Keynote: State of the Community, Calm, FDC3 3.0 and Project Announcements… Gabriele Columbro

Keynote: State of the Community, Calm, FDC3 3.0 and Project Announcements... Gabriele Columbro

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Keynote: State of the Community, Calm, FDC3 3.0 and Project Announcements... Gabriele Columbro

FINOS Executive Director Gabriele Columbro kicks off the OSFF keynotes alongside Matt Bain (Lead Maintainer for CALM at Morgan Stanley) and Kris West (Maintainer for FDC3). Together, they outline the shift from vision to active architecture, revealing major updates including the FDC3 3.0 security release, the agentic CALM Suite, and GitProxy 2.0.

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🕒 Timestamps:

0:00 Executive Summary: Acceleration and Momentum Shift in Open Source
1:51 Moving from Vision to Reality: Visualizing the Open Core Stack
3:35 Mission & Industry Impact: ROI Across Profitability and Resilience
4:40 Annual Survey Announcement & Technical Oversight Committee Life Cycle
6:45 CALM Growth Story: Hitting Top 10% Commit Activity Worldwide
8:25 CALM Suite Contributed: Calm Guard, Calm Studio, and Agentic Capabilities
9:35 Industry Vendor Ecosystem: Moderne LST Integration & ArchRails PR Gates
10:40 What’s Next for CALM: Production CALM Hub and Desktop Editor 11:50 Community Call to Action: Building in the Open from Day One
13:00 FDC3 3.0 Security Delivered: End-to-End Cryptography and Portable Identities
14:00 Provable Data Access: Cryptographic Audit Trails for Regulated Firms
14:35 FDC3 3.0 Alpha Release & Production Readiness for FDC3 Sail
15:50 Quick Hits: GitProxy 2.0 Release and Relaunching the InnerSource Working Group

📊 The Problem: The Velocity Bottleneck in Regulated Finance

Historically, open source in banking moved at a sluggish pace, constrained by complex legal approvals, static PDF architectural diagrams, and fragmented vendor environments. Architecture reviews often took months while systems drifted out of alignment, and desktop application context was exchanged over unencrypted, untrusted channels that created massive audit and compliance vulnerabilities.

🏗️ The Solution: Machine-Readable Standards & Cryptographic Workspaces

FINOS projects are converging to deliver an end-to-end, governable open-core stack:
– CALM (Common Architecture Language Model): Moving architecture from static whiteboards to JSON specifications, allowing CI/CD pipelines to validate pull requests against approved design patterns automatically.
– FDC3 3.0 Security Framework: Upgrading desktop interoperability with signed context, encrypted channels, and end-to-end cryptography, treating desktop agents as interchangeable, untrusted intermediaries.
– Provable Data Access: Enabling applications to cryptographically prove exact authorization and data access histories for financial regulators.

⚙️ Why This Matters for Financial Engineering
– Agentic-Ready Codebases: CALM introduces monorepo schema structures decorated with risk-and-mitigation metadata, allowing AI agents to navigate codebases and lower token consumption.
– Production-Grade Desktop Interop: FDC3 Sail reaches version 3.0 production status, giving banks an out-of-the-box open-source desktop container.
– Enterprise Contribution Guardrails: Upgrading GitProxy to 2.0 to automate legal and security checks for developers contributing upstream.

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#FINOS #OSFFNewYork #CALM #FDC3 #ArchitectureAsCode #DesktopInterop #GitProxy #InnerSource #FinTech #DevSecOps

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2.5 Admins 309: Orbital Sauron

2.5 Admins 309: Orbital Sauron

Video by The Late Night Linux Family via YouTube
2.5 Admins 309: Orbital Sauron

Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes. https://www.patreon.com/LateNightLinux

A new HTTP caching standard looks promising but might struggle to get adopted, a terrible space mirror idea is actually happening, cars will spy on us all, and picking a VPN for use with an IP that doesn’t change very often.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-309/

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Trino contributor call 2026-07-22

Trino contributor call 2026-07-22

Video by Trino via YouTube
Trino contributor call 2026-07-22

– 00:00 Trino 483 release and SQL improvements
– 04:06 New Trino web UI becomes the default
– 05:45 Production memory fixes
– 09:02 Anonymous S3 access
– 11:20 CLI themes and Trino packages
– 12:41 Trino Gateway 21 and the spooled client protocol
– 13:54 Client releases and build improvements
– 17:20 Community call to action

More details available in the meeting minutes at
https://github.com/trinodb/trino/wiki/Contributor-meetings

Call organized and hosted by Manfred Moser. Sponsor him at
https://github.com/sponsors/mosabua to support this and other open source initiatives.

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Easy Unit Conversions on Your iPhone! #shorts

Easy Unit Conversions on Your iPhone! #shorts

Video by TWiT Tech Podcast Network via YouTube
Easy Unit Conversions on Your iPhone! #shorts

Go beyond basic math! Discover your device’s built-in calculator, featuring over 110 unit conversions (temp, volume, energy, and more!) and 105 currency options. Effortless conversions, no manual input needed. #CalculatorTips #TechHacks #Productivity #LifeHacks

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The Next AI Breakthrough Isn’t Smarter Models

The Next AI Breakthrough Isn't Smarter Models

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The Next AI Breakthrough Isn't Smarter Models

🤖 AI doesn’t need to be *smarter.*

It needs to know **you** better.

