Open Mainframe Project TAC Meeting - October 23, 2025
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Meeting Recording
Attendance
Voting Member Attendance
- Dan Kelosky - Broadcom Corporation
- Andrea Orth - GenevaERS Representative
- Mike Friesenegger - Feilong Representative
- Joe Bostian - International Business Machines Corporation
- Mark Bylok - COBOL Programming Course Representative
Quorum Not Achieved.
Voting Members Not in Attendance
- Giancarlo Frix - Rocket Software
- Phil Tully - Citi
- Sean Grady - Zowe Representative
- Lauren Valenti - Open Mainframe Education Representative
Other attendees
- Tom Slanda, The Linux Foundation
- John Mertic, The Linux Foundation
- Donna Hudi, Phoenix Software International
- Jeff Brown, z/VM Community Tools
- Daniel Horak, Red Hat, Inc.
- Mike MacIsaac, z/VM Community Tools
- Marcelo Silveira
Agenda
- New Project Proposal - [Sandbox Proposal] AI Dataset Health for z/OS (ai-dataset-health-zos) [#895]
- Mentorship Program 2026 strategy [#907]
- Discuss interest in creating a Security WG [#541]
Notes
General Updates
AI Dataset Health for z/OS
Marcelo Silveira presented the new project proposal for AI Dataset Health for z/OS. Due to the project’s requirement of access to a z/OSMF endpoint, the TAC decided to delay a vote until the requested resources are available.
Mentorship Program 2026 strategy
Mike Friesenegger opened a discussion regarding the annual mentorship program and addressing the feedback provided by the mentors. Discussion ensued, and the group agreed to continue to support and promote the mentorship program.
Discuss interest in creating a Security WG
John Mertic recapped the presentation provided by CRobb and OpenSSF best practices. Friesenegger added that TAC members could speak to security-focused individuals in their organizations regarding the Open Mainframe Project and OpenSSF and seeing if they would be interested in contributing.