The FINkers United association is an independent non-profit organization based in Romania that manages an open source FinTech community and platform called FinTP. The community includes over 30 founding member companies and individual technical and business specialists certified in financial transaction processing. The FinTP platform provides open source solutions for financial transaction processing. It has a defined technical structure for roles like members, contributors, committers and maintainers, as well as a development process for new projects and releases.

1. FINkers United
A FinTech Open Source Community

2. Initiative: (1) Who?
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Certified products
Partnerships
ISV & consultancy
company
Company
certifications
Open source
community
Technical and business
certified specialists
Financial transaction processing
solutions

3. Initiative: (2) How?
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4. Initiative: (3) What?
October 28, 2014 FinTP Project 4

5. FinTP Open Source Platform
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6. FinTP Architecture
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7. A Story About FinTP
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8JrsQsxP84

8. FINkers United Community
October 28, 2014 FinTP Project 8

9. FINkers United Association
1. The FINkers United association is
incorporated as a non-governmental,
non-profit and
independent Romanian legal entity
2. Offices: 23C Calea Vitan, 031281,
Bucharest, Romania
3. 30+ founding members
4. 5 members Steering committee,
lead by Horia Beschea, CTO Allevo
5. Online:
o fintp.org
o github.com/FinTP
o allevo.ro/open-source.aspx
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10. FINkers United
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Technical structure
 Member
 Contributor (developer, tester, peer review, integrator, builder,
technical writer)
 Committer
 Software Maintainer
 Technical Committee
 Project Manager (also ensures release management)
Development Process
 Initiate project
 Plan a new release
 Develop test build
 Release community version
 Project management

11. 5 Facts About FINkers United
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x-SneC0V1Q

12. www.fintp.org
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