Open Mainframe Project TAC Meeting - April 10, 2025
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Conference call details
Meetings are hosted on the LFX Meeting Management platform. More details on how to register are at https://tac.openmainframeproject.org/meetings.
Meeting Recording
A recording of the meeting and the transcript are both available at the link below:
Attendance
Voting Member Attendance
- Phil Tully - Citi
- Sean Grady - Zowe Representative
Quorum Not Achieved.
Voting Members Not in Attendance
- Sudharsana Srinivasan - COBOL Programming Course Representative
- Lauren Valenti - Open Mainframe Education Representative
- Andrea Orth - GenevaERS Representative
- Gregory MacKinnon - Broadcom Corporation
- Giancarlo Frix - Rocket Software
- Joe Bostian - International Business Machines Corporation
- Mike Friesenegger - Feilong Representative
Other attendees
- Tom Slanda, The Linux Foundation
- John Mertic, The Linux Foundation
- Daniel Horak, Red Hat, Inc
- Aaron Kippins, International Business Machines Corporation
- Donna Hudi, Phoenix Software International
- Michael Bauer, Broadcom
- Elizabeth Joseph, International Business Machines Corporation
Agenda
Notes
General Updates
- Summer Mentorship Program 2025
- IBM TechXchange 2025
- Deadline to submit a proposal for the main track is Friday, April 11, 2025.
- On October 6, Open Mainframe Project is holding Community Day.
- The CFP will begin next week.
COBOL Programming Course Annual Review
Michael Bauer presented the annual review for the COBOL Programming Course.
A renewal vote will take place offline in LFX.
Strategy Session
Tom Slanda led a discussion to rank potential TAC initiatives. Slanda will report the final rankings at the next TAC meeting.