Open Mainframe Project Technical Advisory Council (TAC) Meeting - May 14, 2026
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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
- Lauren Valenti - Mainframe Open Education Representative
- Mark Bylok - COBOL Programming Course Representative
- Sean Grady - Zowe Representative
Industry Representatives
- Mike Friesenegger - SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
Non-Voting Attendees
- Daniel Horak
- Len Santalucia
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
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Agenda
- General Updates
- Mainframe infrastructure coming online status #596
- COBOL WG Update #981
- Annual Review: COBOL Check #578
Notes
Jeff Brown discussed that the COBOL Working Group is still working on a reset, sharing that he has several people he’s reached out to but no responses yet. The TAC representatives in attendance agreed to have COBOL WG reviewed in September, and indicated the TAC would like to see a plan for what a new direction for that group would be.
John Mertic mentioned that there has been no interest on anyone taking over the COBOL Check project, and TAC representatives indicated they would be for conducting an offline vote to approve moving the project to Emertius.
John Mertic shared that Feilong has been onboarded to the mainframe infrastructure, and CBT Tape is in process. The TAC reviewed a number of project applying for access, approving all but Lua/TSO and NixOS; those the TAC requested information on current development and maintainer status before approving.