In this episode of the podcast we're excited talk about connections coming from our first in-person conference in two years, the FINOS Member Meeting and Open Source Strategy Forum in London last week. We talk about connecting people, connecting projects, and connecting leaders in our community and beyond.

FINOS MEMBER AWARDS EMEA 2021

Congrats to the following winners!

OSSF Help / Member Codes: [email protected]

OSSF NYC

OSSF NYC Agenda | OSSF NYC Registration

OSSF London Presentations

OSSF London Presentation Slides | OSSF London Presentation Videos

Grizz's Info

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aarongriswold/ | [email protected]

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On this episode of the podcast, Grizz sits down with Tamara Chehayeb Mkarem & Jevon Beckles of Scott Logic about the panel they have been planning for OSSF London: Journeys Within Fintech: A Panel on Women's Career Progression. We get into the panel, the topic, why it is important, and why you would want to attend / watch / listen to this panel consisting of: Tamara as moderator; Clair Grayston CAO, Morgan Stanley; Rita Chaturvedi Executive Director, Morgan Stanley; and Jane Gavronsky CTO, Linux Foundation/FINOS.

Tamara is a Lead User Experience Designer at Scott Logic where she designs web, desktop and mobile applications for clients in financial services and the public sector. She has worked in Beirut, London and New York, and designed native and web applications for Fortune 500 companies. Tamara earned her MFA in Design and Technology at Parsons school of Design The New School, and a BFA in Graphic Design at the American University of Beirut. She lives in London with her husband and two children.

Jevon Beckels - Scott Logic - Senior Developer

Jevon Beckles is a Senior Developer at Scott Logic with experience in desktop, mobile, web and embedded system technologies. He continues to develop his skills at the enterprise systems level while working with clients to achieve their business goals. As a Caribbean national, he is particularly interested in enabling people from all backgrounds to participate more equally in global society.

Journeys within FinTech: A Panel on Women’s Career Progression - Rita Chaturvedi & Clair Grayston, Morgan Stanley; Jane Gavronsky, FINOS; Moderated by Tamara Chehayeb Makarem, Scott Logic

OSSF London & NYC

OSSF London Agenda | OSSF London Registration | More information about OSSF

OSSF NYC Agenda | OSSF NYC Registration

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In this episode of the podcast, Grizz "sits down" with Colin Eberhardt, Technology Director at Scott Logic about his upcoming talk at the Open Source Strategy Forum in London October 5th. They discuss Colin's background, modern software supply chain issues, and then how to drive open source to be more sustainable, for financial services and beyond.

Open Source Sustainability and Our Corporate Social Responsibility - Colin Eberhardt, Scott Logic

Modern software is increasingly complex, made up of hundreds or thousands of open source components, hidden away in deeply-nested dependency trees. Just how much do we know about these open source components that are an integral part of our products? What are the risks associated with their usage, and our exposure? Within the financial services industry, most often the solution is to build up a robust defence against these perils. Security scans, licence checkers - creating a walled-garden that harm the wider open source ecosystem. In this talk Colin will take a closer look at the make-up of modern software supply chains - where this code comes from, who authored it and how it is distributed. Ultimately asking ourselves the question “is this sustainable?” Despite numerous efforts to address this challenge; crowdfunding, sponsorship and highlighting critical infrastructure projects, this problem is growing. To solve it we need a reset in how we view this precious and fragile asset. Much like the environment, grass-roots activism can only go so far, to really make a difference large corporations need to wake up to their responsibility and make genuine and tangible commitments.

Colin divides his time between leading the R&D team and providing advisory consultancy to clients. Widely recognized as a thought leader, Colin has a reputation throughout development circles as an expert in mobile technologies. He has also directed the team that developed a Securities Lending System for one of the world’s most instantly recognizable banks. A published author, blogger and tech visionary, Colin still finds time to practice his considerable skills as a 7-ball juggler.

Books Mentioned in the Podcast

Working in Public: The Making & Maintenance of Open Source Software - https://www.amazon.com/Working-Public-Making-Maintenance-Software/dp/0578675862

People Powered - Jono Bacon - https://www.amazon.com/People-Powered-Communities-Supercharge-Business/dp/1400214882

https://www.linkedin.com/in/colin-eberhardt-1464b4a/

OSSF London & NYC

OSSF London Agenda | OSSF London Registration | More information about OSSF

OSSF NYC Agenda | OSSF NYC Registration

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In this episode of the podcast, two of Grizz's FINOS colleagues "sit down" with a couple of our Open Source Strategy Forum speakers who are preparing to talk in London on October 5th and New York on November 10th.