Brian Alvey, CTO of WordPress VIP, believes the next breakthrough in AI won’t be answering more questions—it’s understanding your context.

Instead of simply telling you the weather, imagine an AI that knows where you’re headed, predicts what you’ll need, and helps you make better decisions before you even ask.

🌤️ "It’s 80° here…"
❄️ "…but you’re driving into San Francisco, where it’s 25 degrees colder. Grab a jacket."

That’s the kind of AI people will actually pay for.

The future of enterprise AI isn’t just better models—it’s more personalized, context-aware experiences.

🎧 Watch the full conversation with Lauren Goerz and Brian Alvey on *The Dialogue Architects*.

#ArtificialIntelligence #EnterpriseAI #ConversationalAI #WordPressVIP #AIProducts

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Open Source Digest: AI, Community, and Tools

Open Source Digest: AI, Community, and Tools

Community & Collaboration Social Coworking & Office Hours – SORTEE introduces social coworking with office hours. (Open Source Events) Vale and Text Linting – Collaborative office hours focused on Vale prose linting. (Open Source Quality) AI is Community Driven – The future of AI hinges on open, community‑driven development. (AI & Open Source) Wikimedia Communities … Read more

A day at EuroCommons TechSprint

A day at EuroCommons TechSprint

Video by OpenProject | Open Source Project Management via YouTube
A day at EuroCommons TechSprint

The EuroCommons TechSprint in Paris brought together organizations working toward a stronger, more sovereign European digital ecosystem.

It was a pleasure to connect with inspiring partners and communities, including Caisse des Dépôts, TOSIT, OW2, XWiki, and many others who share a joint vision:
reducing dependency on proprietary software and building trusted open source alternatives together.

In this video, hear from Hugues de Maussion, Aymeril Hoang, Gilles Viton, Simon Clavier, Florian Caringi, Pauline Bessoles, Rosanna Sibora and Wieland Lindenthal as they share why collaboration is essential to strengthening Europe’s digital sovereignty.

A special thank you to Dicle Naz Tohumcu for creating this video and to Christophe Bliard for helping make the EuroCommons TechSprint such a success.

EuroCommons is about more than technology. It’s about collaboration across organizations to create sustainable digital infrastructure that gives users control over their data, their tools, and their future. We’re excited to continue contributing to this growing ecosystem and helping build open, trusted digital infrastructure for Europe.

🎥 Watch Europe’s open source ecosystem come together.

#EuroCommons #OpenProject #XWiki #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #TOSIT #CaissedesDépôts

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Training Agents 3: Reinforcement Learning

Training Agents 3: Reinforcement Learning

Video by Hugging Face via YouTube
Training Agents 3: Reinforcement Learning

Training Agents, Session 3: from a fine-tuned baseline to reinforcement learning with GRPO.

In this live session, we’ll move past imitation and start training on outcomes. We’ll take the model from the earlier sessions and run Group Relative Policy Optimization: sample multiple completions per prompt, score them with a reward function, and use the group’s relative scores as the training signal — no value model, no reward model, no critic to train. Everything runs in TRL.

What we’ll cover:
– Why GRPO after SFT, and what RL adds that imitation can’t
– How GRPO works: group sampling, relative advantages, and why that replaces a critic
– Writing verifiable reward functions for agent tasks
– Running TRL GRPO on Hugging Face Jobs
– Reading the training curves: reward, KL, and completion length
– Common failure modes: reward hacking, collapse, and length gaming

Repo: https://github.com/burtenshaw/training-agents

This is part of the Training Agents series: using coding agents to design, run, monitor, and review post-training experiments, while training models to become better agents.

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Create your future with certification, Kenji Ito, #FOSSASIA Summit 2026

Create your future with certification, Kenji Ito, #FOSSASIA Summit 2026

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Create your future with certification, Kenji Ito, #FOSSASIA Summit 2026

Looking to advance your career in Linux and open source? In this FOSSASIA Summit 2026 session, Kenji Ito, Communications Director at the Linux Professional Institute (LPI), explains how industry-recognized certifications can help validate your skills, boost your credibility, and unlock global career opportunities.

Discover how LPI certifications complement real-world experience, explore certification pathways for learners at every stage, and learn how earning the right credentials can help future-proof your career in today’s rapidly evolving tech industry.

FOSSASIA Summit 2026 held in Bangkok, is Asia’s leading Open Source tech conference featuring sessions on #AI, #Cloud, #DevOps, #Open Hardware, #Security, #Web #Mobile Technologies, #Web3, and #Databases. Learn more: http://summit.fossasia.org

Session slides: https://eventyay.com/ev/88882f3e/talk/7YB5E4KZV8FR/

#FOSSASIA #FOSSASIASummit #opensource #FOSS

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