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SUMMARY:COBOL Programming Course Q3 Webinar (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, September 27 at 9 am PT/12 pm ET for the COBOL Programming Course Q3 Webinar! Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_G2TJ5fgGQd6f9xT6VLyscA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this session\, the TSC members will be speaking with Open Mainframe Project Summer Mentee Sainath Rao. Join us and listen to the next generation of COBOLers share and discuss the content refresh and updates done through the Summer Mentorship project. Whether you are new to COBOL or a seasoned COBOLer there is something you can take away from this new and updated COBOL Programming Course!\n\n\n\n\nSession Speakers:\nSudharsana Srinivasan (IBM)\, Mike Bauer (Broadcom)\, Paul Newton (IBM)\, Joe Winchester (IBM)\, Hartanto Widjaya (member of the COBOL Programming Technical Steering Committee)\, Sainath Rao (Open Mainframe Project 2022 Summer Mentee)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_G2TJ5fgGQd6f9xT6VLyscA 
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/cobol-programming-course-q3/
CATEGORIES:All,COBOL,Webinar
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SUMMARY:COBOL Programming Course Q3 Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Join the COBOL Programming Course team on Tuesday\, August 30 at 9 am PT/12 pm ET. Register here. \nIn this session\, COBOL Programming Course TSC members will be speaking with Open Mainframe Project Summer Mentee\, Sainath Rao. Join us and listen to the next generation of COBOLers share and discuss the content refresh and updates done through the Summer Mentorship project. Whether you are new to COBOL or a seasoned COBOLer there is something you can take away from this new and updated COBOL Programming Course! \nRegister to attend this free webinar here.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/cobol-programming-course-q3-webinar/
CATEGORIES:All,COBOL,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220525T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220525T100000
DTSTAMP:20260502T144842
CREATED:20220517T181038Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220517T181038Z
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SUMMARY:COBOL Programming Course Q2 Webinar
DESCRIPTION:COBOL skills have been debated long and hard…. so\, let’s get to some facts. Join us to hear from Dr. Cameron Seay\,  a mainframe educator that has adopted the Open Mainframe Project’s COBOL Programming Course into his curriculum. You don’t want to miss this opportunity to learn the latest happening with COBOL education. Register for the webinar on Wednesday\, May 25 at 9 am PT (12 pm ET): https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XcbRi0WlTO2l9a_vCufqKw. \nThere is something in it for everyone – students\, educators\, clients\, life-long learners – See you at the session!
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/cobol-programming-course-q2-webinar/
CATEGORIES:All,COBOL,Webinar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220322
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220324
DTSTAMP:20260502T144842
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SUMMARY:Micro Focus Universe 2022
DESCRIPTION:Universe 2022 is for those journeying into the unfamiliar to solve a digital dilemma—how to balance today’s needs with tomorrow’s opportunities. Join us as we show you how to achieve the outcomes needed to run and transform at the same time and boost your transformation journey without ever leaving your home or office. Learn more here. \nRegister for the “Application Modernization and Connectivity” (AMC) track to gain access to information that will help set a successful path to digital transformation for your COBOL and mainframe applications. \nWhat to Expect: \n\nAttend Online: The event is virtual so you can experience it from your sofa\, home office\, or wherever you are!\nGeneral Session: Micro Focus executives share strategies for solving your digital dilemma: how do you balance running day-to-day with the need to transform your organization for tomorrow—and do both at the same time.\nTrack Keynotes: Key leaders from each of our tracks share specific information from disciplines across the enterprise that can help you run and transform at the same time.\nBreakout Sessions: Attend customer and Micro Focus-led breakout sessions to benefit from best-practices and product usage tips.\nLive Studio Broadcasts: New for 2022\, Live Studio broadcasts are available any time during conference hours. They provide one location to easily view a variety of track-specific content—from product strategy to customer stories\, and demonstrations.\nExplore Zone: Looking to dive even deeper? Taking things at your own speed? Visit the Explore Zone to watch deep dive demos\, download white papers\, find customer stories\, discover research\, and more.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/micro-focus-universe-2022/
