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SUMMARY:Closing the Knowledge Gap: How to Attract and Retain Next-Gen Mainframe Talent
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, October 16 at 9 am PT/12 pm ET\, join leaders from BMC\, Broadcom Mainframe Software\, IBM and Open Mainframe Project to discuss how to attract and retain next-gen mainframe talent as well as current internship\, mentorship and employment opportunities. Register here. \nRegistration is required and the webinar is open to all applicants from all backgrounds. This one hour event hopes to bring awareness to why inclusive hiring is important and highlight the many internship and hiring programs offered by leading mainframe companies. \nSpeakers include: \n\nEarl Dixon Jr\, Principle Client Services\, Vitality Program Tech Lead at Broadcom Mainframe Software\nJen Corio\, Director – Talent Acquisition at BMC\nShelly Meierarend\, IBM Z Global Skills Leader at IBM\nJohn Mertic\, Executive Director at Open Mainframe Project\n\n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Earl Dixon\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Jen Corio\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Shelly Meierarend\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				John Mertic\n				\n		\n\nIn addition to a presentation of programs by four panelists from leading companies\, the webinar will include a Q&A session to answer any attendee questions about the many mainframe job opportunities. This session will cover the following: \n\nBroadcom Mainframe Vitality Program\nBMC Next Gen Program\nIBM Z Day page\nOpen Mainframe Project Mentorship Program\n\n  \n \n  \nRegister here. \nCheck out other Marking Our Strong Community Stronger videos here. Join our LinkedIn community here. \n 
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/closing-the-knowledge-gap-how-to-attract-and-retain-next-gen-mainframe-talent/
CATEGORIES:Making our Strong Community Stronger,Mentorship,Webinar
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SUMMARY:LFX Mentorship Showcase (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:The LFX Mentorship Showcase is an opportunity for graduating mentees of the LFX Mentorship program to showcase the work they completed during their session term. Register for the event here. \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. \nOpen Mainframe Project 2022 Mainframe Open Education Mentee Tisso Senosha\, a student at University of Johannesburg\, will give a presentation on Wednesday\, January 18 at 9:20-9:30 am EST. \nThe Mainframe Open Education Project provides students with the resources to learn foundational mainframe skills. As a reviewer\, contributor and advisor to the project\, Tiiso upskilled himself\, influenced how he wants to learn mainframe skills\, curated content for the project’s GitBook\, and built a student user group that he continues to lead. He also created awareness of the project in the student community. My mentor made it easy to adapt to the core team’s style of work and be able to make an impact. It was fun experience that helped me grow and discover my passion. Lauren Valenti and I met bi-weekly to discuss how far we are in reaching the targets set for me and have a coaching session too. I focused on reviewing the educational content on the Gitbook and acquire more knowledge. However\, I took the Mainframe Security Administrator learning path on Interskill. From my mentorship\, I learned team-work\, leadership skills\, content curation\, improved my communication skills and found best ways to deliver educational content. It is more about being creative\, promoting the project on social media and at different universities\, writing blog posts and organising virtual events. Add it to your schedule here. \nLearn more about the presentations or register for the event on the main event website here: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/lfx-mentorship-showcase/. \n 
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/lfx-mentorship-showcase-2/
CATEGORIES:All,Mainframe Open Education,Mentorship
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220112
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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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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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