@Alvin Shih

Morgan Stanley

alvin-c-shih

@Aitana Myohl

FINOS

aitana16

@James McLeod (Unlicensed)

FINOS

mcleo-d

@Rob Underwood (Deactivated)

FINOS

brooklynrob

Peter Gyorok

Morgan Stanley

gyorokpeter

Tim Beletskiy

JP Morgan

Jonny Press

AquaQ

Gary Davies

AquaQ

Aaron Davies

Morgan Stanley 

adavies42

@Kai Zeng

UBS

5 min

Convene & roll call.

All

It was agreed to move the meeting to 10am on the first Monday of the month.

5 min

Review and approve minutes from last meeting.

All

Approved by acclamation.

10 min

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.

All

• 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.

10 min

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.

All

• 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.

10 min

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.

All

• Members on the call use qPython, but not enough to feel inconvenienced.
  
  

  • No interest in a wrapper at the moment.

5 min

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.

All

• 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.

5 min

AOB

All