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parent: Meetings
title: "2025-12-23"
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# Open Mainframe Project Technical Advisory Council (TAC) Meeting - December 23, 2025
## Voting Representative Attendees
### Platinum Member Representatives
- [ ] Dan Kelosky - Broadcom Corporation
- [ ] Joe Bostian - International Business Machines Corporation
- [ ] Mike Friesenegger - SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
- [ ] 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
## 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
- [ ] 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
- [ ] 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
- TAC Vice Chair Election [#933](https://github.com/openmainframeproject/tac/issues/933)
- Mainframe infrastructure coming online status [#596](https://github.com/openmainframeproject/tac/issues/596)
- Adding Community elected representative roles to the TAC [#936](https://github.com/openmainframeproject/tac/issues/936)
- Always thinking about project security [#944](https://github.com/openmainframeproject/tac/issues/944)
- LF Engineering Services [#957](https://github.com/openmainframeproject/tac/issues/957)
- Annual Review: COBOL Working Group [#581](https://github.com/openmainframeproject/tac/issues/581)
- Annual Review: COBOL Check [#578](https://github.com/openmainframeproject/tac/issues/578)
## Notes
## Next Meeting Agenda
- General Updates
- Annual Review: TerseDecompress [#576](https://github.com/openmainframeproject/tac/issues/576)