Open Mainframe Project TAC Meeting - September 12, 2024

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Conference call details

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Meeting Recording

A recording of the meeting and the transcript are both available at the link below:

Meeting Recording

Attendance

Voting Member Attendance

  • Mike Friesenegger - Feilong Representative
  • Gregory MacKinnon - Broadcom Corporation
  • Andrea Orth - GenevaERS Representative
  • Giancarlo Frix - Rocket Software
  • Joe Bostian - International Business Machines Corporation

Quorum Achieved

Voting Members Not in Attendance

  • Phil Tully - Citi
  • Sean Grady - Zowe Representative
  • Sudharsana Srinivasan - COBOL Programming Course Representative
  • Lauren Valenti - Open Mainframe Education Representative

Other attendees

  • John Mertic, The Linux Foundation
  • Tom Slanda, The Linux Foundation
  • Daniel Horak, Red Hat, Inc.
  • Donna Hudi, Rocket Software
  • Lionel Dyck, Trident Services
  • Elizabeth Joseph, International Business Machines Corporation

Agenda

  • Ambitus Annual Review [#577]
  • z/OS Open Tools
  • Initial policy on TAC Chair/Vice Chair [#694]
  • Looking for Open Mainframe Projects for Western Students [#690]
  • TSTerm Annual Review [#506]

Notes

Ambitus

Joe Bostian presented the annual review for Ambitus. Greg MacKinnon motioned to renew the Ambitus project. Mike Friesenegger seconded, and all were in favor.

RESOLVED - That the Ambitus project is hereby renewed for another year at the incubation phase.

z/OS Open Tools

John Mertic reported that the z/OS Open Tools project is changing their name to Zopen.

Initial policy on TAC Chair/Vice Chair

John Mertic reviewed the proposed changes to the TAC Chair that were presented at the previous TAC meeting.

Greg MacKinnon and Mike Friesenegger suggested voting on the policy change at the next TAC meeting, to allow for further discussion and contemplation among the voting members.

Looking for Open Mainframe Projects for Western Students

John Mertic requested to be contacted if there are any projects that could use assistance from students from Western University.

TSTerm

The TSTerm annual review will be rescheduled for a future meeting.