Here's what's happening during the week of November 27, 2023 within the FINOS community.

This Wednesday, join the FINOS team and community for our fully virtual FINOS 2023 Q4 All Community Call on 29th November. Gabriele Columbro, FINOS Executive Director, and the FINOS team will provide Governing Board updates, a view of what's happening in FINOS throughout 2023 into 2024, and updates from our Open Source in Finance Forum. Register here.

Join us in London tonight to celebrate one year of our tech and DEI meet-up Big Boost Mondays. Discussing the theme of 'How to Champion Transformation, Diversity & Breaking Down Barriers', we have a lineup of speakers from Citi, NatWest, and much more. View the full agenda and register for FREE here.

We are delighted to announce that NatWest Group are the winners of the 2023 OpenUK Finance Award for their contribution of Backplane to the FINOS FDC3 ecosystem, hosting a FINOS and Scott Logic Open Source Meetup in the City of London, and supporting the FINOS London Member Meeting DEI track at J.P. Morgan. Congratulations!

Discover the latest insights from the Open Source Readiness (OSR) SIG in a blog post by Peter Smulovics of Morgan Stanley. This week we're focusing on forking in a blog entitled - Contribute, Don't Fork. Read more here.

WEEK OF 27 november - MEETINGS

Here's what's happening during the week of November 27, 2023 in the FINOS community:

• 10am ET / 3pm GMT - CDM: Structured Products
  • Calendar Invite

• 10am ET / 3pm GMT - InnerSource SIG
  • Calendar Invite

• 11am ET / 4pm GMT - DevOps Automation SIG: Architecture as Code
  • Calendar Invite

• 4:30am ET / 10:30am GMT - Spring Bot
  • Calendar Invite

Thursday, November 30

• 9:15am ET / 2:15pm GMT - A11y Theme Builder
  • Calendar Invite

• 10am ET / 3pm GMT - FDC3: Standard
  • Calendar Invite

• 11am ET / 4pm GMT - Morphir
  • Calendar Invite

Upcoming EVENTS

• November 27 - Big Boost Mondays Bash London
  • Join us for our Big Boost Mondays' Big Bash in London! Celebrating 1 year of Big Boost Mondays - a Tech & DEI meet-up helping you find your pathway into technology in the city! View speakers and register here.

• November 29 - FINOS All Community Call Q4 - Virtual
  • Join Gabriele Columbro, FINOS Executive Director, and the FINOS team virtually for FINOS Q4 Governing Board updates and a view of what's happening in FINOS throughout 2023 into 2024! Zoom registration available here.

• December 4 - Big Boost Mondays NYC
  • Join us for Big Boost Mondays in NYC at Synechron. This edition of our Tech & DEI meet-up will feature speakers from Synechron, NextWave Consulting, & more! Register here.

• February 6-7 - State of Open Con 24
  • Come say hello to the FINOS team at our booth at the UK's open technology conference covering open source software, open hardware, and open data in London. Explore conference details here. 

Have a great week and please contact james@finos.org if you have any questions or you would like to take part in a FINOS virtual Meetup or podcast.

Kind regards,
FINOS Community Managers