Dear FINOS Community,
For all those who are US based, we hope you had a wonderful time with friends and family for the Thanksgiving holiday.
If you recall, we were busy working over the summer with our research partners, The Linux Foundation and FINOS Members, Scott Logic, Wipro, and GitHub to collaboratively publish the 2021 State of Open Source in Financial Services report that you can download now from the FINOS website.
Join Hilary Carter, VP Research, at The Linux Foundation, and Colin Eberhardt, CTO, at Scott Logic for the virtual FINOS Open Source London Meetup on Wednesday 8th December at 5pm GMT / 12pm ET where they will share the survey’s key findings and give you an outline of how financial services can partake and benefit from the innovation of open source software and standards.
Register here to attend the FINOS Open Source London Meetup, in partnership with Scott Logic, and don’t forget to download and read the 2021 State Of Open Source in Financial Services report from the FINOS website.
Here's what's happening in the week of November 29th, 2021 within the FINOS community.
Monday, November 29th
No project or SIG meetings planned for today.
Tuesday, November 30th
9am ET / 2pm GMT. FDC3 Channels, Feeds & Transactions Discussion group
There are currently 10 open issues in the FDC3 repository, under consideration for the 2.0 release, that relate to the existing concept of channels (both the 'system channels' used via the desktop agent API, and 'app channels' interacted with through the Channels API) and new concepts we've discussed introducing: transactions (a standardized way to make a request and receive a response back) and feeds (a standardized way to request a stream of data, such as a pricing stream).
10am ET / 3pm GMT. Financial Objects SIG meeting
The Financial Objects Special Interest Group (SIG) provides a neutral forum for individuals across the financial services industry to collectively identify the need for new, open, financial objects standards as well as modifications to existing ones. The goal of the Financial Objects Special Interest Group is to promote adoption of financial object definitions and models that support common industry workflows and use cases.
Wednesday, December 1st
10am ET / 3pm GMT. Open Source Readiness SIG
In this panel discussion, three experienced open source IP attorneys; Van Lindberg, Partner, Taylor English, Heather Meeker, Partner, O’Melveny & Myers, and McCoy Smith, Founding Attorney, Lex Pan L will answer questions that large companies have about contributing to open source projects.
Thursday, December 2nd
9am ET / 2pm GMT. FDC3 Context Data & Intents Discussion Group
At the FDC3 Use Cases Roundtable London, October 5th 2021 participants agreed that the FDC3 lexicon needs to be expanded, both with additional intents and context types to support Use Cases, but also to include more primitive data types in order to construct complex types. A number of participants also agreed that now is an appropriate time to expand the Lexicon.
This group is being convened to discuss and arrange work to contribute further Context types and Intents to support Use Cases being implemented by participants.
Friday, December 3rd
10am ET / 3pm GMT. Compliant Financial Infrastructure Project Meeting
Compliant Financial Infrastructure accelerates the development, deployment and adoption of services provided for AWS, Azure and Google in a way that meets existing regulatory and internal security controls.
Upcoming events:
December 8, 2021: FINOS APAC WEBINAR: How Open Source is Driving Innovation in Financial Services and How You Can Get Involved
7am GMT, 9am Israel, 3pm Hong Kong, 11pm PST, midnight MST
Leading financial services companies are embracing open source as a key driver for innovation and efficiency. Companies globally are collaborating to deliver better code, faster, and solve industry challenges.
This is a rare opportunity for leaders in Asia Pacific financial services and fintech companies to hear how OSS is changing the industry and how they can get involved.
December 8, 2021 - 5pm to 6:15pm GMT : Open Source London // Dec 2021 // Online event
We’re back online for the next Open Source London meetup where we have a fantastic line-up of speakers and talks for you in December:
Hilary Carter, VP Research, The Linux Foundation
Colin Eberhardt, CTO, Scott Logic
Abby Mitchell, Quantum Developer Advocate, IBM
Maxwell Hsu, Developer Relations, Digital Asset
Have a great week and please contact ju...@finos.org or ja...@finos.org if you have any questions or you would like to take part in a FINOS virtual meetup or podcast.
Kind regards,
Julia Ritter - FINOS Community Manager