Open Mainframe Project

Developer Panel: The Future of Open Source
2019-04-18 18:00 - 21:00 UTC | Devhub, 401 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, B.C, Canada
The OpenMainframe Project will take part in a DevHub Meetup in Vancouver, Canada on Thursday, April 18 at 6 PM. The Meetup will feature a panel about The Future of OpenSource, where local leaders will share different perspectives on how open source will shape future developers and companies.
Mike Fulton, Distinguished Engineer at IBM and Open Mainframe Project member, will share details about open source, OMP, Zowe and more. He joins Don Burks, Technical Lead at Sphere, Nathalie C. Chan King Choy, Consultant at Kestrel Omnitech & Brenda Rigney, Strategy Consultant at Rigney as they discuss how open source has affected their careers, and how they think the technology will evolve.
To register for the panel, click here.

Mainframe DevOps Using Zowe Open Source Webinar
2019-04-11 11:00 - 12:00 UTC
DevOps.com is presenting a webinar on April, 11 at 11 AM EST entitled, “Mainframe DevOps Using Zowe Open Source” The webinar will demonstrate how to use the Zowe open source framework to extend modern devops tooling and practices to the mainframe and to enhance the mainframe developer experience. The hosts will also drill into the Zowe architecture as they demo key capabilities including the command line interface (CLI) and API Mediation Layer.
Join Joe Winchester, Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM and Michael Bauer, Senior Product Owner from Broadcom as they demonstrate how users can “un-silo” the mainframe to accelerate software delivery and drive cross-platform applications.
To learn more about the webinar or to register, click here.

Zowe zUniversity Webinar: How to Contribute
2019-04-09 09:00 - 10:00 UTC
On Tuesday April 9, 2019, the Open Mainframe Project will participate in the Zowe zUniversity – How to Contribute webinar on Zowe.org.
At 9 AM EST join Sujay Solomon & Mike Bauer from Broadcom Inc. as they demonstrate how users can easily navigate the Zowe website. The demonstration will provide a step-by-step presentation that will show users can easily begin their own contributions to the Zowe framework on Github.
To learn more about the webinar, click here. (Note: Users must sign up for the Zowe Developers group on Zowe.org to see details for the webinar)

SUSECON 2019
2019-04-01 - 2019-04-05 | Renaissance Nashville Hotel, 611 Commerce St, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States
From April 1 – 5, thought leaders from all over will flock to Nashville, Tennesse for SUSECON 2019. The Open Mainframe Project is a media sponsor of the event, which features technical and business-level tutorials, customer case studies, hands-on product training, open source solution demos and certification opportunities.
On Tuesday, April 2 at 2 PM, join Michael Friesenegger, Solution Architect at SUSE for his presentation, “Looking beyond Linux for IBM Z and LinuxONE“. Join Michael as he explains what users can do to successfully deploy and test open source technologies for private cloud, container orchestration and cloud-native applications on IBM Z.
To learn more about the event or to register, click here.

DevOps.com Webinar: Bridging Modern DevOps and the Mainframe
2019-03-28 11:00 - 12:00 UTC
DevOps.com is presenting a webinar on March 28 at 11 am EST titled, “Bridging Modern DevOps and the Mainframe.” Join this roundtable session with leaders from the Open Mainframe Project, IBM and Broadcom to learn the latest approaches to integrating the mainframe into modern devops tooling and practices to accelerate delivery and drive true cross-platform applications.
John Mertic, the Director of Program Management for The Linux Foundation, Joe Winchester, Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM, and Rose Sakach, Product Manager at Broadcom, will discuss the challenges and opportunities that led to the creation of the Open Mainframe Project and the Zowe initiative. Launched last August, Zowe is the first open source project based on z/OS and serves as an integration platform for the next generation of tools for administration, management and development on z/OS mainframes.
By utilizing new interfaces and an API mediation layer, enterprises can now more easily integrate rich mainframe resources and extend ‘API-first’ to the mainframe.
Click here to register.

