST. Security Reference Data Project Meeting
Wednesday, August 5th
- 10am ET / 3pm BST. Open Source Readiness: Guest Panel "Perspectives on Internal Training of Open Source Matters within Organizations"
- A key component of open source readiness is the readiness of an organizations’ own team members on open source matters and practices. Developers may need hands-on training on open source development practices and tools. Product managers might benefit from material on distributed software development methodologies. Legal and compliance teams may need to quickly get up to speed on open source licenses. Join us on August 5th to explore the topic of internal open source training of employees, looking at questions such as:
- What sort of training and courses do banks and other financial institutions make available to internal teams? What portion of this training, if any, counts towards internal annual education requirements?
- What sort of training and certification requirement do banks and other financial institutions impose internally to assess individual developer readiness to be approved to make open source contributions on an institution’s behalf?
- Who creates training? What external providers are there?
- Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda
Thursday, August 6th
- No project meetings planned.
- 9am ET / 2pm BST. FDC3 PMC Meeting
- August 10 Open Source Technology Management Micro-Course by Brandeis University
- This online Open Source program at Brandeis is dedicated to enhancing and supporting the OSS community through content that is founded in the principles of software freedom and collaborative development. Each four-week micro-course is led by high-profile OSS community leaders and includes case studies and project work. Students build virtual teams to design and propose solutions to real-world OSS problems.
- Register here
- August 12 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.
- 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.
