Open Mainframe Project Technical Advisory Council (TAC) Meeting - April 9, 2026
Join the meeting at https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/open-mainframe-project?view=list&projects=open-mainframe-project
Voting Representative Attendees
Platinum Member Representatives
- Dan Kelosky - Broadcom Corporation
- Joe Bostian - International Business Machines Corporation
- Phil Tully - Citi
Project Representatives
- Andrea Orth - GenevaERS Representative
- Aswini Vadlamudi - GenevaERS Representative
- Lauren Valenti - Mainframe Open Education Representative
- Mark Bylok - COBOL Programming Course Representative
- Roland Koo - COBOL Programming Course Representative
- Sean Grady - Zowe Representative
Industry Representatives
- Mike Friesenegger - SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
Non-Voting Attendees
Non-Voting Project and Working Group Representatives
- Claus Bjørno - COBOL Check Representative
- Elizabeth Joseph - Linux Distributions Working Group Representative, Software Discovery Tool Representative
- Igor Todorovski - Zopen Representative
- Jeff Brown - z/VM Community Tools Representative
- Joe Devlin - TSTerm Representative
- Michael Macisaac - z/VM Community Tools Representative
- Misty Decker - Mainframe Modernization WG Representative
- Mohammed Erakkadavath - Tessia Representative
- Moumita Paul - Tessia Representative
- Oleksandr Hubanov - TerseDecompress Representative
- Sam Golob - CBT Tape Representative
- Will Bartolomeo - Galasa Representative
LF Staff
- John Mertic - The Linux Foundation
- Tom Slanda - The Linux Foundation
Other Attendees
- Daniel Horák
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Agenda
- General Updates
Meeting Assets
Notes
Mike Friesenegger reminded attendess of many of the active security exploitations in the wild, including GitHub Actions as well as the recent Slack phishing attacks.
John Mertic provided updates on mainframe infrastructure, indicating the legal blockers from the OMP/LF side are complete, and the IBM should be ready to start onboarding projects. Mike Friesenegger indicated there were blockers raised by the team regarding Feilong, but it was unclear what they were. John Mertic and Mike Friesenegger indicated they would follow up.
John Mertic gave an update on summer mentorships, indicating that they are not funded by Open Mainframe Project this year, but projects can use the LFX Mentorship platform for unpaid mentorships and organizations can donate funds for stipends if they choose.