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20 June 2023

Attendees

  • Elizabeth K. Joseph (IBM / Debian)
  • Sarah Kriesch (openSUSE)
  • Vignesh (various upstream)
  • Daniel Horak (Fedora)
  • David Edelsohn (IBM)

Agenda

  • Recording from openSUSE conference will be uploaded at the end of the month, about 20 people attended the presentation
  • Linux Distributions Collaboration on the Mainframe at Devconf.cz 2023 with about 15 participants, and good discussions https://devconfcz2023.sched.com/event/1MYmY
  • David suggested coming up with list of reasons why the mainframe is a compelling application developer target - why is it worth their effort? May seem like a niche target, but it has a huge impact. Also, technically interesting.
    • Vignesh shared that DragonflyDB is planning to start building for s390x, they shared that their vertically scaled application is a good fit for the mainframe
    • Vignesh himself had a technical interest in porting applications for startups
    • Lyz had a talk accepted to All Things Open and this may be a good slide to include
  • OMP CFP is open, Lyz & Sarah will brainstorm some ideas for a presentation https://www.openmainframeproject.org/event/open-mainframe-summit-cfp
  • openSUSE Leap 15.5 released, Sarah to do some release blogging
  • Debian 12 (bookworm) released with continued s390x support: https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/s390x/release-notes/
  • David is going to a OCaml × Tezos meetup in NYC tonight

Dan mentioned some issues with btrfs-progs which have now been fixed upstream: https://github.com/kdave/btrfs-progs/issues/639

16 May 2023

Attendees:

  • Elizabeth K. Joseph (IBM)
  • Sarah Kriesch (openSUSE)
  • Dipak Zope (Debian)

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