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SUMMARY:Building a Thriving Open Source Community: Best Practices for Attracting and Retaining Contributor
DESCRIPTION:Join Open Mainframe Project for a special webinar on Wednesday\, October 11 at 9 am PT/12 pm ET. Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XNpNLYNeRkuIvvwPXxkEXg \nOpen source communities are an important part of the software development landscape\, allowing individuals from around the world to collaborate and contribute to projects. However\, building and maintaining a thriving open-source community can be challenging. This presentation will explore the best practices for attracting and retaining contributors to your open-source project. We will begin by discussing the importance of creating a welcoming environment for contributors\, including clear documentation and communication channels. We will also cover strategies for incentivizing participation\, such as mentorship opportunities. Additionally\, we will explore the role of diversity and inclusion in open-source communities\, and how to create a culture that values and celebrates differences. We will provide real-world examples of successful open-source communities. By the end of this presentation\, attendees will have a clear understanding of the best practices for building and maintaining a thriving open-source community. They will be equipped with practical tips and strategies that they can implement in their own projects to attract and retain contributors. \n \nSpeaker Andrej Chmelo is a software engineer at Broadcom with a passion for advancing the field of technology. With a focus on innovation and collaboration\, he is an integral and active member of the Zowe community\, contributing his expertise to drive the project. \nRegister for the webinar here. If you can’t make it live to the webinar\, register for the on-demand link.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/building-a-thriving-open-source-community/
LOCATION:FL
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231018
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SUMMARY:All Things Open (Raleigh\, NC)
DESCRIPTION:All Things Open will be hosted on October 15-17 in Raleigh\, North Carolina. ATO is an educational conference where attendees learn about new technologies and topics\, and it’s always been that way. The goal is for attendees to leave having learned something or been made aware of something new. \nOpen Mainframe Project will be featured in the event in this session: \nMonday\, October 16:\n2:45 – 3:30 pm: Linux Distribution Collaboration …on a Mainframe! – Elizabeth Joseph\, Global Head\, Open Source Program Office for IBM zSystems & LinuxONE at IBM \nLinux has run on the mainframe architecture (s390x) for over 20 years now\, and there’s even Linux-only mainframe hardware! But tight collaboration between the Linux distributions is rather new. Enter the Open Mainframe Project Linux Distributions Working Group\, founded in late 2021. \nBringing together various Linux distributions\, both corporate-backed and community-driven\, representatives from openSUSE\, Debian\, Fedora\, SUSE\, and more immediately joined the effort to share bug reports and patches that impact all the distributions. Issues are often shared and discussed on the mailing list\, and more complicated topics covered during the monthly meetings. The working group has a number of success stories that will be shared. \nFuture potential issues are also tackled\, and notes shared about upstream changes that may soon impact the package processes. In the latest effort\, the team has started thinking about actual upstream projects to invite to our group to be more pro-active about changes that may cause problems on the s390x architecture. \nBut more importantly\, this is a story about community and collaboration. Many people view the various Linux distributions as a competitive space\, but like so much of the open source software community\, we are all more successful when we share knowledge about our core. The success of this working group\, and growing enthusiasm for it from new Linux distributions who are joining\, is a great example of this. \nAll Things Open is not managed by the Linux Foundation or Open Mainframe Project. To register or learn more about the conference\, click on the All Things Open conference: https://2023.allthingsopen.org/.
