Open Mainframe Project TAC Meeting - December 11, 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
Attendance
Voting Member Attendance
- Andrea Orth - GenevaERS Representative
- Mark Bylok - COBOL Programming Course Representative
Quorum Not Achieved.
Voting Members Not in Attendance
- Giancarlo Frix - Rocket Software
- Phil Tully - Citi
- Lauren Valenti - Open Mainframe Education Representative
- Joe Bostian - International Business Machines Corporation
- Sean Grady - Zowe Representative
- Mike Friesenegger - Feilong Representative
- Dan Kelosky - Broadcom Corporation
Other attendees
- Tom Slanda, The Linux Foundation
- John Mertic, The Linux Foundation
- Kip Twitchell
- Aswini Vadlamundi, IBM Watson Health
- Daniel Horak, Red Hat, Inc.
- Elizabeth Joseph, International Business Machines Corporation
- Mark Ackert, Broadcom Corporation
- Sarah Julia Kriesch, openSUSE/Kyndryl
- Will Bartolomeo, International Business Machines Corporation
- David Rossi, International Business Machines Corporation
- Len Santalucia, Pellera Technologies
Agenda
- GenevaERS Annual Review [#575]
- Linux Distributions Working Group Annual Review [#532]
- Mainframe Infrastructure Status [#596]
- COBOL Check [#578]
- Zorse [#642]
- Adding Community Elected Representative Roles [#936]
Notes
General Updates
GenevaERS Annual Review
Kip Twitchell and Aswini Vadlamudi presented the annual review for GenevaERS.
Linux Distributions Working Group Annual Review
Elizabeth Joseph and Sarah Julia Kriesch presented the annual review for Linux Distributions Working Group.
Mainframe Infrastructure Status
Mertic will reach out to project leads concerning access to new IBM infrastructure
Adding Community elected representative roles to the TAC
Tom Slanda will create a poll in LFX to elect Mike Friesenegger as a Community Representative.
Zorse and COBOL Check Updates
Mark Bylok expressed interest in leading the COBOL Check project moving forward. Bylok and Mertic will speak offline regarding workload and next steps.
Mertic reported the proposal to move the Zorse project to the Emeritus stage was approved.