CATEGORIES:All,COBOL,Member Event,Open Mainframe Project Ambassador
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SUMMARY:COBOL Programming Course Q1 Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Since the launch of Open Mainframe Project’s COBOL Programming Course two years ago\, we have held quarterly TSC calls to encourage our learners\, COBOL fans and the community at large to join us to learn more about our work we drive and provide inputs and thoughts about the course. \nFor our 1st quarter session webinar on Tuesday\, February 8 at 9 am PT/12 pm ET\, we are excited to have Rune Christensen from Bankdata as our guest speaker\, joining us to talk about COBOL and this specific COBOL course and how his team leverages it. Register here: https://bit.ly/3gm7PxO. \nSpeakers: \n\nRune Christensen\, Bankdata\nSudharsana Srinivasan\, IBM\nMichael Bauer\, Broadcom\nJoe Winchester\, IBM\nPaul Newton\, IBM\nHartanto Widjaya\, Singapore Management University
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/cobol-programming-course-q1-webinar/
CATEGORIES:All,COBOL,Education & Training
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220113
DTSTAMP:20260502T144842
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SUMMARY:LFX Mentorship Showcase
DESCRIPTION:The LFX Mentorship Showcase\, hosted online on January 12\, is an opportunity for graduating mentees of the LFX Mentorship program to showcase the work they completed during their session term. Learn more about the 29 graduated mentees of the Linux Kernel\, Cloud Native Computing Foundation\, Open Mainframe Project\, RISC-V\, Hyperledger\, and LF Networking mentorship programs as they share the specific projects they worked on during their mentorship\, highlighting the contributions they made. Visit the main event page to learn more or register: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/lfx-mentorship-showcase/. \nThis virtual event is free to attend and open to anyone who would like to learn more about the experiences of LF Mentorship Program mentees\, find out more about some of the programs our projects are working on\, recruit new talent\, and support new developer contributions. \n \nOpen Mainframe Project is excited to announce that two graduate mentees will be featured in this showcase – Hartanto Ario Widjaya\, a student at the Singapore Management University and mentee of the COBOL Programming Course\, and Sudhanshu Dubey\, an Application Development Associate at Accenture and mentee of the OBOL Working Group. Please see their presentation description and times below and add it to your schedule. \nCOBOL: Now and Tomorrow\, Hartanto Ario Widjaya \n10:05 – 10:15 pm EST \nhttps://sched.co/tRX6 \nDuring the Open Mainframe Project Mentorship Program\, Ahmed and Hartanto improved upon the materials of the COBOL Programming Course\, a project set to provide free and accessible COBOL training for everyone. Amidst the needs for COBOL programmers\, they help to enable the next generation of learners to add COBOL to their tech toolkit. The project community has been amazing\, everyone is welcoming of us\, and we get to work with various people who are happy to help us even though we are new to the field. Unlike most projects\, our project is courseware-based. So we get to explore COBOL in great detail to add to the course. Furthermore\, we also learned how to communicate better with each other and got exposed to mainframes\, where millions of lines of COBOL code are still in operation today. \nCOBOL Modernization: Renovating Core IT Applications\, Sudhanshu Dubey \n10:29-10:39 EST \nhttps://sched.co/tRXF \nBillions of lines of COBOL are still running the core IT of thousands of companies but those applications have largely been left out of modern advances in IT. In partnership with the Open Mainframe Project\, we asked student intern Sudhanshu Dubey to demonstrate the options for modernizing an existing COBOL application to address the business needs and prove the future possibilities. \nDuring the project Sudhanshu did the following: \n\nRan analysis tools on a monolithic banking core application\nIdentified key services that could be externalized\nModernized the user experience\n\nIf a university student can do it\, certainly you can too. It was a wonderful experience working with my mentors and the project community. The mentors were very welcoming and supportive. They understood that I am new to this and helped me at each step without putting too much pressure on me. Similarly\, the project community helped me with everything I needed and it was fun interacting with other mentees. While working on the project I learned COBOL\, CICS and the MicroFocus tools I used. Also I learned modernization techniques. We presented at a lot of places which improved my speaking and presentation skills. Add it to your schedule here: https://sched.co/tRXF \nThe Linux Foundation’s Mentorship Program helps developers – many of whom are first-time open source contributors – gain the skills and experience necessary to contribute effectively to open source communities. Learn more about the program here: https://lfx.linuxfoundation.org/tools/mentorship/.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/lfx-mentorship-showcase/
