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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +parent: Meetings |
| 3 | +title: "2026-05-14" |
| 4 | +--- |
| 5 | + |
| 6 | +# Open Mainframe Project Technical Advisory Council (TAC) Meeting - May 14, 2026 |
| 7 | + |
| 8 | +Join the meeting at [https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/open-mainframe-project?view=list&projects=open-mainframe-project](https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/open-mainframe-project?view=list&projects=open-mainframe-project) |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +## Voting Representative Attendees |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +### Platinum Member Representatives |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +- [x] Dan Kelosky - Broadcom Corporation |
| 15 | +- [ ] Joe Bostian - International Business Machines Corporation |
| 16 | +- [ ] Phil Tully - Citi |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +### Project Representatives |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | +- [ ] Andrea Orth - GenevaERS Representative |
| 21 | +- [x] Lauren Valenti - Mainframe Open Education Representative |
| 22 | +- [x] Mark Bylok - COBOL Programming Course Representative |
| 23 | +- [x] Sean Grady - Zowe Representative |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +### Industry Representatives |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +- [ ] Mike Friesenegger - SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH |
| 28 | + |
| 29 | +## Non-Voting Attendees |
| 30 | + |
| 31 | +- Daniel Horak |
| 32 | +- Len Santalucia |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | +### Non-Voting Project and Working Group Representatives |
| 35 | + |
| 36 | +- [ ] Claus Bjørno - COBOL Check Representative |
| 37 | +- [ ] Elizabeth Joseph - Linux Distributions Working Group Representative, Software Discovery Tool Representative |
| 38 | +- [ ] Igor Todorovski - Zopen Representative |
| 39 | +- [x] Jeff Brown - z/VM Community Tools Representative |
| 40 | +- [ ] Joe Devlin - TSTerm Representative |
| 41 | +- [ ] Michael Macisaac - z/VM Community Tools Representative |
| 42 | +- [ ] Misty Decker - Mainframe Modernization WG Representative |
| 43 | +- [ ] Mohammed Erakkadavath - Tessia Representative |
| 44 | +- [ ] Moumita Paul - Tessia Representative |
| 45 | +- [ ] Oleksandr Hubanov - TerseDecompress Representative |
| 46 | +- [ ] Sam Golob - CBT Tape Representative |
| 47 | +- [ ] Will Bartolomeo - Galasa Representative |
| 48 | + |
| 49 | +### LF Staff |
| 50 | + |
| 51 | +- [x] John Mertic - The Linux Foundation |
| 52 | +- [ ] Tom Slanda - The Linux Foundation |
| 53 | + |
| 54 | +### Other Attendees |
| 55 | + |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | +## Antitrust Policy Notice |
| 58 | + |
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| 62 | +extremely important that attendees adhere to meeting agendas, and be aware of, |
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| 65 | + |
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| 73 | +the Linux Foundation. |
| 74 | + |
| 75 | +## Agenda |
| 76 | + |
| 77 | +- General Updates |
| 78 | + - Mainframe infrastructure coming online status [#596](https://github.com/openmainframeproject/tac/issues/596) |
| 79 | +- COBOL WG Update [#981](https://github.com/openmainframeproject/tac/issues/981) |
| 80 | +- Annual Review: COBOL Check [#578](https://github.com/openmainframeproject/tac/issues/578) |
| 81 | + |
| 82 | +## Notes |
| 83 | + |
| 84 | +Jeff Brown discussed that the COBOL Working Group is still working on a reset, sharing that he has several people he's reached |
| 85 | +out to but no responses yet. The TAC representatives in attendance agreed to have COBOL WG reviewed in September, and indicated |
| 86 | +the TAC would like to see a plan for what a new direction for that group would be. |
| 87 | + |
| 88 | +John Mertic mentioned that there has been no interest on anyone taking over the COBOL Check project, and TAC representatives indicated |
| 89 | +they would be for conducting an offline vote to approve moving the project to Emertius. |
| 90 | + |
| 91 | +John Mertic shared that Feilong has been onboarded to the mainframe infrastructure, and CBT Tape is in process. The TAC reviewed |
| 92 | +a number of project applying for access, approving all but Lua/TSO and NixOS; those the TAC requested information on current |
| 93 | +development and maintainer status before approving. |
| 94 | + |
| 95 | +## Next Meeting Agenda |
| 96 | + |
| 97 | +- General Updates |
| 98 | +- Annual Review: SBOM for mainframe applications Working Group [#848](https://github.com/openmainframeproject/tac/issues/848) |
| 99 | +- Annual Review: TSTerm [#506](https://github.com/openmainframeproject/tac/issues/506) |
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