📋 FINOS Technical Oversight Committee
This FINOS Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) is the technical governing body of FINOS. We work in close collaboration with the FINOS team and the Governing Board to provide technical oversight for the projects in the FINOS portfolio.
Membership
The following are the current TOC members:
- Damian Reeves, @DamianReeves, Capital One (Board vote, until October 30th 2025)
- (Vice Chair) Peter Smulovics, @psmulovics, Morgan Stanley (TOC vote, until October 30th 2025)
- Chris Twiner, @chris-twiner, UBS (Board vote, until June 14th 2026)
- (Chair) Eddie Knight, @eddie-knight, Sonatype (Board vote, until June 14th 2026)
- Matthew Bain, @rocketstack-matt, Morgan Stanley (Board vote, until June 14th 2026)
- Paula Paul, @PaulaPaul, Individual Contributor (Board vote, until June 14th 2026)
- Vincent Caldeira, @caldeirav, Red Hat (Board vote, until June 14th 2026)
- Elspeth Minty, @eminty69, Royal Bank of Canada (TOC vote, until October 30th 2026)
- Jamie Slome, @JamieSlome, Citi (TOC vote, until October 30th 2026)
- John Arroyo, @arroyo, Citi (TOC vote, until October 30th 2026)
- Flamur Gogolli, @fgogolli AWS (TOC vote, until October 30th 2026)
- Andrew Aitken, @awaiken Individual Contributor (TOC vote, until October 30th 2026)
The voting process is described on this page.
Responsibilities
The responsibilities of this group, together with the processes we have put in place to support them, are detailed on this page.
Ways of Working
To support ongoing work, we use the following communication channels:
- Our overall backlog of work is organised via a GitHub project board
- We use GitHub discussions as our primary mechanism for discussing and collaboration
- We use the email distribution list (toc@lists.finos.org) for announcements (e.g. announcing a meeting)
- We use our regular (minuted) meetings primarily for planning
- We have ad-hoc meetings as and when they are needed. These will not be minuted.
Meetings
The TOC meets bi-weekly, alternating
Meeting minutes
All meetings minutes are available as GitHub issues - https://github.com/finos/technical-oversight-committee/issues?q=is:issue+label:meeting+ ; those open, refer to meeting minutes that haven't been completed or reviewed yet.
Historical meetings from 2022/2023 are available on https://github.com/finos/technical-oversight-committee/tree/main/meetings-2022-2023
Disclaimer
Comments, questions, and opinions stated within this repository are personal statements from individuals and do not represent any official or unofficial views of any member organization.
Get in touch
The TOC can be reached either via issues / PR / discussions on this repo or via email toc@lists.finos.org.