Can AquaQ's TorQ be brought wholesale into FINOS?

• JPMC uses it.
  • Arduous process for their Legal department to arrange for contributions back.
• Seems like FINOS was made for this.
• TorQ is under MIT license which is compatible with FINOS.

• JPMC does have a process for contributing to Open Source.
  • So they still can contribute to TorQ that way.
  • Can take a few weeks or so go get approval.
  • Also have an internal crowd sourcing model.
  • https://perspective.finos.org/ is a JPMC contribution!
• Advantage of FINOS CCLA is that it covers a number of projects.
• Jonny to have some conversations with FINOS to see what might work.

Fork Studio for kdb+?

• Main issue is that it's currently GPL3.
• Need everyone to lobby Charlie to change the license to something FINOS-compatible.
• Anybody know how to set up the build for this?
  • Uses Java + NetBeans.

• Business Metrics team at Morgan Stanley has some enhancements that they'd like to contribute.
  
  • JPMC also has some in-house customizations (SSO, for example).
  • Someone on the call agreed to ping Charles Skelton about a license change.
• qPad is also a querying UI for kdb.
  • Not open source.
    • Distributed as a Windows binary.
    • IT Security teams want to be able to review it.
    • Authentication plugin capability is a requirement for Enterprise environments.
  • AquaQ and one of the callers know the qPad author.
    • https://aquaqanalytics.github.io/TorQ/blog/
    • Will see if he is willing to discuss open sourcing it.

Helper functions for qPython client API from Exxeleron?

• qPython supports passing general list of typed elements to invoke function call.
• Their API to create atoms is very clunky compared to ki / kj / ktn of C API.
• Looking for collaborators to bounce ideas around to ensure something that's useful to a wide-ish audience.

• Members on the call use qPython, but not enough to feel inconvenienced.
  
  • No interest in a wrapper at the moment.

Seeking reviewers for "initHook".

• Allows initialization code to specify dependencies and run them in a sensible order.
• Particularly important when libraries depend on other libraries.

• Strong use case for initHook is building up list of flags that are accepted by command line parser.
  
  • For example, various modules that aren't aware of each other can append to list of flags.
  • initHook can then initialize the command line parsing library with the full listt.
• A slightly dodgier use case is loading C/C++ libraries in a specific order.
• Makes onboarding a command line parsing library more of a priority.