CATEGORIES:All,COBOL,Education & Training,Mentorship
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211025
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211029
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SUMMARY:IBM TechU
DESCRIPTION:Join Open Mainframe Project at IBM’s Tech U\, a virtual training event happening on October 25-28. TechU is the The premier virtual training event for deep technical content on IBM IT Infrastructure products and solutions. \nOpen Mainframe Project will have two sessions on-demand: \nBack to the Future with COBOL – John Mertic\, the Linux Foundation\, and Misty Decker\, Micro Focus \nCOBOL is the lifeblood of mainframe applications that power the global econony. It is reliable\, proven and the foundation of most mission critical financial services at the world’s biggest banks. Yet few people realize or acknowledge the profound impact the COBOL language has had over its 60-year history. \nIn this discussion\, we’ll take a look at the COBOL’s history\, the sudden demand for it\, the academic landscape and the efforts of Open Mainframe Project and other organizations to create resources for COBOL and showcase its value to a broader audience. \nHow we used Zowe to create VIVA\, an Alexa and Siri rival – Alex Kim and Len Santalucia\, Vicom Infinity \nI used Open Mainframe Project’s Zowe framework to create VIVA (Vicom Infinity Voice Assistant). We used API connectio to integrate many other system API’s the mainframe\, but we wanted to use open source. This session will discuss moving from monolithic applications toward an API economy. That means leveraging microservices and DevOps practices\, with a fully integrated and automated pipeline enabled by a hybrid cloud architecture plus best-of-breed\, open source tooling and communities such as Zowe. I will offer a live demonstration of how VIVA works as an enterprise application use case. \nLearn more about the conference or register here: https://www.ibm.com/training/events/vtechu2021. \n  \n 
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/ibm-techu/
CATEGORIES:All,COBOL,Education & Training,Member Event,Zowe
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210927
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211001
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SUMMARY:Open Source Summit/Embedded Linux Conference (Seattle\, Washington + Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Open Source Summit and Embedded Linux Conference will be held on-site in Seattle\, Washington as well as virtually on September 27-30. It is the leading conference for developers\, architects and other technologists – as well as open source community and industry leaders – to collaborate\, share information\, learn about the latest technologies and gain a competitive advantage by using innovative open solutions. To learn more about the event\, which is co-located with Open Source Summit\, or to register for it\, please go to the main Embedded Linux Conference website here. \nOpen Mainframe will be have a virtual booth at the event – look for that online. Additionally\, Open Mainframe participants from the Mentorship Program will be giving a presentation. \nWednesday\, September 29 at 11:30 – 12:20 pm PDT:\nModernizing Code Older than You Are: One Student Takes a COBOL Bank App to Hybrid Cloud – Sudhanshu Dubey\, Open Mainframe Project Summer Mentee and student from Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College;  and Misty Decker\, Contributor of Open Mainframe Project’s COBOL Working Group and Product Marketing Manager from Micro Focus \nBillions of lines of COBOL are still running the core IT of thousands of companies but those applications have largely been left out of modern advances in IT. Misty Decker will introduce the Open Mainframe Project’s COBOL Working Group and how they are working to address COBOL skills and modernization of legacy core applications. As part of the Open Mainframe Project’s mentorship program\, student Sudhanshu Dubey demonstrated the options for modernizing an existing COBOL application to address the business needs and prove the future possibilities. Sudhanshu will demonstrate how he: \n\nRan analysis tools on a monolithic banking core application\nIdentified key services that could be externalized\nRan the application in a hybrid cloud environment\nModernized the user experience COBOL can be a part of modern hybrid cloud environments.\n\nAdd this to your schedule here. \nOpen Mainframe Project is a Bronze sponsor of the event. To register or learn more about event\, visit the main Embedded Linux Conference website.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/embedded-linux-conference-seattle-virtual/
