Date
Attendees
| Member | Organization | Present / Absent |
|---|---|---|
| Credit Suisse | Present | |
Mark Erdtmann | Tradeweb | |
| FactSet | Present | |
| FactSet | ||
| JP Morgan | ||
| Credit Suisse | ||
| Symphony LLC | ||
| Symphony LLC | ||
| Gavin White | Tradition | |
| HSBC | ||
| Citi | Present | |
| Tim Burcham | Markit | |
| Goldman Sachs | ||
| Morgan Stanley | Present | |
| Morgan Stanley | ||
| Citadel | Present | |
| Richard Kleter | Deutsche Bank | |
| Douglas Esanbock | Dow Jones | |
| Julian Ling | S&P Global Market Intelligence | |
| Greg Romer | S&P Global Market Intelligence | |
| Gareth Davies | Goldman Sachs | Present |
| Symphony Software Foundation | Present | |
| Nick Kolba | OpenFin | Present |
| John Henry | Citi | Present |
Joe Chanchow (apologies for probable incorrect spelling of surname - please correct it Former user (Deleted)) | Citi | Present |
Agenda
| Time | Item | Who | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 min | Roll call, review actions from last meeting, discuss findings |
| |
| 5 min | Introduce OpenFin | ||
| 5 min | Minuet Open Source update | ||
| 20 min | Discuss WG Charter and purpose going forwards | ||
| 5 min | Discuss ScottLogic | Scott Logic who have experience with HTML5 containers and applications in the Financial Services are interested in getting engaged with the group. | |
| AOB |
Previous Action Items
From Earlier Meetings
- Former user (Deleted): schedule session to review APIs
- Former user (Deleted): schedule discussion on future plans and how we manage contributions plus major design decisions (like a move to Electron). We should discuss future support arrangements, i.e. we shouldn't all need to make the same security patch.
From Last Meeting
- Peter Monks to introduce OpenFin folks to the Desktop Wrapper WG, and request their participation
- Former user (Deleted) to introduce Colin Eberhardt (ScottLogic) to Peter Monks (peter@symphony.foundation)
- Peter Monks to give Colin an overview of the platform and Foundation, if he's interested
- Peter Monks to introduce Colin to Symphony LLC BD/partnerships team
- WilliamS to coordinate a review of the current WG charter (with assistance from any/all interested WG members), and proposed changes will be presented back to the WG at a future meeting
Meeting Notes
- Introducing Nick Kolba from OpenFin
- Formerly ICON architect at Thomson Reuters
- Minuet open sourcing
- Still awaiting final legal approval from GS
- Charter discussion
- Former user (Deleted) - WilliamS was saying that Minuet could be advanced by embedding Electron within it
- Former user (Deleted) if there were docs / source code for Minuet, I could compare it to other containers we've been evaluating
- But right now I don't have anything
- I don't know how Minuet interacts within Symphony
- Containers tend to have markedly different development approaches. Building an Electron app, for example, is not like building a web app.
- The real value proposition of a container is being able to leverage native platform capabilities
- "We should be careful how far we want to push the rock of standardisation and platform / container independence."
- There are some fundamental differences between platforms that can't be abstracted away e.g. window management on Windows vs iOS
- "The key is an extensibility framework - having a mechanism to allow developers to develop low-level plugins that can be exposed up to the JS app layer."
- Symphony's plugins (desktop-native notifications, end-to-end encryption) are good examples of these plugins
- It also allows fallbacks e.g. for older platforms
- You can't make everyone happy with pre-built capabilities, but extensibility offers a "choose your own adventure" path
- Former user (Deleted) concrete next steps:
New Action items
- TBD