[Quickfix-developers] Wanted to introduce myself

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Hi QuickFix developers,

Just wanted to introduce myself. Frankly, I'm surprised it's taken me this
long to loop around and find you guys. Well, better late than never!

We are working up a non-profit, add-free site for Investment and Trading
System Documentation that is geared to Open Source, Freely Licensed code
projects such as QuickFix! Check out Http://ITSdoc.org

I've been posting a LOT on ISO standards and its taken a while for me to
circle around and hone in on FIX as a very viable long term standards group.
In fact, FIX appears to be one of the few standards in the capital markets
area that isn't run by a propriety trade group with substantial licensing
fees!

That makes FIX in general, and QuickFix in specific, very logical partners
with us. We are promoting free, open standards too. All our stuff is free
under the GPL for documentation.

The site is new but here are a few sample pages:

Standards
http://www.itsdoc.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Standards

Algorithmic Trading
http://www.itsdoc.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Algorithmic%20Trading

ISO 19312
http://www.itsdoc.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=ISO+19312

I'll apologize in advance that FIX has not yet been covered. I started with
ISO and am working my way down. What I'm finding is a lot of stodgy bankers
and international hot air. When I got down to FIX we are finally at the
level of something useful!

Basically we want to provide a high exposure for QuickFix and hope
ITSdoc.org will merit a link back from your site to us. In the weeks ahead I
want to learn a whole lot more about FIX and QuickFix and hear any other
ideas how we can cooperate, co-promote and illuminate the path to better
open standards.