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/all-things-open-raleigh-nc/
LOCATION:FL
CATEGORIES:All,Ambassadors,Industry Conference
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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/
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CATEGORIES:Making our Strong Community Stronger,Mentorship,Webinar
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231019
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SUMMARY:IBM Z Day 2023 (Virtual Conference managed by IBM)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for IBM Z Day on October 18 from 8 am – 5 pm ET to connect\, learn and be inspired. \n\nIBM Z Day is a free 1-day enterprise computing virtual conference for anyone and everyone! Hear the latest about IBM Z and LinuxONE\, and join our lineup of global thought leaders who will highlight industry trends and innovation spanning Hybrid Cloud\, AI\, Quantum-Safe Security\, and more! \nREGISTER FOR IBM Z DAY NOW: ibm.biz/ibmzday-2023 \nExplore 5 content-rich learning tracks:  \n\nIBM Z  – Build an AI-infused\, cyber resilient hybrid cloud platform with unmatched\, industry-first quantum-safe security that enables you to deliver ground-breaking innovation with greater productivity and a lower carbon footprint.\nApp Modernization – Accelerate application modernization and AIOps across IBM Z and Cloud leveraging APIs to access applications and data\, implement enterprise DevOps and full application observability all as you learn how IBM is infusing AI into application modernization.\nData & AI – NEW! Dive deep into how the Data & AI on IBM Z’s portfolio offers resilient\, efficient\, no-compromise enterprise data serving for the world’s most demanding hybrid cloud\, transactional\, and analytics applications on IBM Z.\nSustainability – When sustainability\, productivity and profitability coexist they support profit and planet. Hear from environmental\, business and IT thought leaders on how IT can identify and reduce energy usage\, and where IBM Z and LinuxONE are already making a positive impact on our planet.\n\n\nIBM Z Skills Acceleration – Get free training & network with like-minded early professionals\, students and lifelong learners from all around the world to advance skills & learn from subject matter experts.\n\nSign Up NOW: ibm.biz/ibmzday-2023
URL:https://openmainframeproject.org/event/ibm-z-day-2023-virtual-conference/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231030
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231103
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SUMMARY:GSE UK (Towcester\, United Kingdom)
DESCRIPTION:GSE UK Conference\, hosted at Whittlebury Hall in the United Kingdom on October 30 – November 2\,  offers attendees the opportunity to gain new knowledge\, tips and guidance on different products from experienced industry professionals. Through user and vendor-led sessions\, GSE UK events are designed to reduce the chance of errors and help save time and money. gain knowledge that will help your entire team increase efficiency\, agility and save money including education and training costs. The event features more than 250 technical sessions across enterprise IT topics including Security\, CICS\, DB2 and MQ to name a few. \nOpen Mainframe Project will be represented at the event by several ambassadors\, contributors and leaders. Check the schedule below: \nTuesday\, October 31:\n12 pm: New Mainframers Talk Candidly (continued) – Earl Dixon\, Tech Lead for the Broadcom Vitality Program and frequent speaker for the Making our Strong Community Stronger Initiative \nOther speakers include  Niall Ashley\,  Katie Juhala  and  Zdravka Oysolova \n12 pm: Db2 and Zowe. Everything\, everywhere at once! – Joe Winchester\, Open Mainframe Project Ambassador\, Zowe community member and Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM \nA challenge facing mainframe Db2 shops is how to become more agile with modern tooling\, yet leverage the existing resources and skills that power their z/OS systems. Zowe provides a way to do this through its Visual Studio Code plugins\, its browser based web desktop\, and its command line interface. This allows Db2 shops to leverage their existing JCL and REXX libraries\, their existing stored procedures\, their existing SQL scripts\, and surface existing resources in new form factors for DevOps tool chains\, for automation\, for operations\, and more. These can be used by existing and novice mainframers\, providing a bridge between familiar open source tools and Db2 on z/OS. This talk will demonstrate the power of the new ecosystem with real world examples and customer success stories. \n4:45 pm: Goodbye to Baby-sitting your z/OS Jobs with Zowe Integrated JCL Checking (demo) – Domenico D’Alterio\, Open Mainframe Project Ambassador\, Zowe Community Member and Principal Product Manager at IBM \nTake the worry out of programming your jobs\, checking and double checking for code standard compliance\, ensuring DevOps processes are delivered while meeting business SLAs for your hybrid cloud applications by allowing IBM Z JCL Expert to do the heavy lifting for you. In this session\, come and discover the ease with which IBM Z JCL Expert\, when integrated with Zowe\, helps you automatically check your jobs as part of your CI/CD pipeline in a fraction of the time it would normally take\, allowing you to focus on the more value-adding functions of your role. A live demo of the Zowe integrated features will be shown in the session. \nWednesday\, November 1:\n8 am: Keynote – The Mark and Steve Show – Steven Dickens\, Vice President and Practice Leader at the Futurum Group and Mark Wilson\, Architect\, Technician and Project Manager at Vertali Limited \n10:15 am: Mainframe/Zowe Tutorial – Germanas Samrickis\, Software Engineer at Rocket Software \nMainframe Hands-On Lab Session for those who have zero or limited experience on mainframe. Lab excercise covers usage of  VSCode\, Zowe and ZOAU. \nPurpose of this lab is showcase how smooth and enjoyable experience could be using modern tools. This session is not intended to be a deep dive. Instead\, it serves as a guide on how to get started\, with the expectation that you can pursue a deeper dive into the subject on your own. \nMax Capacity: 20 attendees \n\nLimited capacity on a first-come\, first-served basis\nNo prior mainframe experience required\nBring your curiosity and laptop \n\n10:15 am: Zowe plugin development using the “Realtime Dataset Metrics” as a sample – Alex Agoltsov\, Senior Software Engineer at Rocket Software UK \nThe idea is to show what is needed to create and maintain the Zowe plugin.