Open Mainframe Project TAC Meeting - March 26, 2026

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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

Recording

Attendance

Voting Member Attendance

  • Sean Grady - Zowe Representative
  • Dan Kelosky - Broadcom Corporation
  • Mark Bylok - COBOL Programming Course Representative

Quorum Was Not Achieved.

Voting Members Not in Attendance

  • Giancarlo Frix - Rocket Software
  • Phil Tully - Citi
  • Mike Friesenegger - Industry Representative (Chair)
  • Andrea Orth - GenevaERS Representative
  • Joe Bostian - International Business Machines Corporation
  • Lauren Valenti - Open Mainframe Education Representative

Other attendees

  • Tom Slanda, The Linux Foundation
  • Daniel Horak, Red Hat LLC
  • Michael MacIsaac, z/VM Community Tools
  • Jeff Brown, COBOL Working Group
  • Elizabeth Joseph, International Business Machines Corporation
  • Igor Todorovski, International Business Machines Corporation

Agenda

  • zopen Community Annual Review [#625]
  • Summer Mentorships [#1007]

Notes

Zopen Community Annual Review

  • Igor Todorovski presented the zopen Community Annual Review

Summer Mentorships

  • Tom Slanda said that even though the Open Mainframe Project is not providing stipends for mentorships this year, projects are welcome to do unpaid mentorships and use the LFX Mentorship platform.