[FINOS Community] This Week at FINOS - Week of April 13th

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Aitana Myohl

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Apr 13, 2020, 2:00:29 AM4/13/20
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Dear FINOS Community, 

James is out on a well deserved holiday this week so I'm covering for him.

First things first: Welcome to our inaugural This Week at FINOS as part of The Linux Foundation! We are thrilled to join forces to accelerate Open Source software & standards development within the financial services industry. Check out the press release, Gab's related blog post and the FAQs.

Now, here's what's happening in the week of April 13th, 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...@finos.org and you'll be added to the mailing list.  

Monday, April 13th
    Tuesday, April 14th
    Wednesday, April 15th
    • 11am ET / 4pm GMT. FINOS [virtual] Meetup by Petyo Ivanov (Glue42)
      • Topic : From Closed Source to Open Source. Open Source removes the traditional communication barriers between the vendor and the consumers, resulting in an experience that cannot be matched by the traditional distribution model. In this talk, Petyo Ivanov, Glue42 Product Manager, will tell the story of how a traditional enterprise software vendor transitioned towards distributing their latest product version as an open source offering. The talk will describe the concerns, the unknowns and the discoveries the company made in this journey.
      Thursday, April 16th
      Friday, April 17th
      FINOS [virtual] Meetups:

      Wednesday, April 15th
      • 11am ET / 4pm GMT. Petyo Ivanov (Glue42)
        • Topic : From Closed Source to Open Source
        • Open Source removes the traditional communication barriers between the vendor and the consumers, resulting in an experience that cannot be matched by the traditional distribution model. In this talk, Petyo Ivanov, Glue42 Product Manager, will tell the story of how a traditional enterprise software vendor transitioned towards distributing their latest product version as an open source offering. The talk will describe the concerns, the unknowns and the discoveries the company made in this journey.
        • Register for this virtual meetup here
      Wednesday, May 6th
      • 11am ET / 4pm GMT. Stephen Murphy (CEO of new FINOS member Genesis)
        • Topic : <To Be Announced>
        • Registration details to follow
      Looking Ahead:
      • May 1 Open Collective Virtual Funding Event
        • Join Indeed, the Open Source Collective, and others as we come together at the first FOSS Responders Virtual Funding Event. 
        • FOSS Funders will come together on May 1, 2020 to distribute funds to free and open source event organizers who have had to cancel their events due to COVID-19. If you want to participate as a FOSS Funder, please email foss-re...@googlegroups.com
        • If you are a conference or event organizer who serves the free and open source software community, and you have experienced financial losses due to COVID-19 related conference cancellations, please apply for support
        • Attendance is by invitation only.

      Finally, for Program Management Committee leads, Program Management Committee (PMC) members, and FINOS project leads, a reminder that next week is the Q2 board meeting. Ahead of that meeting, as usual, we'll be following up with all 10 programs regarding their quarterly health check reports. We've also reached out to the four Q1 focus projects - Perspective, Plexus, Alloy, and the ongoing Synthetic Data contribution from Citi - for updates on those efforts.

      Additionally, all 44 projects in either an active or incubating state should have their 2020 project roadmaps published now, or have plans in place to soon do so. As we compile the program health checks, and looking ahead as we prepare for the likely removal of programs altogether as a Foundation governance construct, we (Rob and I) may be reaching out this week to some projects and their respective project leads about your roadmaps and progress to date this year. As always, the most important thing we'd like to hear from projects and the community is about any needs, obstacles and challenges you and your project might be facing, especially what your project may need in terms of new contributors (e.g. skill sets, languages) or contributions (e.g. features, pull requests), and how both the FINOS staff and the FINOS board may be able to further assist and support you. Thanks for all your help.
       
      Have a great week and please contact me at ait...@finos.org if you have any questions and especially if you would like to present at a future FINOS virtual meetup.

      Best,
      Aitana

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      Aitana Myohl | Community Support Specialist | FINOS

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