SHARE Phoenix 2019
2019-03-10 00:00 - 2019-03-15 00:00 UTC | Phoenix Convention Center, 100 N 3rd St, Phoenix, Arizona, 85004
The Open Mainframe Project will be on-site at SHARE 2019 in Phoenix with several presentations including a Women in IT Luncheon:

On Monday, March 11, at 12:30 PM, join Martha McConaghy, Vice President of The SHARE Association and active OMP member, Jeff Reser, Senior Product Strategist for SUSE, and Rosalind Radcliffe, Distinguished Engineer at IBM, for the “Women in IT Lunch.” Sponsored by the Open Mainframe Project, the luncheon is an opportunity for women to connect with other women in the IT industry. An RSVP will be required to attend the event.

On Monday, March 11, at 1:45 PM, join Peter Haumer, Development Leader of IBM Application Delivery Intelligence for his presentation, “IBM’s Devops Experience for Zowe: Towards a Modern Cloud-Based Ide Experience for Cobol Development and Devops”. Peter will explain how IBM created an entirely web-based, zero clients install Integrated Development Environment offering on top of Zowe.

On Monday, March 11, at 4:30 PM, join Jordan Cain, Software Engineer from IBM for his presentation, “How Zowe will Redefine the Way We Interact with z/OS”. The session will feature demos for all the interfaces of the z/OS.
On Tuesday, March 12 at 8:30 AM, join Greg Lotko, Senior Vice President and General Manager of The Mainframe Divison at Broadcom Technologies, Jerry Edgington, Senior Technical Analyst at Western and Southern Financial Group, Rosalind Ratcliffe, Distinguished Engineer and DevOps Architect at IBM, Ishmael Thomas, Program Advisor of Enterprise Systems Engineering at Regis University & Jeff Reser, Global Product and Solutions Marketing Manager at SUSE for a keynote panel discussion entitled, “Speed Dating with Open Mainframe“. During the discussion, contributors and users will discuss the impacts of being more open on the mainframe from the perspectives of DevOps, AI, Analytics, Open UX frameworks, and Security. Attendees will also learn about the opportunities, challenges, considerations, and experiences to date to help inform their participation in the mainframe community.

On Tuesday, March 12, at 11:15 AM, join Joe Winchester, Senior Technical Staff Member from IBM & Sujay Solomon from Broadcom Technologies for their presentation, “How to Be a Zoweian: Contribute, Extend, Customize, Participate”. The session will cover all of the ways available currently to extend Zowe. Attendees will be able to see what the open-source platform provides to users.
On Tuesday, March 12, at 11:15 AM, join Michael Bauer, Senior Product Owner from Broadcom Technologies for his lab, “Zowe CLI – Build a DevOps Pipeline on AWS for a Mainframe COBOL Application”. The lab will provide attendees the opportunity to have a hands-on experience with the Zowe command line interface and Zowe Visual Code extension. Attendees will also learn how the Zowe CLI enables users to control, script and develop on the mainframe similar to other cloud platforms.
On Wednesday, March 13, at 8:30 AM, join Dan Jast, zClient Technical Specialist from IBM, for his presentation, “Zowe Installed and Configured: A User’s Experience”. During the presentation, Dan will share his experiences of installing and configuring Zowe.
On Friday, March 15, at 8:30 AM, join Dan Kelosky, Senior Principal Architect from Broadcom Technologies for his presentation, “Zowe Modern to Mainframe (Testing Automation and Orchestration)” Join Dan as he explains the purpose and capabilities of modern testing and orchestration tools. Dan will also provide clear examples of how to integrate these tools with traditional mainframe development using Zowe CLI and APIs.
On Friday, March 15, at 10 AM, join Navya Kheterpal, Software Engineer from Broadcom Technologies for her presentation, “Writing a Simple Plugin to Enable Mainframe Applications into the Zowe Framework.” Attendees will be able to observe a demo of a plugin written for Zowe CLI. Attendees will also learn how to jump-start their own effort for writing open-source applications in the Zowe framework.
On Friday, March 15 at 10 AM, join Kevin Hosozawa, Principal Software Advisor from Rocket Software, and Louis Hanna from IBM for their presentation entitled, “Zowe Technology!!! Taking a Look at the New Web-Based Viewer Technology Being Initially Rolled Out in IBM’s OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS.” Louis and Kevin will review the latest Zowe web-based user interface and demonstrate how it can be used for z/OS based functions.

To learn more about the event or to register, click here.

