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Connamara Open Source Contributions

Connamara has made a commitment to the open source movement since our involvement in the QuickFix project in the early 2000’s.

Thus far, we have participated in seventeen open source projects either as an author, maintainer, or a contributor. Of the seventeen projects, nine are projects that Connamara has authored and released into open source.

The table below lists our contributions to date with links to the relevant project web sites or source repositories.

Project Name Project Description Contributors Description of Contributions (optional) Connamara Project?
FIX Protocol Logstash Plugin A Logstash Plugin for parsing FIX Chris Busbey, Dain Hall Authors, maintainers, contributors Y
quickfix C++ implementation of the FIX protocol Mike Gatny Maintainers, contributors Y
quickfix/n .NET implementation of the FIX protocol Mike Gatny, Chris Busbey, Grant Birchmeier, Kirk Kozel, Harvinder Vasdev, Andrew Page, Kevin O’Connell Authors, maintainers, contributors Y
quickfix/j Java implementation of the FIX protocol Grant Birchmeier Contributors N
quickfixgo Golang implementation of the FIX protocol Chris Busbey Author, maintainer Y
openfast Java implementation of the FAST protocol Mike Gatny CME support, multicast publishing support N
libzmq ZeroMQ core library Mike Gatny, Chris Busbey Kerberos/GSSAPI support N
czmq High-level C binding for ZeroMQ Mike Gatny, Chris Busbey Kerberos/GSSAPI support N
jzmq Java binding for ZeroMQ Chris Busbey Kerberos/GSSAPI support N
quickfix-jruby QuickFIX/J packaged as a gem for JRuby Chris Busbey, Mike Gatny Authors, maintainers, contributors Y
cuke_mem A very simple memory bank for Cucumber tests Chris Busbey Authors, maintainers, contributors Y
fix_spec Build and inspect FIX messages in RSpec and Cucumber Chris Busbey, Mike Gatny, Matt Lane, Brad Haan Authors, maintainers, contributors Y
agent_fix Interact with FIX connections to send, receive, and inspect messages in Cucumber Chris Busbey, Mike Gatny, Matt Lane Authors, maintainers, contributors Y
agent_zmq Interact with ZeroMQ connections to send, receive, and inspect messages in Cucumber Chris Busbey, Brad Haan Authors, maintainers, contributors Y
protobuf_spec Build and inspect google protobufs in RSpec and Cucumber Chris Busbey, Mike Gatny Authors, maintainers, contributors Y
json_spec Build and inspect JSON in RSpec and Cucumber Chris Busbey Pull Request #39 N
markety Ruby gem for Marketo SOAP API integration Grant Birchmeier Co-author N
cucumber Cucumber is a tool for running automated tests written in plain language Chris Busbey Pull Request #670 N

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