In this episode of the podcast, we're excited to share the news about a recent award, welcome a new Associate Member, highlight the great work of our community and offer you a new channel to collaborate and network. We've also picked out some "good first issues" for those of you looking to get more involved with FINOS projects. Find all of this information and more at finos.org.

We're delighted that Tosha Ellison, FINOS Chief Operating Officer, has been recognized as the "Vendor Partnership or Alliance Professional of the Year" in the Waters Technology Women in Technology & Data Awards 2021.

Read More | Full Award Listing

We're pleased to share that OpenUK has recently joined FINOS as an Associate Member & we're looking forward to working together.

Open UK

The FINOS Slack provides our Community another public channel to discuss work in FINOS and open source in finance more generally.

More Info & How to Join

We would like to recognize the contributions Mark Guerriero of Deutsche Bank has made to the Waltz Project.

Read Mark's Community Spotlight | More on Waltz

Last week, Roderick Randolph and Arthur Maltson, both Distinguished Engineers at Capital One discussed Capital One's InnerSource Journey, and the pitfalls and peaks they've experienced along the way.

Capital One's InnerSource Journey Video | FINOS InnerSource Special Interest Group

Your Opportunity To Get Involved. This week we're highlighting GFIs from the Perspective Project. The project is based around streaming pivot visualization via WebAssembly.

Perspective Project Good First Issues | All FINOS Project Good First Issues

APAC - FINOS Symphony BDK for Java & Open Source to Build an LCAP March 24th at 5:00pm Australian EDT / 2:00am US EDT / 6:00am GMT

US & UK - How to Build an Order Book Simulation using Perspective March 31st at 11am EDT / 4pm BST

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Season 3, 2nd edition of 2021 of the FINOS Open Source in Fintech Podcast

In this podcast, our Director of Community, James McLeod has a chat with Enrico Trentin and Matthew Richards of Diffblue, primarily about the code coverage paradox, the theme of one of our recent Open Source in Fintech Meetups.

Enrico is the Diffblue Developer Relations Lead, and Matthew Richards (or Matt since there are two Matthews, and the other happens to be the CEO) is the Diffblue Head of Product. Diffblue is a new silver member of FINOS, and works on automating tedious and repetitive tasks for developers within unit testing, using AI or Artificial intelligence.

James is our Director of Community for FINOS, and host for many of our Open Source in Fintech Podcasts and Meetups.

During this interview Enrico and Matthew discuss unit testing and test driven development, the tradeoffs in software delivery for both the developer and business sides of the house, code coverage within the software development lifecycle, test quality, identifying which parts of your code introduce risk, and then AI or Artificial Intelligence in software development, driverless cars, Skynet, and the Terminator… hmmm…

So please enjoy this interview, check out our previous episodes, and subscribe to the podcast for some great upcoming discussions on open source, financial services, fintech, and how they all fit together.

►►Diffblue - https://www.diffblue.com/

►►Primer on the Code Coverage Paradox - https://www.finos.org/blog/primer-the-code-coverage-paradox-diffblue

►►The Code Coverage Paradox Meetup Video - https://www.finos.org/blog/enrico-trentin-the-code-coverage-paradox

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About the Open Source in Fintech Podcast

The FINOS Open Source in Fintech Podcast celebrates open source projects and interesting topics at the cross section of financial services and open source. So far, our industry experts have discussed practical applications of and their real-world experiences with a range of open source projects including desktop interoperability, low code platforms, synthetic data, and data modeling. They’ve also discussed best practices for inner source, common myths about open source and why commercial companies choose to introduce open source offerings. Tune in and subscribe to hear what comes next.

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Season 3, 1st edition of 2021 of the FINOS Open Source in Fintech Podcast: Dan Abramov of React Core Team Interview.

So… welcome to 2021. We’re looking forward to a better year overall, even with some “interesting” beginnings.

To start you out this year, while we’re working on our 2021 meetups and interviews, we want to highlight a few great discussions we’ve had within the community over the past couple of months.