First up, Aitana Myohl, FINOS Strategic Initiatives Manager talks to Ffion Acland, Co-Head of the Global Markets Data Models & Governance Team at Goldman Sachs. Ffi and her colleague Beeke-Marie Nelke who is a VP in the Goldman Sachs Data Engineering department; and who both have been instrumental in helping prep and contribute the Legend project to FINOS; will be discussing "An Open Sourced Solution to Data Governance? How Legend May be the Answer to Data Quality Concerns in the Financial Industry". Aitana and Ffi talk about the talk, Legend, and why the are important in financial services and open source.

Next, Julia Ritter, FINOS Community Manager talks to Olivier Poupeney, Director of Developer Relations at Symphony Communications Services about his talk in New York on how to "Develop Automated Workflows in Seconds" using the Symphony BDK for Java (and Python) FINOS projects.

Legend Primer Info

https://legend.finos.org/

https://github.com/finos/legend

https://www.finos.org/finos-legend-case-study-2021-download-page

Legend 101 Walkthrough: https://youtu.be/Mruhx5hnLzQ

Legend New Features: https://youtu.be/7lJoik3r38k

Symphony BDK Primer Info

https://github.com/finos/symphony-bdk-java

https://github.com/finos/symphony-bdk-python

https://www.finos.org/blog/symphony-bdk-for-python-contributed-to-finos-by-symphony

OSSF London & NYC

OSSF London Agenda | OSSF London Registration | More information about OSSF

OSSF NYC Agenda | OSSF NYC Registration

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In this episode of the podcast we're excited to welcome a new FINOS team member, announce the OSSF NYC agenda, boast about our podcast, and as always, look for ways for you to get involved with the FINOS Community.

New FINOS Teammate - Kenny DeMeo - [email protected]

Agenda for OSSF NYC Announced - OSSF New York Agenda | OSSF New York Registration | OSSF London Agenda | OSSF London Registration | More information about OSSF

Symphony BDK for Python - Read More About The Contribution & Project Here | Leverage Symphony BDK for Python on GitHub

CatchIT from Goldman Sachs - (Coming Soon)

Community Spotlight - Kris West, Cosaic | Andrew Aitken, Wipro | Journeys within FinTech: A Panel on Women’s Career Progression (Jane Gavronsky, FINOS & Clair Grayston CAO, Morgan Stanley & Rita Chaturvedi - Executive Director, WMT Release and Change Management Morgan Stanley & Tamara Chehayeb Makarem, Lead UX Designer, Scott Logic) | Amanda Brock, Open Innovation Network & OpenUK

Feedspot Top 40 Open Source Podcasts | OS in Finance Podcast is #11!

Grizz's Info

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aarongriswold/ | [email protected]

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In this episode of the podcast, Grizz "sits down" with Andrew Aitken, Global Open Source Leader at Wipro about his upcoming talk at the Open Source Strategy Forum in London October 5th. They discuss Andrew's background and position as lead on the FINOS Open Source Readiness SIG; what Open Source Readiness is; and then a little insight into his talk about The FINOS Open Source Maturity Model and How to Apply It.

The FINOS Open Source Maturity Model and How to Apply It - Andrew Aitken, Wipro Ltd.

As financial services organizations continue to adopt open source at an ever-increasing pace there becomes a general recognition that it is a strategic asset, rather than simply a collection of ad-hoc components. Open source can drive significant benefits for an organization across multiple dimensions including strategic, financial, organizational, and technological if managed effectively. But, understanding how to capture those benefits while minimizing any potential risks can be a daunting task. It starts with understanding where you are as an organization on the open source maturity curve and the associated traits and attributes and how to identify and move to the most appropriate level for your company.

Andrew Aitken is the GM and Global Open Source Practice Leader for Wipro Ltd., a premier global systems integrator, and a leading open source strategy consultant. In his 22 years of experience he launched the industry’s first open source strategy consulting firm, Olliance Group (acquired by Black Duck Software), launched the Open Source Think Tank held in Napa, CA and Paris, France - a highly regarded event regularly attended by over 100 top open source thought leaders for over 10 years. Andrew has advised organizations such as the White House Office of CIO, Microsoft and IBM, more than 20 startups and VC firms, and dozens of other enterprises on their open source strategies.

