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parent: Meetings
title: "2024-12-16"
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# Open Mainframe Project Technical Advisory Council (TAC) Meeting - December 16, 2024## Voting Representative Attendees
### Platinum Member Representatives
- [ ] Giancarlo Frix - Rocket Software
- [ ] Gregory Mackinnon - 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
- [ ] Sean Grady - Zowe Representative
- [ ] Sudharsana Srinivasan - COBOL Programming Course Representative## Non-Voting Attendees
### Non-Voting Project and Working Group Representatives
- [ ] Cam Seay - COBOL Working Group Representative
- [ ] Deepak Kulkarni - Tessia Representative
- [ ] Elizabeth Joseph - Linux Distributions Working Group Representative
- [ ] Joe Devlin - TSTerm Representative
- [ ] Louisa Seers - Galasa Representative
- [ ] Misty Decker - Mainframe Modernization WG Representative
- [ ] Oleksandr Hubanov - TerseDecompress Representative
- [ ] Ray Mullins - z/VM Community Tools Representative
- [ ] Sam Golob - CBT Tape Representative
- [ ] Sanjay Kumar - Tessia 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 [#725](https://github.com/openmainframeproject/tac/issues/725)
## Notes