Our first of the year is an interview / fireside chat between Dan Abramov and James McLeod, recorded at the Open Source Strategy Forum (which is FINOS’s annual open source in financial services conference).

Dan is a software engineer at Facebook, member of the React Core team, co-author of Create React App - and well regarded in the javascript community.

James is our Director of Community for FINOS, and host for many of our Open Source in Fintech Podcasts and Meetups.

During this interview we learn whether a project like React would work without backing from a large company like Facebook, whether Hacktoberfest raised issues for the React Core team, and how Facebook promotes InnerSource projects to open source, and more.

So please enjoy this interview, check out our previous episodes, and subscribe to the podcast for some great upcoming discussions on open source, financial services, fintech, and how they all fit together.

Dan Abramov's Bio

Facebook Software Engineer, Member of the React Core Team, and Co-author of Create React App

Dan Abramov is a software engineer at Facebook, member of the React Core team and co-author of Create React App. Prior to joining Facebook, Dan co-authored Redux, a predictable state container for JavaScript applications, which catapulted Dan as an influential conference speaker and successful Twitter commentator.

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About the Open Source in Fintech Podcast

The FINOS Open Source in Fintech Podcast celebrates open source projects and interesting topics at the cross section of financial services and open source. So far, our industry experts have discussed practical applications of and their real-world experiences with a range of open source projects including desktop interoperability, low code platforms, synthetic data, and data modeling. They’ve also discussed best practices for inner source, common myths about open source and why commercial companies choose to introduce open source offerings. Tune in and subscribe to hear what comes next.

►►Visit here for more FINOS Meetups

►►Visit the FINOS website - and Get Involved

►►Join us for the FINOS & Linux Foundation Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF).

Season 2, 6th and last edition of 2020 of the FINOS Open Source in Fintech Podcast: InnerSource Commons at the FINOS Open Source Readiness.

We’re we’re working on changing up our podcast for 2021 a little, to expand the type and quality of content we bring to you through this podcast. Forged out of the “uh oh, Covid, what do we do when we can’t engage people at in-person events” that happened to everyone this year, Our podcasts in 2020, were based around interviews from the virtual meetups we started in this year.

In the coming year, we will of course have interviews with FINOS project leaders, members, and other industry thought leaders, but will also start including panel discussions and fireside chats that you may have missed from some of our events, case studies and deep dives, and then we may just start including you in some of our FINOS employee chats and office hours we do with the community - basically anything that we can do to provide you with more value within the world of open source, financial services, fintech, and banking tech.

So this particular episode is a preview of that.

At our last Open Source Readiness meeting of 2020 (December 9, 2020), we featured the first in a series of collaborations with InnerSource Commons to promote best practice around InnerSource in financial services. InnerSource is the application of open source software development practices to internal software development projects. It's a great way for companies to increase collaboration within their organization, and for developers to gain skills that will make them effective participants in open source projects. We have definitely found this helpful within financial services in banks that are still looking to venture into open source.

We had guest panelists from InnerSource Commons, Deutsche Bank, Capital One, Lloyds Banking Group, and FINOS’ Open Source Readiness project. Check our show notes for a complete list of panelists and bios.

Sit back and learn as our friend Danese Cooper, president and founder of Innersource Commons, and a multi-decade veteran of the open source world leads a discussion on Innersource patterns for the Financial Services Industry.

About the Open Source in Fintech Podcast

The FINOS Open Source in Fintech Podcast celebrates open source projects and interesting topics at the cross section of financial services and open source. So far, our industry experts have discussed practical applications of and their real-world experiences with a range of open source projects including desktop interoperability, low code platforms, synthetic data, and data modeling. They’ve also discussed best practices for inner source, common myths about open source and why commercial companies choose to introduce open source offerings. Tune in to hear what comes next.

Visit here for more FINOS Meetups

Visit the FINOS website - and Get Involved

Join us for the FINOS & Linux Foundation Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF).

Season 2, 5rd edition of the FINOS Open Source in Fintech Podcast, FINOS Director of Community James McLeod interviews Anders Wallgren of CloudBees after their FINOS Virtual Meetup presentation on September 9, 2020. Head to the FINOS.org site to see the video of the presentation, along with the team's slides.