Zowe Webinar
2019-02-22 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Earlier this month, the Open Mainframe Project announced that Zowe, an open source software framework for the mainframe that strengthens integration with modern enterprise applications, is now production ready less than six months after launching. Any enterprise or solution developer can access the Zowe 1.0 source code or convenience build and incorporate it into their products or services with the agility and scalability of a cloud platform.
Join this webinar on Friday, February 22 at 9-10 am PST to learn more about how Zowe makes the z/OS environment more “cloud-like” and aims to improve integration in hybrid cloud environments and how to get more involved.
Steven Dickens, Open Mainframe Project Marketing Committee Chair and Global Sales Leader at IBM, will host the webinar as Zowe developers Sujay Solomon, Global Product Manager at Broadcom, Alex Kim, Systems z Solutions Architect with Vicom, and Sean Grady, Software Engineer at Rocket Software will share an overview and best practices, walk through a demo and answer questions. JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwc3JjJTNEJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cyLnRoZWxpbnV4Zm91bmRhdGlvbi5vcmclMkZsJTJGNjM0MiUyRjIwMTktMDItMTMlMkY0MmJjd3IlMjIlMjB3aWR0aCUzRCUyMjEwMCUyNSUyMiUyMGhlaWdodCUzRCUyMjUwMCUyMiUyMHR5cGUlM0QlMjJ0ZXh0JTJGaHRtbCUyMiUyMGZyYW1lYm9yZGVyJTNEJTIyMCUyMiUyMGFsbG93VHJhbnNwYXJlbmN5JTNEJTIydHJ1ZSUyMiUyMHN0eWxlJTNEJTIyYm9yZGVyJTNBJTIwMCUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRmlmcmFtZSUzRQ==

IBM THINK 2019
2019-02-12 - 2019-02-15 | Moscone Convention Center, 747 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA, 94129, United States
The Open Mainframe Project will be onsite at THINK 2019 hosted by Open Mainframe Project member, IBM. The annual event offers the opportunity for attendees to get a hands-on experience with the latest technology and network with professionals from one of the world’s most celebrated communities of technologists and thought leaders.
On Tuesday, February 12 at 5:30-6:30 PM, join The Open Mainframe Project for Happy Hour! Attendees are encouraged to stop by the SUSE booth (#562 in the Think Infrastructure Campus) for martinis, food, and to learn about all things OMP.

On Wednesday, February 13 at 9:30 AM, join Joe Winchester, Senior Technical Staff member at IBM, Sujay Solomon, Product Manager at Broadcom Inc. & Sean Grady, Software Engineer at Rocket Software for their presentation, “IBM Z: To Open Source—and Beyond!”. Their presentation will cover the challenges customers face while obtaining and deploying tooling for their mainframe developers and system programmers. Attendees will learn how a collaboration of open-source tools and the new Zowe open-source framework empowers mainframe developers.
On Wednesday, February 13 at 9:30 AM, join Greg Lotko, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Broadcom Technologies, Ross Mauri, General Manager of IBM Z at IBM, Barry Baker, Vice President of IBM Z software at IBM, James Douglas, Operations Security Manager at Broadridge Financial Services, Brian Klingbeil, COO for a panel discussion hosted by Len Santalucia, CTO of Vicom Infinity entitled, “The Innovation Ecosystem: Why There’s Never Been a Better Time to Be on the Mainframe!“. The highly interactive session will demonstrate why it’s the best of times to be on the mainframe.
On Wednesday, February 13 at 3:30 PM, join Amit Tolmare, Senior Managing Consultant at IBM, Neeraj Kumar, Senior Product Management Leader at IBM, & Heinrich Reusch, Manager of zD&T Development at IBM for their hands-on lab, “Experience Wazi, a Web IDE for Z Open Development Powered by Zowe“. The hands-on lab will provide attendees a full, modern code editing experience with language-specific features and technology integrations in the Zowe powered web-based IDE, Wazi. Users will also experience advanced COBOL analysis, editing and refactoring and learn how fast and easy it is to get a personalized Z environment on the IBM Cloud.
On Wednesday, February 13 at 4:30 PM, join John Mertic, The Director of Program Management at The Linux Foundation for his presentation, “The Open Mainframe”. John will explain how open mainframes are the perfect solution for deploying Open Source on enterprise computing platforms. Attendees will learn how the open source community has gathered around the mainframe platform and how open source projects such as Zowe are the starting point for open development. The session will also cover how the mainframe platform is a natural technology for Linux deployments and how the mainframe community operates within the wider construct of the Linux Foundation.
On Thursday, February 14 at 1 PM, join Matt Hogstrom, Distinguished Engineer & Chief Architect at IBM & Per Kroll, Director of IBM Z Management and Ops Analytics at IBM for their presentation, “Want to Know How You Can be Part of Zowe?“. Attendees will learn how they can be part of the growing Zowe community of committee and project members who are shaping and creating a modern, extensible computing platform for mainframe developers and system programmers.

