[FINOS Community] This Week at FINOS - Week of May 18th

[James McLeod]

Dear FINOS Community, 

Here's what's happening in the week of May 18th, 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, May 18th

• No project meetings scheduled.
  

Tuesday, May 19th

• No project meetings scheduled.
  

Wednesday, May 20th

• 11am ET / 4pm BST. FINOS [virtual] Meetup: Kris West & Ian Mesner of ChartIQ
• Topic: How to Secure the Electron Container for Capital Markets. Join us as we outline the steps we took to secure our smart desktop platform, Finsemble, and highlight the use of our Secure Electron Adapter (now available as a FINOS open source project).
• Register here for "How to Secure the Electron Container for Capital Markets."

• 12pm ET / 5pm BST. Open Developer Platform 
  
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda

Thursday, May 21st

• 10am ET / 3pm BST. Cloud Service Certification Project 
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda

Friday, May 22nd

• No project meetings scheduled.
  

FINOS [virtual] Meetups:

• June 4 Andrew Carr & Tim Johnson of Scott Logic
• Topic: Faking it - How to Easily Create Realistic Test Data" (about the FINOS DataHelix Project).
• Register here for "Faking it - How to Easily Create Realistic Test Data"

Looking Ahead:

• May 22 Open Collective Virtual Funding Q2 Event
• Join Indeed, the Open Source Collective, and others as we come together at the first FOSS Responders Virtual Funding Event. 
• The Virtual FOSS Responders Funding Event is designed to help support the open source community through this critical time. Conference cancellations have caused financial loss, unmet fundraising trajectories, and missed business opportunities. Now is the time to participate in the sustainability of open software organizations. Now is the time to be a part of its survival.
• 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

• May 27: Open Source Readiness Project: Guest Presentation
• Speaker: Jeff Bates, ProdOps Manager, Google
• Topic: Jeff will present a retrospective of Google's open source efforts over the last 10 years, including how the company has managed its regulatory obligations in its open source efforts.

• October 16 Empire Startups NY Fintech Conference
• New World Stages, 340 W 50th St, New York, NY 10019 [Map]

• September 30 - October 2 Boston Fintech Week
• Boston, MA. Venue TBD.

Have a great week and please contact me at ja...@finos.org if you have any questions and especially if you would like to present at a future FINOS virtual meetup.

Kind regards,

James.

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James McLeod | Director of Community | FINOS

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