CloudBees has a long history of helping customers be successful with their DevOps transformations. What you may not know is the depth and breadth of our experience in the Financial Services space, both with open source solutions and with our commercial offerings.

Join Anders Wallgren, CloudBees Vice President of Technology Strategy, as he shares how we’ve grown beyond commercializing Jenkins as well as how we’ve helped major financial institutions successfully navigate their DevOps journeys.

You’ll hear:

1) Where open source and commercial offerings fit in CloudBees Software Delivery Automation vision

2) Our blueprint for DevOps success in Financial Services

The FINOS Open Source in Fintech Podcast celebrates open source projects and interesting topics at the cross section of financial services and open source. So far, our industry experts have discussed practical applications of and their real-world experiences with a range of open source projects including desktop interoperability, low code platforms, synthetic data, and data modeling. They’ve also discussed best practices for inner source, common myths about open source and why commercial companies choose to introduce open source offerings. Tune in to hear what comes next.

Visit here for more FINOS Meetups

Visit the FINOS website - and Get Involved

Join us for the FINOS & Linux Foundation Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF).

Season 2, 4th edition of the FINOS Open Source in Fintech Podcast, FINOS Director of Community James McLeod interviews Ilya Gorelik of EPAM after their FINOS Virtual Meetup presentation on October 7, 2020. Head to the FINOS.org site to see the video of the presentation, along with the team's slides.

TimeBase is a time-series database and messaging system developed by Deltix (acquired by EPAM, Feb 2020). TimeBase, which has been used extensively by buyside and sell-side trading firms for over 10 years, is being contributed to the open source community. This meet-up describes the functional and technical characteristics of TimeBase, and will demonstrate example solution use-cases, built using TimeBase.

The FINOS Open Source in Fintech Podcast celebrates open source projects and interesting topics at the cross section of financial services and open source. So far, our industry experts have discussed practical applications of and their real-world experiences with a range of open source projects including desktop interoperability, low code platforms, synthetic data, and data modeling. They’ve also discussed best practices for inner source, common myths about open source and why commercial companies choose to introduce open source offerings. Tune in to hear what comes next.

Visit here for more FINOS Meetups

Visit the FINOS website - and Get Involved

Join us for the FINOS & Linux Foundation Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF).

Season 2, 3rd edition of the FINOS Open Source in Fintech Podcast, FINOS Director of Community James McLeod interviews Conor O'Neill & Ger O'Shaughnessy of Nearform after their FINOS Virtual Meetup presentation on Aug 26, 2020. Head to the FINOS.org site to see the video of the presentation, along with the team's slides.

It’s pretty hard to avoid using code that was written by people in NearForm. From the Fastify web framework to Node.js Worker Threads to parts of React.js Native, NearForm has become a worldwide center of excellence for JavaScript.

In this webinar the presenters will give a short introduction to what NearForm does and then they will dive into some of NearForm's valuable OSS work, leading up to their most recent project, Polaris; as well as the launch of the world’s most successful Covid-19 Contact Tracing App.

The NearForm team would love to hear from FINOS members about what they find interesting and valuable in all of NearForm's activities within and outside of FINOS.

The FINOS Open Source in Fintech Podcast celebrates open source projects and interesting topics at the cross section of financial services and open source. So far, our industry experts have discussed practical applications of and their real-world experiences with a range of open source projects including desktop interoperability, low code platforms, synthetic data, and data modeling. They’ve also discussed best practices for inner source, common myths about open source and why commercial companies choose to introduce open source offerings. Tune in to hear what comes next.

Visit here for more FINOS Meetups

Visit the FINOS website - and Get Involved

Join us for the FINOS & Linux Foundation Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF).

Season 2, 2nd edition of the FINOS Open Source in Fintech Podcast, FINOS Director of Community James McLeod interviews David Watkins, Director at Deutsche Bank and the Waltz Team after their FINOS Virtual Meetup presentation on Aug 12, 2020. Head to the FINOS.org site to see the video of the presentation, along with the team's slides.

