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If you are a FINOS project maintainer, looking to lead a FINOS-hosted project, and/or a FINOS member, welcome and thank you! It is community leaders like you who drive FINOS' success.

FINOS Maintainers

Each FINOS project and SIG has a community of participants, also referred to as "contributors", and maintainers.

A contributor is anyone who submits a contribution to the project. Contributions include code & pull requests, issues, comments, documentation, media, or any combination of the above.

A maintainer is a contributor who, by virtue of their contribution history, has been given write access to project repositories and may approve and merge contributions to the project.

It is possible, and advised, that projects have multiple maintainers, in which case maintainers will elect one or two lead maintainers. The lead maintainer is the project's interface with the FINOS Team and Governing Board. Lead maintainers are responsible for communicating with the FINOS Team, Governing Board and Community on behalf of the project. The lead maintainer(s) are also accountable for steering project direction and prioritisation with the rest of the project community. They are also accountable for the quality of deliverables produced by the project community.

FINOS standards projects can also have editors.

To support you in your leadership capacity, we've prepared a FINOS Maintainers Cheatsheet that is intended to be a one-stop reference for all of the responsibilities, governance activities, and processes used by the Foundation.

And of course don't hesitate to get in touch with Foundation staff if you can't find the answer to a question.

Contributing a new project to FINOS

If you would like to propose a new project contribution, please raise a project contribution issue here, and email help@finos.org with questions or if you need support.

FINOS Members

The FINOS community and operations are supported by FINOS corporate members. We are thankful and proud to have a diverse community of financial services and technology organizations shaping the future of open innovation in financial services.
Learn about FINOS Membership Benefits and get in touch here.