Open Source Readiness Primer Info

https://github.com/finos/open-source-readiness

OSSF London & NYC

OSSF London Agenda | OSSF London Registration | More information about OSSF

OSSF NYC Agenda | OSSF NYC Registration

►► Visit FINOS www.finos.org

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In this episode of the podcast, Grizz "sits down" with Kris West, Principal Engineer at Cosaic, about his upcoming talk at the Open Source Strategy Forum in London October 5th. They discuss Kris's background and position at lead on the FDC3 project; what FDC3 is and who it should matter to; and then a little insight into the FDC3 Workbench that Coasic is contributing to FINOS.

FDC3 Fast and Easy: Introducing the FDC3 Workbench for Vendors - Kris West, Cosaic - Kris West

As desktop interoperability gains momentum, app vendors must prepare for expectations from clients who look for FDC3-enabled applications to join their integrated desktops. Meeting FDC3 standards allows your app to easily interoperate with other applications (without the need to coordinate with their developers first) and therefore secure a spot on clients' smart desktops. Getting your application FDC3-enabled is easier than ever with the new FINOS-contributed project, FDC3 Workbench. This new developer tool makes it easy to verify that your application communicates correctly with other apps using FDC3 protocol, while additionally providing a fully-featured desktop agent—Finsemble—to develop in. Don’t be left out of the interop movement—join this session to see how this open-sourced workbench can assist you today.

FDC3 Primer Info

https://fdc3.finos.org/

https://github.com/finos/FDC3

https://www.finos.org/blog/os-in-finance-webinar-fdc3-1-2-release-video

https://cosaic.io/finsemble/fdc3/

Kris and Grizz's Info

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kriswest/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aarongriswold/

OSSF London & NYC

OSSF London Agenda | OSSF London Registration | More information about OSSF

OSSF NYC Agenda | OSSF NYC Registration

►► Visit FINOS www.finos.org

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In this episode of the podcast Danese Cooper, Founder & Chair of InnerSource Commons, and long time open source veteran discusses Debunking Common Fears about Open Source (a great segway into our Open Source Strategy Forums upcoming in London and New York in October and November - that deal with open source in the regulated industry of financial services). 

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.

Slides PDF Link

Danese's Bio:

Ms. Danese Cooper has been the Head of Open Source Software at PayPal, Inc. since February 2014. She has served as inaugural Chairperson of the Node.js Foundation from June 2015-2017. Ms. Cooper previously served as the CTO of Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., as Chief Open Source Evangelist for Sun and as Sr. Director of Open Source Strategies for Intel. She concentrates on creating healthy open source communities and has served on the Boards of the Drupal Association, the Open Source Initiative, the Open Hardware Association and has advised Mozilla and the Apache Software Foundation. She also runs a successful open source consultancy which counts Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, SETI Foundation, Harris Corporation and Numenta as clients. She has been known to knit through meetings.

Danese's Twitter | Danese's LinkedIn | InnerSource Commons

OSSF London Agenda | OSSF London Registration | More information about OSSF

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In this episode of the podcast, Tosha Ellison joins Grizz Griswold to discuss how FINOS, the community, and open source's place in financial services has grown since they first started at the foundation in 2018. Plus a look at some of the emerging themes within open source in FSI, and how that is translating to the FINOS / Linux Foundation OSSFs and Member Meetings in London and New York this year.

OSSF London Agenda | OSSF London Registration | More information about OSSF

FDC3 - https://fdc3.finos.org/

Legend - https://legend.finos.org/ | Legend 101 Video | Legend Deep Dive 

Morphir - https://morphir.finos.org/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tosha-ellison-6697153/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aarongriswold/

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In this episode of the podcast we're excited to welcome a new FINOS teammate & a new member, announce the OSSF London agenda, share the Legend 101 & Deep Dive videos, and as always, look for ways for you to get involved with the FINOS Community.

New FINOS Teammate - Kenny DeMeo

New FINOS Member - Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC)

OSSF London Agenda | OSSF London Registration | More information about OSSF

Watch the Legend 101 Video | Watch the Legend Deep Dive 

gitlab.com/finosfoundation | github.com/finos | Legend Studio environment: legend.finos.org/studio | gitlab.com/finosfoundation/legend. 

If you don’t have access to legend.finos.org/studio, please request access at finos.org/legend.

Read More About The TimeBase CE Contribution & Project Here | Leverage TimeBase CE on GitHub

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT

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