CATEGORIES:All,COBOL,LF Event,Mentorship,Open Mainframe Project Ambassador
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210818T080000
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SUMMARY:I am a Mainframer: Personal Stories and Lessons from the Next Generation of Mainframe Developers
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, August 18 at 8-9 am PDT for a new webinar that explores “Personal Stories and lessons from the next generation of mainframe Developers.” \nFive open source mainframe developers will share their personal journey into the mainframe\, covering what they’re working on\, the challenges and issues (good and bad) and their experiences with customers\, the open source community\, and more.  \nOne of the challenges of open source and projects like Zowe is how it can reinvent a 60 year old computing platform for the next generation of developers and system programmers and architects at tomorrow’s IT companies.  \nThis webinar will shine the light on four key Open Mainframe community members who are playing their part and open the lid on their successes\, failures\, and questions and answers for the secret sauce that is powering Zowe and other Open Mainframe Projects they are involved with. The success of Zowe and the Open Mainframe Project comes in large part from the diversity and background of its committers\, and this panel brings together a group that includes the Zowe Technical Steering Committee lead together with squad members from different companies. \nSpeakers include: \n\nJoe Winchester\,  Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM (Moderator)\nJakub Balhar\, Staff Software Engineer at Broadcom and Zowe TSC Chair\nLauren Li\, Front-End Developer at IBM\nLeanid Astrakou\, Staff Software Engineer at Rocket\nLeonid Baranov\, Staff Software Engineer at Broadcom\nAshley (Nan Nan) Li\, Content Designer at IBM \n\nRegister for the webinar here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XxwiPaFtRreDN1aONdQa_A.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/i-am-a-mainframer-personal-stories-and-lessons-from-the-next-generation-of-mainframe-developers/
CATEGORIES:All,COBOL,Diversity & Inclusion,Open Mainframe Project Ambassador,Webinar,Zowe
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210613
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210616
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SUMMARY:2021 Enterprise Computing Community (ECC) Conference
DESCRIPTION:On June 13-15\, Open Mainframe Project will be at the annual ECC Conference\, which will be hosted virtually. Several Open Mainframe Project leaders will be in presenting at the conference – check out the schedule below. \nMonday\, June 14:\n10:45 – 11:15 am: How a Student Modernized a Legacy Banking Application \n\nMisty Decker\, member of the COBOL Working Group/Micro Focus \nSudhanshu Dubey\, Open Mainframe Project 2021 Summer Mentee\n\n11:30 am – 12 pm: The Facts about COBOL (panel) \n\nModerator: Cameron Seay\, Chair of the COBOL Working Group/ East Carolina University\nModerator: Len Santalucia\, Chair of the Open Mainframe Project Governing Board/Vicom Infinity\nPanelists: Members of Open Mainframe Project’s COBOL Working Group\n\n2:15 – 2:45 pm: Death of the Mainframe? How Open Source Modernized the Mainframe \n\nJohn Mertic\, Director of Program Management\, the Linux Foundation\n\n3-3:30 pm: Teaching Bergen Community College students.  You can do it too! COBOL and Linux skills for the IBM Z Mainframe (Panel) \n\nModerator: Len Santalucia\, Chair of the Open Mainframe Project Governing Board/Vicom Infinity\nVincent Terrone\, member of the Open Mainframe Project technical community/ Vicom Infinity\nEmily Vandalovsky\, Bergen Community College\n\nTuesday\, June 15:\n10:15 – 10:45 am: Watson Integration to Enterprise Open Source Performance Monitor \n\nAlex Kim\, member of the Zowe community/Vicom Infinity\nSalisu Ali\, Graduate of the 2020 Open Mainframe Project Mentorship Program\nLen Santalucia\, Chair of the Open Mainframe Project Governing Board/Vicom Infinity\n\n3-3:30 pm: Create a Fully Automated CI/CD Pipeline for a z/OS Test Environment using Jenkins and Zowe \n\nSubhasish Sarkar\, member of the Zowe community/BMC Software \n\nOpen Mainframe Project is also a Bronze Sponsor of the ECC Conference. To learn more about the conference or to register for free\, visit the main ECC Conference website: https://ecc.marist.edu/web/conference2021.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/2021-enterprise-computing-community-ecc-conference/
CATEGORIES:All,COBOL
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