\nI’m going to use the “Realtime Dataset Metrics” Zowe plugin from OMEGAMON for Storage as a sample\, showing best practices\, and processes (architecture\, testing\, unit-testing\, development\, CI/CD\, communication layer and etc.) \n1:45 pm: Wowee it’s Zowe\, the new face of the mainframe – Joe Winchester\, Open Mainframe Project Ambassador\, Zowe community member and Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM \nAll of the old with all of the new. The Open Mainframe Project’s Zowe tooling aims to bridge the gap between folks new to the mainframe familiar with distributed and open source technologies\, with the rich set of existing mainframe runtimes and tooling that exists on the platform. This is done by bridging the worlds with browser front ends\, Visual Studio Code and IntelliJ plugins\, Chatbots\, and command line interfaces. By being open source and extensible Zowe not only provides base function out of the box\, but supports a depth of vendor plugins making it ideal of DevOps modernization or building custom mainframe dashboards with its SDK.  This talk will cover Zowe from end to end\, and showing how it is fast becoming ‘The New Face of the Mainframe’ for experienced and newbie mainframers alike. \n1:45 pm: Automated testing of COBOL Sections! – Rune Christensen\, Contributor to COBOL Check\, Open Mainframe Project Ambassador and Lead Software Engineer at Bankdata \nWant to test your COBOL sections? Want to run it on your laptop? Test driven development with fast feedback inside Visual Studio Code? Mocking of programs\, CICS calls and other sections\, enabling truly isolated tests? Pipelines with test gateways\, denying failed tests to be deployed? Dashboards showing status of tests\, and team usage? All of this is in your reach! Look no further\, in just 50 minutes I will show you COBOL Check; that will change your COBOL experience! \nThursday\, November 2:\n10:15 am: I get my CICS on route Zowe – Joe Winchester\, Open Mainframe Project Ambassador\, Zowe community member and Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM \nThis presentation will show how to use open source Zowe tooling to develop\, administer\, deploy and test CICS applications. We’ll show how to: \n\nBuild automation to drive CICS automation for compilation and deployment from a stand-alone environment using the Zowe command line interface\, and embed scripts in a Jenkins CICD pipeline\nUse Visual Studio Code Zowe extensions to work with JCL\, REXX and TSO to drive z/OS\, write\, compile\, and debug COBOL and Java CICS programs.\nUse VS Code tasks to integrate with CLI scripts.\nUse the Visual Studio Code Zowe CICS Explorer plugin to connect to CICS regions\, to view resources and perform actions like new/copy\, enable/disable\, and perform development tasks without needing to use CEMT or other CICS interfaces.\nDevelop CICS programs with BMS maps\, CICS programs with web services\, and CICS Java programs\, all using Visual Studio Code Zowe extensions.\nInteract with Db2\, MQ and other subsystems that make up a CICS program’s technology stack.\n\nThis presentation has content for experienced CICS developers and system programmers\, as well as newcomers who want to learn how to interact with CICS through a CLI and through Visual Studio Code. \n11:45 am: Automating PTF Maintenance Using an Open-First Approach – Jan Prihoda\, Product Owner at Broadcom Mainframe Software \nHistorically\, software management has leveraged SMP/E. More recently\, mainframe vendors collaborated to introduce and recommend the z/OSMF-based alternative using Portable Software Instances (PSWI)\, Workflows\, and Software Update. Both methods work well when the target LPARS are limited\, reside on the same physical device or are within a sysplex. But for organizations managing hundreds of LPARs\, deploying new software or applying the latest maintenance can be challenging to manage\, time-consuming\, frustrating\, and downright painful. In this session\, we will demonstrate an automated alternative – developed specifically for customers eager to solve this problem – powered by Zowe CLI\, Ansible\, and z/OSMF. \n1:45 am: Zowe Extensions in IBM Z System Management (demo) – Domenico D’Alterio\, Open Mainframe Project Ambassador\, Zowe Community Member and Principal Product Manager at IBM \nZowe™ technology delivers new ways to integrate IBM Z system management into the enterprise processes and applications\, protecting the investment made on IBM Z. Zowe helps to make the IBM Z platform easier to learn and use for next-generation IT staff and developers. Come and learn how IBM System Management offerings like IBM Z System Automation\, IBM Z NetView and IBM Z Workload Scheduler\, expand Zowe framework with specific extensions to have an easier way to integrate Automation of system\, applications\, processing and more in a hybrid cloud environment. A demo of the ZOWE CLI extensions available for the products listed above will be performed during the session\, to show the value add in the data center management of them. Come and learn about use cases that leverage REST API for Automation as well as CLI extensions of Zowe in an hybrid cloud environment. \nFor the complete schedule or to register\, visit the event website here.
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