On Thursday, February 14 at 2:30 PM, join Rosalind Radcliffe & Matt Hogstrom, Distinguished Engineers & Chief Architects from IBM for their presentation, “Open Development & Modernizing Applications on IBM Z”. Moving from monolithic applications toward an API economy 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. Join Rosalind and Matt as they explain how users can reduce risk by enabling microservices to be implemented in their language of choice and run where most appropriate whether it’s on z/OS, Linux for Z, or on distributed platforms.
To learn more about the event or to register, click here.

Open Source Summit Europe 2018 - Edinburgh, UK
2018-10-22 - 2018-10-24
On Tuesday, October 23 the Open Mainframe Project will be on display at Open Source Summit Europe. All of the summer interns who worked at OMP will showcase their work in a session titled, “Open Source Investments in Mainframe through the Next Generation.” This year’s class focused on improving mainframe open source packaging and support of modern technologies such as Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes.
To learn more information or to add this to your schedule, click here.
Open Mainframe Project is a community sponsor for Open Source Summit Europe, which is co-located with ELC and OpenIoT Summit. Use our code “OSSEU18COM15″ and you’ll receive 15% off Attendee Registration.

All Things Open 2018 - Raleigh, NC
2018-10-21 - 2018-10-23
More details to follow…

Open Fintech Forum - New York
2018-10-10 - 2018-10-11 | 2Below Conference Center at Credit Suisse New York, New York, 11 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10010, United States
The Open Mainframe Project will be active at Open FinTech Forum with a few dedicated sessions.
On October 11 at 11:30 am, John Mertic, Director of ODPi, and Goran Begic, Sr. Director of Product Management at CA Technologies, will present a session titled, “Connecting Modern Application Developments to the Mainframe with Zowe.” In this session, attendees will learn about Open Mainframe Project, details about the newly launched Zowe and showcase how attendees can get involved in this new open source project based on z/OS. To learn more or to add it to your schedule, click here.
Additionally, several Open Mainframe Project members will participate in a panel discussion titled, “The Resurgence of Mainframe in Modern Industry: insights from key executives on the future of this cornerstone technology.
OMP member Len Santalucia from Vicom Infinity will moderate Alan Clark from SUSE, Steve Conger from ADP, Calista Redmond from IBM and Andy Youniss from Rocket Software will participate. In this panel session, you’ll hear perspectives of key executives in the mainframe space on the current and future of the mainframe, as well as how open source technology is driving growth and cementing mainframe as a sustainable infrastructure choice for decades to come. To add this to your schedule, click here.
Open Mainframe Project is a community sponsor at this event. Receive 15% off Attendee Registration using code OFF18COM15.

Open Source Summit North America 2018 - Vancouver
2018-08-29 - 2018-08-31 | Vancouver Convention Centre, 1055 Canada Place, Vancouver, BC, V6C, Canada
Open Mainframe Project will be a community sponsor at this event. Receive 15% off Attendee Registration using code OSSNA18COM15.
We also will have two talks from community members during the conference:
Wednesday, August 29 • 2:10pm – 2:50pm
Bringing Students from Underprivileged Backgrounds into Tech through Open Source and Mainframe – Dr. Cameron Seay, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

Thursday, August 30 • 4:00pm – 4:40pm

Bringing a New Linux Distro to the Mainframe – Story of How Alpine Linux was Ported to s390x – Tuan Hoang, Marist College

SHARE St Louis
2018-08-12 - 2018-08-17

VM Workshop 2018 - Greenboro, NC
2018-06-28 - 2018-06-30
We are a sponsor for this event again, and Len Santalucia will be speaking on behalf of the project on “What Does Today’s Buyer Think about
Mainframes? Study Results from the Open Mainframe Project”.

LinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen China 2018
2018-06-25 - 2018-06-27
Open Mainframe Project will be a Community Sponsor for this event.

Open Source Summit Japan - 2018
2018-06-20 - 2018-06-22
Open Mainframe Project will be a Community Sponsor for this event. Receive 15% off Attendee Registration using code OSSJ18COM15.

10th Annual Enterprise Computing Community National Conference
2018-06-17 - 2018-06-19
Leonard J. Santalucia CTO, Business Development Manager, Certified Specialist and IBM Champion will be speak at the 10th Annual Enterprise Computing Community National Conference Monday June 18th at 10:45am 3mainframe.
Collaboration and Growth in Open Source Enterprise Computing with Open Mainframe Project
Mainframes are amazing, powerful machines running critical functions across various industries that touch each of us every day… and are also driving innovation in open source. In this talk, we will explore the roots, importance, and prolific growth of open source on the mainframe, how it’s been used by companies such as ADP, AIG, and others, and how the mainframe community is gathering around the Open Mainframe Project to drive enterprise computing forward.
Learn more about the conference here.
http://bit.ly/2JpIyRe

Open Source 101 - Columbia, SC
2018-04-17 | USC Alumni Center, 900 Senate St, Columbia, SC, 29201, United States
Hear John Mertic speak on “What Does Today’s Buyer Think about Mainframe? Study Results from the Open Mainframe Project” at 2:00pm in CONFERENCE ROOM 4.

IBM THINK 2018 - Las Vegas
2018-03-19 - 2018-03-22 | Mandalay Bay, 3950 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV, 89119, United States
Come hear John Mertic present “Collaboration and Growth of Open Source Enterprise Computing with Open Mainframe Project” on March 19th from 4:30 PM to 5:10 PM in Reef B.
And project members can join us for an exclusive member lunch on March 20th ( details at https://lists.openmainframeproject.org/g/omp-members/viewevent?eventid=247276&calstart=2018-03-20 )

Linux on IBM Z Meetup - Jersey City, NJ - March 2018
2018-03-09 08:30 - 13:00 UTC | Insurance Service Office/Verisk, 545 Washington BLVD, Jersey City, NJ, United States
Come hear from leading speakers on what’s new with Linux on IBM Z and network with fellow users of the platform.
See the agenda and register for the meetup at https://www.meetup.com/Linux-on-z/events/247350176/

Open Mainframe Project member dinner @ Open Source Leadership Summit
2018-03-06 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Open Source Leadership Summit 2018
Dinner to be held at Taqueria La Hacienda, 17960 Sonoma Hwy, Sonoma, CA 95476. You can RSVP for this dinner and get a calendar invite at https://lists.openmainframeproject.org/g/omp-announce/viewevent?eventid=244904&calstart=2018-03-06

Index Developer Conference - Community Day
2018-02-20 14:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | MOSCONE WEST, 747 Howard St, San Francisco, CA, United States
In this session, we will have a hands-on hackZone with a variety of open source content to choose from and build cloud-native apps. For example, use the Docker container platform along with pre-built Mainframe official docker images such as blockchain with Hyperledger Composer and Fabric, programming languages (Python, Javascript, Java, C/C++, Go, Ruby, php, etc), databases (postgres, redis, cassandra, Db2, etc), Node.js, Tomcat, memcached, haproxy, httpd, openjdk, maven, rabbitmq, solr, nginx and many others. Play on your own or create a team to hack on a project using the Docker platform and Linux as the central theme. We encourage you to think of an idea before coming to the session and show off what you can build. Even-though it is better to know about Docker before joining the session, anyone can join in and participate.

Open Source 101 - Raleigh
2018-02-17 | The McKimmon Center, 1101 Gorman Street, Raleigh, NC, 27606, United States
Come hear Len Santalucia present “Mainframe Isn’t Dead: How Open Mainframe Project is enabling the next gen of enterprise computing” at 2:00pm in “CASE STUDY/DEMO – ROOM 11/12”