In a nutshell, Waltz is Deutsche Bank's open source project, recently contributed to FINOS, that allows you to visualize and define your organization's technology landscape.

Think of Waltz as a structured Wiki for your enterprise architecture.

A core belief behind Waltz is that technology information should be accessible by everyone within your organization. Furthermore, employees are your best source of information about your technology landscape and should therefore be empowered to enhance and correct data.

Join Dave, Jessica, Kamran, and Mark from the Waltz open source team as they introduce the project, the evolution of Waltz, and what it's like to be open source contributors in banking.

David will be speaking about Waltz at the FINOS & Linux Foundation Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF).

The FINOS Open Source in Fintech Podcast celebrates open source projects and interesting topics at the cross section of financial services and open source. So far, our industry experts have discussed practical applications of and their real-world experiences with a range of open source projects including desktop interoperability, low code platforms, synthetic data, and data modeling. They’ve also discussed best practices for inner source, common myths about open source and why commercial companies choose to introduce open source offerings. Tune in to hear what comes next.

Visit here for more FINOS Meetups

Visit the FINOS website - and Get Involved

Join us for the FINOS & Linux Foundation Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF).

Season 2, 1st edition of the FINOS Open Source in Fintech Podcast, FINOS Director of Community James McLeod interviews Alan Clark, who is a member of the Office of the CTO of SUSE after their FINOS Virtual Meetup presentation on July 29, 2020. Head to the FINOS.org site to see the video of the presentation, along with Alan's slides.

What role does open source play in a successful IT transformation strategy? Alan discusses his perspectives on the future of the infrastructure. Learn about the technology trends driving IT transformation and the impact that has on you. What is the role of open source in the future IT infrastructure for Fintech? See how SUSE empowers open source-based digital transformation, supporting mission critical systems while maintaining compliance. Are you ready for infrastructure at the speed of business?

The FINOS Open Source in Fintech Podcast celebrates open source projects and interesting topics at the cross section of financial services and open source. So far, our industry experts have discussed practical applications of and their real-world experiences with a range of open source projects including desktop interoperability, low code platforms, synthetic data, and data modeling. They’ve also discussed best practices for inner source, common myths about open source and why commercial companies choose to introduce open source offerings. Tune in to hear what comes next.

Visit here for more FINOS Meetups

Visit the FINOS website - and Get Involved

Join us for the FINOS & Linux Foundation Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF).

In this ninth edition of the FINOS Open Source in Fintech Podcast, FINOS Director of Community James McLeod interviews Nearform's VP of Strategic Initiatives, Danese Cooper after their FINOS Virtual Meetup presentation on July 1, 2020. Head to the FINOS.org site to see the video of the presentation, along with Danese's slides.

How can a regulated-industry business get ready for Open Source? That’s really a multi-layered question because of special requirements created by those regulations. The process of developing Open Source readiness through an internal InnerSource practice has been a focus in FinTech for most of the past decade, thanks to success stories from the likes of Lloyd’s Bank. How does the fact that FinTech companies are subject to strict regulation play into undertaking such a transformation? FINOS’s James McLeod was tweeting with Danese Cooper about a podcast they’d recorded when a follower asked that seemingly simple question, and out of the resulting conversation comes this webinar! We’ll be looking at issues such as PCI-compliance, GDPR-compliance, distributed-ledger systems such as Blockchain, and new regulations surrounding Transfer Pricing and exploring strategies to mitigate risk and what lessons can be learned from innovative new companies.

Danese will be speaking at the FINOS & Linux Foundation Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF).

The FINOS Open Source in Fintech Podcast celebrates open source projects and interesting topics at the cross section of financial services and open source. So far, our industry experts have discussed practical applications of and their real-world experiences with a range of open source projects including desktop interoperability, low code platforms, synthetic data, and data modeling. They’ve also discussed best practices for inner source, common myths about open source and why commercial companies choose to introduce open source offerings. Tune in to hear what comes next.

Visit here for more FINOS Meetups

Visit the FINOS website - and Get Involved

Join us for the FINOS & Linux Foundation Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF).